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Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold  —  OpenAI said Tuesday that it has made several changes to its safety practices following its determination that an upcoming system …
Wired:
Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages shows a new AI-powered system, called OS Investigate, that integrates license plate scans, case files, and more  —  Flock's surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage.  WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as its losses widened from $9.3B to $12.3B; Anthropic's sales grew 2x+ to $11.6B, with a small operating profit  —  The ChatGPT-maker's revenue disappointed some investors, although the company told them its growth accelerated in the third quarter
@artificialanlys:
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62  —  GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Once the weights are released it will be tied as the leading open weights model @Zai_org has just launched GLM-5.3, which ties Kimi K3 (60) for the most
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40/1M input tokens and $4.40/1M output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2; Kimi K3 costs $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens
Alexander Martin / The Record:
AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions  —  The company at the center of a series of incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems during supposedly …
Reuters:
In opening arguments, US state AGs say Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook …
Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks  —  Beijing permits small shipments to help leading tech groups in drive to catch up with US rivals  —  Small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips …
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone deliveries to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months, including suburban Chicago and Atlanta  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to expand its drone delivery operation to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0  —  Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal …
Denny Thomas / Bloomberg:
Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending  —  SK Hynix Inc. unveiled plans to buy back 40 trillion won ($29 billion) of stock and return more of its profits to shareholders …
Bloomberg:
The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with exemptions for offerings of up to $5M and up to $75M  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a proposal to exempt certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements …
The Information:
Sources: Anthropic prepares to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure; Amodei owns ~2% of Anthropic  —  Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with extra voting power to help insulate …
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30  —  Americans have become increasingly worried about artificial intelligence over the years, and young adults' concern has continued to climb.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials  —  Shapiro, a potential Democratic 2028 contender, earlier welcomed data center developments.  His new executive order takes a starkly different tone toward the industry.
Anthropic:
Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists  —  Summary: In this post, we share two results that show how Claude can help life scientists increase the pace of their research.
Bloomberg:
Hangzhou-based humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surges 460% in its Shanghai trading debut, giving it a ~$50B market cap, after raising ~$904M in its IPO  —  Unitree Robotics shares surged 460% in their Shanghai trading debut after the company raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) …

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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
The Beatles' rights-holding company Apple Corps signs a worldwide licensing and merchandise deal with UMG, ahead of a quartet of biopics about the group

Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with California AG Rob Bonta about why David Ellison is “desperate”, some Hollywood guilds supporting Paramount's WBD deal, concerns about CNN, and more

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New York Times:
Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they “could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information”
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity XB7 and newer gateways, a free opt-in feature that enables its routers to detect movement at home
Apple:
Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new 5% Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers
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