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☀️ On this day: On September 16, 1959, the Xerox 914 was shown to the public in a live television demonstration at New York's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, the first successful plain paper office copier. The roughly 650-pound machine made one copy every 26 seconds and came with a "scorch eliminator," a small fire extinguisher for fires caused by overheating. Ralph Nader complained that the copier in his Washington office had caught fire three times in four months.
What’s happening:
❌ Zuckerberg rejects coordinated AI slowdowns
🕵️ OpenAI contractors are reading ChatGPT conversations
👓 Meta reportedly plans camera-free smart glasses
🖥️ Apple plans AI servers for sale in 2029
🚀 SpaceX targets first orbital Starship flight
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❌ Zuckerberg rejects coordinated AI slowdowns ↗️LINK
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X Tuesday that AI labs don't need a coordinated slowdown to handle safety, arguing each company can set the pace it needs to train models safely.
The post lands as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and others call for slower development. Zuckerberg argued liability risks already push labs to act responsibly, and alignment will separate winners from losers.
His proof: Meta delayed its Muse AI agent for months without asking rivals to follow. But employees testing Muse during its launch week reportedly saw it expose private iCloud photos, per Implicator.
🕵️ Contractors are reading ChatGPT conversations ↗️LINK
404 Media reports OpenAI is paying hundreds of contractors through Project Lily to review real ChatGPT conversations and rate responses, including chats that can contain sensitive personal information.
Reviewers don’t see usernames, but may see memory summaries, while OpenAI says it filters personal identifiers before review and acknowledges that some sensitive details can still slip through.
That makes the privacy setting more consequential than it looks: OpenAI says consumer chats may help train models unless users opt out, while Business, Enterprise, and Edu accounts default to no training.
👓 Meta plans camera-free smart glasses ↗️LINK
Meta is reportedly preparing camera-free smart glasses called Luna, which could debut at Connect on September 23 and ship in October, with Clubmaster and Burbank styles planned.
Luna will reportedly use six microphones, directional speakers, and a dedicated button for Meta AI, while slimmer temples could make the glasses look more like ordinary eyewear than Meta’s current models.
Meta may be betting that removing the camera solves a branding problem, after repeated privacy concerns and recording loopholes made its existing smart glasses controversial despite stronger anti-recording safeguards.
🖥️ Apple plans AI servers for sale in 2029 ↗️LINK
Apple is developing AI servers powered by its future M8 Ultra chips and wants to sell them to AI developers, businesses and governments, according to The Information. Sales aren't expected before 2029.
The report describes two versions, with either two or four M8 Ultra chips, and says Apple has discussed linking them with Nvidia's NVLink Fusion. CEO John Ternus has backed the roughly year-old project.
Apple hasn't sold a dedicated server line since it discontinued Xserve in 2011. Its comeback may now lean on Nvidia, a chipmaker Apple has kept at arm's length for years.
🚀 SpaceX targets first orbital Starship flight ↗️LINK
SpaceX plans to send Starship into orbit for the first time on Flight 14, targeting September 22 after 13 earlier tests followed shorter suborbital paths and returned within about an hour.
If successful, Starship will orbit Earth roughly six times over ten hours at around 275 kilometers altitude, then splash down west of Chile after attempting to deploy operational Starlink V3 satellites.
SpaceX will skip a Starship tower catch this time, but a successful satellite deployment could matter more, since each V3 unit promises roughly one terabit per second of downlink capacity.
Today’s Poll:
Would you be okay with a stranger reading your ChatGPT conversations if your name was hidden?
Vote and find out about the result tomorrow.
Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you think AI safety fears are overblown?
A) Yes - 11%
B) No - 89% 🏆
Reader’s opinions:
“Anyone in the energy sector knows AI is a major threat to human civilization, and possibly to the human species.”
“Nobody should be listening to anything the current US administration says about anything, much less AI safety. The moron-in-chief just wants to make a buck off it and punt responsibility, obviously.”
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