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Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network  —  OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation …
Bloomberg:
Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations  —  Cybersecurity experts are faulting Anthropic PBC and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards after their models broke into outside organizations …
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery  —  A day after Google unveiled a new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images with the click …
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview  —  China's DeepSeek rolled out a public beta application programming interface, or API, for its flagship artificial intelligence model …
Artificial Analysis:
DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
FBI and EPA say water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states reported cyberattacks this week, with some causing flooding and other operational issues  —  Water plants in at least seven U.S. states have reported attacks this week, with some affecting operations
Ryan Lawler / Axios:
ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M  —  ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market, raised $35 million in new funding, CEO Dean Sisun tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Reuters:
Trump says he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems: “I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent”  —  U.S. President Donald Trump at Camp David told reporters that he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations  —  Snapchat is the latest company to strengthen its stance against AI slop.  The social network platform will no longer reward fully …
Kit Norton / Barron's Online:
Roblox shares close down ~27%, its worst-ever daily percentage decline, after forecasting falling bookings and slowing revenue growth; RBLX is down 40%+ YTD  —  Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news  —  Key Points  —  Shares of Roblox tumbled Friday as Wall Street responded harshly …
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon shares closed up 15.32% on Friday, the biggest one-day jump since April 2012, after the company reported accelerating AWS revenue  —  Amazon.com Inc. shares surged the most since 2012 after the company reported accelerating cloud-computing revenue, easing investors' concerns …
Ben Szalinski / Capitol News Illinois:
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs the Children's Social Media Safety Act, a bill designed to limit children's access to “addictive” social media algorithms  —  Cracking down on social media algorithms one of governor's top priorities this year  —  Article Summary
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an “overreach”  —  New York's attorney general sued Kalshi on Friday, claiming that its prediction market platform violates state laws against illegal gambling.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund  —  Index Ventures, an investor in cybersecurity firm Wiz and fintech Revolut, has raised $2 billion in new capital to back startups across multiple stages of development.

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From Mediagazer

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Apple TV led the 2026 Emmys with 28 wins, its first time on top, followed by HBO Max with 21, Netflix with 16, and MGM+/Prime Video with 10

Eric Fisher / Front Office Sports:
Nielsen: Netflix's Sept. 10 49ers-Rams NFL game in Australia averaged 18.5M US viewers, matching YouTube's 2025 Brazil game, and 3.2M abroad, vs. YouTube's 1.2M

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Channel 4 poaches Channel 5 owner Paramount's £300M+ TV ad sales business from Sky, in a huge boost days after Channel 4 announced its plan to cut 340 jobs

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Wall Street Journal:
An in-depth account of the past two days inside Situational Awareness, as Aschenbrenner assured investors he would focus on changes to his portfolio management
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies

Earlier Picks

Elizabeth Grenier / Deutsche Welle:
A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025
Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth
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