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September 29, 2026Anthropic's Prospectus Says the Quiet Part, and OpenAI Shelves Astra 6.1
In today's episode:
IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers
More angles: fortune.com · engadget.com · bitcoininsider.org

OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar during internal testing, after targeting an October release
More angles: techcrunch.com · bbc.com · cnbc.com

AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by the end of 2026; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist
More angles: newsroom.amd.com · worldlabs.ai · ir.amd.com

Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon
More angles: testingcatalog.com · helpnetsecurity.com

Internal memo: the FBI says it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all staff; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands
More angles: 404media.co · cnn.com

OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier while halving the API credits provided per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and removes the five-hour cap
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September 28, 2026Amodei Goes to Dinner, and Nvidia Sells the Cage
In today's episode:
Sources: President Trump hosted Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, an indication of thawing relations; Trump personally invited Amodei
More angles: fortune.com · techcrunch.com · bloomberg.com

Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping, made up of OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for network chips
More angles: nvidianews.nvidia.com · developer.nvidia.com

Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws
More angles: networkworld.com · helpnetsecurity.com

Meta's VR Glasses are the product Vision Pro should have been; sources say Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is on “life support”
More angles: 9to5mac.com · businesstoday.in · trustedreviews.com

Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data
More angles: swarmcha.se · siliconangle.com · theverge.com

AlphaSense: mentions of open models in US earnings calls and conferences rose 6x YoY in August and September; open models hit 56% of Vercel tokens in August
More angles: paulkedrosky.com · pymnts.com
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September 27, 2026Tens of Thousands of Incidents, and a Treaty Edited With the Cameras Off
In today's episode:
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking
More angles: the-decoder.com · cnn.com · alignment.openai.com

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform
More angles: crypto.news · bitget.com

Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more
More angles: en.sedaily.com · mirror.co.uk

Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk “was an error and the ads are being restored”; YouTube is also allowing the ads
More angles: hollywoodreporter.com · pocket-lint.com

How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry

PicoJool, which is developing AI data center interconnects based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Socratic Partners
More angles: picojool.com · unite.ai
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September 26, 2026OpenAI's Agents Reach Washington, and Anthropic Loses in Court
In today's episode:
Researchers: OpenAI's agents meddled with the US Commerce Dept. and SEC sites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge and tried to hack the Education Dept. site
More angles: bbc.com · france24.com

A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is “a statutorily covered national-security risk”
More angles: arstechnica.com · businesstoday.in

A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal
More angles: cbsnews.com · thestar.com.my · santafenewmexican.com

A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs
More angles: runtimewire.com · the-decoder.com

Microsoft confirms that 2026 Surface PCs have dropped the Copilot+ PC branding, even though they meet all the requirements of Copilot+ devices
More angles: theverge.com · thurrott.com

TikTok reaches a settlement with Alabama over social media addiction claims; Alabama will receive at least $100M, and up to $300M if certain conditions are met
More angles: thehill.com · bbc.com
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September 25, 2026Bitget Loses $352 Million, and the White House Stands Alone at the UN
In today's episode:
The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies

Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers
More angles: blog.google · superpowerdaily.com

Meta unveils mobile app Horizon Create and web app Horizon Studio for building games with AI prompts; the games will run on Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon
More angles: mobilegamer.biz · wersm.com

Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year
More angles: databricks.com · siliconrepublic.com · techcrunch.com

Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours
More angles: globenewswire.com · siliconangle.com · bitcoininsider.org

Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says “user funds are safe”
More angles: bleepingcomputer.com · decrypt.co · cryptoslate.com
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September 24, 2026An Agent Breaks Into Medicare, and Meta Puts VR on Your Nose
In today's episode:
AI agents, including OpenAI's, attempted to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and an Australian government website in May and June using urlquery.net
More angles: time.com · theage.com.au

Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery, and ~2.5K resolution per eye, coming spring 2027 for $1,299
More angles: meta.com · wired.com · theverge.com

Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-like device for using Muse, with a ~2" OLED screen, front and rear cameras, and 5G, on sale by the end of 2026
More angles: 9to5mac.com · engadget.com · techcrunch.com

Meta unveils Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first pair of glasses without cameras, offering up to 12 hours of battery life, starting at $349 and shipping October 13
More angles: siliconrepublic.com · about.fb.com · techcrunch.com

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei tell the UN Security Council that governments and industry should coordinate on AI safety standards and critical decisions
More angles: cnbc.com · cnn.com

An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the products announced at Connect, camera-free Ray-Bans being in the works before the “pervert glasses” backlash, and more
More angles: finance.yahoo.com · mashable.com
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September 23, 2026Two Frontier Models in Ninety Minutes, and ShinyHunters Says It Has the FBI
In today's episode:
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior
More angles: anthropic.com · businesstoday.in

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost
More angles: helpnetsecurity.com · techcrunch.com

Xbox has become a shell of its former self, weighed down by job cuts and studio closures, as it focuses on franchises like Halo and reaching “a billion people”
More angles: wccftech.com · thegamer.com

ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data, and also defaced the FBI jobs site
More angles: siliconrepublic.com · techcrunch.com

San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores
More angles: techcrunch.com · theverge.com
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September 22, 2026Muse Springs a Leak, Xiaomi Tops the Open Weights, and Mathematicians Form a Committee
In today's episode:
A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse Mac app lets any app or terminal command access users' Muse authentication tokens; Meta says it issued a hotfix
More angles: github.com · theverge.com

Source: Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff cut in 2026, as it also plans to consolidate several of its game studios
More angles: gamesindustry.biz · videogameschronicle.com · eurogamer.net

Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs “on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks”
More angles: forkast.news · testingcatalog.com · unite.ai

OpenAI says it is working with an independent math advisory group to responsibly share AI advances, following an open letter raising concerns from researchers
More angles: techcrunch.com · terrytao.wordpress.com · agmai.org

Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, Rogo, and other AI startups are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs
More angles: thecodew.com · pymnts.com

OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but “fully autonomous RSI is not happening today” and shouldn't be pursued “until it can be done safely”
More angles: techstrong.ai · semafor.com
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September 21, 2026Washington and Beijing Agree to Talk, and Amazon Slams the Door on Muse
In today's episode:
Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition

Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit
More angles: bitcoininsider.org · finance.yahoo.com · english.news.cn

Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent
More angles: theverge.com

A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down
More angles: fortune.com · washingtonsun.com

Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases
More angles: theguardian.com · thecodew.com · coinpaper.com

iPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more
More angles: cultofmac.com · macrumors.com
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September 20, 2026Trump's AI Force, Newsom's Kill Switch, and a CT Scanner You Can Download
In today's episode:
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax”
More angles: nbcnews.com · cnn.com

Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta
More angles: nypost.com · cnbc.com · bbc.com

Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers
More angles: github.com · runtimewire.com

Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself
More angles: cnbc.com · cbsnews.com · nypost.com

Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed
More angles: dailycaller.com · lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization
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FAQs about Good Morning Tech News:

How many episodes does Good Morning Tech News have?

The podcast currently has 80 episodes available.