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September 25, 2026, 4:55 PM
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is “a statutorily covered national-security risk”  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft launches its Copilot “super app”, bundling chat, coding, and agents into a single interface, and rebrands its AI assistant Scout as Autopilot  —  The new Copilot merges AI chat, coding, and Autopilot agents.  —  After teasing its new Copilot “super app” …
Dylan Freedman / New York Times:
Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs  —  A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds new details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Bill Gates warns about the catastrophic risk posed by “people with ill intent using the latest AI tools”, which are powerful enough to “cause a billion deaths”  —  Bill Gates will warn on this weekend's “Meet the Press” that he can see a future where AI wipes out humanity.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft confirms that 2026 Surface PCs have dropped the Copilot+ PC branding, even though they meet all the requirements of Copilot+ devices  —  In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.
David Heaney / UploadVR:
A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses  —  Meta finally set a concrete timeline to ship realistic avatars, called Holograms, its take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas.
Ashley Gold / Semafor:
The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies  —  ASHLEY'S VIEW  —  The White House and its allies are lonely in their insistence that AI development in America must accelerate without governments setting ground rules.
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Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending  —  Jensen Huang accidentally called for shutting down OpenAI and intentionally called for spending vastly more on safety.
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding  —  When Sara Du was helping companies build MCP servers in 2025, people kept asking her how they could use AI agents from within Slack itself.
Wall Street Journal:
Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center for which Oracle made major financial commitments, faces power and permitting hurdles, exposing Oracle's AI risks  —  Oracle sent a force majeure notice to developer, has removed a key partner and faces local resistance in ‘Project Jupiter’
Bloomberg:
Sources: Oura IPO is roughly four times oversubscribed; Filing: Oura and the selling shareholders are offering 50M shares for $40 to $44 each to raise ~$2.2B  —  Health and fitness ring-maker Oura Inc.'s initial public offering raising as much as $2.2 billion has drawn about four times …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump says Scott Bessent is not “going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar”, because “he doesn't want to” and Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury  —  President Donald Trump said Friday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be tapped to be his artificial intelligence czar.

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From Mediagazer

Mallory Wilson / The Hill:
A US watchdog group files a bar complaint against White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, requesting a probe into the alleged unauthorized practice of law

Bloomberg:
A judge extends an earlier order to ban taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads until Nov. 8, past Election Day; she'll hold a hearing on a more permanent order Nov. 4

Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with 24-year veteran ESPN producer Nicole Noren, who quit over its gambling deals; her grandfather, father, and brother wrestled with gambling addictions

More News

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:
A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal
New York Times:
Massachusetts' gambling regulator says it will examine how DraftKings and other betting companies in the state are using AI, in response to a NYT investigation
New York Times:
Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims

Earlier Picks

Chris Metinko / Axios:
Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year
Matthew Brockett / Bloomberg:
Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says “user funds are safe”
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers
Megan Howard / Bloomberg:
The Fed unveils stablecoin proposals, including requiring some issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets, such as short-term Treasury bills
Bloomberg:
The US files an application with the EU's General Court in support of X's effort to annul a 2025 €120M DSA fine, arguing the EU engaged in regulatory overreach
Kevin T. Dugan / Wall Street Journal:
New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address
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