• Business Insider: David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week   —  - David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, resigned last week.

• 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

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• Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement

• Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them

• Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM

• 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

• Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access”

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• 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

• 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

• Garrison Lovely / Semafor: Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation   —  THE SCOOP

• Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture “frontline intelligence”

• Meir Orbach / CTech: Nasdaq-listed neocloud Nebius acquires Inferize, whose tech helps optimize GPU utilization and reduce AI request costs, sources say for $100M to $150M

• 50 minutes ago 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

• 1½ hours ago 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

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• 3 hours ago Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them

• 7 hours ago Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM

• 10 hours ago 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

• 11 hours ago Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture “frontline intelligence”

• 11 hours ago Meir Orbach / CTech: Nasdaq-listed neocloud Nebius acquires Inferize, whose tech helps optimize GPU utilization and reduce AI request costs, sources say for $100M to $150M

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• 11 hours ago Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M

• 12 hours ago Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid

• 15 hours ago 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

• 16 hours ago Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Supabase raised $150M led by Singapore's GIC and agrees to acquire Turso, which offers a database optimized for AI agents, for an undisclosed sum

• 17 hours ago Business Insider: David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week   —  - David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, resigned last week.

• 17 hours ago Garrison Lovely / Semafor: Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation   —  THE SCOOP

• 17 hours ago 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

• 18 hours ago 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

• 19 hours ago Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement

• 20 hours ago Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5