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September 25, 2026, 12:10 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” …
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’
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.
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Mallory Wilson / The Hill:
At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China have “the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good” as “leading nations” in AI
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.
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.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers  —  Google's Live Avatar can lip-sync and show different facial expressions. … Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users …
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.
Louise Lucas / Financial Times:
Radical Ventures: AI neolabs, many lacking products, markets, or revenue, raised $24B in the past two quarters, nearly 5x OpenAI and Anthropic pre-ChatGPT  —  It is true that these numbers can hide some sleight of hand  —  It would be a brave or foolhardy investor who set out today to build a new Walmart, Uber or Amazon.
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.
Matthew Brockett / Bloomberg:
Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says “user funds are safe”  —  Crypto exchange Bitget said it detected unauthorized transfers from some of its hot- and warm-wallet infrastructure and activated emergency response protocols.
New York Times:
Massachusetts' gambling regulator says it will examine how DraftKings and other betting companies in the state are using AI, in response to a NYT investigation  —  In response to a New York Times report on DraftKings, the state's gaming commission said it would evaluate how each company deployed the technology.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta unveils mobile app Horizon Create and web app Horizon Studio for building games with AI prompts; the games will run on Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon  —  The next push for Meta's Horizon platform involves AI-generated video games. … Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform.

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Skydance reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $7B, net income of $73M, and adjusted EBITDA of $1B, excluding WBD, in its first earnings since closing the WBD deal

Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
James Gunn and Peter Safran step down as co-heads of DC Studios; Skydance appoints ex-Marvel exec Jeremy Latcham as president and chief creative officer of DC

Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Federal prosecutors told a judge that they are considering treating NYT as a conspirator in a criminal case accusing James Comey of leaking sensitive info

More News

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours
Megan Howard / Bloomberg:
The Fed unveils stablecoin proposals, including requiring some issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets, such as short-term Treasury bills

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
The US files an application with the EU's General Court in support of X's effort to annul a 2025 €120M DSA fine, arguing the EU engaged in regulatory overreach
New York Times:
Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+
Jeff Stein / The Washington Sun:
Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year
Politico:
Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed
Kevin T. Dugan / Wall Street Journal:
New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address
New York Times:
Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year
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