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Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time adviser to OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2B and $3B, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, at a $20B valuation (www.theglobeandmail.com)
9 days ago Canada

Sources: some lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to cancel the fall House recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, after Anthropic researcher warnings (www.axios.com)
9 days ago AI

Altman Considers Slowing Down AI Development (slashdot.org)
9 days ago AI

Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago Microsoft

Sources: in an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Slack

UK Government Rejects 'Kill Switch' Idea For Dangerous AI (yro.slashdot.org)
9 days ago AI

Meta says it is making changes to Meta AI's suggested prompts after a viral Instagram video showed it posing invasive questions about a woman's young daughters (futurism.com)
9 days ago AI Instagram

Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago

Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend ~$5B to neocloud startup Fluidstack, which is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Startup Pentagon

Roblox announces new features, including game-creation tools, ability to make games available as standalone apps across platforms, and Roblox Wallet and Card (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Internal note: Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer, saying it is “time for me to move on and try new things” (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago Microsoft

Anthropic Reveals Rogue AI Agents Hate CAPTCHAs (tech.slashdot.org)
9 days ago AI

Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs and freemium MAUs surpassed100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings to drive revenue (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago AI Adobe

California Governor Signs Laws Protecting Kids From Risks of Social Media, AI Chatbots (yro.slashdot.org)
9 days ago AI chatbot Social Media California

Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago AI

How Threat Actors Are Turning Trusted AI Platforms Into an Attack Surface (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago AI

GSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal providing a 50% discount from October 1, with access to GPT-6 Astra (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago

Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via “transfer stations” outside China (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago China AI

Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump (www.politico.com)
9 days ago Trump Startup AI Ban

Threat intelligence report: Anthropic says it disrupted a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software for missiles (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Intelligence

Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics” (www.businessinsider.com)
9 days ago AI Mathematics

Boy Developed 'Toasted Skin' Condition From Using a Laptop Every Day (science.slashdot.org)
9 days ago

Source and draft press release: the Trump admin will lend $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telecom company, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago Trump Africa

Learn to use Claude beyond basic prompts with this $20 course bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago

GitLab urges users to patch max severity path traversal flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago

Sources: Moonshot AI told investors it topped $1B ARR in August, up from $300M in June, driven by its Kimi K3 release; it aims to hit $2B ARR by the end of 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago AI

A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions (arstechnica.com)
9 days ago LinkedIn Browser

Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M Series E in March 2026 (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago AI

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