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Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Madison Mills / Axios:
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.
Bloomberg:
Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization
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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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
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).
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 …
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 …
CNBC:
Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, above $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% YoY to $37.7B, and projects Q1 revenue above est.; MU is up 273%+ YTD
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 …
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
Ashley Gold / Semafor:
Sources: Trump's AI accord grew out of a talk between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson; Zuckerberg circulated a draft, and Huang helped gather support
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.
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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