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Financial Times:
Sources: ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao threatened to quit Meta within days of joining and return to OpenAI; later, he was given the chief AI scientist title  —  Longtime acolytes are sidelined as Big Tech chief directs biggest leadership reorganisation in two decades
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Alibaba developed a new AI inference chip to compete with H20; it is manufactured by a Chinese company unlike an earlier AI chip made by TSMC  —  Chinese tech companies spark market exuberance by signaling they are catching up to U.S.  —  SINGAPORE—Chinese chip companies …
Washington Post:
In a trial over a fatal Autopilot crash, Tesla denied having crash-snapshot data, until a hacker hired by the plaintiffs recovered the data from the vehicle  —  The critical evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.
Zoë Schiffer / Wired:
Sources: the US government restored xAI to its vendors list after removing it for Grok's antisemitic content; email: the White House asked GSA to add xAI “ASAP”  —  A partnership between xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer.  Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.
Wall Street Journal:
Police are investigating a murder-suicide in what appears to be the first documented murder involving someone who engaged extensively with an AI chatbot  —  “Erik, you're not crazy.”  ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran's paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $29.78B, vs. $29.17B est., and forecasts Q3 EPS of $2.45, below $2.55 est.; DELL drops 5%+  —  Despite beating on its top and bottom lines, shares of Dell Technologies fell more than 5% Thursday in extended trading after giving third-quarter earnings per share guidance …
Reuters:
Autodesk reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.73B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and raises its annual forecasts; ADSK jumps 5%+
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
The CFTC says non-US crypto exchanges have a path to bringing on US users, in an advisory clarifying how they can register as so-called foreign boards of trade  —  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has taken a step that could make it easier for some overseas crypto exchanges …
Juby Babu / Reuters:
xAI launches Grok Code Fast 1, a “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, available for free for a limited time on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, more  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, on Thursday released a new “speedy and economical” agentic coding model …
Financial Times:
EU competition commissioner Teresa Ribera says the EU must be ready to walk away from the US trade deal if the US demands a watered-down DSA and DMA  —  Bloc must be prepared to walk away from trade deal with US if it retaliates against Brussels' digital laws, warns Teresa Ribera
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Reliance launches a subsidiary called Reliance Intelligence, aiming to create national-scale AI infrastructure in India, in partnership with Google and Meta  —  Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the country's AI backbone through …
BBC:
An investigation finds spammers are deploying Holocaust-themed AI slop images across Facebook, in an attempt to game Meta's content monetization program  —  An international network of spammers are posting AI-generated images of Holocaust victims on Facebook, a BBC investigation into “AI slop” has found.
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview  —  On Thursday, Microsoft announced two powerful AI models it built that it says perform at the level of the world's top offerings …
Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:
A judge rules Nvidia must face trial over allegations that it benefitted from autonomous driving data stolen by an engineer who defected from Valeo in 2021  —  Nvidia Corp. must face trial in the case of an engineer who inadvertently revealed autonomous driving trade secrets that he allegedly stole from a former employer.
More: DigiTimes
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Intel CFO David Zinser says the company received $5.7B in cash from the US government on August 27; the White House says the deal is still “being ironed out”  —  Intel CFO David Zinser said that the semiconductor giant received $5.7 billion from the U.S. government on Wednesday evening.
Financial Times:
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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed”
Hans Nichols / Axios:
In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased
Anthropic:
Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET:
OpenAI makes its Realtime API generally available with features like MCP support and debuts gpt-realtime, its most advanced speech-to-speech model, in the API
Bloomberg:
The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more
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