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| Politico: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still have a fundamentally different worldview on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic …
More: The Guardian, Business Insider, PCMag, PYMNTS, Financial Times, The Guardian, Politico, Implicator.ai, Fortune, Quartz, Bitcoin Insider, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Vanity Fair, Marcus on AI, Digital Trends, HuffPost, and The Washington Sun
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| Vanity Fair: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on his kids, his rivalries, pronatalism, “prepping” for the apocalypse, new products, the IPO delay, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, and more — In an exclusive video interview, the OpenAI CEO discusses ChatGPT and suicide prevention, safety breaches …
More: Reality Tea, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
Sam Altman says he's “very uncomfortable” with attributing “religious force” to AI, calling it “a real safety issue”, as Anthropic meets with religious leaders — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday took a veiled shot at Anthropic and its work on the soul of AI …
More: The Independent, The Daily Wire, New York Post, The Neuron, and Wccftech
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Huawei agrees to a multiyear patent licensing deal with Qualcomm covering AI, 5G, computing, and networking tech, its first 5G licensing deal with Qualcomm — China's Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) said on Monday it had agreed a broad multi-year patent licence deal with Qualcomm (QCOM.O) …
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| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
OpenAI says it will begin testing a visual ad format in ChatGPT later in October in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads while users generate images — OpenAI is expanding ads in ChatGPT, and one of the first new formats will show visual ads while you're generating images.| Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: |
OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE is seeking US SEC approval to offer tokenized shares of 63 NYSE-listed companies, leveraging new rules on tokenized stocks — OKX filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday to launch a tokenized-stock trading platform … | Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and automation software, sells $40M of shares at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$500M after raising $100M in January — German company aims to capitalize on growing demand for autonomous industrial robots — German robotics startup RobCo has sold shares …
More: Reuters, Autonomous Industrial Robotics, PYMNTS, Quartz, Silicon Republic, RuntimeWire, Unite.AI, Startup.eu, and Bloomberg
| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Nico Caprez, son-in-law to Jensen Huang, rapidly ascended to become an Nvidia VP, serving as its main contact for neoclouds and Huang's “consigliere” — A little over a week ago, Madison Huang, a rising star at Nvidia and the daughter of its CEO, celebrated her wedding in Hawaii.
X: @_iainmartin, @jessicalessin, and @_pheebini
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The IWF says it assessed 6,310 AI-generated images that met the legal definition of CSAM in H1 2026, 40% more than the 4,500+ images assessed in all of 2025 — Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year's total
More: Digital Trends and Tech Times
| Financial Times: |
French conglomerate Schneider Electric agrees to acquire US engineering software provider PTC for $23.7B in cash, paying $205 per share, its largest acquisition — Takeover is French conglomerate's largest and enhances its products focused on manufacturers
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| Bradley Olson / Axios: |
Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch in October, such as Reflection AI's first model, expected to rival top Chinese open-weight models — A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system …
More: New York Times and RuntimeWire
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| New York Magazine: |
Q&A with AI researchers Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo, Alex Turner, and others on leaving AI labs, AGI's dangers, planned IPOs, AI safety, oversight, and more — Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind. — On September 8, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic employee …
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Namespace, which offers cloud services and infrastructure for developers, raised a $42M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners and says it has 1,000+ customers — Namespace, developer infrastructure company and specialized cloud provider, raised a $42 million Series B led by Scale Venture Partners …
More: Tech.eu and RuntimeWire
| Zoya Hasan / Forbes: |
Valon, which makes software to help US mortgage companies cut red tape and costs, raised a $150M Series D from Ribbit, a16z, and others at a $2.3B valuation — The U.S. mortgage market is massive, but its payment systems are antiquated and often analog. Valon raised a $150 million Series D … | Chandni Shah / Reuters: |
In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's “super intelligence” push to replace “artificial intelligence” — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI …
More: Quartz, The Register, Barron's Online, Bloomberg Law, DatacenterDynamics, Investor's Business Daily, The Information, Mashable, Euronews, Livemint, Advertising, Marketing …, The Indian Express, Business Today, Fox Business, Cointelegraph, CTech, Minute Mirror, TESLARATI, Wccftech, Forbes, and The Economic Times
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Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Politico: |
More: Semafor, BBC, The Information, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Nextgov/FCW, CNBC, NPR, Tech Times, Reality Tea, Bloomberg, ZeroHedge News, CBS News, New York Post, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS, RedState, Byte Watchr, Newser, ABC News, The Economic Times, Times of India, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, MS NOW, Cointelegraph, Advertising, Marketing …, The Indian Express, Bitcoin Insider, Washington Examiner, and Reuters
X: @rapidresponse47, @whitehouse, @jkhamehl, @skupor, @vtg2, @skupor, and @andrewcurran_
Forums: r/politics and r/technology
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