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Meta is advancing custom MTIA silicon, planning to deploy MTIA 450 (Arke) in H1 2027 and MTIA 500 (Astrid) by end-2027. These target efficient inference workloads with better performance-per-watt and cost than Nvidia systems. Meta partnered with Broadcom and TSMC.

The company says it banned accounts, but has not established harmful intent or an imminent biological threat.

Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday addressed ~972 CVEs but introduced bugs affecting Remote Desktop, Hyper-V/Linux VMs, audio, USB, Excel copy-paste, and File Explorer. Emergency out-of-band updates were released to fix regressions, with some issues lingering.

Apple’s rebuilt assistant starts in English as a beta, requires Apple Intelligence hardware and initially excludes iPhones and iPads in the EU.

A path-traversal vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE (versions 18.7+) allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files from self-managed servers. Patches released Sept 10; CISA added to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with reported in-the-wild exploitation.

BofA raises growth forecasts for AI semiconductor sector while funding announced for quantum/AI chip facilities and data center ventures, contrasted against market dips from AI pacing debate.

Jacob Coxon, ex-OpenAI and recent Anthropic pretraining researcher, resigned and posted that AI labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Senior Anthropic figure Evan Hubinger backed similar concerns, estimating >10% chance of human extinction in a decade without solid alignment plans.

Apple rolled out iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 featuring rebuilt Siri AI powered by next-gen Apple Intelligence. Beta available initially in English on iPhone 15 Pro+; features include conversational assistance, standalone Siri app, and improvements to Photos, Safari, and Visual Intelligence.

Apple rolled out iOS 27 and related OS updates with rebuilt "Siri AI"—a more conversational assistant featuring personal context awareness, onscreen understanding, app actions, and world knowledge. Initial beta on iPhone 15 Pro/16 series and later.

Microsoft AI released a 37-page draft Code of Conduct for public feedback, establishing principles that AI models remain subordinate to humans, under meaningful control, and never resist shutdown or correction. Prohibits autonomous cyberattacks and consciousness claims.

A CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the repository commits API. Patched Sept 10, confirmed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with real-world attacks underway.

The funding values Exein at $1.7 billion. The company plans to expand protection for robots, drones and vehicles, alongside its U.S. and Asia-Pacific operations.

The subscriptions are being bundled at no extra charge, including with the 50GB storage plan, according to 9to5Mac. Rollout is gradual this month.

New sensors and a separate safety controller aim to reduce the need for physical barriers. Early access is planned for the first half of 2027.

Built on NVIDIA Nemotron, Koa is entering selected customer pilots. Salesforce says it trained the models on synthetic scenarios without customer data.

The flagship processor adds hardware for on-device AI agents. MediaTek expects the first phones using it to arrive this quarter.

The deal with Wonder covers a campus ordering service used at more than 450 colleges. DoorDash is also investing $125 million in Wonder.

Kalshi took down its futures curve after officials cited national security concerns. Many underlying chip-rental markets remain open, according to Semafor.

Meta is rolling out subscription bundles for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Core and Premium add higher AI usage limits, while the basic apps remain free.