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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: |
More: Implicator.ai, The Rundown AI, Digit, and Gizmodo
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| Wired: |
Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages reveals OS Investigate, a new AI system that integrates license plate scans, arrest records, case files, and more — Flock's surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police …
More: Breitbart and RuntimeWire
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as its loss jumped 32% to $12.3B; Anthropic's sales grew 2x+ to $11.6B as it swung to a small operating profit — The ChatGPT-maker's revenue disappointed some investors, although the company told them its growth accelerated in the third quarter
More: Semafor, The Information, Quartz, Marcus on AI, New York Times, Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, The Decoder, and Seoul Economic Daily
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone deliveries to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months, including suburban Chicago and Atlanta — Amazon.com Inc. plans to expand its drone delivery operation to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months …
More: About Amazon, The Verge, CNBC, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS, The Hill, Digital Trends, Blockonomi, DroneXL, DroneDJ, Quartz, Newser, GeekWire, and Associated Press
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Amazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it was supposed to hit theaters — The film isn't supposed to hit theaters for two days, but it's available to stream on Prime Video now.| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks — Beijing permits small shipments to help leading tech groups in drive to catch up with US rivals — Small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips … | @artificialanlys: |
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, seven points above GLM-5.2, on par with Kimi K3, but below Opus 5's 63 and Fable 5's 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: |
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over key unanswered questions — The company at the center of a series of incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems during supposedly … | 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 in Q3 2026 — 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.| 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.
More: Bloomberg, Washington Post, Business Insider, Techstrong.ai, Implicator.ai, Axios, Gizmodo, Inside Radio, and The Indian Express
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| Reuters: |
In opening arguments, US state AGs say 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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| Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
A hacker known as Cyberleek leaks two GTA VI gameplay clips and the full map in protest of Rockstar Games' digital-only release; Rockstar issues DMCA takedowns — The hacker wants Rockstar to stop pre-selling digital games. … GTA VI is one of the most hotly anticipated games in history …
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| Bloomberg: |
Hangzhou-based humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surges 460% in its Shanghai trading debut, giving it a ~$50B market cap, after raising ~$904M in its IPO — Unitree Robotics shares surged 460% in their Shanghai trading debut after the company raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) …
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| Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, with Marvell granting Google a warrant to buy up to 58M+ shares at $206.58 each, totaling up to $12.2B — Marvell Technology Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced an expanded chip-development partnership, including a warrant …
| Denny Thomas / Bloomberg: |
Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending — SK Hynix Inc. unveiled plans to buy back 40 trillion won ($29 billion) of stock and return more of its profits to shareholders …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteed jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers — Tech companies are holding listening sessions, offering guaranteed jobs and writing big checks to win public support for the data centers they need.| 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 …
More: View from the Wing, Block Open Source on GitHub, and Block
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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.
More: The Decoder, Anthropic, and Anthropic
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February — 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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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others — Expansion of the AI giant's ads pilot comes as ad revenue climbs more than 25% since the start of August — The future of brands gets decided here.| 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 …
More: Reuters, Blockonomi, and Bloomberg
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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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LinkedIn: Paulo Trezentos and Damien Geradin
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| Bloomberg: |
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