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| CNBC: |
The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework — The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework.
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| New York Times: |
At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs — At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety — OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all” — An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence …
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LinkedIn: Joshua Squires and Bilal Chughtai
| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House bill, that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety — Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is supporting a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe.
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| Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo: |
OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research — Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over ...
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| Matt Bracken / FedScoop: |
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| Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents — Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet.
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans — Meta One bundles start at $7.99 per month with perks like 48-hour Instagram stories and a bold follow button.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday … | New York Times: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO — Sam Altman's start-up could capitalise on demand for its technology after new model launches — OpenAI has held early conversations …
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed — Former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida says most intelligence is going to live inside software. But to automate any real work, it has to be correct.
More: TypeSafe AI, TypeSafe AI, RuntimeWire, and Quartz
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April — Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets — In more than 100 countries, Apple has launched a new initiative that bundles Apple TV and Apple Arcade subscriptions into iCloud+, at no extra charge.| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs — General Motors Co. is integrating Apple Inc.'s CarPlay in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers …
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| Alix Coutures / The Information: |
Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat … | Melia Robinson / Business Insider: |
Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund — Pulley, a software that startups rely on to track their funding, is shutting down after seven years.
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| @openrouter: |
OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 — OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI models than on Anthropic models last week. This hasn't happened for more than 2.5 years
| Wall Street Journal: |
AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing — Amazon data centers are still offline months after being hit, testing the region's multibillion-dollar ambitions
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms — Agility Robotics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people … | Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients — Prosecutors said around $1.5 billion was sent back to Iran through a series of interrelated digital wallets| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, the Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries — Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized AI model built on Nvidia's Nemotron model architecture for reasoning about CRM data and to power AI agents in Agentforce — Salesforce Inc. said today at its annual user conference Dreamforce that it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to train and release Koa …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ — The artificial intelligence marketing startup Profound has raised $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation in its Series D fundraising round …
More: Profound, AlleyWatch, New York Business Journal, TechCrunch, WOWTALE, and Unite.AI
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July — The delivery platform DoorDash is investing in and partnering with Marc Lore-owned food tech company Wonder in deals worth …
More: The Information
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks — Universal Music Group is suing the world's biggest music distributor by volume, DistroKid.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation — Thatch, a platform that lowers healthcare costs for employers while expanding plan choices for workers, has raised $108 million …
More: PYMNTS, RuntimeWire, General Catalyst, HIT Consultant, and Pulse 2.0
| Semafor: |
Sources: in August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied — THE SCOOP — The US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down one of its products tracking the price of AI compute … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which builds an audit and certification layer for agents, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total raised to $55M — A day after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job over concerns that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade … Sponsor Posts
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