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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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
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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.
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| 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 …
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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| 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.
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| 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.
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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 …
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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 … | 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 …
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| 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.
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| Henry Belot / The Guardian: |
OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack on Australia's federal government — Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday
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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.
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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 …
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| Wen Shao / Fortune: |
Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M — Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million … | CoinDesk: |
Tether's USDT stablecoin is set to return to the Bitcoin network through Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bitcoin's public ledger — “It's coming home,” Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino proclaimed on X last week, referring to the return of his company's stablecoin, USDT, to the Bitcoin network.
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| Vanity Fair: |
A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions — The $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to many hubs of influence—from data centers to TikTok to Hollywood studios to the Oval Office itself.| 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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