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Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems — The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it didn't consider it an instance of model misalignment
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Sources: the US “almost started a war” after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components — The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran …
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| Bloomberg: |
US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children — Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic; they expect to invest $2B+ in building capacity in this area over the next five years — We're partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI. This is an important step toward the commitment …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Anthropic expects to generate $100B+ in annualized revenue this year, up from $65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate — The company is expected to generate $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls … | Wall Street Journal: |
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| Financial Times: |
Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 — AI start-up has projected deeply negative cash flows as it invests in infrastructure and faces price pressures
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Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee — As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
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| Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider: |
Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 — Mark Zuckerberg's ambition to bring “personal superintelligence” to everyone may be taking shape, one download at a time.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year — Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache — Anthropic on Friday surprised the developer community by supporting rival OpenAI's mechanism for passing marching orders to AI agents.
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| Financial Times: |
EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until “all possibilities” for taxation at the global level are exhausted — Global efforts towards tech levy must be exhausted first, says European commissioner Wopke Hoekstra| Financial Times: |
Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback — Investors grow wary of permitting and construction delays as opposition mounts in New Mexico — About $18bn of loans tied …
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight — On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M+ from Silversmith Capital Partners — Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn't quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm.
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV — AI agent monitoring platform Raindrop raised a $35 million Series A round led by CRV, co-founders Zubin Koticha and Ben Hylak tell Axios Pro exclusively.| Anup Roy / Bloomberg: |
ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work — India's outsourcing industry is showing little sign of losing ground to artificial intelligence as the country moves …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a “one-way exchange” that is “anti-competitive” — India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports … Sponsor Posts
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GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
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