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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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| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
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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| 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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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 … | 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 … | 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.| 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| 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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| 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
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| 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.| 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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| Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter: |
How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands — “When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: 'Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?'" says one studio assistant.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
A profile of Mikko Hyppönen, a cybersecurity veteran who pivoted from fighting malware to developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and the military — Mikko Hyppönen is pacing back and forth on the stage, with his trademark dark blonde ponytail resting on an impeccable teal suit.
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Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to buy Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B contract with Olam — Shares of Wipro (WIPR.NS) rose as much as 3.2% on Monday after the Indian IT services firm agreed to buy the IT services business … | Joy Dong / New York Times: |
China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights — The Chinese government tightened rules to curb what it described as illegal drone use, but some users say the changes are now restricting too many flights.
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