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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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- 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) [1d]
- Anthropic launches the Claude Frontier Academy with a $100M commitment to train 10K Frontier Deployed Engineers by 2028, starting with Accenture, Bain, others (Anthropic) [1d]
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- DoorDash says its new drone can get food to you in under five minutes [1d]
- US, UK Navy launch heavyweight torpedo from unmanned vessel in what the military calls 'a historic first for allied undersea warfare' [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, October 3 (game #1210) [1d]
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- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, October 3 (game #1713) [1d]
- TCL QM7L review: the best mid-range TV of 2026 [1d]
- Minisforum's AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 workstation will cost more than $9,200, but you can get it for under $7,400 on preorder for a limited time [1d]
- Meet Neurable One, the all-new focus aid headphones with 'brain data banking' [1d]
- Ukraine drone chief targeted by $20 million Russian bounty warns 'humanity is losing control' as AI becomes a 'digital panopticon' [1d]
- I've trawled through thousands of tech products on Amazon — these are the 100+ October Prime Day deals I recommend this weekend [1d]
- How to check if you qualify for Amazon’s $1.5B refund and claim your payout [1d]
- NASA could bring back SR-71 as missing Blackbird sparks wild speculation about the world's fastest plane ever and former staffers contacted for 'help' [1d]
- OpenAI, Blackstone, Softbank form US data center lobbying group —American Infrastructure Alliance's first job is stop states from blocking AI data center [1d]
- Cops have breached one of iOS’s most secure features, report claims [1d]
- EVgo says its ultra-fast EV charging stations will launch in the US in 2027 [1d]
- Meta told the IRS its AI data centers are experimental to shave $6 billion off its tax bill [1d]
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