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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 …
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Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022-23; a median 55% still say it's good — Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics
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A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment, AI alignment says sandboxes can't fully contain agents — Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else.
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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 — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry …
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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.
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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 — NEW MEXICO (KRQE) - The State of New Mexico is asking a judge for the biggest penalty ever awarded in a court case in the United States …
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The US sanctions Russia-backed payment network A7, freezing its US assets and accusing it of enabling Iran and its proxy groups to evade western sanctions — Payments group that moved almost $7bn through global banks designated a transnational criminal organisation
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Source: some of the information that the three OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture — OpenAI has parted ways with three employees for violating company policies on how private information should be handled, including for allegedly sharing it with an outside group.
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Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California claims that it mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 — Lyft (LYFT.O) has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle claims by the state of California and three of its largest cities …
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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 — OpenAI is again experimenting with how its conversational AI assistant, ChatGPT, can help users as they shop online.
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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
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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
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SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's last funding round; source: Nvidia also made its final $10B investment in the round — Nvidia and SoftBank have each made the final $10 billion investment in each of their $30 billion pledges to OpenAI's last funding round …
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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 …
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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.
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Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving — Anthropic PBC is seeking to go public as soon as the middle of November, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of wearable recording devices was too broad — California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have penalized Californians for using smart glasses …
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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.
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OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three staffers for violating its policies on “handling sensitive” info; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization — OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers for allegedly sharing confidential company information …
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Sources: Anthropic has taken the unusual step of ending customers' discounts, which typically reach ~15%, once they hit the usage limits, forcing renegotiations — Anthropic is flexing its muscle with enterprise customers by taking a hard line on discounts once those customers use up all the tokens they purchased.
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Memo: Ryan Roslansky, previously LinkedIn CEO who became Office and Teams head in 2025, is leaving after ~18 years at Microsoft, triggering an exec 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.
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Volantis, which aims to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, used in the iPhone's Face ID, to transmit data between AI and memory chips, raised $88M — San Francisco-based semiconductor startup Volantis on Thursday said it has raised $88 million in venture capital in an effort …
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In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views differing greatly 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.
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Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z — Doxx.net has raised a $38 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz as its private agentic defined networking platform launches into open beta …
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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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Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils the $35 Kindle Click page-turning remote — A wave of little changes, including new colors, the option of an aluminum case, and some neat accessories.
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A profile of Nubank founder David Vélez, who graduated from Stanford, worked at Sequoia, and moved to Brazil to start the bank in 2013, as Nubank enters the US — After facing down regulators, oligopolies, and corruption in Latin America, Nubank founder David Vélez faces his biggest challenge yet: the United States
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