Anthropic and OpenAI Want Outside Referees Watching Their Labs. The Catch Is Who Picks the Referee.
Anthropic and OpenAI have committed to embedding third-party safety evaluators inside their labs with access to training checkpoints and the…
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WordPress’s Parent Company Just Had the Weirdest 33 Hours in Its History
Automattic's board put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave on September 9, his CFO signed himself an $8.15 million reciprocal severance…
Microsoft Is Betting Windows’ Next Chapter on AI That Runs Without the Cloud
Microsoft set October 7 in San Francisco for a Windows and Surface event built around local AI, with Satya Nadella…
Google Discover Vanished From Desktop and Nobody at Google Will Say Why
Google quietly pulled the Discover feed off Google.com's desktop homepage sometime before mid-September, after rolling it out gradually through 2025…
Google Just Made It Way Easier to Get a Search Profile. Here’s Who Qualifies Now.
Google dropped the follower requirement for Search profiles to 10,000 on a single platform, the third cut since June. Creators…
ChatGPT Ads Just Became a Conversation, and That Should Give You Pause
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, a new ad format that opens a separate, labeled conversation after a ChatGPT ad, letting…
Google Won’t Be Broken Up After All. Here’s What It Has to Do Instead.
Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the DOJ's push to force Google to sell off its ad tech business, ordering behavioral remedies…
You Can Now Buy Stock From a Post on X. What Could Go Wrong?
X launched Cashtag trading on September 16, letting US users tap a ticker symbol in their timeline and place a…
Meta Built Smart Glasses Without a Camera. That’s the Whole Pitch Now.
Meta is preparing to unveil Luna, a camera-free smart glasses model, at Connect next week. The move follows months of…
Snap’s New AI Assistant Lives Inside Your Glasses, and It Promises Not to Watch You
Snap launched Specs Intelligence on September 16, an AI assistant built into its redesigned AR glasses that studies your routines…