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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all” — An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence …
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LinkedIn: Bilal Chughtai and Joshua Squires
| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety — OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind …
More: TechCrunch, CNBC, Reuters, International Business Times, France 24, Politico, Neowin, Finimize, The Decoder, Livemint, Türkiye Today, Implicator.ai, and The Information. X: @dkthomp
| Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo: |
OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research — Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over ...
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Forums: r/Destiny, r/LeftistsForAI, and r/singularity
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says top US AI labs and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate safety — Elon Musk called for the top artificial intelligence companies to work together and test each other's models … | Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House bill, that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety — Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is supporting a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe.
More: Washington Examiner. X: @zachary, @kevinbankston, @thelastrefuge2, @mattplatkin, @jawillick, and @emma_dumain
| CNBC: |
The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework — The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework.| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans — Meta One bundles start at $7.99 per month with perks like 48-hour Instagram stories and a bold follow button.
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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs — General Motors Co. is integrating Apple Inc.'s CarPlay in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers …
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Forums: r/electricvehicles and r/technology
| Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents — Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet.
More: The Decoder, Thurrott, Search Engine Land, Google AI for Developers, Blockchain.News, RuntimeWire, and Unite.AI
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets — In more than 100 countries, Apple has launched a new initiative that bundles Apple TV and Apple Arcade subscriptions into iCloud+, at no extra charge.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients — Prosecutors said around $1.5 billion was sent back to Iran through a series of interrelated digital wallets| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation — Thatch, a platform that lowers healthcare costs for employers while expanding plan choices for workers, has raised $108 million …
More: General Catalyst, RuntimeWire, Pulse 2.0, and Dow Jones Newswires
| New York Times: |
Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown — Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April — Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup| Alix Coutures / The Information: |
Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat … | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms — Agility Robotics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people … | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, the Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries — Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ — The artificial intelligence marketing startup Profound has raised $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation in its Series D fundraising round …
More: Profound, New York Business Journal, TechCrunch, WOWTALE, and Unite.AI
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out an emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday, which addressed nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs — The out-of-band update fixes Remote Desktop, USB audio, and Hyper-V issues. … Microsoft has started rolling out an emergency …
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| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks — Universal Music Group is suing the world's biggest music distributor by volume, DistroKid.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July — The delivery platform DoorDash is investing in and partnering with Marc Lore-owned food tech company Wonder in deals worth …
More: The Information
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which builds an audit and certification layer for agents, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total raised to $55M — A day after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job over concerns that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade … | Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Google gives all its engineers access to Claude Opus 5 via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development” — Googlers have some of the best perks in Silicon Valley, but there's one thing many of them have long been denied: access to Anthropic's Claude.
More: Seoul Economic Daily and XDA Developers
| The Information: |
Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used it for arbitrage — When Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank launched earlier this year, it made an attractive pitch to lure new crypto customers: It would convert their stablecoins to cash for free.| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025 — CADDi, a startup that sells AI software to help manufacturers organize and use their engineering and production data … | Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019 — CoinEx says it is ceasing operations less than three months after a Wall Street Journal article spotlighted its use in Iran
More: Nikkei Asia and The Straits Times
| Ernie Smith / Tedium: |
A look at iLands, a company that is essentially Fiverr for AI agents, whose bots email unsolicited and annoying sales pitches to people, offering to charge ~$25 — Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/digitalminimalism, r/DeadInternetTheory, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing — Amazon data centers are still offline months after being hit, testing the region's multibillion-dollar ambitions
More: Bloomberg, 1330 & 101.5 WHBL, and CNBC
| Apple: |
Apple debuts child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as for blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse — Apple's new suite of powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use tools helps parents create safer digital experiences for their kids …
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