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Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build "magic intelligence in the sky" anymoreAmazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAsThe Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
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 3, 2026 3:42 PM ET

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Toward provably private learning from federated data NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast

ON THE RISE

KIDS AND AI: WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BUILDING

From ISEF finalist to Midjourney founder: David Holz reflects on creativity, entrepreneurship and the role of AIKnow a young person building with AI? Tell us →

The eternal complement How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Introducing SynthID Bio From Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction

WHO GOT HACKED

ShinyHunters hacker reportedly detained in Jordan, aiding FBIShinyHunters hacker “Rey,” allegedly involved in FBI data theft, detained in JordanWarlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy RansomwareDanish university DTU breach exposes data of up to 200,000 peopleOver 543,000 valid credentials exposed in public GitHub repositoriesJudge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with PegasusKiteworks & Citrix Incidents Show Challenges of Zero-Day Response

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)

INTERNATIONAL

CHINA How US-China RISC-V collaboration is deepening despite chip rivalryUK OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a dayCHINA More Chinese banks likely to adopt AI rules after Ping An move: analystsUK Eliza review – an ambitious, unsettling play about the birth of AICANADA Federal government launches new national AI councilEUROPE AI decodes 217-year-old Napoleonic letter in 6 hoursCANADA Alberta municipalities juggle data centre development gold rush with public pushbackWORLD Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say
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) Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’ OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’ Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm "Muse Gadgets" turns AI hardware into an open-source DIY project
Another OpenAI safety departure adds to a pattern of researchers leaving with public warnings All the AI agents that can live in your text messages Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family Deepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity Open-source "BootLoops" harness supports AI models in performing precise scientific calculations
AI agents build 3D scenes from photos but have no idea if they got it right Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music 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 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 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 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 A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason 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 Making AI an asset, not an expense

TOP TECH, AI & BUSINESS PODCASTS THIS WEEK

  1. 1Moonshots: Why AI Leaders Have Changed Their Minds About AI Safety, Elon on UHI, Anthropic’s IPO857K views this week · 7 episodes
  2. 2All-In: Trump’s Super Intelligence Summit, AI Safety Accord, GDP Beats, Midterm Predictions503K views this week · 3 episodes
  3. 3Prof G Pod: The Iran War Is Costing You Money. Here’s How Much.383K views this week · 4 episodes
  4. 4Lenny's Podcast: Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet)151K views this week · 7 episodes
  5. 5a16z Podcast: Why Specialized AI Could Beat The God Model128K views this week · 6 episodes
Complete list: all 18 shows by weekly rank →

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GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design Quoting Matthew Green He Built This City Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis Gemini 4 Argon
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