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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

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised 220M at a 6.2B valuation, for 650M+ in total funding — General Intuition has rai

Elizabeth Dias / New York Times: Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude — “To be cl

Waylon Cunningham / Reuters: Investigation: McDonald's is utilizing an AI pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate location-specific “optimal prices” for menu items — McDonald's is

Reuters: IPO prospectus: Anthropic expects to spend 518B+ over 10 years with six partners on AI infrastructure; ~80% is non-cancelable or payable regardless of usage — Anthropic said it expects to spe

Kris Holt / Engadget: OpenAI announces ChatGPT Space, a collaborative hub for shared pages and files, available on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans; it replaces Library — ChatGPT is coming to Slack

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, and more — OpenAI introduced

Bloomberg: OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms — OpenAI on Tuesday apologized

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with interactive panels and file viewers, launches a Plugin Creator tool, and adds MCP Events support for plugin automations — OpenAI isn't onl

OpenAI: OpenAI is adopting a structured “safety case” documentation framework modeled after industries like aviation and nuclear power to govern frontier RL training — Loading... We believe we are ent

Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol at 2/1M input and 10/1M output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5, and says it performs well on safety tests — Key Points

Paul Sawers / The New Stack: OpenAI says Plus and Pro subscribers can use their existing plan allowance with 16 launch partners, including Vercel and Devin, via Sign in with ChatGPT — OpenAI has annou

Reece Rogers / Wired: OpenAI says users can message Dots through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams and join a waitlist to text via iMessage or RCS messaging on Android — OpenAI's Dots are powered by

Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as “Super Intelligence” or “SI” in all official communications — President Do

Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in early-stage talks with insurance companies to structure risk-mitigation products to protect lenders against loan defaults by neoclouds — World's largest listed c

Kanishka Singh / Reuters: Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment — President Do

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup that raised $36M to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons — Red

Utkarsh Shetti / Reuters: AI agent startup Instinct raised a 1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a 10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service — AI agent firm

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending “intelligence explosion” and call for oversight into automated AI research — Lead