| 11:35 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Docs and sources: Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, including potential cognitive and emotional harm, as the company pushed AI into schools |
| 11:15 PM • | Will Wade / Bloomberg: Amazon signs a 20-year deal to buy power from Constellation Energy, including boosting capacity at its Maryland nuclear plant, supporting $3B+ in investments |
| 10:55 PM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Flow, a hardware development platform for AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation |
| 10:15 PM • | Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Gemini 4 Argon has a 1M-token output limit, up from 64K for prior models, and initially costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later |
| 9:25 PM • | Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, owner of HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as it expands into a gay hub |
| 8:35 PM • | Artificial Analysis: Artificial Analysis says Gemini 4 Argon (high) matches GPT-6 Astra (max) on its Intelligence Index and has a 15% hallucination rate, compared with 51% for Astra |
| 8:10 PM • | Paxton Honerkamp / CNBC: California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Robo Bosses Act, which prevents employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers |
| 7:55 PM • | Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal data: Meta's Muse now has 3M+ users who submit at least one prompt per week and 1M+ DAUs who have sent at least one prompt |
| 7:20 PM • | New York Times: Slack message: Greg Brockman has no plans to donate beyond his initial $25M to Leading the Future, saying the PAC has become a “distraction” at OpenAI |
| 6:45 PM • | Ashley Gold / Semafor: Sources: Trump's AI accord grew out of a talk between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson; Zuckerberg circulated a draft, and Huang helped build support |
| 6:20 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jensen Huang and others asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei replied it's important to be honest |
| 6:05 PM • | Rya Jetha / Business Insider: Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he terminated Chris Degnan, alleging Degnan confided with Cognition execs while advising Factory before joining Cognition as CRO |
| 5:00 PM • | CNBC: Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, above $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% to $37.7B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above est.; MU is up 273%+ YTD |
| 4:35 PM • | Luke Fountain / CNBC: The DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day study of capabilities the US may need in future wars |
| 4:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization |
| 4:10 PM • | Madison Mills / Axios: Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to trusted cyber defenders through Fairwind and says it is participating in the US government's voluntary prerelease process |
| 3:35 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March |
| 3:20 PM • | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July |
| 2:35 PM • | Ben Weiss / Bloomberg: Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers |
| 2:10 PM • | Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering |
| 12:50 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M |
| 12:40 PM • | Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: CScale, which is developing optical interconnect for accelerators, emerges from stealth with a $145M Series C led by Atreides, Valor Equity, and Premji Invest |
| 12:20 PM • | John Timmer / Ars Technica: Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-designed proteins to help with biosecurity and scientific integrity |
| 12:05 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular |
| 12:00 PM • | Sam Sabin / Axios: Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne |
| 11:20 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M |
| 11:15 AM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: ElevenLabs says existing investors and employees have sold $300M worth of stock in a tender led by Wellington and T Rowe Price and valuing the startup at $22B |
| 10:50 AM • | Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and more |
| 10:45 AM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June |
| 10:35 AM • | Financial Times: The UK's MI5 issues a rare espionage alert urging UK universities to cut ties with the China General Technology Research Institute, which funded AI research |
| 10:15 AM • | New York Post: Sources: the US FTC has opened a probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs over potential consumer harms, and plans to compel executives to testify |
| 10:10 AM • | Dave Lee / Bloomberg: A look at Amazon's smart glasses for its drivers, which capture static images for its AI mapping platform, as it aims to equip 20K+ drivers with them by 2027 |
| 9:20 AM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: Amazon says Fire TV now offers integrated live content from 40+ apps, like YouTube TV and DirecTV, and plans a Music app with podcasts and concerts in the fall |
| 9:15 AM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Amazon unveils a faster, slimmer $60 Fire TV Stick 4K, simplifies its Fire TV Stick lineup, and plans to roll out an upgraded Alexa+ living room hub in November |
| 9:10 AM • | Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: DoorDash unveils new retail partnerships to deliver clothing and footwear; Macy's is listing products directly on the DoorDash app for two-hour delivery |
| 9:05 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent and a MCP server for organizations to allow enterprise AI bots to place bulk orders |
| 8:50 AM • | The Information: Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely |
| 8:40 AM • | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users |
| 8:15 AM • | Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey |
| 7:30 AM • | New York Times: Sources and filings: Situational Awareness lacked an investment risk team; after the sell-off, the SEC sent subpoenas to major banks about trades they financed |
| 7:10 AM • | Phoebe Liu / The Information: GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by Archiv with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC |
| 6:55 AM • | Reuters: Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing |
| 6:45 AM • | Alex Williams / New York Times: Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume |
| 6:34 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh |
| 6:20 AM • | New York Times: OpenAI and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms so far; of 95 ads, all avoided reference to data centers and only some mentioned AI |
| 6:01 AM • | Hayden Field / The Verge: Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be “bad for the world” |
| 5:40 AM • | New York Times: Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies |
| 4:30 AM • | Kevin Roose / The Atlantic: A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries |
| 4:15 AM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation |
| 4:00 AM • | Financial Times: Goldman Sachs: investors have provided ~$500B in financing to AI-linked groups in 2026 so far, as hyperscaler debt issuance spreads to the euro, CAD, and others |
| 2:30 AM • | Owen Walker / Financial Times: Singapore doubles down on chipmaking as the AI boom lifts its economy, but high costs, scarce land and labor, and US trade scrutiny threaten its ambitions |
| 2:15 AM • | Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K |
| 2:05 AM • | Casey Newton / Platformer: Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT |
| 1:40 AM • | Megawati Wijaya / Bloomberg: Sources: US-based PaleBlueDot AI is seeking $600M in private credit to buy chips for its South Korea site, to be used by Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu |
| 1:25 AM • | Financial Times: South Korea's Kospi was the world's worst-performing stock market in Q3, down 18.8% due to Samsung and SK Hynix sell-offs in early Q3, but remains up 60% YTD |
| 1:20 AM • | Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times: US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country” and “free us from medical tyranny” |
| 1:00 AM • | Reuters: DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative |
| 12:50 AM • | Dhruv Mohan / The Economic Times: Apple launches Apple Pay in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Watch |
| 11:45 PM • | Brandon Pho / Mission Local: A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025 |
| 10:15 PM • | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: A profile of Travis Kalanick, CEO of Atoms, whom Silicon Valley has welcomed back with VC support despite his unapologetic stance on his 2017 ouster from Uber |
| 9:20 PM • | New York Times: An interview with Bill Gates about the need for more than natural incentives under capitalism to regulate AI's risks, the effects AI will have on jobs, and more |
| 8:35 PM • | Bloomberg: AI infrastructure company Accelevation and backer Olympus raise $540M in a US IPO after selling 30M shares for $18 each, below its marketed $20-$24 range |
| 8:00 PM • | Reuters: Robinhood plans to let users trade some US stocks round-the-clock during weekends, wager on specific corporate earnings metrics, and trade perpetual futures |
| 7:50 PM • | Kanishka Singh / Reuters: Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment |
| 7:15 PM • | Ronan Shields / Digiday: At the unBoxed conference, Amazon moves AI from being a feature to playing a more central role in ad-buying and brings previously separate ad workflows together |
| 7:00 PM • | Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training |
| 6:40 PM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Efficient Computer, which uses dataflow architectures to develop faster and more energy-efficient chips, raised a $97M Series B at a $650M valuation |
| 6:35 PM • | Anthropic: Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse |
| 6:10 PM • | Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as “Super Intelligence” or “SI” in all official communications |
| 6:05 PM • | Reuters: IPO filing: Anthropic routed 47% of its sales, or ~$2.16B, in 2025 through cloud partners Amazon and Google; analysis: it paid ~$351M back in distribution fees |
| 5:15 PM • | Axios: Mark Zuckerberg says the voluntary “accord” on AI standards that tech executives agreed to includes internal risk reviews and external auditors |
| 4:25 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Trump says the AI accord with tech leaders is “morally binding” and the administration is considering a 10-person committee to oversee the AI industry |
| 4:15 PM • | Bloomberg: After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new AI rules, saying “we automatically have regulation” via the DOJ and FBI but “self-regulation is very important” |
| 3:50 PM • | Dannie Herzberg / Baseten: Baseten partners with OpenAI to let OpenAI enterprise customers use existing commitments for open models served by Baseten within Codex or via the Responses API |
| 3:20 PM • | Elizabeth Dias / New York Times: Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude |
| 2:41 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: some potential Oura IPO investors decided to hold off, citing its ~$15B target valuation and poor post-listing performance of peers like Fitbit |
| 2:30 PM • | Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5, and says it performs well on safety tests |
| 2:26 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with interactive panels and file viewers, launches a Plugin Creator tool, and adds MCP Events support for plugin automations |
| 2:15 PM • | Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $220M at a $6.2B valuation, for $650M+ in total funding |
| 2:11 PM • | Paul Sawers / The New Stack: OpenAI says Plus and Pro subscribers can use their existing plan allowance with 16 launch partners, including Vercel and Devin, via Sign in with ChatGPT |
| 1:50 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: OpenAI announces Decisions API, which returns predefined answers with confidence scores, similar to TypeSafe's Jev, in limited preview with no pricing details |
| 1:45 PM • | Kris Holt / Engadget: OpenAI announces ChatGPT Space, a collaborative hub for shared pages and files, available on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans; it replaces Library |
| 1:42 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI aims to raise $30B+ at a ~$1.4T pre-money valuation, up from ~$1.2T, meant to be a bridge round to provide it with capital in place of an IPO |
| 1:35 PM • | Reece Rogers / Wired: OpenAI says users can message Dots through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams and join a waitlist to text via iMessage or RCS messaging on Android |
| 1:31 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI unveils a $500/month Pro plan, offering its highest usage allowance and access to its new Ultrafast tier, with up to 8x faster token generation in Codex |
| 1:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, and a new code review experience |
| 1:23 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol, saying it nearly matches Astra on agentic coding and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard prices, in Work and Codex |
| 1:15 PM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer, in ChatGPT for Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise users |
| 1:10 PM • | New York Times: Sources: OpenAI repeatedly dismissed internal warnings about inadequate monitoring of testing, prioritizing fast releases without additional security protocols |
| 1:00 PM • | OpenAI on YouTube: A recording of the OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote |
| 12:56 PM • | Engadget: A live blog of the OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote, where OpenAI announced its always-on agents Dots, new features for Codex, and more |
| 12:30 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Mark Gurman: Apple considered replacing ~5,000 AppleCare customer service workers with AI-powered agents, but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely |
| 11:45 AM • | Grace Kay / The Information: IPO prospectus: Anthropic has agreements to pay SpaceX up to $84.5B to use its Nvidia-based compute through 2029, mostly cancellable with a 90-day notice period |
| 11:35 AM • | Mallory Wilson / The Hill: Trump officially launches America.gov, an AI-powered single access point for federal government services and information led by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia |
| 11:25 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: John Ternus is overhauling Apple to release products more often and create a leaner organization with a greater focus on engineering |
| 10:45 AM • | Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg: Miami-based Jeeves, which launched stablecoin-based payments earlier this year, raised a $110M Series C led by CoinFund, with participation from a16z and others |
| 10:25 AM • | Madison Mills / Axios: Sources: OpenAI's ARR is nearing $70B, growing 70%+ since the beginning of Q3, with B2B revenue up 100%+; it added more consumer revenue in Q3 than all of 2025 |
| 10:00 AM • | Clare Duffy / CNN: In a July letter to Rep. Jamie Raskin, Apple explained it removed ICEBlock and similar ICE-tracking apps in 2025 due to agent and detainee safety concerns |
| 9:30 AM • | Reuters: IPO prospectus: Anthropic expects to spend $518B+ over 10 years with six partners on AI infrastructure; ~80% is non-cancelable or payable regardless of usage |
| 9:20 AM • | Waylon Cunningham / Reuters: Investigation: McDonald's is utilizing an AI pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate location-specific “optimal prices” for menu items |
| 7:45 AM • | Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: EliseAI, which provides AI tools for health care and housing industries, raised $350M at a $4B valuation, up from $2.2B after raising $250M in August 2025 |
| 7:35 AM • | Lauren Goode / Wired: Q&A with Timnit Gebru, who says the “existential risk” narrative is a harmful marketing strategy and the “stochastic parrots” metaphor is not outdated |
| 7:25 AM • | Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: FOI docs: UK police's six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert |
| 7:15 AM • | OpenAI: OpenAI is adopting a structured “safety case” documentation framework modeled after industries like aviation and nuclear power to govern frontier RL training |
| 7:05 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in early-stage talks with insurance companies to structure risk-mitigation products to protect lenders against loan defaults by neoclouds |
| 6:50 AM • | Inci Ozbek / Bloomberg: Censorship monitor EngelliWeb says X blocked nearly 500 accounts in Turkey, including those of journalists, economists, and academics, after court orders |
| 6:40 AM • | Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: Shein reports Q2 revenue up 0.9% YoY to $11B and net income down 66% to $228M, in its first report since a Hong Kong IPO; its stock is ~30% below its IPO price |
| 6:25 AM • | Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier, halves API credits per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and commits to not reinstating the five-hour cap |
| 6:20 AM • | CNBC: Oura says it is delaying its Nasdaq IPO due to uncertainty in the market, despite “strong demand” and a strengthening of its business since the process started |
| 6:10 AM • | Michael Acton / Financial Times: Pope Leo XIV rebukes Jensen Huang for downplaying AI risks, saying “the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously” |
| 6:00 AM • | Isabel O'Brien / CNBC: Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts |
| 5:50 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic dedicated nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to detailing “risk factors”, including that its AI may pose “existential risks to humanity” |
| 5:40 AM • | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Google appeals the European Commission's DMA mandates to open up Android at the EU General Court, arguing the requirements threaten user privacy and security |
| 4:45 AM • | Paresh Dave / Wired: Sources: six independent advisory board experts resigned from the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, as Meta and others push for structural changes |
| 4:05 AM • | Priyanka Salve / CNBC: India plans to invest up to $25B in its nascent deep tech industry, as it looks to catch up with the US and China, after investing $11.6B over the past decade |
| 2:30 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes on the SaaSpocalypse, enterprise AI, Atlassian's reorg, why chatbots aren't the future of work, and more |
| 1:30 AM • | Danny Park / The Block: Coinbase gets CFTC approval for Coinbase Clearing, completing its derivatives stack, letting it list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house |
| 12:50 AM • | Bloomberg: OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms |
| 11:15 PM • | Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Colossus: Q&A with Instinct founder Noah Shinn on Instinct's business model, personal agents, privacy, safety, security, securing compute, Big Tech competition, and more |
| 10:00 PM • | Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: Google plans to phase out ChromeOS by mid-2034, cutting short the 10-year support for some Chromebooks, with “many” models eligible for a Googlebook OS upgrade |
| 9:04 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources detail the lengths SoftBank went to secure its $11B junk bond sale, including high yields, to replace a $40B bridge loan for its OpenAI investment |
| 8:30 PM • | Reuters: IPO filing: Anthropic's seven co-founders will initially have 50.1% of the total voting power through a new “Founder LLC” aimed at serving the common good |
| 8:15 PM • | Sarah Wynn / The Block: Senator Blumenthal-led report: Tether's USDT is central to Iran's shadow banking system; 87% of 757 “terrorism”-related wallets predominantly transacted in USDT |
| 7:56 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June |
| 7:55 PM • | Garrett Downs / CNBC: Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI pending government safeguards |
| 7:40 PM • | Echo Wang / Reuters: IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers |
| 7:30 PM • | New York Times: Internal memo: the FBI says it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all staff; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands |
| 7:04 PM • | Artificial Analysis: Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all |
| 6:29 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar during internal testing, after targeting an October release |
| 4:17 PM • | Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by the end of 2026; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist |
| 3:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public later in 2026, seeking to raise ~$500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation |
| 3:25 PM • | Kate Rooney / CNBC: Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks |
| 3:00 PM • | Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer |
| 2:07 PM • | Anthropic: Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon |
| 1:45 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to “skills”, starting November 17; skills debuted with Gemini Spark |
| 1:10 PM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is “competition”; Scott Bessent described it as “theft” in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies |
| 12:05 PM • | AI Security Institute: In simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks more often than earlier OpenAI models when prompted only to perform a cyber evaluation |
| 11:45 AM • | Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Meta hires MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai as chief enterprise platform officer, a new role; MongoDB names former CEO Dev Ittycheria as interim CEO; MDB falls 18%+ |
| 10:45 AM • | Axios: Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction to halt ChatGPT development, saying OpenAI doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its tech |
| 10:35 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M |
| 10:25 AM • | Joe / @joedaroo: An OpenAI agent security executive on being surprised by “staggering” model capabilities, AI labs needing a “culture of reasonable paranoia”, and more |
| 10:15 AM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending “intelligence explosion” and call for oversight into automated AI research |
| 10:05 AM • | Marcia Dunn / Associated Press: SpaceX launches its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service |
| 9:40 AM • | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware |
| 9:30 AM • | TechCrunch: Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May |
| 9:20 AM • | Liana Baker / Bloomberg: Cyber defense tech company RedLattice plans to go public via the Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. SPAC, in a deal valuing RedLattice at ~$1.25B including debt |
| 8:53 AM • | Utkarsh Shetti / Reuters: AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service |
| 8:45 AM • | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, the “next major pillar of our business” to deploy AI tools, led by MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai |
| 8:35 AM • | Artificial Analysis: Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance with partners Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to evaluate how AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities |
| 7:55 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: AI agents can become the only interface users need, using apps on their behalf; Meta and Microsoft have an edge by reaching nearly every consumer and employee |
| 7:40 AM • | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Nvidia increases its share buyback program by $150B, raising the remaining authorized amount to $235B, aiming to complete it through FY 2028; NVDA is up 20% YTD |
| 7:10 AM • | Hans Nichols / Axios: Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank partner with key US unions to launch the American Infrastructure Alliance, aiming to create data center standards in 2027 |
| 6:45 AM • | Stefania Palma / Financial Times: Litigation funder Burford Capital says it stands to gain up to $1.4B after a US jury ruled against Apple in a patent case, awarding $5.7B in damages to Taction |
| 6:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: China has expanded its foreign travel restrictions to include the direct relatives, such as spouses and children, of certain key AI and chip executives |
| 6:20 AM • | Patrick Jenkins / Financial Times: An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on the company's 42-year history, its complex supply chain across 2,000 companies, US export bans, AI, and more |
| 6:00 AM • | Caroline Kimeu / Wall Street Journal: Uber removes its branding from Uber Safari 4x4 vehicles in Nairobi National Park due to safety concerns and fierce pushback from local guides and tour operators |
| 5:35 AM • | Sourav Rudra / It's FOSS: The Dutch government is testing DAWO, a NixOS-based digital work environment covering the OS, an office suite, and more, after Microsoft cut off the ICC in 2025 |
| 5:25 AM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs |
| 4:55 AM • | Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: NXP and TSMC affiliate Vanguard inaugurate their joint advanced chip fab in Singapore, targeting mass production in early 2027 and eyeing a second facility |
| 4:40 AM • | The Washington Sun: Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the “bipartisan psychosis” over data centers |
| 4:10 AM • | Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: A profile of South Korea Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, an AI evangelist and a former AI researcher leading lavishly funded programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide |
| 3:50 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on automated traffic hitting 1,000x human traffic by 2031, reviving HTTP 402 to charge bots, blocking Google, and more |
| 1:45 AM • | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup that raised $36M to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons |
| 12:40 AM • | Nate Jones / Washington Post: The US DHS says it will “revolutionize” its FOIA process by using AI to handle certain types of requests and recommend what information should be redacted |
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