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Analyzing 2026's most prevalent browser attack techniques (pushsecurity.com)
2026-10-1 Browser

Docs and sources: Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, including potential cognitive and emotional harm, as the company pushed AI into schools (www.wsj.com)
2026-10-1 Google AI

Amazon signs a 20-year deal to buy power from Constellation Energy, including boosting capacity at its Maryland nuclear plant, supporting $3B+ in investments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-1 Amazon Energy

Flow, a hardware development platform for AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-1 AI

Gemini 4 Argon has a 1M-token output limit, up from 64K for prior models; it initially costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (the-decoder.com)
2026-10-1

Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, owner of HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as it expands into a gay hub (www.wsj.com)
2026-10-1 HIV

Artificial Analysis says Gemini 4 Argon (high) matches GPT-6 Astra (max) on its Intelligence Index and has a 15% hallucination rate, compared with 51% for Astra (artificialanalysis.ai)
2026-10-1 Intelligence

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Robo Bosses Act, which prevents employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers (www.cnbc.com)
2026-10-1 AI California

Internal data: Meta's Muse now has 3M+ users who submit at least one prompt per week and 1M+ DAUs who have sent at least one prompt (www.theinformation.com)
2026-10-1

Slack message: Greg Brockman has no plans to donate beyond his initial $25M to Leading the Future, saying the PAC has become a “distraction” at OpenAI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-10-1 Slack

Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, Retaking Benchmark Lead Over OpenAI and Anthropic (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-10-1 Google

Sources: Trump's AI accord grew out of a talk between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson; Zuckerberg circulated a draft, and Huang helped build support (www.semafor.com)
2026-10-1 Trump AI Zuckerberg

Sources: Jensen Huang and other execs asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei said it's important to be honest (www.wsj.com)
2026-10-1 AI

Factory CEO Matan Grinberg alleges Cognition's new CRO Chris Degnan had been confiding with Cognition executives while advising Factory as a board observer (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-10-1

'Xbox Is Not For Sale,' Says Microsoft's Gaming Chief (games.slashdot.org)
2026-10-1 Microsoft Xbox

Hackers Stole Millions of US Military Personnel Records During Months-Long Data Breach (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-10-1

Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, vs. $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% to $37.7B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (www.cnbc.com)
2026-10-1 4Q

Russian state hackers use new RedFlick technique to push malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-1 Russia

DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day study of capabilities the US may need in future wars (www.cnbc.com)
2026-10-1 Elon Musk

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks (www.axios.com)
2026-10-1 Google

Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-1 Google

Google Reportedly Tests Paying Publishers For AI Search Results (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-10-1 Google AI

DIVD says Zammad zero-days enabled AI-driven network breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-1 AI

Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-1 AI Reddit RSS

OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-1 AI

Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds, Ending Public API Access (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-10-1 Reddit RSS

Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-1 Coinbase

Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-1

Use GPT-5.5 Pro, Claude, Gemini & more from one workspace for just $99.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-1

Over 543,000 valid credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-1 GitHub

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