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OpenAI says its AI agents "took actions we did not intend" when they tried to hack government and university websites, and it is working with the organizations (New York Times)

OpenAI says its AI agents "took actions we did not...

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Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron, and other Western leaders are pushing to establish a global supervisory regime and "technology stability" body to govern AI (Wall Street Journal)

Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron, and other Western le...

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Delivery Hero co-founder and CEO Niklas Östberg reverses his decision to step down in 2027, as the company prepares for Uber's €13B takeover and an asset sale (Financial Times)

Delivery Hero co-founder and CEO Niklas Östberg re...

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Brookings projects US AI spending to total $10.3T between 2025 and 2032, averaging 3.6% of GDP per year, the largest single-industry build-out as a share of GDP (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue run rate hits $1B, up from less than $500M a few months ago, as it aims to finalize a ~$7.5B fundraise by late October (The Information)

Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue run rate hi...

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Sources citing Firmus' IPO draft prospectus: the Australian data center operator expects to report a $77M loss after tax for H1 FY27 as it prepares to raise $5B (Christine Chen/Reuters)

Sources citing Firmus' IPO draft prospectus: the A...

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Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app's core UX ~3x faster in August using an internal model to ship improvements "in a two-week sprint" (Anthropic)

Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude de...

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Analysis: total net profit at ~190 chipmakers listed in mainland China rose 620% YoY in H1 2026, driven by the AI boom and China's self-sufficiency campaign (Tomoko Wakasugi/Nikkei Asia)

Analysis: total net profit at ~190 chipmakers list...

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Revolut is piloting a new POS system that uses facial recognition for payments at the UK coffee chain Kiss the Hippo, ahead of a full launch later this year (Charlie Wells/Bloomberg)

Revolut is piloting a new POS system that uses fac...

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Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor says it will set up its largest production hub for optical communications chips in Japan as part of a planned $4B investment (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)

Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor says it will s...

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India's food regulator initiates penal action against Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy Instamart, Bigbasket, and Zepto over alleged misbranding and misleading claims (Bloomberg)

India's food regulator initiates penal action agai...

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Q&A with Cisco President and CPO Jeetu Patel on its multibillion-dollar networking deals for AI infrastructure, competition from partners like Nvidia, and more (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Q&A with Cisco President and CPO Jeetu Patel on it...

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Sources: Schneider Electric is nearing a deal to acquire Bulgaria-based smart home device maker Shelly Group at a €1.27B valuation, excluding debt (Bloomberg)

Sources: Schneider Electric is nearing a deal to a...

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AI agents, including those from OpenAI, attempted to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in May and June (Transluce)

AI agents, including those from OpenAI, attempted ...

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Sources: Modal Labs is in funding talks at a ~$15B valuation, up from $4.65B in May; Baseten is in funding talks at a $26B valuation, up from $13B in June (Bloomberg)

Sources: Modal Labs is in funding talks at a ~$15B...

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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for audio wearables, with up to 2x greater on-device AI performance and up to 40% lower power consumption (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen ...

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Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released "much earlier" than the end of the year (Laura Bratton/The Information)

Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini ...

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OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts (OpenAI)

OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchma...

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