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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has notified 100+ organizations about its AI agents bypassing their security controls or negatively impacting a service  —  OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents …
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture
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
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash  —  Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers …
Michael Shepard / Bloomberg:
US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024  —  Federal prosecutors arrested a California man on Thursday on charges of smuggling computer servers containing $300 million worth …
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register:
Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B  —  Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
Rya Jetha / Business Insider:
Source: FieldAI, which is developing a “universal general-purpose brain” for robots, is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, up from $2B in 2025  —  - FieldAI is raising $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, up from $2 billion last year.  — FieldAI is building what it says is a …
Laura Cress / BBC:
Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI “super intelligence”  —  Donald Trump's push to rename AI may be behind an “unprecedented” rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry.
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence  —  Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and the Trump administration has been discussing having him remain in his current role …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon form a JV that aims to expand US satellite coverage and eliminate dead zones, appointing industry veteran Paul Roth as interim CEO  —  AT&T (T.N), T-Mobile (TMUS.O) and Verizon (VZ.N) have appointed wireless industry veteran Paul Roth as interim chief executive …
MBI Deep Dives:
Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later  —  Get the next one in your inbox.  —  A daily journal on business, investing, and technology.  —  It didn't take too long for the app layer to start to respond to Muse.
Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers  —  Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening …
Microsoft AI:
Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash  —  MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice models: accurate, fast, low cost, and chart-topping audio understanding and generation for building the best conversational voice agents.
Grace Kay / The Information:
Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance  —  SpaceX's AI unit held talks over the summer about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, say people familiar with the matter …
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David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:
David Ellison announces that the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance “to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic”

Scott Nover / Washington Post:
State Dept. inspector general: the Trump administration has been paying about $1.6M a week to keep 420 VOA employees on administrative leave, based on July data

Thuy Lan Nguyen / The Washington Sun:
The Washington Sun is launching a six-month run of a monthly print magazine; the first three issues will be distributed to Washingtonian subscribers

More News

Kat Boboris / arXiv:
ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering:
A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents
KRQE:
New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever

Earlier Picks

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California's claims that Lyft mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library
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
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses Chegg's and Penske's lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5, from Project Amethyst, a collaboration with AMD
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
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