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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents  —  OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker …
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
Michael Shepard / Bloomberg:
US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024  —  Federal prosecutors arrested a California man on Thursday on charges of smuggling computer servers containing $300 million worth …
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence  —  Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and the Trump administration has been discussing having him remain in his current role …
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register:
Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B  —  Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
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  —  Startup is in throes of responding to several incidents in which its AI models went rogue
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash  —  Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers …
Microsoft AI:
Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash  —  MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice models: accurate, fast, low cost, and chart-topping audio understanding and generation for building the best conversational voice agents.
Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers  —  Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening …
MBI Deep Dives:
Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later  —  Get the next one in your inbox.  —  A daily journal on business, investing, and technology.  —  It didn't take too long for the app layer to start to respond to Muse.
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California's claims that Lyft mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020  —  Lyft (LYFT.O) has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle claims by the state of California and three of its largest cities …
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses Chegg's and Penske's 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 …
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering:
A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents  —  Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor.  If that troubles you, you should read something else.

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Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Gavin Blair / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Association of Japanese Animations: Japan's anime industry revenue grew 15.8% YoY to a record ~$28.5B in 2025, with overseas revenue reaching ~$16B

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:
Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users

More News

Kat Boboris / arXiv:
ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024
Martin Austermuhle / The Washington Sun:
DoorDash pulls support for a GOP bill that would have limited DC's ability to write its own tax laws, after widespread calls for locals to boycott the service

Earlier Picks

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
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
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5, from Project Amethyst, a collaboration with AMD
Sophie Austin / Associated Press:
Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of a wearable recording device was too broad
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
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
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
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