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Hannah Lang / Reuters:
The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption for platforms that offer tokenized stock trading, relieving them of many rules that apply to stock exchanges  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited exemption that will allow companies …
Financial Times:
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive called AI training “an astonishing theft”  —  Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
Anthropic:
Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated  —  AI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Anthropic says Claude “leads” 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and “collaborates” on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction
Claude:
Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code  —  A new experience for Claude projects, now available in beta in Claude Code  —  https://claude.com/blog/projects- redesigned
OpenAI:
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms  —  Our most powerful model, configured into a new AI foundation for law.  —  Explore solutions for law Contact Legal sales
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to “increase the speed of development” to “see the dangers” of AI, contrasting with the US' slowdown calls  —  Chinese tech executive's comments contrast with Silicon Valley calls for slowdown amid rising concerns about technology's existential risks
Reuters:
Huawei plans to debut the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and unveils an architecture to let up to 1M processors operate as one system
Financial Times:
Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's EV platform for affordable models, set to launch as soon as 2028  —  Rollout would be most ambitious plan yet for autonomous ride-hailing on the continent  —  Lucid is partnering with ride-hailing platform Bolt …
Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg:
Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022  —  The enormous wealth generated by Anthropic and OpenAI is overshadowing layoffs and an uncertain job market in the city.
Bloomberg:
King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests  —  Huang Says AI Firms Should Be 'More Rigorous in Testing'Titans of the artificial intelligence industry gathered in Scotland …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis  —  Senior administration officials have gathered almost daily in recent months to map out potential guardrails
Axios:
OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment  —  OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials …
OpenAI:
OpenAI says it discovered an unreleased Astra model added an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training but “did not observe any behavioral differences”
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials are fantastic, the Health Sensing System is a big upgrade, but many features are coming later  —  The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are all about what's happening underneath.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries  —  The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use.
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Bloomberg:
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend  —  Apple Inc. Executive Chairman Tim Cook, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Qualcomm Inc. head Cristiano Amon are poised …
New York Times:
A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Dario Amodei's essays chronicle the AI industry's shifting ways of selling its product, from wariness of regulation to calls for third-party evaluators  —  Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, on Tuesday.Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times  —  “If you're explaining, you're losing,” Ronald Reagan is credited with saying.
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of AI security incidents and who says the explosive response surprised him
Micah Barkley / Bloomberg:
Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation  —  Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said warnings about existential AI risks from researchers …
Amy Harder / Axios:
Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions  —  A new coalition launched Wednesday is seeking a triple win for a data center industry that lately has struggled to notch any wins at all.

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Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
The FCC approves Paramount's request for foreign ownership above 25% in its proposed WBD acquisition; foreign owners would hold 49.5% of its Class B shares

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Universal says it remains committed to releasing Alex Gibney's Musk documentary internationally, after a report said it was reconsidering; US debut is October 9

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Politico plans to launch Decoded, a daily tech policy briefing and its second subscription offering, on October 5, to be paywalled in Q1 2027 and cost ~$1K/year

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Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
The EU details the Kids Act, which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts, ban under-13s, and more
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful non-AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space

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Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Snap is pitching its $2,195 Specs as an enterprise product, inking Salesforce, Amazon, and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays, alongside consumer features
Yael Grauer / The Verge:
Anthropic and other researchers detail how a network of ~28 dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from models like Claude catfished thousands of people
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance agreements, worth $8.15M, during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO
Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal:
AWS says it is unable to restore some data stored exclusively in Bahrain data centers and one UAE availability zone, after Iranian drone strikes in the spring
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