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Ben Berkowitz / Axios: Sam Altman says he's “very uncomfortable” with attributing religious force to AI, calling it “a real safety issue”, as Anthropic engages with religious leaders — OpenAI CEO Sam

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman insists that the security risks of artificial intelligence need to be taken seriously. But unlike his counterpart Dario Amodei of Anthropic PBC, he believes

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that 'the world should accept some bad things happening' along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and 'other bad things' as cos

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a 40B-50B valuation, up from 21B in August — Although it's only been a couple of months sinc

The Information: Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Claude; Meta employees using Claude Code have dropped to ~30K from ~60K earlier this year — Meta Platforms and M

Explore how Microsoft and NVIDIA are helping organizations advance sovereign AI with greater control, choice, flexibility, and resilience across cloud, edge, and customer-controlled environments. The

Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Learn how to use them with Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, for complianc

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? —Will Dou

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed — TikTok anno

OpenAI: To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally — - Starting today, API customers glo

As agentic AI moves into production, the harder question is becoming what enterprises will actually trust it to do. Infor Inc. is betting that industry-specific context can help bridge that gap. The e

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it 'can confirm that we have discovered some a

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made

Wired: Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles “a page for every person in the user's life”, with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more — Millions have downloaded Meta's A

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash — Following the

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more — Airbnb rolled out its

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society — The accord,

Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore: Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more — VP Ha

Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could 'compute the sum but return the answer in wo

Politico: Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ther

Bradley Olson / Axios: Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models — A closely watc

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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

President Donald Trump today put Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton in charge of a new federal artificial intelligence task force, making him the administration’s second AI czar. Trump reve

US three-row SUV options distinguish Tesla's supervised route driving from rivals' hands-free assistance, with current six-seat options and child-seat fit limits.

Agentic AI is changing the identity security equation. Enterprises are no longer governing access only for employees and traditional machine identities. AI agents can act on behalf of people, interact

LWiAI Podcast #258 (recorded 26‑Sep‑2026) reviews major AI updates from the previous week. Key developments include Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 release—offering lower pricing, faster performance and robust b

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

FieldAI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models for robots, is reportedly seeking 700 million in funding. A source told Business Insider today that the round could value the compa

I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D

Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model's knowledge cutoff without web search. In this post, we walk through connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gat

Every information technology leader I talk to has an artificial intelligence story about customer experience. Almost none has an outcome story. That gap is now measurable. Talkdesk Inc., in partnershi

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research firm Allen Institute for AI announced a development framework for large language models Thursday that significantly improves how mixture-of-experts large

Editor’s note: AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent optimization

AI agents don't just answer queries — they can autonomously issue refunds, manage inventory, execute multi-step handoffs, and orchestrate sub-agents, to name but a few complex agentic workflows. That