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Financial Times: Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads — US businesses far beyond Si

Bloomberg: A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs — When a group of 15 Google DeepMind employees and

Tom Wilson / Financial Times: Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts — Security

OpenAI: OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training — Summary — An agent attempting

Joe Brock / Reuters: Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks — Joe Lonsdale, an inv

Madison Mills / Axios: Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking — OpenAI, Anthrop

Ben Berkowitz / Axios: The US and China create a “Super Intelligence Dialogue” on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era “red telephone” — The U.S. and China have agree

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is “a statutorily covered national-security risk” — Choose CNBC as you

Reuters: Chinese local governments are offering subsidies like computing vouchers, rent waivers, and dedicated funding to lure AI filmmakers as part of China's AI push — When Zhu Zhili was looking for

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spen

@openai: OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on “image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed” and “most” of the images have been removed — We've shared details on how AI a

Louise Lucas / Financial Times: Radical Ventures: AI neolabs, many lacking products, markets, or revenue, raised $24B in the past two quarters, nearly 5x OpenAI and Anthropic pre-ChatGPT — It is true

Dylan Freedman / New York Times: Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs — A new

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users — Two months after OpenAI disclose

Transluce: AI agents, including those from OpenAI, attempted to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in May and June — We present evidence that AI a

Tomoko Wakasugi / Nikkei Asia: Analysis: total net profit at ~190 chipmakers listed in mainland China rose 620% YoY in H1 2026, driven by the AI boom and China's self-sufficiency campaign — SHANGHAI —

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Anthropic commits to spending 11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours — Anthrop

Anthropic: Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app's core UX ~3x faster in August using an internal model to ship improvements “in a two-week sprint” — Once Claude can measure some

Callum Borchers / Wall Street Journal: Companies are increasingly using AI benchmarking services to aggregate public job listings and other payroll data to identify under- and over-paid employees — Ne

Robert Hart / The Verge: Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl — Researchers are te

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 M

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers — Google's Live Av

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'

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Cisco President and CPO Jeetu Patel on its multibillion-dollar networking deals for AI infrastructure, competition from partners like Nvidia, and more — T

New York Times: Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims — The use of artificial

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 targ

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 Anth

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 Anth

Priyanka Salve / CNBC: VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised 150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a 2B post-money valuation — Brahma AI, an Ind

Robert Hart / The Verge: Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab — It took near

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: At its Accelerate conference, Amazon says it is opening its seller tools to third-party AI agents, starting with Claude, in beta for US merchants — Amazon announced new AI tool

Damien Cave / New York Times: Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life — A Gallup

Laura Bratton / The Information: Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released “much earlier” than the end of the year — Goog

Business Insider: HypeAuditor: OpenAI doubled its sponsored Instagram posts promoting ChatGPT from 61 in June to 122 in July, rising again to 141 in August, as it seeks new users — AI's reputation is

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: London-based AI life sciences startup Basecamp Research raised a 140M Series C led by S32, with participation from Anthropic, taking its total funding to 225M — Basecamp says

OpenAI: OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts — An open benchmark developed with m

@openai: OpenAI says ChatGPT Voice can now be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, use plugins like email and calendar, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile — We heard you loud and clear. C

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: OpenAI says it will give its AI cyber defense system Daybreak and GPT-5.6 Sol to the Ukrainian government for free to help it protect civilian infrastructure — The tech giant OpenA

Ezra Klein / New York Times: Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more — This is a

Financial Times: Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips — Chinese tech giant w

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems — Intrinsic Inn

Nancy Lapid / Reuters: Anthropic and OpenEvidence partner to offer a specialized version of OpenEvidence's AI search tool for physicians in about 100 low- and middle-income countries — Artificial inte

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset — Anthropic's newest Claude model aims to make fr

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs 4/1M input and 20/1M output tokens — Ask about

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Australian healthcare AI startup Heidi raised 340M, including a 100M Series C led by Blackbird at a 900M valuation, taking its total funding to 430M+ — Heidi, an artificial int

Sophie Shulman / CTech: Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~600M deal, including 500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025 — The Haifa-based robo