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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks — Google is unveiling its long-awaited next-generation AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, to a small group of cybersecurity partners, the company said Wednesday.
More: Google, Investor's Business Daily, VentureBeat, New York Times, Reuters, Ars Technica, Business Insider, 9to5Google, The New Stack, CNBC, Financial Times, CNBC, Unite.AI, The Deep View, and TestingCatalog AI News
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Forums: Hacker News, r/GeminiAI, r/singularity, and r/GeminiAI
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization — As Alphabet Inc.'s Google prepares for the coming launch of Gemini 4, it's grappling with internal skepticism … | New York Post: |
Sources: the US FTC has opened a probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs over potential consumer harms, and plans to compel executives to testify — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission is ramping up a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs to uncover …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh — Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion …
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Forums: r/homeassistant and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March — Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.
More: Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, Unite.AI, and archive.is
X: @bullrush__, @armitagex, and @grummz. Bluesky: @davelee.me. Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
Forums: r/modnews, r/redditdev, r/redditstock, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent and a MCP server for organizations to allow enterprise AI bots to place bulk orders — DoorDash Inc. unveiled an artificial intelligence agent for ordering food that works inside Apple Inc.'s Messages app …
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X: @t_xu, @omooretweets, @andyfang, @natlungfy, @aiatdoordash, @aryanxshah, @andyfang, @tenobrus, and @doordash. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July — OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems …
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Amazon unveils a faster, slimmer $60 Fire TV Stick 4K, simplifies its Fire TV Stick lineup, and plans to roll out an upgraded Alexa+ living room hub in November — Amazon.com Inc. announced a faster, slimmer Fire TV Stick 4K streaming device alongside a revamped remote control and upgrades to Alexa+ for the living room.
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LinkedIn: Robert Williams, Aidan Marcuss, and Panos Panay
Forums: r/firetvstick and r/cordcutters
| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies — Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors.
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Bluesky: @kashhill, @jonahblank, @rooseveltinstitute.org, @jeisinger, and @kenbazinet
Forums: r/Economics and r/politics
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be “bad for the world” — The OpenAI CEO said he didn't want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. … For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public.
More: Ars Technica, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, Cautious Optimism, and The Mac Observer
X: @garymarcus, @chartingguy, and @koroviev82
| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment — President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord on artificial intelligence …
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Forums: r/singularity, r/agi, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
Amazon aims to have 5,000 drivers wearing its smart glasses in 2026, rising to 20,000+ in 2027; the glasses capture static images for its AI mapping platform — Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending …
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| Ben Weiss / Bloomberg: |
Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers — Open Standard, a company backed by more than 100 corporations, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc., and Mastercard Inc. …
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and more — Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers … | Dhruv Mohan / The Economic Times: |
Apple launches Apple Pay in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Watch — Apple Pay has finally launched in India, more than a decade after its US debut. The service is initially available on iPhone …
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| Kevin Roose / The Atlantic: |
A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries — Being in San Francisco in the mid-2020s sometimes feels like what I imagine living in Los Alamos was like in 1943, when the Manhattan Project rolled into town.
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| Luke Fountain / CNBC: |
DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day study of capabilities the US may need in future wars — The Pentagon is tapping Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, defense technology entrepreneur and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey …
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Forums: r/NewsThread, r/inthenews, and r/politics
| The Information: |
Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely — Google has been paying roughly 100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI-powered answers to search and other products …
More: 9to5Google, Ars Technica, TheDesk.net, and Search Engine Roundtable
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey — Starting at $1,400, it also has an apex price. … The Android tablet market is a bit weird. There are countless budget options …
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering — SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is considering an overhaul of its subscription pricing options …
X: @aaronp613, @aaronp613, @iorel_x, and @iorel_x
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
ElevenLabs says existing investors and employees have sold $300M worth of stock in a tender led by Wellington and T Rowe Price and valuing the startup at $22B — Existing investors and employees at speech-generation software company sell $300mn worth of stock
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June — Instagram announced on Wednesday that it's bringing an AI video editing tool to Edits, its CapCut competitor.
More: Instagram for Creators, The Verge, WeRSM, Engadget, Unite.AI, PCMag, and Net Influencer
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| Reuters: |
DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative — Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said on Wednesday it has partnered with Huawei Technologies to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips …
More: Bloomberg, New York Times, Techstrong.ai, The Neuron, The Decoder, Bitcoin Insider, and ANI News
| Reuters: |
Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing — Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits …
More: Bloomberg and The San Francisco Standard
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M — Miter, a construction workforce management platform, raised a $40 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, CEO Connor Watumull tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne — Alex Stamos has joined Cognition as the AI coding unicorn's new chief security officer. … The hire suggests security has become a major focus for the fast-growing company.| CNBC:NEW |
Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, vs. $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% to $37.7B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates — Micron reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Wednesday as the memory maker continues to benefit from soaring demand for AI infrastructure.
More: Micron, Bloomberg, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and Unite.AI
| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by Archiv with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC — GMI Cloud, a five-year-old provider of Nvidia chip servers to enterprises, said Wednesday it raised $668 million in equity and debt financing.
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CScale, which is developing optical interconnect for accelerators, emerges from stealth with a $145M Series C led by Atreides, Valor Equity, and Premji Invest — CScale exited stealth today and announced $145 million in funding to accelerate development and commercialization of optical interconnect for gigawatt-scale AI.| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users — Tinder is launching a new feature called Group Hangouts designed to take the pressure off one-on-one dates, marking its latest effort …
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