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OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers

OpenAI said it fired three safety employees for mishandling corporate information, which a person familiar with the matter said included sensitive information with an outside organization that does AI evaluations. “We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on...

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Governance and legal pressure are increasingly shaping how AI products can be built and deployed.

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China Chip Smuggling Cases Expose NVIDIA’s Blind Spots

Nvidia’s AI chips keep making their way to China despite US curbs. Officials are asking why the company missed red flags.

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Anthropic Said to Plan Pre-IPO Investor Day as Listing Nears

Anthropic PBC is set to meet prospective investors on Oct. 14 in preparation for its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, advancing its plan for a potential blockbuster listing even amid scrutiny over AI safety.

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Anthropic Said to Target Mega-IPO Before Thanksgiving Holiday

Anthropic PBC is seeking to go public as soon as the middle of November, according to people familiar with the matter, after the artificial intelligence model maker pushed back plans to list.

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The eternal complement

Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.

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1,400 Educators joined our Badge-a-thon: Day of AI Learning.

1,400 educators earned 4,000+ digital badges at the Google Badge-a-thon. Watch the on-demand sessions on YouTube and claim your first badge today.

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Guided Vision in Gemini Live: built for accessibility

Guided Vision in Gemini Live is built alongside the blind and low-vision community and offers real-time visual assistance.

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How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out

Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.

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Barclays Expands Use of Anthropic’s Claude in Efficiency Push

Barclays Plc is widening its use of Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence agent Claude in an effort to modernize legacy systems and improve operational efficiency across the bank.

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Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs

Building a training stack around how MoEs actually work Scaling and optimizing MoE training Scaling into the trillion-parameter range Built for the next generation of Olmo, open for everyone 📄 Tech Report | 💻 Code | 🧩 Interactive demo

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Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience

Barclays, the British universal bank, is expanding its strategic collaboration with Anthropic to integrate secure, enterprise-grade AI systems across its global operations.

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Working on Claude-shaped problems with BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science.

Matthew Schwartz describes what happened when he stopped fighting Claude and allowed Claude to find “Claude-shaped” problems. This led him to build BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science, which he has been applying across scientific fields alongside experts.

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In Robotics, Google Goes Android to Tesla’s Apple

While interviewing Google’s Koray Kavukcuoglu last week, I had a flash of deja vu. In his first sit-down since taking over as CEO of Google DeepMind, Kavukcuoglu offered some of his most detailed comments yet on where the company's robotics ambitions are headed and how they differ from the rest of the industry.

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Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

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Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print

Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone's camera at.

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ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.

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Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work and cyber defense, rolling out soon.

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Exclusive: NVIDIA, SoftBank Make Final $20 Billion Investment in OpenAI’s Last Round

Nvidia and SoftBank have each made the final $10 billion investment in each of their $30 billion pledges to OpenAI’s last funding round, according to a person with knowledge of the investments and a statement from SoftBank. OpenAI in March said it had $122 billion in commitments in a round that...

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Sharon AI Announces $356 Million GPU-Backed Loan

Australian neocloud Sharon AI has secured $356 million through its first loan backed by its graphics processing units, making it the latest cloud provider to finance their expansion by borrowing against chips and cash flows from customer contracts. The senior secured facility carries an interest...

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Data Center Infra Provider Accelevation Sinks In Post-IPO Trading

Data center infrastructure provider Accelevation’s shares were trading down roughly 5% on Thursday morning, as the stock continued to sink following its initial public offering earlier this week. The company on Sept. 29 raised $540 million, moving ahead with the offering even as some...

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OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

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OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?

At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success.

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Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle

Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of […]

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Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

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OpenAI Accuses Moonshot of Distillation Campaign

OpenAI said it recently identified and mitigated a “coordinated model-distillation campaign” involving individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi models. OpenAI said the operators of the campaign tried to extract protected reasoning—the model’s hidden thinking process...

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Model release FLUX

FLUX release announced

@bfl_ai: Introducing FLUX 3 Image. Control every pixel. Make precise multi-turn edits without changing any other pixel. Lay out the image exactly how you want using bounding boxes. Generate in up to 4K to preserve details. Use up to 10 references to

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@replicate — FLUX 3 Image is here. The latest from @bfl_ai, generate stunning native 4K imagery, and get maximum control over every pixel. Construct images with hyper-specific layouts using bounding boxes, make
@bfl_ai — Introducing FLUX 3 Image. Control every pixel. Make precise multi-turn edits without changing any other pixel. Lay out the image exactly how you want using bounding boxes. Generate in up to 4K to

Dev tool Claude Code

Claude Code introduces mod support via plugins

Users can now mod Claude Code using plugins to customize behavior, UI, and features using TypeScript or AI assistance.

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@claudedevs — You can now mod Claude Code: - Change how it behaves - Customize the UI - Swap in your own features Write one with a few lines of TypeScript, or have Claude build it for you. Mods ship inside plugins

Model release Microsoft

Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming

Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, evaluated on the AA-WER streaming speech transcription benchmark.

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@artificialanlys — Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, taking the #1 spot for Final Transcript accuracy and First Partial Transcript accuracy on AA-WER Streaming with 2.5% WER at 0.13s after end of

Model release Huihui-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-abliterated

Huihui-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-abliterated released

An uncensored abliterated version of Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has been released following a donated ablation.

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@support_huihui — New Model: huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-abliterated This is an uncensored version of Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next created with abliteration. Note Someone has donated the ablation of this model, so

Dev tool ChatGPT

ChatGPT enables building and deploying MCP servers

Users can build and deploy MCP servers directly through ChatGPT, with options to restrict access or share them publicly.

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@thsottiaux — One more thing, you can now build and deploy MCP servers right through ChatGPT. And restrict its access to anyone you want or share it with the world.

Model release DFlash

DFlash draft models available for Ornith-1.5

DFlash speculative draft models are available for Ornith-1.5 9B, 35B-A3B, and 397B to accelerate inference.

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@ornith_ — 🪽DFlash draft models are available for Ornith-1.5 9B, 35B-A3B, and 397B. DFlash and Ornith 1.5 make a dynamic duo: DFlash performs as the draft model, accelerating inference by drafting multiple

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AI policy and governance +9.9

Regulators and government agencies are establishing stricter operational boundaries, spanning federal procurement guidelines in the United States, ongoing trade commission investigations into autonomous systems, and state-level limits on automated workplace decisions.

3 sources Capital and consolidation +6.5

Substantial capital activity continues across the sector, characterized by multi-billion-dollar software acquisitions, semiconductor design partnerships, institutional credit facilities for infrastructure, and advancing preparations for major public equity offerings.

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Physical artificial intelligence initiatives are transitioning from visual spatial representations to real-world tasks, visible in evolving industrial humanoid testing fleets and differing platform architectures among major research laboratories.

3 sources AI infrastructure and compute steady

Surging data center workloads are driving increased demand for high-speed networking and memory components, while technology firms and international partners invest in dedicated power generation to relieve regional electricity constraints.

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Frontier AI developers are diverging on liquidity pathways, with Anthropic preparing a late-year public listing while OpenAI defers public markets to secure additional private capital.Lenders and debt markets are tightening underwriting standards for AI data center expansion, forcing infrastructure operators to offer steeper concessions or secure financing directly against hardware assets.Economic feasibility remains the primary bottleneck for physical automation, as research indicates robotic systems can perform the majority of task categories but remain cost-competitive in only a fraction.Frontier lab releases increasingly prioritize inference economics, pairing specialized coding and enterprise capabilities with sharp API price reductions and faster execution speeds across competing model families.Slowing debt appetite from institutional lenders is pushing AI infrastructure developers toward GPU-collateralized borrowing and wider investor concessions to sustain capital-intensive computing expansions.Anthropic is preparing an autumn public offering with prospective investor meetings scheduled for October, marking a significant transition toward public capital markets for foundation model developers.Substantial capital deployment from hardware and investment partners continues to back private frontier labs through multi-billion-dollar tranches of previously announced funding rounds.Global financial institutions are expanding enterprise deployments of foundation models to modernize legacy systems and automate internal operations under institutional security requirements.

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AI pulse 51/100

AI-linked equities are quiet; the tracked basket is moving in a narrow band while Broadcom. -2.15%, Super Micro Computer +2.07%, Alphabet. -1.70% show the largest moves.

Ticker	Company	Move
AVGO	Broadcom.	-2.15%
SMCI	Super Micro Computer	+2.07%
GOOGL	Alphabet.	-1.70%
PLTR	Palantir Technologies.	+1.60%

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The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will…

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OpenAI Accuses Moonshot of Distillation Campaign

OpenAI said it recently identified and mitigated a “coordinated model-distillation campaign” involving…

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EliseAI secures $350M funding at $4B valuation for housing and healthcare AI

Artificial intelligence startup EliseAI has secured $350 million in new funding at a $4 billion valuation to…

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Anthropic’s Draft IPO Prospectus Reportedly Puts 2025 Loss at $42B

Anthropic’s 2025 net loss was reportedly $42 billion, including a $34 billion non-cash charge; future…

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Research & Evals

Google Skips 3.5, Unveils Gemini 4 With Security Gains but Coding Doubts

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its first top-tier AI model in seven months, matching OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on…

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OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers

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China Chip Smuggling Cases Expose NVIDIA’s Blind Spots

Anthropic Said to Plan Pre-IPO Investor Day as Listing Nears

Anthropic Said to Target Mega-IPO Before Thanksgiving Holiday

The eternal complement

1,400 Educators joined our Badge-a-thon: Day of AI Learning.

Guided Vision in Gemini Live: built for accessibility

How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out

Barclays Expands Use of Anthropic’s Claude in Efficiency Push

Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs

Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience

Working on Claude-shaped problems with BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science.

In Robotics, Google Goes Android to Tesla’s Apple

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print

ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Exclusive: NVIDIA, SoftBank Make Final $20 Billion Investment in OpenAI’s Last Round

Sharon AI Announces $356 Million GPU-Backed Loan

Data Center Infra Provider Accelevation Sinks In Post-IPO Trading

OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?

Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites

OpenAI Accuses Moonshot of Distillation Campaign

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FLUX release announced

Claude Code introduces mod support via plugins

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