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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.
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| 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
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash — Following the compute-based usage change in May, Google will soon introduce limits on which Gemini models free users and AI Plus subscribers can access.
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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 …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore: |
Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more — VP Hardware for Jalapeño … In June 2026, OpenAI confirmed what the industry had assumed for a year … | Keigo Yoshida / Nikkei Asia: |
Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10% — MANILA — Japanese technology group Toshiba plans to double production capacity for hard-disk drives used in artificial intelligence … | Moneycontrol: |
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks — For years, former and current employees of Flipkart pinned their hopes on the Walmart-owned e-commerce major's eventual listing … | Stephen Wolfram / Stephen Wolfram Writings: |
As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask — Headlines and History — The headlines keep coming: such and such an AI system has solved such and such a math problem.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M — The acquisition will give the bank a digital small business platform while accelerating its technology and AI strategy.
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| Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware: |
Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 — Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports — Google has officially suspended product … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more — Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow and deliberate about AI.| Financial Times: |
Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied “excessive” charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015 — British claim over Google Play Store is latest effort to challenge market power of Big Tech groups| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model — The focus of OpenAI's Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined …
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| 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.
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