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David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over — What I'm about to tell you has, I realize, become something of a cliché: I resigned this week from OpenAI.
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| Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called “Super Intelligence Force”, to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days — The White House group will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton who will serve as AI czar
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| Reuters: |
Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka “Rey,” was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach — A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash — Following the compute-based usage change in May, Google will soon introduce limits on which Gemini models free users and AI Plus subscribers can access.
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents — Swarm chasers hunt for clues of bad behavior. Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model — The focus of OpenAI's Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more — Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow and deliberate about AI.| Moneycontrol: |
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks — For years, former and current employees of Flipkart pinned their hopes on the Walmart-owned e-commerce major's eventual listing … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M — The acquisition will give the bank a digital small business platform while accelerating its technology and AI strategy.
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| Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware: |
Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 — Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports — Google has officially suspended product … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize “original content” and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content — YouTube says it wants to ‘focus on originality’ in a push to surface better Shorts recommendations for users.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment — Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.| Molly Taft / Wired: |
Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums — In a blog post published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says it's already taking around data centers.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch — The ongoing memory shortage has prompted Nvidia to create a 64GB version of its DGX Spark mini PC, which runs AI models locally. The only problem?
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