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- Sources: UK neobank Monzo is in talks with CVC and Advent to sell up to a 15% stake, after Nubank takeover talks collapsed over the ~£10B valuation Monzo sought (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times) [33d]
- Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks (Politico) [33d]
- Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders (Cory Weinberg/The Information) [33d]
- Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday (Financial Times) [33d]
- 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 (Wired) [33d]
- Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico) [33d]
- In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters) [33d]
- DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's "third-party infrastructure arm" after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed (Financial Times) [33d]
- Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [33d]
- Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor (Politico) [33d]
- A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) [33d]
- 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 (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore) [33d]
- As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask (Stephen Wolfram/Stephen Wolfram Writings) [33d]
- Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied "excessive" charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015 (Financial Times) [33d]
- 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% (Keigo Yoshida/Nikkei Asia) [33d]
- Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 (Etiido Uko/Tom's Hardware) [33d]
- 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 (Abner Li/9to5Google) [33d]
- Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks (Moneycontrol) [33d]
- Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M (Meir Orbach/CTech) [34d]
- 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 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [34d]
- Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called "Super Intelligence Force", to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal) [34d]
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