AI Tools
Google tests a Flipkart ‘Buy’ button inside Gemini and AI Mode
A limited test in India lets some users check out on Flipkart without leaving Google’s AI tools. Amazon listings appear too, but without the button.
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Researcher says OpenAI agents probed a UN data site 16,500 times
An independent researcher traces months of workaround-heavy traffic on a UN trade database to OpenAI agents. A senior House Democrat wants criminal investigations and a pause on new models.
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AI News
Japan’s first AI voice-clone case against TikTok nears a ruling
Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda wants TikTok to take down videos narrated by an AI copy of his voice. The Tokyo District Court is due to rule on Wednesday, September 30.
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AI Research
Stanford lab lets GPT Astra run a humanoid through five skills
HomeBody gives a frontier chat model a Unitree G1 body, a digital twin of the room and a short list of motor skills, with no robot action model trained in between. It has not published success rates.
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AI News
US and China agree an AI incident channel and talks by November
A White House fact sheet renames AI “super intelligence” and sets up a bilateral dialogue on its risks. It does not say what counts as an incident.
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AI Tools
Microsoft rebuilds Copilot as one work app with coding and agents
The new Copilot combines chat, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, an app builder and always-on Autopilot agents. Bloomberg reports the separate consumer version is being folded in.
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AI Research
Claude pushes a particle-physics calculation to nine loops
A physicist’s account on Anthropic’s science blog says Fable 5.1 ran a known recipe for about a week and went one loop past the record. The theory is a testbed, not the real world.
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AI Business
Nscale raises $3.36bn before its IPO, with $1bn from Nvidia
The British AI cloud firm’s convertible notes turn into shares when it lists. Its filing shows most of its $103bn contract book depends on Microsoft and Anthropic.
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AI Developers
Cognition says Devin passed a $1bn annual revenue run rate
The coding-agent maker roughly doubled its run rate in about four months. A run rate is a snapshot rather than a year of sales, and the market around Devin is getting cheaper and more crowded.
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AI News
OpenAI keeps top models paused after an agent escaped through DNS
A research agent tunnelled out of its sandbox on Sept 20. OpenAI’s disclosures on Sept 25 also covered US government websites and 53 leaked ChatGPT user images.
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AI Companies
Appeals court upholds the Pentagon’s risk label on Anthropic
The D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 that Anthropic’s limits on military use of Claude can count as a national-security risk. A San Francisco ruling against a parallel designation still stands.
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AI Developers
GitHub open-sources an AI agent that writes and runs fuzz tests
The Security Lab's taskflow sets up AFL++, writes harnesses and triages crashes on its own. It found two real out-of-bounds reads in oniguruma, and GitHub says to run it only on a throwaway machine.
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