Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access”  —  Days after a journalist claimed that Meta's Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed …

Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash  —  Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers …

Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5  —  The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link  —  We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …

Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns  —  One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's (META.O) Ray-Ban smart glasses …

US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024  —  Federal prosecutors arrested a California man on Thursday on charges of smuggling computer servers containing $300 million worth …

Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement  —  Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service.

OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has notified 100+ organizations about its AI agents bypassing their security controls or negatively impacting a service  —  OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents …

Tavus unveils Griffin, the “first Human Interaction Model”, which it says passed the “video Turing test”, with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats  —  Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It's the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles  —  Meta said it's letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company in June …

Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices from scripts or prompts, with optional background music, in public beta, as its music generator faces lawsuits  —  The new Speech feature provides synthetic voiceovers embellished with AI background music.

Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers  —  Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening …

Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI “super intelligence”  —  Donald Trump's push to rename AI may be behind an “unprecedented” rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry.

Source: FieldAI, which is developing a “universal general-purpose brain” for robots, is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, up from $2B in 2025  —  - FieldAI is raising $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, up from $2 billion last year.  — FieldAI is building what it says is a …

Anthropic launches the Claude Frontier Academy with a $100M commitment to train 10K “Frontier Deployed Engineers” by 2028, starting with Accenture, Bain, others  —  The first-of-its-kind Academy trains Frontier Deployed Engineers using the same standard of skills as Anthropic's own engineers …

TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida says Jev is in use by ~25% of Fortune 500 companies and “we were at a trillion tokens per day about a week ago”  —  The Jev model, which TypeSafe's CEO considers at the forefront of a ‘new class of AI,’ has set Silicon Valley circles abuzz