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October 3, 2026, 11:20 PM
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David Robinson / The Atlantic:
David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over  —  What I'm about to tell you has, I realize, become something of a cliché: I resigned this week from OpenAI.
Business Insider:
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called “Super Intelligence Force”, to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days  —  The White House group will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton who will serve as AI czar
Reuters:
Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka “Rey,” was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach  —  A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee …
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents  —  Swarm chasers hunt for clues of bad behavior.  Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong.
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize “original content” and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content  —  YouTube says it wants to ‘focus on originality’ in a push to surface better Shorts recommendations for users.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment  —  Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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  —  In a blog post published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says it's already taking around data centers.
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?
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 …
Howard Liu / South China Morning Post:
Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM  —  DUV tools, though not as advanced as EUV, can be adapted to manufacture 7-nm logic chips and advanced memory for AI processors, report says.
Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times:
A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them  —  - 8 min Click here to listen to this article  — Coyotec, an AI co-host on Los Angeles' José FM …
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Tim Culpan / Culpium:
Elon Musk confirms TSMC discussions on a Terafab deal to supply Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, as TSMC also mulls a Texas presence; Musk didn't elaborate  —  [Exclusive] Taiwanese foundry giant may use Terafab as anchor client for a future Texas semiconductor factory

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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: in its next US TV deal, the NHL seeks a 50%-100% increase over its seven-year, $4.5B contract with ESPN and TNT; formal talks can begin on January 1

Bloomberg:
A look at Disney's AI push; sources: it is testing AI-powered suggestions and could add chats with characters on Disney+, and execs saw AI demos at Amazon MGM

Columbia Daily Spectator:
Columbia Journalism School shut down a 12-year-old fellowship that paid graduates a salary for investigations published by The New Yorker, NYT, NPR, and others

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Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid
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