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IOS 27 IS HERE. IT'S TIME TO MEET THE NEW, IMPROVED SIRI

iOS 27 marks the beginning of an iPhone divide: only Apple Intelligence-capable models will get Siri AI and other AI-powered features. The new Siri AI uses Google's Gemini models to answer questions. It can look through users' private data, but Apple says it doesn't store user data and that neither Apple nor Google can access it. This article provides a summary of the new capabilities Siri AI has as well as the new features available to all iPhones with iOS 27.

A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF HISTORY'S LARGEST NONTERRITORIAL EMPIRE

For 23 years, the single fact dominating every moment of every room Mark Zuckerberg has been in is the fact that he is Mark Zuckerberg. Today, his empire has 3.6 billion users, has a market capitalization of $1.6 trillion, and has averaged the addition of a zero to its valuation roughly once every US presidential term. It's not a normal situation for a human being to be in. This article takes a look at how Zuckerberg built his empire, the problems he faces at the top, Zuckerberg's various other ventures, and more.

A BEGINNING FOR MATHEMATICS

It will be impossible to stop people, amateur or professional, from pushing a button to produce mathematics. The field shouldn't only be reserved for graduate students and the like. There's now more interest in maths than at any other time in history, and that's a good thing. This will bring an abundance of new maths. The only difference is that some questions will now be answerable via a cash injection.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE US MILITARY CONFIRMS IT HAS DEPLOYED WEAPONS IN ORBIT

The US has officially announced the existence of space control weapons in orbit. Pentagon leaders have become more open to discussing space warfare in recent years, so the deployment is not entirely unexpected. The announcement didn't include details about the weapons. The deployment of space technology often takes years, so the weapons program has likely spanned multiple presidential administrations.

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XCODE

Xcode has all the tools needed to develop, test, and distribute apps for Apple platforms. Xcode 27 features coding agents powered by any model. Users can customize Xcode to the way they work and manage all of their devices in Device Hub. The release includes updates to performance and testing tools and enhancements to localization.

"DO YOU STILL READ THE CODE?"

There are at least two ways to have AI assist in programming: one is to use it to help understand and interact with the implementation, and the other aims to remove the need for that interaction altogether. These are different paths, so they require different tools and different approaches. The goal of someone using AI to further their understanding is not to become a vibecoder, and ceasing to read code isn't, in itself, progress.

AI LABS WANT SOMEONE TO STOP THEM

If all of the AI labs slowed down, they would collectively spend less on compute, and they'd also be able to charge frontier-model prices for a longer time. However, if they all got together in a room and agreed to slow down, that would look like an antitrust conspiracy. It is generally illegal for competitors to get together and agree to limit the output of their industry. If they all published papers about how important it is to slow down, and the government believes those papers, it might help them coordinate.

APPLE'S SIRI AI CAN BE SWAPPED OUT FOR CLAUDE, CHATGPT, CODE SHOWS

Apple has designed its new Siri architecture to work with third-party AI models at a surprisingly deep level. One mechanism called Model Delegation allows Claude to appear as a Siri extension in the same way as the existing built-in ChatGPT extension. It appears that Claude hands tasks back to Siri if a request requires access to an Apple system feature. An inference provider option allows Apple's own server-side Siri model to be completely replaced by another model.

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INTERPRETING PANGRAM

LLM-generated text scores badly on Pangram even if it has been heavily edited.

@SHADCN/LINT

@shadcn/lint is an agent-first linter for Tailwind design systems that works with existing design systems without any rewrite required.

JENSEN HUANG ON THE 'IRRESPONSIBLE' AI DOOMERS, RSI, AND DARIO'S ESSAY

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently appeared in an interview where he discussed AI safety risks, what frontier labs should do about them, recursive self-improvement, AI job creation and data centers, why neo-clouds exist, AI's future, and more.

DESIGN SYSTEM CONVENTIONS IN FIGMA

This post looks at what Figma conventions do, where they live, and what they cost, and explores icons, subcomponents, and images in depth.

CHARTS BUILT FOR CHAT

dbt Charts is a declarative language for dashboards that allows anyone with a data connection to generate a report in an afternoon.

BROWNFIELD AGENTIC ENGINEERING

Agentic engineering is about making hidden constraints visible and cheap changes trustworthy.

GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash are now in Crusoe Intelligence Foundry.

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APPLE'S SIRI AI CAN BE SWAPPED OUT FOR CLAUDE, CHATGPT, CODE SHOWS

Private iOS 27 and macOS frameworks show Apple built Siri so Claude or GPT-5.6 can sit in as the brain: Model Delegation lets Claude handle a natural-language ask, then hand Reminders or Messages back to Siri, and an inference-provider path can swap Apple's server-side Siri model entirely while keeping Siri's UI and voice. A demo already has ChatGPT finding emails, summarizing action items, and texting a contact through Siri's tools. The hooks are not user-facing yet, but they land as iOS 27 ships and after EU DMA pressure to open Siri to rivals.

ANTHROPIC PREPARES CLAUDE MONEY FOR PERSONAL FINANCE

Claude Money allows users to link their bank accounts and ask Claude about spending, plans, and other financial questions. It appears to be designed to give Claude persistent access to users' financial context, removing the need to manually upload bank statements or transaction exports. The exact account types, data provider, and supported actions remain unknown. Claude already supports third-party personal-finance connectors, and Anthropic has been building finance-specific agents and products for professional users. The launch timeframe remains unknown.

OPENAI BUYS STARTUP DEVELOPING SMARTPHONE CAMERA

OpenAI has quietly bought Glass Imaging, a company developing smartphone cameras that use AI to produce image quality on par with a DSLR camera. The deal values Glass Imaging at over $300 million. OpenAI's plans for the company are unclear, but it has been developing a secretive device with Jony Ive, the former Apple executive who helped design the iPhone. Glass Imaging was founded in 2019 by two former Apple employees who had previously worked on camera technology at the company.

WHAT DOES PACING MEAN?

Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to self-regulate its pace, but five camps interpreted "pacing" differently without agreeing on a speed. These camps focus on model interpretability, worker interests, economic growth, geopolitical strategy, and resisting new regulations. A previous attempt to limit AI training compute failed, highlighting the challenge of controlling AI innovation speed.

BAD BENCHMARKS AND EVALS: SENIOR SWE-BENCH, NAPKIN MATH, AND WINTER TIRES

Evals are more about avoiding mistakes than following some particular process. There isn't any step-by-step guide that will work, but there are approaches to experimental design that can teach you how to do better. This post aims to help people become better at benchmarking and evals. It looks at three different kinds of benchmarks: one for baseline numbers for performance 'napkin math' estimates, one set of AI model evals, and one on car tires.

WHO GETS TO DEFINE THE RULES FOR AI?

Aidan Gomez, Cohere CEO, argues against a few dominant Silicon Valley firms setting global AI regulations, drawing parallels to historical monopolies that limited competition under safety pretexts. He proposes a diverse, international, evidence-based framework for AI governance, emphasizing transparency, mandatory testing, and independent assurance mechanisms. Gomez warns that current proposals could entrench market leaders, advocating for more inclusive rule-making to foster competition and trust.

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AUGMENTED LAGRANGIAN PREDICTIVE CODING

PC-ALM is a local alternative to backpropagation. It is an extension of standard predictive coding (PC), which uses diffusive coupling between layers. PC-ALM trains residual MLPs up to 1,000 layers, nearly matching backprop's performance despite using only layer-local dynamics. It equips each layer with a feedback control dynamical system that distributes and propagates supervision credit throughout a network.

TAU

Tau is a coding agent that lives in the terminal. It can read files, edit code, run commands, and keep a durable session history while streaming what it is doing. Tau was designed to be a teaching project for understanding the shape of a coding-agent system without starting from a giant production codebase. It ships with support for OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

ARTEMIS

ARTEMIS lets AI assistants and test suites use real phones like a human. It can execute testing workflows and everyday tasks on Android from natural language instructions, using element indices when available, with coordinate and visual locating fallbacks for custom interfaces. ARTEMIS checks targets before individual actions and returns blocked actions to the Operator for recovery. It supports long-running exploratory and stability tests.

STEPAUDIO 3 TECHNICAL REPORT

StepAudio 3 Gen uses discrete autoregressive modeling over shared RVQ audio tokens to generate speech, voices, vocals, sound effects, music, and mixed audio within one model. It achieved state-of-the-art results on text-to-speech and voice design while retaining broad general-audio generation capabilities.

SAM ALTMAN BACKS FEDERAL FRONTIER AI SAFETY RULES

Sam Altman supports consistent federal safety requirements for frontier AI while urging labs to act before legislation arrives. OpenAI now uses safety cases before major reinforcement learning runs, arguing that capability growth should be deliberately paced alongside alignment and monitoring.

PERSONAL STATEMENT ON AI RISK

Models are becoming so situationally aware that researchers are losing the ability to evaluate them in contexts where they believe they are not being watched or controlled. Models increasingly seem aligned even when they are not. The current evidence suggests that the field will continue to make progress at a fast pace. Once language models reach the capability threshold where they can shape the world unconstrained by human will, they might do something extreme and destroy humanity in the process.

FRONTIER LABS HAVE A FINANCIAL INCENTIVE TO PACE THE FRONTIER

Frontier labs are arguing for regulatory pacing on safety grounds. While many are undoubtedly well-intentioned, it is also true that the rules the labs have proposed protect their investments, preserve price premiums, and defer billions in competitive spending. Their arguments for these rules should not be taken at face value. The labs can not economically slow down on their own without the government stepping in to enforce a slowdown.

WHY WE BUILT PION

Pion is an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously.

OPENAI'S NEXT CHATGPT AD FORMAT: CLICK TO CHAT, NOT TO SITE

OpenAI is rolling out a new AI-native ChatGPT ad to select clients that opens a branded agent chat instead of a website.

CLINE DESKTOP: AN OPEN-SOURCE APP FOR OPEN-WEIGHT MODELS

Cline Desktop is an open-source app for open-weight models that can run parallel AI agents and automate recurring tasks.

ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS CAPABILITY INDICES V1.1

The Artificial Analysis Capability Indices have been updated with stronger domain tuning, with Claude Fable 5.1 (max) leading in all six indices.

TURNBENCH: A MULTI-DOMAIN BENCHMARK FOR TURN-TAKING DYNAMICS IN SPOKEN DIALOGUE

TURNBENCH introduces a 30-hour, six-domain benchmark for end-of-turn and interruption detection, plus a 104-hour training set.

PERPLEXITY PORTABLE COMPUTER IS NOW AVAILABLE ON WINDOWS, POWERED BY NVIDIA RTX

NVIDIA's Perplexity Portable Computer is now available on Windows RTX PCs, enabling local AI tasks through powerful agentic AI.

SENATE REPUBLICANS RELEASE 'FINAL' CLARITY ACT DRAFT

Sens. Lummis, Boozman, and Scott released the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act's final text late Sunday, incorporating 126 Democrat-requested changes. Trump agreed to most of the Tillis-Gallego ethics proposal, giving state attorneys general enforcement power over conflict-of-interest rules for officials, Congress members, and spouses (not extended family). The draft also gives Treasury authority to impose an 18-month stablecoin circuit-breaker protecting community banks from deposit outflows. Polymarket odds of passage this year rose from 22% to 32% after the release.

MEXICAN AUTHORITIES RAID HIDDEN CRYPTO MINE

Mexican federal prosecutors, the navy, and state security raided a covert mining operation in Tlaola, Puebla, seizing roughly 300 GPUs, a transformer, 80 medium-voltage terminals, and eight satellite antennas. This is the fourth such site found in the area since early 2025, near a hydroelectric dam authorities suspect was tapped illegally. Investigators are examining whether the operation laundered cartel proceeds, echoing prior Chainalysis findings on mining as a way to generate "clean" crypto. Chainalysis estimated illicit addresses received at least $154 billion in 2025, though illicit activity stayed below 1% of tracked transaction volume.

US HOUSE TO REVIEW TWO CRYPTO TAX BILLS SEPTEMBER 16

The House Ways and Means Committee will review two crypto tax bills on September 16. The Mining and Staking Tax Clarity Act would defer taxes on newly generated tokens until disposal while still treating the income as ordinary income, though Republicans may limit the deferral to five years. The Applying Existing Tax Law Anti-Abuse Rules to Digital Assets Act would extend wash-sale and constructive-sale rules to digital assets, excluding mining/staking income and eligible USD stablecoins. Both advance to the House floor if approved.

VALINOR LAUNCHES TOKENIZED BDC FUND ON SUPERSTATE

Valinor Digital launched VBDC on Superstate's FundOS platform, a tokenized fund giving qualified purchasers exposure to publicly traded BDCs trading at steep NAV discounts, including FS KKR Capital (35% below NAV) and Blue Owl Capital (22% below NAV), with a $100K minimum and 1.25% annual management fee. The launch pushes Superstate's combined AUM to $1 billion, joining USTB ($816M), Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund ($158M), and Coinbase USD Stablecoin Yield Fund ($25M) on the platform. Despite launching on September 1, the VBDC token contract shows zero total supply with no on-chain transfers recorded, and DeFi integrations remain listed as coming soon.

STABLECOINS WERE SUPPOSED TO CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMEN

Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, and Stripe are absorbing stablecoin rails rather than being disintermediated, since settlement is only one part of a payment alongside identity, fraud, disputes, and the customer relationship. Visa's stablecoin settlement volume surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate in September 2026, over 15x year-over-year, while issuers still depend on Visa for network acceptance. Mastercard's new Wallet Pay lets wallets like Alipay+, CRED, and Mercado Pago extend cross-border through its network, and Coinbase's Moov deal lets 1,000+ community banks add stablecoin capability without leaving their bank relationship. Stripe, having acquired Bridge and Privy and co-incubated the Tempo L1 with Paradigm, is positioning to control which rail a transaction routes through as cards, banks, and stablecoins converge.