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OpenAI says it didn't fire three researchers for “raising safety concerns or speaking out”, but for violating “clear policies on handling sensitive information” — OpenAI on Friday defended its decision to fire three safety researchers, saying they had committed a “significant breach of trust.”| Mikita Balesni / @balesni: |
AI researcher Mikita Balesni says he believes OpenAI fired him, Tomek Korbak, and Jasmine Wang “for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI” — Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership. I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction — Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns. Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg's hand.| IDC: |
Global PC shipments dropped 20.1% YoY in Q3 to 62.7M units due to higher prices and supply issues; Lenovo dropped 22.6% YoY, HP 30.9%, Dell 25%, and Apple 11.3% — Q3 delivered the widely expected PC downturn, with supply constraints, high price points, and logistical disruption eroding the usual seasonal lift
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Sabi, which is building a baseball cap that uses 100K non-contact neuro-sensors to convert neural signals into text prompts for AI systems, raised a $50M seed — Palo Alto-based Sabi is betting its cap, outfitted with 100,000 sensors, will enable people to talk to their AI agents just by thinking.
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| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
President Trump awards Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Sergey Brin the National Medal of Science at a White House summit promoting US innovation — President Donald Trump joined Michael Kratsios to award the Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su and Sergey Brin amid announcements about new science funding.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple told some suppliers to cut iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max component production by 15% to 20% as higher memory costs pushed up prices, hurting demand — TAIPEI — Apple has told some of its suppliers to cut production of components for its newly launched iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max … | Bloomberg: |
Meta bans ByteDance's ads and paid marketing, plus third-party campaigns that link to TikTok, in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam — Meta Platforms Inc. banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance Ltd., the former controlling owner of TikTok …
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Microsoft denies JD Vance's claim it replaced thousands of US workers with foreign workers in 2025, saying 80% of H-1B applications were for existing employees — President Donald Trump's administration announced Thursday it was suspending Microsoft and several other firms …
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Nvidia commits $1B over five years to build out the US' “capacity for super intelligence R&D” in fields like quantum computing, healthcare, and energy security — Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
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| Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: |
NY AG announces an up-to-$35M settlement with ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky that permanently bars him from the securities, commodities, and crypto industries — New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday she secured up to $35 million from former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky …
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| Sarah Hilton / Bloomberg: |
A slew of cyberattacks hit Japanese companies in September, exposing the data of millions and prompting calls for security checks, as AI lowers hacking barriers — A cascade of cyberattacks has hit Japanese companies over the past few weeks, prompting the government to call for security checks … | Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $37.5M led by Bain Capital, sources say at a $350M valuation, up from $190M in April 2025 — Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed company offering life insurance in bitcoin, raised $37.5 million in funding, CEO Zac Townsend tells Axios exclusively.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Flock plans to let go of ~270 employees, or 18% of its staff, at the end of October; the layoffs come after a voluntary buyout program in September — Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday … | Bloomberg: |
Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised ~$870M led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and angel investors also participating; ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev — TypeSafe AI, the startup behind Jev, a new artificial intelligence model that went viral after it launched only a few weeks ago …
More: RuntimeWire
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Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, which provides free, opt-in security audits for open-source projects by sending AI-generated reports without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in vulnerability scanner for the open-source ecosystem informed by our experience using Claude …
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
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