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New York Times:
Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed  —  The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip.  The incidents led the White House …
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions  —  Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies …
6abc:
Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18  —  Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment  —  ShareFollow 6abc on Google
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request  —  Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom
Bloomberg:
A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share  —  When measuring the race between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem …
Katharine Schwab / Forbes:
Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more.  —  Last year, TikTok's executives quietly defanged its advertising rules …
Wall Street Journal:
How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal  —  Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs
Adam Morgan / Wired:
Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more  —  Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / Politico:
Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark  —  In the months before TikTok finalized a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors friendly to President Donald Trump …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M  —  Fintech startup Ramp has reached a roughly $60 billion valuation with its latest fundraising effort, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Paul Sawers / The New Stack:
Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M  —  Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version …
Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia:
Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs to develop AI-powered chip design tools for the Chinese market  —  PALO ALTO, California — Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is looking to help Chinese companies develop chips faster …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation  —  Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection …
Bloomberg:
Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 17.94% Playback Rate  —  This is a modal window.  —  Unmute  —  In 48 hours, Firmus Grid Ltd. went …

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Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Gavin Blair / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Association of Japanese Animations: Japan's anime industry revenue grew 15.8% YoY to a record ~$28.5B in 2025, with overseas revenue reaching ~$16B

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:
Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users

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Kaan Serin / Eurogamer.net:
Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event
Hugh Langley / Business Insider:
Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it “feels like Opus 5.5”
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 2002, while T-Mobile fell 13.27% and AT&T 9.81% after SpaceX announced a nationwide spectrum deal on Thursday

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Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe after pushback from Germany, whose transport minister will now back its EU-wide approval
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
Bloomberg:
Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised a $870M Series A led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and others participating, says ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev
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
Michael Considine / CNBC:
OpenAI says it didn't fire three researchers for “raising safety concerns or speaking out”, but for violating “clear policies on handling sensitive information”
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