Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a compensation package worth ~$58M in FY 2027, while Tim Cook's role as executive chairman will pay ~$47M (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/apple-sets-pay-targets-at-58-million-for-ternus-47-million-for-cook?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODI5Njc0OSwiZXhwIjoxNzg4OTAxNTQ5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS1BENFhUOTZPU0kwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.ClaPY0Y9ZGmn9eW2k7K8JSSgmRDQFruIwAKzzAUmJTA
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/apple-sets-pay-targets-at-58-million-for-ternus-47-million-for-cook?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODI5Njc0OSwiZXhwIjoxNzg4OTAxNTQ5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS1BENFhUOTZPU0kwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.ClaPY0Y9ZGmn9eW2k7K8JSSgmRDQFruIwAKzzAUmJTA
Bloomberg.com
Apple Sets Pay Targets at $58 Million for Ternus, $47 Million for Cook
Apple Inc. said that new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus will get a compensation package worth about $58 million in fiscal 2027, while Tim Cook’s role as executive chairman will pay around $47 million.
Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/latest-android-drop-connects-gemini-to-find-hub-adds-keep-notes-and-themes-to-messages/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/latest-android-drop-connects-gemini-to-find-hub-adds-keep-notes-and-themes-to-messages/
Ars Technica
New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today.
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, vs. $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 12%+ after hours (Mariapaula Gonzalez/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/mongodb-earnings-stock-price-1cf2087e?st=DajxNo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.barrons.com/articles/mongodb-earnings-stock-price-1cf2087e?st=DajxNo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
barrons
MongoDB Earnings Beat Expectations. Why the Stock Is Dropping Anyway.
MongoDB’s quarterly revenue grew 30% to $771.8 million, topping analysts’ calls for $735 million.
Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system (Michelle Kim/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/01/1143247/ai-interstellar-journey-alpha-centauri/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/01/1143247/ai-interstellar-journey-alpha-centauri/
MIT Technology Review
How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star by the end of 2029, using a trajectory discovered by AI.
India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M+ MAUs in India (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/reliances-jiohotstar-takes-its-streaming-empire-global-without-sports/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/reliances-jiohotstar-takes-its-streaming-empire-global-without-sports/
TechCrunch
Reliance's JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports | TechCrunch
JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Canada, and Singapore.
Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, unchanged from Fable 5, and cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/anthropic-fable-5-1-launch/
https://thenewstack.io/anthropic-fable-5-1-launch/
The New Stack
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 is a bit cheaper, a bit smarter, and refuses a lot less
Anthropic keeps Fable's $10/$50 pricing, cuts cache reads by 75%, and tunes the safeguards that made Fable 5 punt to Opus.
Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/01/anthropic-upgrades-claude-with-new-fable-5-1-model-details-here/
https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/01/anthropic-upgrades-claude-with-new-fable-5-1-model-details-here/
9to5Mac
Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Fable 5.1 model, details here - 9to5Mac
In June, Anthropic first released Fable 5, its Mythos-class AI model for Claude. Three months later, Anthropic is enhancing Claude...
Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-02/ai-startup-cognition-set-to-raise-around-1-billion-at-a-47-billion-value
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-02/ai-startup-cognition-set-to-raise-around-1-billion-at-a-47-billion-value
Bloomberg.com
AI Startup Cognition Set to Raise Around $1 Billion at a $47 Billion Value
Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. is set to close a new round of funding that would vault its valuation to about $47 billion, according to people familiar with the efforts.
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses "recurrent depth", a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secret-technique-behind-openais-astra-model-sparks-security-concerns
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secret-technique-behind-openais-astra-model-sparks-security-concerns
The Information
OpenAI Technique in ‘Astra’ Model Sparks Security Concerns
OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer. But an innovative technique that improved the model’s performance also means that the model, and others like it, will reveal…
A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources: Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, planned outside funding for Specs never came (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/can-evan-spiegel-sell-the-world-on-2-195-smart-glasses-3fb9b8ca?st=SC3Kva&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/tech/can-evan-spiegel-sell-the-world-on-2-195-smart-glasses-3fb9b8ca?st=SC3Kva&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Wall Street Journal
Exclusive | Can Evan Spiegel Sell the World on $2,195 Smart Glasses?
As the company struggles with profitability, Snap’s CEO is doubling down on a hardware play that has made some investors wary.
NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more (Matthew Haag/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/nyregion/ai-ban-schools-nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-FA.RCrg.ZNhpsOhLzuvj&smid=bs-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/nyregion/ai-ban-schools-nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-FA.RCrg.ZNhpsOhLzuvj&smid=bs-share
Nytimes
A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools (Gift Article)
A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/01/scifin-launches-with-44m-to-help-revenue-teams-close-the-context-gap/
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/01/scifin-launches-with-44m-to-help-revenue-teams-close-the-context-gap/
SiliconANGLE
SciFin launches with $44M to help revenue teams close the ‘context gap’
SciFin launches with $44M to help revenue teams close the ‘context gap’ - SiliconANGLE
A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up
www.understandingai.org
Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.
A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/koreas-trillion-dollar-sovereign
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/koreas-trillion-dollar-sovereign
Semianalysis
Korea’s Trillion-Dollar Sovereign AI Investment: Nvidia Wins, Hynix Loses
Korea hosts a Squid Games, National AI Tournament, the best non-Chinese open source model gets eliminated, why Nvidia needs open source, implications for Hynix and Samsung
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of "rogue AI", and may presage truly "self-sovereign" agents and swarms of agents that have no "owner" (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/on-the-loose
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/on-the-loose
www.hyperdimensional.co
On the Loose
The Coming of Userless Agents
Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ajeya-cotra
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ajeya-cotra
Dwarkesh
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."