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| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment — President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord on artificial intelligence …
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Forums: r/singularity, r/agi, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: |
President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as “Super Intelligence”, or “SI”, in all official communications — President Donald Trump sees artificial intelligence as suffering from a branding problem …
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| Bloomberg: |
After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new AI rules, saying “we automatically have regulation” via the DOJ and FBI but “self-regulation is very important” — President Donald Trump shot down the idea of new federal regulations on artificial intelligence after meeting …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Trump says the AI accord with tech leaders is “morally binding” and the administration is considering a 10-person committee to oversee the AI industry — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he signed a “morally binding” artificial intelligence document with tech leaders following …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh — Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion …
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Forums: r/homeassistant and MacRumors Forums
| New York Post: |
Sources: the US FTC is expanding a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs, and plans to issue formal demands to turn over information — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission is ramping up a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs to uncover … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent for ordering and a B2B API allowing assistants like Slack bots to execute bulk orders — DoorDash Inc. unveiled an artificial intelligence agent for ordering food that works inside Apple Inc.'s Messages app …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies — Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse — GLM-5.3 can develop working exploits end to end — Five months ago, we announced Claude Mythos Preview, the first AI model …
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Amazon unveils a faster, slimmer $60 Fire TV Stick 4K, simplifies its Fire TV Stick lineup, and plans to roll out an upgraded Alexa+ living room hub in November — Amazon.com Inc. announced a faster, slimmer Fire TV Stick 4K streaming device alongside a revamped remote control and upgrades to Alexa+ for the living room.
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| Dhruv Mohan / The Economic Times: |
Apple launches Apple Pay in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Watch — Apple Pay has finally launched in India, more than a decade after its US debut. The service is initially available on iPhone …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT — With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be “bad for the world” — The OpenAI CEO said he didn't want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. … For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public.| Reuters: |
DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative — Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said on Wednesday it has partnered with Huawei Technologies to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips …
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| Reuters: |
Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing — Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits … | Kevin Roose / The Atlantic: |
A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries — A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it. — Being in San Francisco …
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and more — Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers … | Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
Amazon aims to have 5,000 drivers wearing its smart glasses in 2026, rising to 20,000+ in 2027; the glasses capture static images for its AI mapping platform — Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending … | Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey — Starting at $1,400, it also has an apex price. … The Android tablet market is a bit weird. There are countless budget options …
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M — Metaview, an agentic recruiting platform, raised a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners, CEO Siadhal Magos tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
ElevenLabs says existing investors and employees have sold $300M worth of stock in a tender led by Wellington and T Rowe Price and valuing the startup at $22B — Existing investors and employees at speech-generation software company sell $300mn worth of stock| The Information: |
Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely — Google has been paying roughly 100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI-powered answers to search and other products … | New York Times: |
OpenAI and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms so far; of 95 ads, all avoided reference to data centers and only some mentioned AI — See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress. — Leading the
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M — Miter, a construction workforce management platform, raised a $40 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, CEO Connor Watumull tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne — Alex Stamos has joined Cognition as the AI coding unicorn's new chief security officer. … The hire suggests security has become a major focus for the fast-growing company.
X: @walden_yan, @jeffwang, @danielfein7, @russelljkaplan, @alexstamos, and @ramez
| Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: |
CScale, which is developing optical interconnect for accelerators, emerges from stealth with a $145M Series C led by Atreides, Valor Equity, and Premji Invest — Become a member of GB MAX to gain exclusive access to the industry and to the most influential global B2B leadership community … | John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-designed proteins to help with biosecurity and scientific integrity — AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we've been slow to recognize potential threats.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June — Instagram announced on Wednesday that it's bringing an AI video editing tool to Edits, its CapCut competitor.
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users — Tinder is launching a new feature called Group Hangouts designed to take the pressure off one-on-one dates, marking its latest effort …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular — When Stephen Ewan co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn't have anticipated how valuable … Sponsor Posts
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