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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 — Startup is in throes of responding to several incidents in which its AI models went rogue
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Forums: r/accelerate and r/singularity
| 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 … | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture — OpenAI has parted ways with three employees for violating company policies on how private information should be handled, including for allegedly sharing it with an outside group.| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
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| 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 …
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| 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
More: Cloudflare and MarkTechPost
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| 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 … | 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.
More: SiliconANGLE, RuntimeWire, Unite.AI, PYMNTS, and The Rundown AI
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library — OpenAI is again experimenting with how its conversational AI assistant, ChatGPT, can help users as they shop online.
More: Engadget, RuntimeWire, Search Engine Roundtable, and Digital Trends
| 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 …
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| 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 — California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have penalized Californians for using smart glasses …
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| 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 … | KRQE: |
New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever — NEW MEXICO (KRQE) - The State of New Mexico is asking a judge for the biggest penalty ever awarded in a court case in the United States …
More: Bloomberg Law, Santa Fe New Mexican, Reuters, and Courthouse News Service
| 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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| 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.
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| The Information: |
SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's most recent funding round; source: Nvidia made its final $10B investment in the round too — 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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| 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.
More: The Neuron and Motley Fool
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| 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).| 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.| 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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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022 or 2023; a median 55% say it's good — Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics| 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 — The company still wants the D.C. Council to make changes to a new delivery fee taking effect Thursday. — Copy
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence — Nvidia's AI chips keep making their way to China despite US curbs. Officials are asking why the company missed red flags.
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Time, RuntimeWire, and Courthouse News Service
| 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 — Sony's new Quick Spectral Super Resolution AI upscaling is coming first to Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei.
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| 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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| 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 …
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