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Sources: the US FTC has opened a probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs over potential consumer harms, and plans to compel executives to testify — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission is ramping up a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs to uncover …
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X: @ns123abc, @gerritd, @matthewstoller, @davidskrueger, @digitalliberty, @viacristiano, @hamandcheese, @hedgeyecomm, @jamescz19, @polydaic, @sayreevan, @hesamation, and @gerritd. Bluesky: @karlbode.com
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh — Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion …
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X: @parkerortolani, @mweinbach, @markgurman, @imackattack00, @bengeskin, @markgurman, @think_starwars, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @bengeskin, and @aaronp613
Forums: r/homeassistant and MacRumors Forums
| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment — President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord on artificial intelligence …
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X: @sundarpichai, @davidsacks, @lukolejnik, @rapidresponse47, @finkd, @annmarie, @thezvi, @mackenz_arnold, @nikesharora, @thezvi, @davidgura, @matthewkeyslive, @daractenus, @buccocapital, @garymarcus, @_sholtodouglas, @alexbores, @timhwang, @andrewcurran_, @levie, @garymarcus, @mkratsios47, @andrewcurran_, @ashleyrgold, @aishahhasnie, @benbrodydc, @whitehouse, @hadas_gold, @_nathancalvin, @shelbytalcott, @senwarren, @douglaslfarrar, and @speakerjohnson. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
Forums: r/singularity, r/agi, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies — Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors.
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Bluesky: @rooseveltinstitute.org, @kenbazinet, @kashhill, @jonahblank, and @jeisinger
Forums: r/politics and r/Economics
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent for ordering and a B2B API allowing assistants like Slack bots to execute bulk orders — DoorDash Inc. unveiled an artificial intelligence agent for ordering food that works inside Apple Inc.'s Messages app …
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X: @omooretweets, @t_xu, @andyfang, @natlungfy, @aiatdoordash, @aryanxshah, @andyfang, @tenobrus, and @doordash. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Amazon unveils a faster, slimmer $60 Fire TV Stick 4K, simplifies its Fire TV Stick lineup, and plans to roll out an upgraded Alexa+ living room hub in November — Amazon.com Inc. announced a faster, slimmer Fire TV Stick 4K streaming device alongside a revamped remote control and upgrades to Alexa+ for the living room.
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LinkedIn: Panos Panay, Robert Williams, and Aidan Marcuss
Forums: r/firetvstick and r/cordcutters
| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July — OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems … | Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be “bad for the world” — The OpenAI CEO said he didn't want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. … For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public.| Ben Weiss / Bloomberg: |
Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers — Open Standard, a company backed by more than 100 corporations, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc., and Mastercard Inc. …
More: Open Standard, CoinDesk, Unchained, Bitcoin News, Mastercard, Stripe, Bridge, Yahoo Finance, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, and CoinGape
X: @base, @danielfenelus2, @picoreteam, @solana, @bvnkfinance, @stripe, @krakenlistings, @stablecoin, @stripecrypto, @stanikulechov, @segall_max, @chapello, @matthuang, @patrickc, @tempo, @morpho, @privy_io, @stablecoin, @benhoneill, @cuysheffield, @securitize, @zcabrams, @openstandard, @patrickc, and @aave
| Dhruv Mohan / The Economic Times: |
Apple launches Apple Pay in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Watch — Apple Pay has finally launched in India, more than a decade after its US debut. The service is initially available on iPhone …
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| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
Amazon aims to have 5,000 drivers wearing its smart glasses in 2026, rising to 20,000+ in 2027; the glasses capture static images for its AI mapping platform — Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending … | Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and more — Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers … | Kevin Roose / The Atlantic: |
A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries — Being in San Francisco in the mid-2020s sometimes feels like what I imagine living in Los Alamos was like in 1943, when the Manhattan Project rolled into town.
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| Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: |
President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as “Super Intelligence” or “SI” in all official communications — President Donald Trump sees artificial intelligence as suffering from a branding problem …
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Bluesky: @reichlinmelnick, @pbump.com, @ceej.online, @numb.comfortab.ly, @djrothkopf, and @atrupar.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/politics, r/moderatepolitics, r/ChatGPT, r/federationAI, and Slashdot
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey — Starting at $1,400, it also has an apex price. … The Android tablet market is a bit weird. There are countless budget options …
More: Samsung Newsroom, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Verge, Neowin, The Indian Express, Trusted Reviews, Android Central, Engadget, Digital Trends, PCMag, TechRadar, SammyGuru, Tom's Guide, SamMobile, The Verge, SamMobile, and Phandroid. Forums: r/androidtablets
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering — SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is considering an overhaul of its subscription pricing options … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse — GLM-5.3 can develop working exploits end to end — Five months ago, we announced Claude Mythos Preview, the first AI model …
More: Tom's Hardware, The Information, and The Decoder
X: @natolambert, @kyleichan, @ruima, @irl_danb, @lukolejnik, @1a3orn, @jeremiahdillon, @kimmonismus, @niubi, @jeremiahdillon, @boazbaraktcs, @maximerivest, @orcarouter, @goncalossilva, @jaykreps, @buildwithhassan, @himanshustwts, @landontgreen, @ramez, @dinodaizovi, @ramez, @jmeller, @mcgrewsecurity, @attrc, @freerunnering, @ferald_gord, @abliteration_ai, @quinnypig, @0x4d31, @emollick, @willcb, @miaai_lab, @merill, and @ygandelsman. LinkedIn: Riggs Goodman III
Bluesky: @mackuba.eu and @scarnecchia.net
Forums: Hacker News, r/MistralAI, r/claude, r/SillyTavernAI, r/technology, r/Anthropic, and r/ZaiGLM
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne — Alex Stamos has joined Cognition as the AI coding unicorn's new chief security officer. … The hire suggests security has become a major focus for the fast-growing company.
X: @alexstamos, @walden_yan, @jeffwang, @danielfein7, @russelljkaplan, and @ramez
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June — Instagram announced on Wednesday that it's bringing an AI video editing tool to Edits, its CapCut competitor.
More: Instagram for Creators, The Verge, Digital Trends, Engadget, PCMag, Unite.AI, and Net Influencer
| The Information: |
Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely — Google has been paying roughly 100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI-powered answers to search and other products … | Reuters: |
DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative — Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said on Wednesday it has partnered with Huawei Technologies to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips …
More: Bloomberg, New York Times, Techstrong.ai, The Decoder, Quartz, The Neuron, Bitcoin Insider, ANI News, and MarketWatch
X: @teortaxestex, @kimmonismus, and @poezhao0605
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
ElevenLabs says existing investors and employees have sold $300M worth of stock in a tender led by Wellington and T Rowe Price and valuing the startup at $22B — Existing investors and employees at speech-generation software company sell $300mn worth of stock
More: ElevenLabs, TechCrunch, Finimize, Reuters, Tech.eu, Seeking Alpha, City A.M., and Unite.AI. LinkedIn: Zachery Bishop
| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by Archiv with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC — GMI Cloud, a five-year-old provider of Nvidia chip servers to enterprises, said Wednesday it raised $668 million in equity and debt financing.
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M — Miter, a construction workforce management platform, raised a $40 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, CEO Connor Watumull tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Reuters: |
Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing — Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits … | Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M — Metaview, an agentic recruiting platform, raised a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners, CEO Siadhal Magos tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users — Tinder is launching a new feature called Group Hangouts designed to take the pressure off one-on-one dates, marking its latest effort …
More: Tinder Newsroom, Engadget, Mashable, Digital Trends, and TechCrunch
| Financial Times: |
The UK's MI5 issues a rare espionage alert urging UK universities to cut ties with the China General Technology Research Institute, which funded AI research — China General Technology Research Institute has ‘very strong ties’ to Chinese intelligence, says UK agency in unusual espionage alert| Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: |
CScale, which is developing optical interconnect for accelerators, emerges from stealth with a $145M Series C led by Atreides, Valor Equity, and Premji Invest — CScale exited stealth today and announced $145 million in funding to accelerate development and commercialization of optical interconnect for gigawatt-scale AI.
More: CScale, FinSMEs, Unite.AI, and DatacenterDynamics
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