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With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again

Apple's rebuilt Siri, powered by Google Gemini models in iOS 27, finally handles complex multi-step and on-screen-context requests, per TechCrunch review.

Apple's iOS 27 ships a redesigned Siri built on Google's Gemini models, supporting multi-step instructions, on-screen context, file/message/email lookups, and camera viewfinder queries. Siri AI gets a dedicated app with chat history, plus settings for voice and expressiveness. Apple Intelligence also adds natural-language Shortcuts creation and automatic password rotation in the Passwords app.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 14, 17:10 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Anthropic's $2 trillion IPO spotlights its external trustee governance, removable only by an 85% shareholder supermajority that may shift post-listing.

Anthropic's reported $2 trillion IPO is drawing scrutiny of its unusual governance, in which external trustees guard the company's mission and can only be removed with 85% shareholder voting power, a threshold that could change once it goes public. Compared with OpenAI's 2023 board crisis, Anthropic's structure is seen as less risky because it includes a built-in mechanism for shareholder intervention. Early investors knowingly backed the structure, citing its safety emphasis, but experts including Harvard's Fried urge public-market investors to scrutinize and price these arrangements before IPOs.

Ars Technica · AI·Sep 4, 16:22 UTC · 12d agoAI industry

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike announce SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system built on Nemotron models, plus Falcon IQ for agentic workload automation.

At CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026, NVIDIA and CrowdStrike announced SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system combining CrowdStrike's purpose-built frontier models and harnesses with NVIDIA Nemotron open models in a continuous red-versus-blue coevolution loop. A Blue Solano model post-trained on Nemotron 3 Super reportedly achieved higher accuracy than leading frontier models at 99% lower cost. CrowdStrike also introduced Falcon IQ, powered by Nemotron models in the Charlotte AI AgentWorks platform, coordinating more than 50 agents for automated defensive workflows. CrowdStrike cited an 89% year-over-year rise in AI-enabled attacks and a fastest eCrime breakout time of 27 seconds as context for agentic defense.

NVIDIA Blog·Sep 1, 21:19 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them

Opinion essay argues the US should nationalize OpenAI and Anthropic into public labs if markets reject their trillion-dollar IPO valuations.

Sanders and Schneier argue in The Guardian that OpenAI and Anthropic may never be sustainably profitable, citing commodity models, short depreciation windows, and free open-source competitors only months behind in capability. They propose converting the labs into US national labs or regulated public utilities if markets reject their recently filed IPOs, which buzz valued at trillions of dollars. They cite public backlash to AI datacenters, Nvidia's slumping stock, and public AI labs in Switzerland, Spain, and Singapore as context.

Schneier on Security·Aug 15, 00:00 UTC · Aug 15, 2026AI industry

ChatGPT is Back in Italy After Addressing Data Privacy Concerns

The Hacker News·Apr 29, 04:23 UTC · Apr 29, 2023AI industry

Kudelski Security enables Microsoft clients to simplify their security and compliance strategy

Help Net Security·Jun 5, 00:00 UTC · Jun 5, 2020AI industry1