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Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users (Reuters)
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Sources: Oura IPO is roughly four times oversubscribed; Filing: Oura and the selling shareholders are offering 50M shares for $40 to $44 each to raise ~$2.2B (Bloomberg)
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Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs (New York Times)
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A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not "swaps" subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
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A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses (David Heaney/UploadVR)
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Microsoft confirms that 2026 Surface PCs have dropped the Copilot+ PC branding, even though they meet all the requirements of Copilot+ devices (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
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Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
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President Trump says Scott Bessent is not "going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar", because "he doesn't want to" and Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
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Sources: SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is exploring an IPO as early as 2027 that could raise $15B and value the unit at up to $150B (Reuters)
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A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is "a statutorily covered national-security risk" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
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Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Tesla ramped up Optimus production to several hundred units per week but faces hurdles with its hands, automation equipment, and supplier constraints (The Information)
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Bill Gates warns about the catastrophic risk posed by "people with ill intent using the latest AI tools", which are powerful enough to "cause a billion deaths" (Herb Scribner/Axios)