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Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a “personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o” and will add “erotica for verified adults”  —  We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin held in wallets owned by a man who oversaw a “pig butchering” operation in Cambodia, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture  —  The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive “pig butchering” …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora  —  OpenAI on Tuesday announced a council of eight experts who will advise the company and provide insight into how artificial intelligence could affect users' mental health, emotions and motivation.
Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg:
Walmart partners with OpenAI to let consumers purchase Walmart's products via ChatGPT using Instant Checkout, starting later this fall; WMT closes up 5%  —  Walmart Inc. is teaming up with OpenAI to enable shoppers to browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, the retailer's latest push to incorporate artificial intelligence.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10, which runs on ~40% of Windows PCs per Statcounter; users can enroll in an Extended Security Updates program  —  End users can get an extra year of security updates relatively easily.  —  Today is the official end-of-support date for Microsoft's Windows 10.
CNBC:
Oracle plans to deploy 50K AMD Instinct MI450 chips, announced in June, starting in H2 2026; the Instinct MI450 is AMD's first AI chip for rack-sized systems  —  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday announced that it will deploy 50,000 Advanced Micro Devices graphics processors starting in the second half of 2026.
Dylan Martin / CRN:
Intel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU designed for AI inference workloads, featuring Intel's Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory  —  Revealed this week at the 2025 OCP Global Summit, ‘Crescent Island’ marks the beginning of Intel's annual cadence of GPU releases …
James Oliphant / Reuters:
AG Pam Bondi says Meta complied with the DOJ's request to take down a Facebook Page that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago  —  - Meta removed page upon Justice Department request  — AG Bondi says page was being used to ‘dox and target’ ICE agents
David Ingram / NBC News:
Instagram overhauls Teen Accounts to align with PG-13 movie rating standards, block them from seeing accounts that share sexualized content, and more  —  After outrage over teens' well-being on Instagram erupted, the company said it would adopt the film industry's approach to content and aim to give teens a PG-13 experience.
Financial Times:
Court filings: the Dutch government seized Nexperia after the US said it would remain on its export control list if Chinese CEO Zhang Xuezheng stayed in charge  —  Takeover of Nexperia plunges Netherlands into US-China tech war  —  Andy Bounds in Horsens, Denmark, Ben Hall in London and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US  —  Spotify is bringing its video podcasts to Netflix starting next year, the company announced on Tuesday.
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Salesforce expands its OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships to embed their LLMs into Agentforce 360, letting users access Agentforce 360 apps in ChatGPT, and more  —  Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an “approximately” $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December, and says it has sold 5.5M+ smart rings  —  Finnish health tech company Oura has raised $900 million in fresh funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company …
Jack Clark / Import AI:
Anthropic's Jack Clark argues that, while he is optimistic about AI's progress, the industry must do a better job of listening to people's concerns about it  —  What do we do if AI progress keeps happening? … Import A-Idea  —  An occasional longer form essay series
Greg Otto / CyberScoop:
Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings  —  For Cybereason, the acquisition bookends a turbulent seven-year period that saw the company swing from near-IPO status …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google plans to invest $15B in India through 2030 to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh; Google employs 14K in India  —  Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in India, even as the Indian government pushes …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its search results to show vertical search engines in their own box on Search  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has offered to make further changes to its search results in its latest attempt to avoid a European Union antitrust fine, according to a document seen by Reuters.
More: Engadget.  Bluesky: @wavesblog
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Flow Engineering, which provides a collaborative hardware development platform for companies like Rivian, raised a $23M Series A led by Sequoia  —  At 14, Pari Singh made just enough money to stir up an existential crisis.  —  17 years later, Singh still can't talk about the details of that business (at least, not to a reporter).
Wired:
Researchers used $800 of off-the-shelf hardware to collect data sent by satellites unencrypted, like T-Mobile users' calls and texts and some US military comms  —  With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users' calls …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Glue, a Slack competitor co-founded last year by David Sacks and designed around threads over channels, raised a $20M Series A and says it has refocused on MCP  —  Glue, an aspiring Slack killer co-founded last year by White House AI czar David Sacks, has raised $20 million in Series A funding.

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the DOJ is probing whether the NFL uses anticompetitive tactics that harm consumers; regulators and others have raised concerns about streaming deals

Tom Jones / Poynter:
MS NOW announces financial backing for the Pulitzer Center, and collaborations with The Marshall Project on ICE and States Newsroom to feature state reporting

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC Networks rebrands as AMC Global Media, filing new articles of incorporation in Nevada; CEO Kristin Dolan says streaming is its top domestic revenue source

More News

Ryan Mac / New York Times:
Online loans marketplace LendingTree says CEO and Chairman Doug Lebda died at 55 in an ATV accident on his family's farm; Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
OpenAI's massive deals show that Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and using world-changing financial engineering to try to raise $1T+

Earlier Picks

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia says it is donating its Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and working with 70+ partners on “gigawatt AI factories”
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph:
Bhutan says it's migrating its national ID system for its nearly 800K residents from Polygon to Ethereum; the Ethereum Foundation says it will finish by Q1 2026
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail “Pixnapping”, a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it
Joe Tidy / BBC:
The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 “nationally significant” cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, with “highly significant” cyberattacks up 50% YoY
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image AI model developed in-house, and says it “excels” at photorealistic imagery, like lighting and landscapes
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