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Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 — Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon …
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| New Yorker: |
Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of persistent lying and more: some defend him, others call him a sociopath — New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
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Documents: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of revenue — Silicon Valley's hottest startups have the same challenge: funding giant computing costs — OpenAI and Anthropic …
More: Fortune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Yahoo Finance
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Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices — AI isn't the only thing behind Medvi — On Thursday, The New York Times published a thing — and it went viral, declared as a victory for AI:
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| Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: |
Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands — Bitchat launched in July last year and has been used during protests in Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia and Iran … | Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more — ChatGPT maker put out policy proposals so consumers benefit from rapid advancements in artificial intelligence| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit — Attackers posed as a trading firm, met Drift contributors in person across multiple countries, deposited $1 million of their own capital …
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M — Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been from government buyers.| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Netflix debuts VOID, a vision-language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave without them — Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene — A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services — Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in. — Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale — Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan's push driven more by necessity than anything else.
More: Silicon Canals and The Indian Express
| Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
Sources: companies like Palo Alto Networks and Sophos see increased demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals — With ransomware attacks on the rise, businesses are calling on a new class of security expert to help with high-stakes talks
LinkedIn: Kieran Smith
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Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion — Videos show A7 office in Nigeria, while company also claims new branch in Zimbabwe — A recent vacancy posted …
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| Kunal Khullar / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an “intelligent” ML-based system handles the rollout — Microsoft forces 25H2 rollout ahead of 24H2 end-of-support … With support for version 24H2 officially ending on October 13 …
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