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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold — OpenAI said Tuesday that it has made several changes to its safety practices following its determination that an upcoming system …
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| Alex Heath / Time: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” — “I think it is a good time to slow down,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told me last week, describing the company's decision …
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| Apple: |
Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new 5% Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers — Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as losses widened from $9.3B to $12.3B, including stock-based compensation; Anthropic's Q2 sales grew over 2x to $11.6B — The ChatGPT-maker's revenue disappointed some investors, although the company told them its growth accelerated in the third quarter
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| Reuters: |
In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims — Meta Platforms (META.O) rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook …
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| Bloomberg: |
The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with exemptions for offerings up to $5M and $75M — The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a proposal to exempt certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements …
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| Allan Smith / NBC News: |
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials — Shapiro, a potential Democratic 2028 contender, earlier welcomed data center developments. His new executive order takes a starkly different tone toward the industry.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic prepares to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure; Amodei owns ~2% of Anthropic — Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with extra voting power to help insulate … | @artificialanlys: |
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62 — GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Once the weights are released it will be tied as the leading open weights model @Zai_org has just launched GLM-5.3, which ties Kimi K3 (60) for the most| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0 — Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists — Summary: In this post, we share two results that show how Claude can help life scientists increase the pace of their research.
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around its new Nexus architecture, with first shipments starting this quarter — Cerebras Systems (CBRS.O) announced on Tuesday a new version of its server hardware that includes its dinner-plate-sized chips that it says will speed AI chatbot queries.| Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: |
Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+ — Rillet, a two-year-old startup building what it calls the first truly AI-native accounting platform, has raised a $100 million Series C …
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 — Americans have become increasingly worried about artificial intelligence over the years, and young adults' concern has continued to climb.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO — Unitree Robotics shares rose 629% in its Shanghai trading debut after raising 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in an initial public offering … | Mike Stone / Reuters: |
Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In — Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building artificial intelligence decision-making tools for the military …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat — Nvidia's massive head start in artificial intelligence turned the chipmaker into the world's most valuable company.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B+ valuation — Temporal Technologies Inc. is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the AI startup a valuation of at least $12 billion …
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| Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
FDM CCS Insight: ~134M travel eSIMs will be used in 2026, up from 101.8M in 2025, challenging established carriers that generate 3%-5% of revenue from roaming — Usage set to rise by a third this year as travellers opt for cheaper alternatives to data roaming charges| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2 — After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor, GLM-5.3 …
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| New York Times: |
Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they “could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information” — The agency joins a growing number of workplaces and groups to ban Meta's devices, which have spurred privacy concerns.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity XB7 and newer gateways, a free opt-in feature that enables its routers to detect movement at home — Comcast is activating free Wi-Fi motion sensing on Xfinity gateways, allowing its routers to detect movement at home.
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