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OpenAI publishes six cases of its models going rogue
First reports under a new framework: hidden mistakes, a stolen API key, agents passing notes.
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Mistral's models now power Firefox's Smart Window
Mozilla picks an open-weights partner with zero data retention for France and North America.
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ChatGPT ads arrive inside Shopify's dashboard
OpenAI says the ad business went from nothing in February to a $1B annual run rate by August.
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Investors float a $1.2T price tag for OpenAI
CNBC says the approach was unsolicited, no formal talks are open, and OpenAI thinks it's worth more.
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Meta bundles its AI features into a $7.99 plan
Meta One spans Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, with 15M subscriptions and trials so far.
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Huang: AI safety is engineering, not new law
Nvidia's CEO split publicly with Amodei and Altman on stage at Salesforce's Dreamforce.
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Profound hits $1.8B helping brands rank in AI answers
Revenue tripled in six months; the $180M round lands under seven months after a $96M Series C.
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Siri's Gemini rebuild opens to everyone in English
Apple's rebuilt assistant skips the EU on several platforms and stays on hold in China.
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Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers on ad-funded pages
The deadline landed Sept 15: bots that mix search with training are blocked by default.
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Intel spinoff raises $205M to unpick Nvidia's network
Cornelis ships a 400 Gbps GPU-agnostic switch, with an 800 Gbps generation planned next.
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Perplexity's agent now runs on your own RTX GPU
Windows users with 24GB+ of VRAM get a local agent that burns no credits and keeps files home.
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Is the AI slowdown really a cash-saving pact?
Axios notes pacing the frontier would also cut Anthropic's compute bill and shield incumbents.
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Oracle gives US nurses a voice-driven chart assistant
The physician version saved over 400,000 documentation hours; nurses are next in line.
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Anthropic's test workload grew 25x in six months
Claude writes roughly 80% of its maker's code, and the CI system had to be rebuilt to keep up.
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Nvidia's Rubin doubles Blackwell's tokens per megawatt
SemiAnalysis measured a 2.1x gain at 100 TPS on pre-release hardware, with vendor assistance.
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OpenAI buys a camera startup at over $300M
Glass Imaging roughly tripled its valuation in a year, and OpenAI has not said what it plans to do with it.
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Trump: the only AI guardrail is a smart president
He called Amodei a 'perfect little angel' and claimed 'criminal and regulatory power' over AI firms.
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Beijing calls Amodei's essay 'fearmongering'
China's foreign ministry answered the pacing essay by pitching 'open, inclusive' AI governance instead.
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Hundreds of contractors are reading ChatGPT chats
404 Media says 'Project Lily' reviewers see whole conversations, plus a summary of the user's memories.
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Nvidia and Palantir are limiting Anthropic's Fable
A June policy letting Anthropic retain usage logs for 30 days is costing it enterprise deployments.
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Claude plugs into Schwab, BlackRock and Vanguard
Anthropic's advisor suite adds custodian connectors days after OpenAI shipped its own finance product.
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iOS 27 code hints Siri could hand off to Claude
Two unreleased frameworks would let outside models take Apple's planner prompt and make system tool calls.
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Z.AI raises $5B to build its next GLM models
Shares plus zero-coupon converts; 60% of the money goes to foundation models and compute.
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SoftBank borrows $11.9B from 20 banks for OpenAI
The facility beat its $10B target, and SoftBank repays $25.9B of an earlier OpenAI loan on Sept 15.
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Anthropic is the mystery buyer in a $13.7B GPU deal
Six years of compute from a Georgia site that isn't built yet, plus a penny warrant for 50.8M shares.
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Anthropic guides to $559M profit on $11.5B quarter
Revenue more than doubled from Q1 as the lab picks Nasdaq for a listing it hopes to do in October.
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Microsoft signs on to slowing AI down
Nadella publishes a code of conduct for Microsoft's own MAI models and opens it to public comment.
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Speaker Johnson: Congress won't lead on AI safety
He'd rather summon lab CEOs to the White House, and says a moratorium would hand the race to China.
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Rival labs have met since July on shared standards
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google want industry-run pre-release audits before Washington writes the rules.
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Two more safety researchers quit for an outside lab
Anthropic's scalable oversight lead says company transparency on risk is 'entirely voluntary'.
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Data center pollution could cost $20.9B a year
Former EPA staff count 30 federal rollbacks since 2025 and project 1,300 premature deaths annually.
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Amodei: slow AI down, or rogue agents in 6 months
Altman and Musk both backed the essay within hours of it going up.
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Altman calls a 2026 OpenAI IPO 'ill-advised'
Pushes the most anticipated listing in tech to 2027, weeks after the CFO hinted at sooner.
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Russian spies ran 13 AI bots on a scheduled job
Anthropic also blocked five attempts to use Claude for biological weapons research.
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Pentagon may lend an AI cloud startup $5 billion
The money would fund data center component manufacturing, not more Fluidstack sites.
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FBI flagged a teen's ChatGPT chats. Police raided.
Argentine officers detained a 15-year-old in Quilmes; no weapons were found at the home.
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ChatGPT now builds pitchbooks with cited figures
Morgan Stanley and Evercore helped design it; PitchBook and LSEG data are built in.
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Sakana's new model beats rivals it cannot even call
Fugu Ultra v2 excludes Fable 5 and GPT-6 Astra from its pool, and is unavailable in the EU.
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OpenAI's new voice model listens while it talks
GPT-Live-1 costs five cents a minute, adds 12 voices, and supports phone-based agents.
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Gemini gets a Windows app and the Alt+Space key
Free for Windows 10 and 11, with Gmail and Drive access plus image and video generation.
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Moonshot AI aims to double revenue to $2B this year
Kimi K3 runs up to 300 billion tokens a day, but Anthropic accuses the lab of distilling Claude.
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Y Combinator's CEO wants US labs to distill too
Garry Tan told CNBC he would do nothing about distillation, and floated an American version of it.
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Robot data startup nears $500M, three months after $60M
Mecka pays people to film themselves making coffee and fixing cars, to teach humanoid robots.
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Astra demand forces OpenAI to pause $200 Pro signups
Existing subscribers keep access; Go, Plus and the API stay open while OpenAI adds capacity.
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Meta's Muse hits No. 2 with 83,000 downloads
Threads pulled 4.3M on day one. Muse took two days to match ChatGPT's launch-week daily pace.
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Huang: one Nvidia GPU now costs $8.5 million
He restated 70% revenue growth for next year, which would put Nvidia near $680 billion.
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UK housing complaints more than doubled since ChatGPT
A new paper tracks 84 cases of 'agentic flooding' across 11 jurisdictions, and growth isn't slowing.
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Microsoft wants to triple data centers to 38 gigawatts
AI-only capacity would grow from 2GW today to roughly a third of the 2032 footprint.