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Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three researchers for violating its “handling sensitive” info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization  —  OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers for allegedly sharing confidential company information …
Time:
In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views as differing much from “what is portrayed in the media”, meetings with AI leaders, “Super Intelligence”, and more  —  President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on Sept. 28.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5 developed in collaboration with AMD  —  Sony's new Quick Spectral Super Resolution AI upscaling is coming first to Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions  —  New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks.
Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:
Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils a $35 Kindle Click page-turning remote  —  A wave of little changes, including new colors, the option of an aluminum case, and some neat accessories.
Financial Times:
Sources: EU regulators are questioning Binance over its use of a legal exemption to continue serving customers in the region despite failing to secure a license  —  Securities regulators looking at use of legal exemption by world's biggest crypto exchange  —  EU officials are questioning …
Zachary Small / New York Times:
A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists “Xbox is not for sale” despite overseeing mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing unit  —  Asha Sharma didn't have any experience in video games when she became the chief executive of Xbox this year.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Memo: Ryan Roslansky, who was promoted from LinkedIn CEO to the head of Office and Teams in 2025, is leaving, triggering another Microsoft executive reshuffle  —  Ryan Roslansky is leaving after nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft. … After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company.
Wall Street Journal:
Docs and sources: Google's researchers have worried about AI risks to kids, like potential cognitive and emotional dependence, as Google pushed AI into schools  —  The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:
Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation  —  Armadin said on Thursday that it raised $255.5 million in a Series B funding round, which values the AI cybersecurity company at more than $2.5 billion.
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic  —  Alphabet's Google has persuaded a US federal judge to dismiss lawsuits from education technology company Chegg …
Reuters:
IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via a convertible note that could help finance Anthropic's $125.2B, five-year TPU lease commitment  —  Anthropic's IPO prospectus documents extensive partnerships with a handful of big tech firms.  One stands out: chip maker Broadcom (AVGO.O).
Martin Austermuhle / The Washington Sun:
DoorDash pulls support for a GOP bill that would have limited DC's ability to write its own tax laws after widespread calls for locals to boycott the service  —  The company still wants the D.C. Council to make changes to a new delivery fee taking effect Thursday.  — Copy
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says that RAM shortages will persist into 2028 and perhaps beyond, and customers will pay “much higher prices” than they did in 2026  —  Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come  —  Memory-maker Micron has warned that RAM shortages …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base  —  The race to make AI agents cheaper and faster is moving beyond the models that write their answers.
Josh Butler / The Guardian:
Anthropic urges Australia to consider “conditional approval” for Big Tech to train models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out  —  Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulations
Adrian Diaconescu / PhoneArena:
Samsung quietly raises US prices for most of its Galaxy S26 lineup by $100 and the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra by $200; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 are unchanged  —  In line with recent rumors and expectations, the ultra-high-end Galaxy S26 trio has become more expensive than ever before in the US.

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has asked CNN CEO Mark Thompson to stay on after the WBD acquisition closes; Thompson's current deal extends into 2027

Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
The White House once again removes CNN from the press pool traveling with Trump; the judge's order only addressed access to White House grounds

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A US judge dismisses Penske Media's lawsuit against Google over traffic and revenue loss due to AI Overviews since Google never promised any traffic to Penske

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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says growth is slower than he would like and defends pursuing WBD, but says Netflix isn't seeking another acquisition to replace it
Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year lease with Oracle in 2026 for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Flow, which offers AI agents for hardware development, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, which owns HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as it becomes a gay superapp
Paxton Honerkamp / CNBC:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Robo Bosses Act, which prevents employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Internal data: Meta's Muse now has 3M+ users who submit at least one prompt per week and 1M+ DAUs who have sent at least one prompt; most prompts are in the app
New York Times:
Slack message: Greg Brockman says he has “no plans” to donate more than $25M to Leading the Future, as the PAC has become a “distraction” for OpenAI employees
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