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OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, starting with Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow for users outside of the EU — A new generation of apps you can chat with and the tools for developers to build them. — Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)Start building apps(opens in a new window)
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI unveils the Apps SDK, built on MPC, in preview to let developers build apps for ChatGPT, and says it will begin accepting app submissions later this year — OpenAI's annual conference for third-party developers, DevDay, kicked off with a bang today as co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced a new … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch of AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, at the firm's Dev Day event.
More: The New Stack, OpenAI, OpenAI, and TestingCatalog
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI makes Codex generally available, and announces new features: Slack integration, a new Codex SDK, and new admin tools — Loading... We're announcing the general availability of Codex and three new features that make it even more useful for engineering teams:
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. X: @mattshumer_, @gdb, @chatgpt21, @mattshumer_, @mattshumer_, @gabrielpeterss4, @kimmonismus, @openaidevs, @theo, and @bindureddy. Bluesky: @techcrunch.com
| CNBC: |
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
OpenAI and AMD announce a deal in which OpenAI could take up to a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 23.71% — - OpenAI and AMD have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman's company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
As part of its deal with AMD, OpenAI will receive the first gigawatt's worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chips in H2 2026, when the chip is scheduled for deployment — AMD has signed a multi-year chip supply deal with OpenAI that could generate tens of billions in revenue for the chipmaker …
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14% — The Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing the data-collection practices of the mobile advertising tech company AppLovin Corp. … | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
SCOTUS turns down Google's request to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Google to make major changes to Play Store in an antitrust case filed by Epic — - Google asked Supreme Court to freeze parts of judge's order — Order was issued in suit by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games
More: The Hill, Bloomberg, Thurrott, and Courthouse News Service
X: @timsweeneyepic and @timsweeneyepic
| Alexander Saeedy / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: xAI is set to spend $18B+ to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; in July, Elon Musk said it would total 550K chips — xAI aims to win tech arms race with ‘Colossus’ data centers, thrown up at lightning speed; city divided over massive power and water demands
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an AI agent that detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent exploits by leveraging Gemini Deep Think models — Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind lab today shared results for CodeMender, an artificial intelligence-powered agent that automatically detects …
More: The Keyword, Google DeepMind, Neowin, Implicator.ai, and AI News
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Instagram launches Rings, an awards program recognizing 25 top creators; the judging panel includes Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs, and Adam Mosseri — Spike Lee, Marc Jacobs and Instagram head Adam Mosseri will be among the judges of the Rings program, which will honor the platform's top creators …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says the AI chipmaker pulled its IPO filing to share updated financials, admitting it was a mistake not to explain the move sooner — Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman admitted that his artificial intelligence chipmaker made a mistake last week when it didn't immediately explain … | Robert Hart / The Verge: |
OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics — It won't help stop the avalanche of AI slop OpenAI has unleashed. … Sora now lets you rein in your AI doubles …
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Bluesky: @questauthority, @davelee.me, @tprstly, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Oracle urges customers to patch an E-Business Suite vulnerability that's being exploited by cybercriminals; Mandiant said the Clop hacking group exploited it — Oracle issued a security alert this weekend urging customers to patch a vulnerability currently being exploited by cybercriminals.
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| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg effective immediately; Schulman is a former PayPal CEO, and Vestberg will help manage the transition — Verizon Communications Inc., conceding it has fallen behind rivals in wireless and broadband service, replaced its chief executive officer … | Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: |
Deloitte says it will partially refund payment for an AU$439K Australian government report with multiple errors, after admitting it was partly produced by AI — Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document
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Forums: r/Accounting, r/consulting, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November — The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.
More: Search Engine Land, The Verge, The Verge, The Verge, and usvgoogleads.com
X: @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
Google launches a dedicated AI bug bounty program that offers security researchers up to $30,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its AI products — Google will dish out the biggest bucks for rooting out ways to command ‘rogue actions’ from its AI bots.
More: Chrome Unboxed and Android Authority
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Deloitte announces a deal to roll out Anthropic's Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees globally, marking Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment ever — Deloitte on Monday announced a deal to bring Anthropic's artificial intelligence assistant Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees around the globe.
More: Anthropic, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, and Implicator.ai
| Bloomberg: |
The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri recordings to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, after a human rights organization's complaint — Apple Inc. faces an investigation in France over the use of voice recordings made with its assistant Siri.
More: AppleInsider, Reuters, Politico, and The Mac Observer
| CoinDesk: |
Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams — What to know: … Bee Maps, the decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper, has raised $32 million in fresh funding …
More: Bee Maps, Powered, Blockworks, crypto.news, and Ventureburn
| Financial Times: |
Sources: private capital firms like Oaktree, EQT, and DWS are seeking to cash in on the US-driven AI boom by selling off European data centers worth about €17B — Oaktree Capital, Partners Group and EQT among those seeking to cash in on AI boom — Private capital firms are seeking … Sponsor Posts
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