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September 23, 2026, 11:50 AM

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Reece Rogers / Wired:
At its Made on YouTube event, YouTube unveils Custom Feeds, an LLM-powered feature that lets users generate and save tailored homepage video feeds, for US users  —  In YouTube's latest update, viewers can tweak what the algorithm shows on their front page and curate it to a specific vibe.
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube rolls out tools for microdramas, an AI storytelling assistant for script analysis, video A/B-testing, and more, as it battles Netflix over top creators  —  Google-owned platform rolling out better tools for digital producers that could help it keep more of their content exclusively
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset  —  Anthropic's newest Claude model aims to make frontier AI cheaper, faster, and safer, while giving subscribers more breathing room before those frustrating usage limits kick in.
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
The US criticizes Australia's digital duty-of-care proposal, which has a provision that would require social media platforms to let users opt out of algorithms  —  The US government criticized Australia's plan to clamp down on social media algorithms and harmful content online …
Sam Yam / @samyamiam:
Patreon co-founder Sam Yam says he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product, alongside Patreon's Head of Product Drew Rowny and Head of Engineering Shannon Ma  —  1/ I'm joining @OpenAI to lead Creator Product after over 13 years since starting @Patreon. Coming with me are my favorite crew Drew Rowny and Shannon Ma, Patreon's (now former) Head of Product and Head of Engineering. We're going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to ...
Financial Times:
Sources: China's SASAC, which oversees state-owned companies, is surveying the number of Broadcom switches in state-backed data centers amid a domestic AI drive  —  Survey comes amid drive to boost domestic players and reduce reliance on foreign AI infrastructure
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more  —  This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data, and also defaced the FBI jobs site  —  A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost  —  GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive less than three months after GPT-5.6, with OpenAI claiming major accuracy gains, dramatic cost reductions …
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Discord is rolling out its updated age-verification policy this week, sorting users into either the Adult or Teen group based on account age, activity, and more  —  It will offer several privacy-focused options for users who aren't automatically confirmed as adults.
Axel Metz / TechRadar:
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores  —  Extreme by name, extreme by nature  —  Qualcomm has announced not one, but two new flagship mobile chipsets at its annual Snapdragon Summit …
Heather Knight / New York Times:
San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market  —  The city attorney argued that the service, available for up to $100,000 a month, could allow wealthy traders to manipulate the market …
Google:
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, its “most expressive audio generation models yet”, with support for more than 100 languages  —  Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet.
Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg:
Seattle-based satellite startup Hubble, which is working to enable global Bluetooth connectivity, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation, for $300M in total funding  —  Satellite startup Hubble Network raised $200 million in a new funding round, taking the company's valuation to $1.6 billion …
More: FinSMEs
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg:
Chinese chip foundry CanSemi, focused on automotive, industrial, and IoT chips, files for an IPO on Shenzhen stock exchange's ChiNext, seeking to raise ~$919M  —  Chinese chip foundry CanSemi Technology Inc. is seeking to raise about 6.16 billion yuan ($919 million) in an initial public offering …
More: Reuters

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