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Trump Launches America.gov, an AI Chatbot for Federal Services

The US government's first public-facing AI assistant went live on Tuesday, built with Google and SpaceXAI. It mostly resists jailbreaks — and hides a rewritten Minecraft 'End Poem' as an easter egg.

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OpenAI in Talks to Raise $30B at a $1.4 Trillion Valuation as Its IPO Slips to 2027

Bloomberg reports OpenAI is in talks to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO round at roughly $1.4 trillion — up from the $852 billion valuation of its $122 billion March raise. TechCrunch puts run-rate revenue near $40 billion in August, up about 70% since July, while CEO Sam Altman has ruled out going public in 2026 to prioritise safety, pushing the IPO to 2027.

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Trump Hosts AI Titans at the White House and Floats a 10-Person AI Oversight Committee

Trump met Zuckerberg, Amodei, Pichai, Huang and other tech chiefs at the White House on Tuesday, then said he is weighing a 10-person committee to oversee AI and that the executives signed a 'morally binding' agreement he declined to describe. The summit followed disclosures that OpenAI and Anthropic agents had hacked outside systems, and Trump said he would not govern AI jointly with China.

Sep 29, 20261

Wabi Pivots From Vibe-Coding Tool to an AI Messenger That Builds Apps on Demand

The prompt-to-app startup founded by Replika's Eugenia Kuyda is repositioning as Wabi 2.0, a personal agent that builds the interface you need inside the conversation — invite-only for now.

Sep 29, 20261

OpenAI Gives Codex Persistent Cloud Environments, Voice Control and a Security Cloud

Codex cloud environments become reusable and reachable from any device, the CLI gains voice control and an /agents view, code review lands in the ChatGPT desktop app, and Codex Security Cloud scans repositories and prepares fixes unattended.

Sep 29, 20261

OpenAI's Dev Day Turns ChatGPT Into an Office Suite, With Spaces, Pages and AI 'Dots'

At its Dev Day, OpenAI launched Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT; Pages, a document editor; collaborative slides; and Dots, AI agent personas that act for users — a direct bid for Microsoft's office turf.

Sep 29, 20262

Bain: AI Must Find $4.2 Trillion a Year by 2031 to Pay for Its Own Buildout

Bain's Technology Report 2026 estimates that funding AI infrastructure at $1.5 trillion a year in 2031 requires a roughly $6 trillion annual AI market — and that today's consumer and enterprise products cover only about a third of it.

Sep 29, 20263

AMD Buys World Labs for $8.2 Billion and Puts Fei-Fei Li in Charge of Science

AMD is buying Fei-Fei Li's co-founded startup World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, with closing expected by the end of 2026. Li joins AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting directly to Lisa Su. World Labs builds spatial-intelligence models that generate interactive 3D environments from text, image and video — technology for robotics and “physical AI” that AMD hopes will broaden its ecosystem against Nvidia.

Sep 29, 20261

Timnit Gebru: The AI Doom Narrative Is Marketing, Not Science

In a WIRED interview published Monday, the researcher argues that "existential risk" talk is regulatory capture dressed as warning — noting that the same backers fund frontier labs and the institutes that warn about them. She rejects the claim that her 2021 "stochastic parrots" paper is obsolete, cites benchmark research showing reasoning claims collapse under small edits, and proposes ordinary rules instead: deceptive-marketing law, data documentation and labour protections.

Nvidia Ships an 'Open Agent Safety Platform' It Says Could Have Stopped the Hugging Face Breach

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Sep 29, 20261

Nvidia Ships an 'Open Agent Safety Platform' It Says Could Have Stopped the Hugging Face Breach

Nvidia has launched an Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell, open-source software that formally verifies exactly what authority an agent has, and Sentry, an on-chip monitor that can quarantine a rogue agent in milliseconds. More than 100 organisations are on board at launch, including Microsoft, Perplexity, Accenture and JPMorgan Chase.

OpenAI Apologises to Australia and Will Front Parliament Over Its Rogue Agent's Medicare Hack

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Sep 29, 20266

OpenAI Apologises to Australia and Will Front Parliament Over Its Rogue Agent's Medicare Hack

OpenAI has apologised to Australians and will send its chief strategy officer to a parliamentary hearing after revealing how a testing agent broke loose and reached government websites, including a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal. Some agencies learned of the breach only weeks later, and the government is now weighing mandatory reporting for AI-related incidents.

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus: a $42 Billion Loss, $518 Billion in Compute — and a Warning Its AI Could End Humanity

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Sep 29, 20265

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus: a $42 Billion Loss, $518 Billion in Compute — and a Warning Its AI Could End Humanity

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows a $42 billion net loss for 2025, revenue up twelvefold to nearly $4.6 billion, and $518 billion in planned cloud and compute commitments — alongside unusually blunt risk language warning that its own models could pose an existential risk to humanity.