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Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
Oct 2, 2026
Semafor Technology
How employees forced OpenAI’s president to back down
A set of internal Slack messages details the politics at one of the world’s most powerful AI companies.
Oct 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
Oct 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Oct 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots
A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots When voters cast their ballots, their votes are supposed to remain secre…
Oct 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then China US authorities have arrested a man accused of smuggling more than $300m worth of com…
Oct 2, 2026
Ars Technica
US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
Oct 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history risk…
Oct 2, 2026
Semafor Technology
AI costs are rising for organizations, reports warn
Two new reports from consulting giants show how the AI adoption conversation has shifted from whether it works to whether the spending on it is sustainable.
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide
Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change
Oct 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump call…
Oct 2, 2026
Wired
These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval
Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence’
Oct 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash
‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’ Get our breaking news email, free app or da…
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter
Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
Oct 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions As tech leaders warn about the threats of artificial intelligence, most conjure …
Oct 2, 2026
Rest of World
Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say
African companies race to adopt American and Chinese AI, with little attention paid to safety.
Oct 2, 2026
Politico Technology
Hawley tests Trump’s hands-off approach to AI
The Missouri Republican is pushing Washington to act even as the prospects of legislation dim.
Oct 2, 2026
Semafor Technology
The AI industry balances Trump and a changing Washington
Despite the warm welcome at the White House, industry leaders are bracing for a Democrat-controlled Congress.
Oct 2, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five…
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support
To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work
If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems,
Oct 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin
If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code The recent panic about a breach of Medicare computer se…
Oct 2, 2026
Semafor Technology
Broadcom to lend Anthropic $42 billion to lease chips: Report
Broadcom joins in on the trend of chipmakers financing the AI buildout that’s driving demand for their products.
Oct 1, 2026
Wired
Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.
Oct 1, 2026
The Register
AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org
Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds
Oct 1, 2026
The Register
Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models
Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
Oct 1, 2026
The Register
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP
Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age
Oct 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
Oct 1, 2026
The Guardian Technology
California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking
State attorney general issues subpoena to OpenAI as part of broader inquiry into potential security vulnerabilities California’s attorney general has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, start…
Oct 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Oct 1, 2026
Ars Technica
Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
Prices for memory sold for 2027 "are much higher than 2026 prices."
Oct 1, 2026
The Register
EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank
RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too
Oct 1, 2026
AI Snake Oil
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
Oct 1, 2026
Ars Technica
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
Oct 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system
Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.
Oct 1, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news
Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulations Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political…
Oct 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.
Oct 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
Oct 1, 2026
Semafor Technology
Deepseek and Huawei partner to develop AI software
The move underlines how China’s leading tech companies are working to reduce their reliance on US chipmakers and challenge American AI dominance.
Oct 1, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity …
Oct 1, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo When prompted, AI chat bots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violat…
Oct 1, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines renderin…
Oct 1, 2026
The Register
The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away
What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents
Oct 1, 2026
Politico Technology
New Mexico to jump into frontier AI regulation
Attorney General Raúl Torrez is set to announce a proposal for safety checks on AI development, following California and New York’s lead.
Oct 1, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect California workers from AI threat
Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting California workers from the th…
Oct 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
Sep 30, 2026
Semafor Technology
OpenAI accuses top Chinese lab of distilling models
OpenAI alleged that Chinese competitor Moonshot used wide-scale distillation amidst rising AI-race tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Sep 30, 2026
The Register
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
Sep 30, 2026