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Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infusedApple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agentsSean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
President Trump hosts a luncheon on Super Intelligence with tech executives in the East Room of the White House, September 29, 2026

Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok

Trump gathers with AI leaders, floats 'self-regulation' as the way to deal with the technology's dangers
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AI · LLMs · MACHINE INTELLIGENCE  |  UPDATED OCT 2, 2026 11:58 PM ET

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WHO GOT HACKED

Judge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with PegasusFrontline Education breach exposes school district employee dataWarlock ransomware breach SharePoint in water, telecom operator attacksKiteworks & Citrix Incidents Show Challenges of Zero-Day ResponseIn Other News: $15K iCloud Spoofing Bugs, AI Policy Experts Phished, Adblocker Spies on AI ChatsMississippi mayor says ransomware incident led city to shut down systemsCity of Vicksburg, Mississippi, shuts down computers after cyberattack

NEW IN HAVE I BEEN PWNED

Medela — 423,947 accountsLimeLeads — 17,838,396 accountsBurger King Russia — 3,155,792 accountsChess.com (2026) — 4,653,212 accounts

Breach data: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

President Trump speaks to the press with tech CEOs outside the West Wing after the Super Intelligence luncheon, September 29, 2026

Official White House Photo by Joyce Boghosian

It's not AI anymore, it's 'super intelligence' (according to the White House) Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk AI music generator Suno can now create spoken audio with matching background music Anthropic co-founder reportedly told religious leaders he fears having created something that "suffers perpetually"
Affected by layoffs? Don’t miss this $75 deal for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ Pass US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China Cloudflare says its new Clef model means humans no longer need to be in the loop for AI agents Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner
Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Blackstone’s Jas Khaira on building the next generation of AI giants Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you) These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI Three firings and a fourth departure shake up OpenAI's safety team AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse
If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it? AI beats licensed accountants on speed and accuracy, but still can't close the books without supervision A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
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