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OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three researchers for violating its “handling sensitive” info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization — OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers for allegedly sharing confidential company information …
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils a $35 Kindle Click page-turning remote — A wave of little changes, including new colors, the option of an aluminum case, and some neat accessories.
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions — New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks.
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| Time: |
In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views as differing much from “what is portrayed in the media”, meetings with AI leaders, “Super Intelligence”, and more — President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on Sept. 28.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5 developed in collaboration with AMD — Sony's new Quick Spectral Super Resolution AI upscaling is coming first to Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei.| Sophie Austin / Associated Press: |
Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of wearable recording devices was too broad — California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have penalized Californians for using smart glasses … | Zachary Small / New York Times: |
A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists “Xbox is not for sale” despite overseeing mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing unit — Asha Sharma didn't have any experience in video games when she became the chief executive of Xbox this year.| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
After a four-month US prison sentence, Changpeng Zhao is now living a gilded life in Abu Dhabi; he retains majority ownership of Binance and a $10B+ net worth — The Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to violating an anti-money-laundering law, was pardoned by President Trump … | Wall Street Journal: |
Docs and sources: Google's researchers have worried about AI risks to kids, like potential cognitive and emotional dependence, as Google pushed AI into schools — The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic has taken the unusual step of ending customers' discounts, which typically reach ~15%, once they hit the usage limits, forcing renegotiations — Anthropic is flexing its muscle with enterprise customers by taking a hard line on discounts once those customers use up all the tokens they purchased.| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving — Anthropic PBC is seeking to go public as soon as the middle of November, according to people familiar with the matter … | Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: |
Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation — Armadin said on Thursday that it raised $255.5 million in a Series B funding round, which values the AI cybersecurity company at more than $2.5 billion.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Ryan Roslansky, who was promoted from LinkedIn CEO to the head of Office and Teams in 2025, is leaving, triggering another Microsoft executive reshuffle — Ryan Roslansky is leaving after nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft. … After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company.| Reuters: |
IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via a convertible note that could help finance Anthropic's $125.2B, five-year TPU lease commitment — Anthropic's IPO prospectus documents extensive partnerships with a handful of big tech firms. One stands out: chip maker Broadcom (AVGO.O).
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base — The race to make AI agents cheaper and faster is moving beyond the models that write their answers.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says that RAM shortages will persist into 2028 and perhaps beyond, and customers will pay “much higher prices” than they did in 2026 — Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come — Memory-maker Micron has warned that RAM shortages …
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| Adrian Diaconescu / PhoneArena: |
Samsung quietly raises US prices for most of its Galaxy S26 lineup by $100 and the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra by $200; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 are unchanged — In line with recent rumors and expectations, the ultra-high-end Galaxy S26 trio has become more expensive than ever before in the US.
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z — Doxx.net has raised a $38 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz as its private agentic defined networking platform launches into open beta … | Claude: |
Anthropic says Claude for Government is now generally available to federal and state agencies, with Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access — Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 also now available in early access. — Product announcements — Product| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Salesforce agrees to buy AI customer research startup Listen Labs, reportedly for $2B; Listen Labs had raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January — The customer research space is especially ripe for AI disruption, as companies look to replace older, manual methods to more quickly find out what customers think.
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| The Information: |
SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's last funding round; source: Nvidia also made its final $10B investment in the round — Nvidia and SoftBank have each made the final $10 billion investment in each of their $30 billion pledges to OpenAI's last funding round …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
An interview with Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd, who says the US spyware maker cannot see customers' targeting information and doesn't have a “kill switch” — In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company's promise …
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic — Alphabet's Google has persuaded a US federal judge to dismiss lawsuits from education technology company Chegg … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Jensen Huang and others asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei replied it's important to be honest — Nvidia's CEO was among the execs at White House event who called out the Anthropic leader for warning about the technology's capabilities
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