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Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to trusted cyber defenders through Fairwind and says it is participating in the US government's voluntary prerelease process — Google is unveiling its long-awaited next-generation AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, to a small group of cybersecurity partners, the company said Wednesday.
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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.| 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.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils the $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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| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators are questioning Binance over its use of a legal exemption to continue serving customers in the region despite failing to secure a license — Securities regulators looking at use of legal exemption by world's biggest crypto exchange — EU officials are questioning … | Time: |
In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views differing greatly 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Docs and sources: Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, including potential cognitive and emotional harm, as the company pushed AI into schools — The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash| New York Times: |
Slack message: Greg Brockman says he has “no plans” to donate more than $25M to Leading the Future, as the PAC has become a “distraction” for OpenAI employees — Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future …
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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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IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via convertible notes 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Ryan Roslansky, previously LinkedIn CEO who became Office and Teams head in 2025, is leaving after ~18 years at Microsoft, triggering an exec 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.| 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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| 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.
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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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| 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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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
An interview with Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd, who says the US spyware maker lacks visibility into customer targeting data and has no “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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| 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 … | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year deal with Oracle this year for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers — WeChat owner strikes deal to access US group's south-east Asia data centres amid race with ByteDance and Alibaba
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| Paxton Honerkamp / CNBC: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Robo Bosses Act, which prevents employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark AI law banning Golden State employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers.
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| Rya Jetha / Business Insider: |
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he terminated Chris Degnan, alleging Degnan confided with Cognition execs while advising Factory before joining Cognition as CRO — - Startup Factory AI says a former advisor held meetings with rival Cognition while advising the company.
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| Gabi Marques / Colossus: |
A profile of Nubank founder David Vélez, who graduated from Stanford, worked at Sequoia, and moved to Brazil to start the bank in 2013, as Nubank enters the US — After facing down regulators, oligopolies, and corruption in Latin America, Nubank founder David Vélez faces his biggest challenge yet: the United StatesSponsor Posts
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