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October 2, 2026, 7:55 PM
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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 …
Molly Taft / Wired:
Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5  —  The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link  —  We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access”  —  Days after a journalist claimed that Meta's Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed …
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch  —  The ongoing memory shortage has prompted Nvidia to create a 64GB version of its DGX Spark mini PC, which runs AI models locally.  The only problem?
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement  —  Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service.
Stephen Council / Business Insider:
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week  —  David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, has resigned from the company.  —  An OpenAI spokesperson told Business Insider on Friday that Robinson left last week …
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has notified 100+ organizations about its AI agents bypassing their security controls or negatively impacting a service
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
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture
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 …
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida says Jev is in use by ~25% of Fortune 500 companies and “we were at a trillion tokens per day about a week ago”  —  The Jev model, which TypeSafe's CEO considers at the forefront of a ‘new class of AI,’ has set Silicon Valley circles abuzz
@tavus:
Tavus unveils Griffin, the “first Human Interaction Model”, which it says passed the “video Turing test”, with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats  —  Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It's the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
Laura Cress / BBC:
Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI “super intelligence”  —  Donald Trump's push to rename AI may be behind an “unprecedented” rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry.
Toby Sterling / Reuters:
Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns  —  One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's (META.O) Ray-Ban smart glasses …
Garrison Lovely / Semafor:
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation  —  THE SCOOP  —  On June 1, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon gave employees a preview of a blog post denying the company …
Rya Jetha / Business Insider:
Source: FieldAI, which is developing a “universal general-purpose brain” for robots, is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, up from $2B in 2025  —  - FieldAI is raising $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, up from $2 billion last year.  — FieldAI is building what it says is a …
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Salon:
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A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
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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
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
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
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
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 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
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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