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Keigo Yoshida / Nikkei Asia: Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10% — MANILA — J

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 — The Israeli startup, which w

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

Anthropic: Anthropic launches the Claude Frontier Academy with a $100M commitment to train 10K “Frontier Deployed Engineers” by 2028, starting with Accenture, Bain, others — The first-of-its-kind Acad

Wen Shao / Fortune: Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial workflows, raised a 30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, taking its total funding to 38.5M — Halluminate, a nine-

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 t

Henry Belot / The Guardian: OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack of Australia's federal government — Attack acce

Bloomberg: Sources: Broadcom's Wall Street syndicate is amassing 60B in AI chip financing to help Anthropic and others access chips and other key AI infrastructure — Broadcom Inc.'s Wall Street syndic

@tavus: Tavus unveils Griffin, the “first Human Interaction Model”, which it says passed the “video Turing test”, with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats — Introducing Griffin, the first

Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 — By continu

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes can

Claude: Anthropic says Claude for Government is now generally available to federal and state agencies, with Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access — Claude Code CLI and Claude fo

Josh Butler / The Guardian: 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 Clau

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions — N

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: 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

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B — Su

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence — Nvidia'

Chris Metinko / Axios: 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 rai

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 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 ag

Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three researchers for violating its “handling sensitive” info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization — OpenAI has parte

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents — OpenAI has informed more than 1

Financial Times: SemiAnalysis estimates ~90% of Anthropic's business comes from agentic AI, while sources say nearly 25% of its revenue in 2025 came from just two clients — Powerful AI tools burn thro

The Information: 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

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: 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 t

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K — AI model pla

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and m

Artificial Analysis: Artificial Analysis says Gemini 4 Argon (high) matches GPT-6 Astra (max) on its Intelligence Index and has a 15% hallucination rate, compared with 51% for Astra — Google's new Gem

Paxton Honerkamp / CNBC: California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Robo Bosses Act, which prevents employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers — California Gover

Reuters: DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative — Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said on Wedne

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent for ordering and a B2B API allowing assistants like Slack bots to execute bulk orders — DoorDash Inc. un

John Timmer / Ars Technica: Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-designed proteins to help with biosecurity and scientific integrity — AI-based tools seem to

Madison Mills / Axios: Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks — Google is unveil

Phoebe Liu / The Information: GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised 668M, including 223M in equity led by ARCHIV with participation from Nvidia and 445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC — GMI Cloud,

Casey Newton / Platformer: Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT — With safet

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal data: Meta's Muse now has 3M+ users who submit at least one prompt per week and 1M+ DAUs who have sent at least one prompt — Meta Platforms' Muse now has more th

Chris Metinko / Axios: Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a 60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to 110M — Metaview, an agentic recruit

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July — OpenAI accused its Ch

The Information: Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely — Google has been paying

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jensen Huang and other execs asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei said it's important to be honest — Nvidia's CEO was

Bloomberg: Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization — As Alphabet Inc.'s Google pr

New York Post: Sources: the US FTC is expanding a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs, and plans to issue formal demands to turn over information — WASHINGTON — The Federal

Brandon Pho / Mission Local: A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025 — In a hot and dry border to

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training — A US appeals co

Bloomberg: After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new federal AI rules, says “we automatically have regulation” via DOJ and FBI but “self-regulation is very important” — President Donald Trump sho

Anthropic: Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse — GLM-5.3 can develop working

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: EliseAI, which provides AI tools for health care and housing industries, raised 350M at a 4B valuation, up from 2.2B after raising 250M in August 2025 — EliseAI, the artifi