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Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that execs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei could be held liable (Lee Harris/Financial Times)
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Sources and filings: Situational Awareness lacked an investment risk team; after the sell-off, the SEC sent subpoenas to major banks about trades they financed (New York Times)
GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by ARCHIV with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing (Reuters)
Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume (Alex Williams/New York Times)
Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, featuring a 6" smart home hub with an iMac G4-inspired design and a HomePod mini refresh (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
OpenAI and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms so far; of 95 ads, all avoided reference to data centers and only some mentioned AI (New York Times)
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be "bad for the world" (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies (New York Times)
A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries (Kevin Roose/The Atlantic)
Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Goldman Sachs: investors have provided ~$500B in financing to AI-linked groups in 2026 so far, as hyperscaler debt issuance spreads to the euro, CAD, and others (Financial Times)
‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Studio Announces Another Round of Layoffs Following DLC Price Hike
Singapore doubles down on chipmaking as the AI boom lifts its economy, but high costs, scarce land and labor, and US trade scrutiny threaten its ambitions (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
CodeSOD: Quite a Distance from the Right Solution
Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Sources: US-based PaleBlueDot AI is seeking $600M in private credit to buy chips for its South Korea site, to be used by Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu (Megawati Wijaya/Bloomberg)
South Korea's Kospi was the world's worst-performing stock market in Q3, down 18.8% due to Samsung and SK Hynix sell-offs in early Q3, but remains up 60% YTD (Financial Times)
US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer "a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country" and "free us from medical tyranny" (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative (Reuters)
Apple Pay launches in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch (Dhruv Mohan/The Economic Times)
A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025 (Brandon Pho/Mission Local)
A profile of Travis Kalanick, CEO of Atoms, whom Silicon Valley has welcomed back with VC support despite his unapologetic stance on his 2017 ouster from Uber (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
An interview with Bill Gates about the need for more than natural incentives under capitalism to regulate AI's risks, the effects AI will have on jobs, and more (New York Times)
AI infrastructure company Accelevation and backer Olympus raise $540M in a US IPO after selling 30M shares for $18 each, below its marketed $20-$24 range (Bloomberg)
Schutzmaßnahmen durchbrochen: Wurde Claude zur Zero-Day-Schmiede? Anthropic schweigt sich aus
Robinhood plans to let users trade some US stocks round-the-clock during weekends, wager on specific corporate earnings metrics, and trade perpetual futures (Reuters)
Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
At the unBoxed conference, Amazon moves AI from being a feature to playing a more central role in ad-buying and brings previously separate ad workflows together (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
Efficient Computer, which uses dataflow architectures to develop faster and more energy-efficient chips, raised a $97M Series B at a $650M valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse (Anthropic)
President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as "Super Intelligence" or "SI" in all official communications (Michael Shepard/Bloomberg)
IPO filing: Anthropic routed 47% of its sales, or ~$2.16B, in 2025 through cloud partners Amazon and Google; analysis: it paid ~$351M back in distribution fees (Reuters)
Mark Zuckerberg says the voluntary "accord" on AI standards that tech executives agreed to includes internal risk reviews and external auditors (Axios)
A profile of South Korea deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, an AI evangelist and a former AI researcher leading lavishly funded programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)
It's All Part 2 of the Process
A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup with $36M raised to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry (Wall Street Journal)
New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital (Brian Danga/The Block)
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 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Numeral, a provider of AI-powered tech to automate sales tax compliance workflows in over 90 countries, raised a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners (FinTech Global)
