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September 29, 2026, 11:55 AM

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Echo Wang / Reuters:
IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers  —  Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization …
Financial Times:
Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar during internal testing, after targeting an October release  —  Model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra was due to make its debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October  —  OpenAI is scrapping the release …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms  —  OpenAI on Tuesday apologized for its AI models breaching Australian government websites and promised to set up a new task force as part of reforms after the incident.
OpenAI:
OpenAI is adopting a structured “safety case” documentation framework modeled after industries like aviation and nuclear power to govern frontier RL training  —  Loading...  We believe we are entering a new era in which structured safety documentation should be required …
Isabel O'Brien / CNBC:
Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts  —  Coming off the successful launch of its Muse AI agent, Meta is now pushing its new artificial intelligence service into the business world.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: John Ternus is overhauling Apple to release products more often and create a leaner organization with a greater focus on engineering  —  Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Ternus, just weeks into the role, is moving to overhaul the iPhone maker in an effort to accelerate product development …
New York Times:
Internal memo: the FBI says it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all staff; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands  —  In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier while halving the API credits provided per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and removes the five-hour cap  —  The 5-hour usage cap is gone for good: subscribers can spread their weekly allotment however they want.
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by the end of 2026; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist  —  Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion, gaining an artificial intelligence startup founded …
CNBC:
Oura says it is delaying its Nasdaq IPO due to uncertainty in the market, despite “strong demand” and a strengthening of its business since the process started  —  Oura has said that it is delaying plans for its public listing on the Nasdaq due to uncertainty in the IPO market.
Waylon Cunningham / Reuters:
Investigation: McDonald's is utilizing an AI pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate location-specific “optimal prices” for menu items  —  McDonald's is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets …
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Google appeals the European Commission's DMA mandates to open up Android at the EU General Court, arguing the requirements threaten user privacy and security  —  Google is contesting an attempt by the European Union to make it open up its Android operating system to artificial-intelligence rivals …
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
Google plans to phase out ChromeOS by mid-2034, cutting short the 10-year support for some Chromebooks, with “many” models eligible for a Googlebook OS upgrade  —  Google is telling IT admins at schools and businesses about its new platform. … Google says it will be phasing out ChromeOS updates in mid-2034.
Wall Street Journal:
Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June  —  Helix expects to leverage Samsung's capabilities to support AI infrastructure development at scale
Artificial Analysis:
Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all  —  With max effort, Sonnet 5.5 gains 18 points over Sonnet 5 and moves to #2 on the Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max).
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