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October 6, 2025, 8:10 PM

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OpenAI:
OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, starting with Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow for users outside of the EU  —  A new generation of apps you can chat with and the tools for developers to build them.  —  Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)Start building apps(opens in a new window)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI unveils the Apps SDK, built on MPC, in preview to let developers build apps for ChatGPT, and says it will begin accepting app submissions later this year  —  OpenAI's annual conference for third-party developers, DevDay, kicked off with a bang today as co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced a new …
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.
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 23.71%  —  - 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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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. …
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
SCOTUS turns down Google's request to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Google to make major changes to Play Store in an antitrust case filed by Epic  —  - Google asked Supreme Court to freeze parts of judge's order  — Order was issued in suit by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Oracle urges customers to patch an E-Business Suite vulnerability that's being exploited by cybercriminals; Mandiant said the Clop hacking group exploited it  —  Oracle issued a security alert this weekend urging customers to patch a vulnerability currently being exploited by cybercriminals.
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg effective immediately; Schulman is a former PayPal CEO, and Vestberg will help manage the transition  —  Verizon Communications Inc., conceding it has fallen behind rivals in wireless and broadband service, replaced its chief executive officer …
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
New York Times:
The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November  —  The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.

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