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October 6, 2025, 5:55 PM

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
OpenAI unveils a new feature in preview to let developers build apps that work directly inside ChatGPT, starting with Spotify, Figma, Expedia, and more  —  Right within a ChatGPT conversation, you'll be able to chat with apps like Spotify, Canva, and Zillow.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch of AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, at the firm's Dev Day event.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers “have built with OpenAI”, and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, marking an increase …
OpenAI:
OpenAI makes Codex generally available, and announces new features: Slack integration, a new Codex SDK, and new admin tools  —  Loading...  We're announcing the general availability of Codex and three new features that make it even more useful for engineering teams:
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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
OpenAI and AMD announce a deal in which OpenAI could take up to a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 25%+  —  - OpenAI and AMD have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman's company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker
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Alexander Saeedy / Wall Street Journal:
Source: xAI is set to spend $18B+ to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; in July, Elon Musk said it would total 550K chips  —  xAI aims to win tech arms race with ‘Colossus’ data centers, thrown up at lightning speed; city divided over massive power and water demands
Robert Hart / The Verge:
OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics  —  It won't help stop the avalanche of AI slop OpenAI has unleashed. … Sora now lets you rein in your AI doubles …
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14%  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing the data-collection practices of the mobile advertising tech company AppLovin Corp. …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Instagram launches Rings, an awards program recognizing 25 top creators; the judging panel includes Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs, and Adam Mosseri  —  Spike Lee, Marc Jacobs and Instagram head Adam Mosseri will be among the judges of the Rings program, which will honor the platform's top creators …
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an AI agent that detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent exploits by leveraging Gemini Deep Think models  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind lab today shared results for CodeMender, an artificial intelligence-powered agent that automatically detects …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says the AI chipmaker pulled its IPO filing to share updated financials, admitting it was a mistake not to explain the move sooner  —  Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman admitted that his artificial intelligence chipmaker made a mistake last week when it didn't immediately explain …
Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times:
Deloitte says it will partially refund payment for an AU$439K Australian government report with multiple errors, after admitting it was partly produced by AI  —  Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document
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