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September 25, 2026, 2:35 PM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft launches its Copilot “super app”, bundling chat, coding, and agents into a single interface, and rebrands its AI assistant Scout as Autopilot  —  The new Copilot merges AI chat, coding, and Autopilot agents.  —  After teasing its new Copilot “super app” …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is “a statutorily covered national-security risk”  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Bill Gates warns about the catastrophic risk posed by “people with ill intent using the latest AI tools”, which are powerful enough to “cause a billion deaths”  —  Bill Gates will warn on this weekend's “Meet the Press” that he can see a future where AI wipes out humanity.
Ashley Gold / Semafor:
The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies  —  ASHLEY'S VIEW  —  The White House and its allies are lonely in their insistence that AI development in America must accelerate without governments setting ground rules.
More: Politico
Mallory Wilson / The Hill:
Wall Street Journal:
Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center for which Oracle made major financial commitments, faces power and permitting hurdles, exposing Oracle's AI risks  —  Oracle sent a force majeure notice to developer, has removed a key partner and faces local resistance in ‘Project Jupiter’
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending  —  Jensen Huang accidentally called for shutting down OpenAI and intentionally called for spending vastly more on safety.
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding  —  When Sara Du was helping companies build MCP servers in 2025, people kept asking her how they could use AI agents from within Slack itself.
Reuters:
Sources: SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is exploring an IPO as early as 2027 that could raise $15B and value the unit at up to $150B  —  Chipmaker SK Hynix's (000660.KS) Solidigm is considering an initial public offering as early as next year that could value the US subsidiary …
More: Bloomberg
Chris Metinko / Axios:
Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year  —  Databricks bought RowZero as it looks to build out its AI coworker platform Genie, co-founder Patrick Wendell tells Axios Pro exclusively.
New York Times:
Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims  —  The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.

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