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Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (Wired)
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Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
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Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
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Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (Reuters)
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Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
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Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy/Business Insider)
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Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times)
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Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 (Financial Times)
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US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg)
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An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023 (Christine Hauser/New York Times)
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Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left (Wall Street Journal)
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Angle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
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Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic; they expect to invest $2B+ in building capacity in this area over the next five years (Anthropic)
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Sources: Anthropic expects to generate $100B+ in annualized revenue this year, up from $65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate (New York Times)