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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first — Anthropic is merging its front-end
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a 1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least 150M — In 2025, Mark McQuade took a
Financial Times: Google DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI — Shane Legg launches
Ina Fried / Axios: In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control — Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Su
OpenAI: OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences — Summary — We observed rare cases of a
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers — OpenAI said on
The Information: Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, set for 2029, and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion — Apple has been working
Sri Muppidi / New York Times: Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a 1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be at least 1.5T — The funding round
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security — St
Thomas Claburn / The Register: TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly — ‘Jev’ d
SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into on-device and data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the “network wall”, and more — Robot Models, Silicon & DR
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which offers audits and safety certifications for AI agents, raised a 40M Series A, bringing total raised to 55M — A day after An
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: At Dreamforce, Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to power AI agents in Agentforce — Salesforce
New York Times: At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs — At an event in Washington
New York Times: Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying — For years, Democrats and
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate — Nvidia Corp. Chief
Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Google gives all of its engineers Claude Opus 5 access via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development” — Googler
New York Times: Jensen Huang took a surprise call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in LA, where the two dismissed fears of an AI takeover — Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nv
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries — Samsung has bac
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a 180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a 1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to 335M+ — The artifi
Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety — Artificial
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg Law: OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety — OpenAI is
@openrouter: OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 — OpenRouter users spent mo
Alix Coutures / The Information: Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Bori
Valida Pau / The Information: Source: AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise 1B at a 10B valuation, up from 2.25B less than a month ago; Sequoia and Benchmark are in talks to lead the round — The startu
Claire Moses / New York Times: The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good” — Bill G
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed — Former Open
Tom Giles / Bloomberg: Zuckerberg says “Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security” and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before acting — Meta Platforms In
Jeremy Stern / Colossus: A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more — A journey to
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others — AI l
Bloomberg: China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying “fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one” — China criticized calls from l
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg: House Speaker Johnson says there's “potentially” a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives — House Speake
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans — Humans are re
Chris Metinko / Axios: London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a 40M Series A, after raising 20M in 2025 — Jack & Jill, a Lon
Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider: Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a 50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating — A sta
The Information: Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn't guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn't made Fable available via its software — As paranoia rises ov
Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware: Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090's 32GB — The GeForce
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring: OpenAI employees need to oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks — When I saw
Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo: OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research — Dan S
Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at 300M+; it was valued at ~100M last year — Glass Imaging, value
MS NOW: Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request — Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic chief
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: Trump slams Dario Amodei, saying “the only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” — Preside
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: US-Israeli startup Buildots, which uses AI to speed up construction of mega-projects like data centers and chip factories, raised 130M at a near-1B valuation — Buildots, a
Bryan Shan / SemiAnalysis: Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs — Jensen Sandbagg
David Sacks / @davidsacks: Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework — Dario has w
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Dario Amodei says the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to “pace the frontier” is what happens if China does not do the same — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Sunday that the
Leo Schwartz / The Information: Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI — Anthropic, OpenAI and Goo
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic told investors it will be profitable for a second straight quarter, with 80%+ gross margins before partner revenue sharing and training costs — Claude maker seeks t
Janice Huang / Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank sealed a two-year loan facility to support its OpenAI investment, securing 11.87B in commitments from ~20 banks, above its 10B target — SoftBank Group Corp.
Bloomberg: Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify — Leaders of the world's big
Auzinea Bacon / CNN: Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months — The race to develop art
Dario Amodei / @darioamodei: Dario Amodei says Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to giving third-party evaluators permanent access to verify its adherence to safety measures — We Must Pace the Fr
Ben Johansen / Politico: Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the immediate slowdown of artif
Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting — The first lin
Terence Tao / What's new: A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics — I am proud to be am
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: GSA says OpenAI is replacing its 1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal providing a 50% discount from October 1, with access to GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI is e
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms — Artificia
Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics” — T
Jeff Mason / Bloomberg: President Trump rejects warnings of AI-driven human extinction, saying the US leads China by a year and will be “in a very bad position” if it doesn't win in AI — President Don
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” — The