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New York Times: Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ — A24, Sony and The New York Times Company all registered their interest in acquiring the cinephile's paradise.
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[2] 2026-09-24 New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
This week, New Jersey ordered the operator of one of the East Coast’s largest planned data centers to pay a $1.1 million fine for secretly installing and operating gas generators in violation of the state’s Air Pollution Control Act. DataOne got hit with the fine after an investigation by The Guardian and Floodlight News in August shared thermal drone footage…
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Nicole Carpenter / Aftermath: In a default judgment, a US federal judge awards Nintendo of America $4.5M in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games — The court entered a default judgement in favor of Nintendo — Nintendo of America was awarded $4.5 million in damages in its lawsuit …
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[4] 2026-09-24 Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.
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[5] 2026-09-24 Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update
Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana calls him the "father of modern AI." He'll help lead the company's new RSI Lab, which works on recursive self-improvement, meaning AI that keeps developing itself. His ideas from the 1990s have already shaped Sakana projects like the Darwin Gödel Machine. The article Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber,…
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[6] 2026-09-24 Google's Suncatcher project aims to put AI data centers in orbit powered by solar energy
Google's "Suncatcher" project aims to run AI infrastructure in orbit on solar power. A fridge-sized experimental satellite is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 1. But the challenges are steep: you'd need around 10,000 satellites to match a single 1-gigawatt data center on Earth, and Jeff Bezos thinks it could take 20 years before orbital data…
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Jeff Stein / The Washington Sun: Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year — The price tag is significantly higher than previously known. — Copy — The National Security Agency told lawmakers …
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[8] 2026-09-24 Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.
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Politico: Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed — The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new artificial intelligence models with the U.K. government's testing agency until …
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[10] 2026-09-24 Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model
Black Forest Labs is entering robotics with FLUX 3 Action. The open-world-action model uses camera feeds to predict what action a robot should take next. With just seven billion parameters, it sets a record on the RoboLab-120 benchmark while running up to 3.95 times faster than the previous top model. The article Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an…
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[11] 2026-09-24 Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS
The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses — Amazon is introducing tools to let independent sellers manage their sales on four of its biggest rivals — eBay, Shopify, TikTok and …
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[13] 2026-09-24 US is head over heels for AI agents, while Europe remains dubious
Europe is skeptical of artificial intelligence, but it still has to contend with AI-fueled cyberattacks. In order to secure their enterprises and compete with U.S. companies, Europe has to change its approach to AI adoption, according to Holger Mueller (pictured), vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research Inc. No matter what, humans cannot compete […] The post US is…
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[14] 2026-09-24 TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.
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[15] 2026-09-24 ElevenLabs’ CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they’re talking to a bot
ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is what everyone expects anyway.
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[16] 2026-09-24 Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
Google is taking its first step toward making Project Suncatcher a reality. Announced last year, Suncatcher is Google's "moonshot" effort to design orbital AI data centers, which AI boosters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have pitched as an alternative to divisive terrestrial data centers. Google's first experimental satellite will launch on October 1 with the aim of validating Google's…
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US — With AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct now able to make calls on users' behalf, Google is now letting Gemini call businesses with a new feature called…
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[18] 2026-09-24 Anthropic says Claude discovered a new enzyme system, but CRISPR researchers call it routine genome mining
Anthropic's AI model Claude found a previously unknown enzyme system in DNA databases, doing most of the analysis on its own. The article Anthropic says Claude discovered a new enzyme system, but CRISPR researchers call it routine genome mining appeared first on The Decoder.
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[19] 2026-09-24 Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, to save up to $200 and to get a front-row seat to one of the most intense startup pitch competitions.
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[20] 2026-09-24 OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is investigating a June incident in which an OpenAI agent accessed "non-public files" from the country's online Medicare statistics portal. OpenAI said in a statement that "our models took actions we did not intend" in causing the breach, which it only recently disclosed to the Australian government. Speaking in New York on…
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[21] 2026-09-24 AI performance costs are falling faster than those of any previous technology
AI is hitting a fixed benchmark performance level at a rapidly falling cost. Epoch AI measures a price decline of about 13x per year. After stripping out hardware gains and competition, MIT puts annual algorithmic progress at about 3x. That doesn't mean today's best models are cheaper, though. Reasoning models, for example, can cost more because they use far more…
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[22] 2026-09-24 Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you
Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.
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Kevin T. Dugan / Wall Street Journal: New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets — The company and rival Kalshi are facing legal challenges from states around the country — New York, one of the largest markets …
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Abigail Hauslohner / Financial Times: At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the “capability and responsibility” to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition — Israeli leader's speech comes on high-profile day for international relations as Donald Trump hosts Xi Jinping at the White House
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[25] 2026-09-24 InfoQ Launches High-Performing Teams Certification Program
InfoQ has opened enrollment for a new five-week certification program covering engineering team design, delivery flow, AI-enabled work, and metrics, facilitated by InfoQ editor and podcast co-host Olimpiu Pop. By Artenisa Chatziou
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[26] 2026-09-24 Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Leaders from Waabi, Shield AI, and General Motors join the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk building AI. Save up to $200 by September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Get a second pass at 50% off.
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Oliver Barnes / Financial Times: Sources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B — Talks between web domain provider and Gen Digital at early stage but could allow acquirer to broaden its business beyond cyber security
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[28] 2026-09-24 Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off
Lovable co-founder Fabian Hedin said that apps created on the platform are getting nearly a billion monthly views each month.
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[29] 2026-09-24 U.S. bill proposes permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and creation of new federal AI agency
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced a bill on September 23 that would permanently ban the development and use of artificial superintelligence. The article U.S. bill proposes permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and creation of new federal AI agency appeared first on The Decoder.
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Axios: Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that “built the AI-doom pipeline” and places Dario Amodei at its foundation — President Trump's allies are targeting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the face of AI “doomerism” and a founding father …
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[31] 2026-09-24 Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together
Ando has raised $20 million in pre-seed and seed funding from investors including Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence.
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Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address — OpenAI didn't tell Australia about the hack for weeks — raising serious questions about how it handles rogue AI incidents
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[33] 2026-09-24 Un-Mused: How a Single Debug Setting Bypassed macOS Security in Meta’s AI Client
Security researcher Patrick Wardle revealed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse desktop client for macOS. This flaw lets unprivileged software manipulate the assistant's extensive permissions, compromising input confidentiality and account security. Despite a hotfix from Meta, the vulnerability raises significant concerns about platform trust and security boundaries. By Olimpiu Pop
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[34] 2026-09-24 OpenAI's agents went after government and university sites months before Hugging Face
According to Transluce researchers and the Australian government, OpenAI's AI agents repeatedly broke into government and university websites without authorization, including Australia's Medicare portal on June 18. The cause was a mundane data search. Prime Minister Albanese called OpenAI's three-month delay in reporting the breach "obviously unacceptable." Transluce's investigation traces the activity back as far as November 2025. The article…
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[35] 2026-09-24 Deepmind was built to chase AGI, but its new chief just wants Gemini 4 out the door
Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu wants to release Gemini 4 "much earlier" than the end of the year. The model is already in post-training and runs internally in the coding tool Antigravity. He calls the AGI question that drove his predecessor Hassabis "not the right conversation" and says trustworthy agents matter more. After Gemini 3.5 Pro quietly disappeared and many…
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New York Times: Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year — Technicians in a clean room at the Planet Labs office inspect the solar panels and wires of a Google-commissioned satellite …
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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: Amazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders — Company, which uses robots for sorting and moving packages inside warehouses, is among world's top manufacturers of them
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The Information: Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs — Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused standards body on their own …
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[39] 2026-09-24 Meta gives its Muse AI agent video avatars, email addresses, and Mac control
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta expanded its AI agent, Muse, and unveiled several new devices. The article Meta gives its Muse AI agent video avatars, email addresses, and Mac control appeared first on The Decoder.
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[40] 2026-09-24 Dataiku debuts cross-platform Agent Management, expands Cobuild building agent
Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Dataiku Inc. today launched Agent Management, a standalone product that finds and tracks every AI agent a business runs, including those built on other vendors’ platforms. Dataiku also expanded Cobuild, its natural-language agent for building AI projects. Agent Management is aimed at a gap in how large companies keep track […] The post Dataiku debuts…
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Bloomberg: Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028 — Oracle Corp. is moving to shield itself from racking up expenses on a massive data center being built in New Mexico …
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[42] 2026-09-24 Presentation: Designing Fast, Delightful UX With LLMs for Mobile Frontends
Balakrishnan Ramdoss discusses how to architect production-grade, AI-powered conversational apps at scale. He explains how to overcome model latency, leverage server-driven UI and Backend-for-Frontend patterns to dynamically render multi-modal interfaces, optimize prompts for UI selection, and integrate low-latency, privacy-first on-device AI for mobile applications. By Balakrishnan Ramdoss
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[43] 2026-09-24 Apple Reference Image Signs Photos at the Sensor, Moving Provenance Trust Away from C2PA
Apple has published the design of Reference Image, an iPhone 18 Pro camera mode that signs pixel data at the sensor and develops it in Private Cloud Compute under an Apple signature. Developers on Hacker News and Reddit challenged what it proves, raising photographing a screen, the anonymity guarantee's dependence on Apple's cloud, and whether identity verification is the right…
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[44] 2026-09-24 Amazon’s new plugin lets sellers manage their entire e-commerce business with AI
Amazon.com Inc. said today it’s trying to make life easier for independent sellers using its ecommerce platform with new tools including a plugin that allows them to run their businesses via artificial intelligence assistants. The new tools, announced at Amazon’s annual seller conference Accelerate, also include automations that can help sellers to monitor their business […] The post Amazon’s new…
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[45] 2026-09-24 Google launches two benchmark-topping speech generation models
Google LLC today made two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, available through its cloud platform. The algorithms have highly similar application programming interfaces, which makes using them side-by-side relatively simple for developers. Flash-Lite TTS is optimized for cost-cost efficiency and inference speed. Flash TTS offers better audio quality […] The post Google launches…
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[46] 2026-09-23 Containment is dead: Five takeaways from the AI ROI in Contact Center Summit
Every vendor event has a center of gravity, and at theCUBE Research’s AI ROI in Contact Center Summit, it wasn’t a product. It was a metric this industry is finally ready to abandon. I co-hosted the summit recently with Bob Laliberte (pictured, left), principal analyst at theCUBE Research, and spoke with executives from Cisco Systems […] The post Containment is…
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[47] 2026-09-23 UiPath introduces new workflow automation, software testing features
UiPath Inc. is updating its namesake automation platform with more than a dozen new features designed to save time for knowledge workers. The company debuted the enhancements today at its FUSION conference in Las Vegas. Many of the features are either available today or will launch next month. The company’s platform uses artificial intelligence agents, […] The post UiPath introduces…
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[48] 2026-09-23 The Transformation Edge: Why AI is forcing the CFO and CHRO to rewrite the enterprise together
There was a time when the org chart told you how the company worked. Finance managed capital. Human resources managed people. Information technology managed systems. Operations managed workflows. AI is blowing that model apart, creating a new discipline of “workforce economics,” where human talent, digital labor, technology investment and productivity increasingly have to be managed […] The post The Transformation…
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[49] 2026-09-23 Workforce economics emerges as AI reshapes the C-suite
The economics of enterprise transformation are pushing finance and human resources into much closer alignment as companies decide where artificial intelligence fits, where people create the most value and how productivity gains should be reinvested. At IBM Corp., that convergence is creating what SVP and CFO Jim Kavanaugh (pictured, left) calls a new discipline of […] The post Workforce economics…
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[50] 2026-09-23 AI drug discovery startup Basecamp Research raises $140M
Basecamp Research Ltd. today announced that it has raised $140 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. S32, a fund affiliated with Google LLC co-founder Bill Maris, led the Series C round. It was joined by more than a dozen other investors. The group included NATO, Nvidia Corp. and the Anthology Fund, a […] The post AI drug…
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[51] 2026-09-23 The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s only what we’ve caught so…
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- [1] Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (New York Times)
- [2] New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
- [3] In a default judgment, a US federal judge awards Nintendo of America $4.5M in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games (Nicole Carpenter/Aftermath)
- [4] Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
- [5] Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update
- [6] Google's Suncatcher project aims to put AI data centers in orbit powered by solar energy
- [7] Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year (Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun)
- [8] Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend
- [9] Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed (Politico)
- [10] Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model
- [11] Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS
- [12] Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
- [13] US is head over heels for AI agents, while Europe remains dubious
- [14] TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
- [15] ElevenLabs’ CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they’re talking to a bot
- [16] Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
- [17] Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- [18] Anthropic says Claude discovered a new enzyme system, but CRISPR researchers call it routine genome mining
- [19] Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
- [20] OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach
- [21] AI performance costs are falling faster than those of any previous technology
- [22] Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you
- [23] New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)
- [24] At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the "capability and responsibility" to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition (Abigail Hauslohner/Financial Times)
- [25] InfoQ Launches High-Performing Teams Certification Program
- [26] Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
- [27] Sources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
- [28] Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off
- [29] U.S. bill proposes permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and creation of new federal AI agency
- [30] Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation (Axios)
- [31] Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together
- [32] OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
- [33] Un-Mused: How a Single Debug Setting Bypassed macOS Security in Meta’s AI Client
- [34] OpenAI's agents went after government and university sites months before Hugging Face
- [35] Deepmind was built to chase AGI, but its new chief just wants Gemini 4 out the door
- [36] Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year (New York Times)
- [37] Amazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
- [38] Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs (The Information)
- [39] Meta gives its Muse AI agent video avatars, email addresses, and Mac control
- [40] Dataiku debuts cross-platform Agent Management, expands Cobuild building agent
- [41] Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028 (Bloomberg)
- [42] Presentation: Designing Fast, Delightful UX With LLMs for Mobile Frontends
- [43] Apple Reference Image Signs Photos at the Sensor, Moving Provenance Trust Away from C2PA
- [44] Amazon’s new plugin lets sellers manage their entire e-commerce business with AI
- [45] Google launches two benchmark-topping speech generation models
- [46] Containment is dead: Five takeaways from the AI ROI in Contact Center Summit
- [47] UiPath introduces new workflow automation, software testing features
- [48] The Transformation Edge: Why AI is forcing the CFO and CHRO to rewrite the enterprise together
- [49] Workforce economics emerges as AI reshapes the C-suite
- [50] AI drug discovery startup Basecamp Research raises $140M
- [51] The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
