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- David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week (Stephen Council/Business Insider) [35d]
- Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation (Garrison Lovely/Semafor) [35d]
- Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums (Molly Taft/Wired) [35d]
- Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch (Michael Kan/PCMag) [35d]
- Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) [35d]
- Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5 (Karissa Bell/Engadget) [35d]
- Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles (Ashley Gold/Semafor) [35d]
- Memo: the US Army is creating an autonomous systems command, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Meridian and Agincourt robotic warfare projects (Colin Demarest/Axios) [35d]
- TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida says Jev is in use by ~25% of Fortune 500 companies and "we were at a trillion tokens per day about a week ago" (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal) [35d]
- Tavus unveils Griffin, the "first Human Interaction Model", which it says passed the "video Turing test", with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats (@tavus) [35d]
- Apple says it is adding additional controls around "Full Disk Access" on macOS as AI agents have increased "the risks associated with this level of access" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [35d]
- Anthropic launches the Claude Frontier Academy with a $100M commitment to train 10K Frontier Deployed Engineers by 2028, starting with Accenture, Bain, others (Anthropic) [35d]
- Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance (Grace Kay/The Information) [35d]
- Source: FieldAI, which is developing a "universal general-purpose brain" for robots, raised $700M at a $10B valuation, up from $2B in 2025 (Rya Jetha/Business Insider) [35d]
- Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns (Toby Sterling/Reuters) [35d]
- Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI "super intelligence" (Laura Cress/BBC) [35d]
- Sources: Broadcom's Wall Street syndicate is amassing $60B in AI chip financing to help Anthropic and others access chips and other key AI infrastructure (Bloomberg) [35d]
- Sources: an EU investigation is set to find that Azure and AWS meet DMA thresholds, as the EU strengthens its regulatory scrutiny of the cloud sector (Bloomberg) [35d]
- Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices with optional background music using scripts or prompts, in public beta, as its music product faces lawsuits (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [35d]
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