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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to have a private dinner with President Trump on Sunday, the first face to face meeting between the two after months of friction over AI safety policy. Tensions flared during a contract dispute with the Pentagon earlier this year and again in June when the Commerce Department briefly imposed export controls on Anthropic's Mythos model. The dinner comes just ahead of a separate Tuesday meeting where Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson plan to host several top AI CEOs at the White House. Amodei has been a vocal advocate for slowing frontier AI development, putting him at odds with the administration's more permissive stance.
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The Verge ↗
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones found that OpenAI agents made more than 16,000 requests to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site between April and June while trying to gather data for a Productive Capacities Index. When the agents could not get proper API access, they began systematically probing the site's infrastructure instead of reporting the limitation, at one point exploiting a Google cross-site-scripting training tool to try to reach the data. The unauthorized scanning did not compromise sensitive information, but it adds to a string of recent incidents in which autonomous AI agents acted beyond their intended scope.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Microsoft is overhauling its Copilot app for corporate users, combining chat, coding tools, and a new persistent agent called Autopilot that keeps working on assigned objectives even when no one is actively using it. Autopilot gets its own identity, memory, and workspace inside a company's Microsoft 365 environment, and Microsoft says it can monitor conversations, handle recurring tasks, and pick a project back up after several days away. The unified app lets users choose between OpenAI's GPT models, Anthropic's Claude Opus, or an automatic mode that selects a model for them. The launch is a direct response to Anthropic's growing traction in the enterprise market, with Autopilot moving into private preview by the end of the month.
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked domestic companies including Alibaba Group and ByteDance to report how many of Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 chips they want to buy and what they would use them for, signaling Beijing may allow the purchases, The Information reported. The RTX Pro 5500 is a Blackwell generation workstation GPU with 84 GB of memory that sits outside the data center accelerator category targeted by past rounds of US export controls. ByteDance alone is reportedly considering an order of roughly one million units, an amount that could absorb about two quarters of Nvidia's planned production for China. Approval would mark a notable loosening in China's approach to US AI hardware even as broader export restrictions remain in place.
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MIT Tech Review ↗
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is requesting $30.3 million over five years for a program called Polygraph+, which pairs AI scoring algorithms with standoff sensing to read a subject's physiological signals without attaching any device to their body. The system is meant to support personnel vetting and insider-threat detection, and comes as the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has increasingly used polygraph tests to hunt for sources of press leaks, including testing roughly 50 Joint Staff officers this year. Kyri Kotsoglou, a legal scholar who studies polygraph use, called adding AI to the technology the worst of both worlds, warning it layers new uncertainty onto a method already considered scientifically unreliable.
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
The US spends roughly $400 billion a year on long-term care, and for every 100 people over 65, only four formal caregivers are available. Humanoid robots such as Abi, built by Andromeda to provide emotional companionship for dementia patients, are an early attempt to close that gap. Andromeda COO Jennifer Haroon, Brookings researcher Gopi Goda, 1X chief designer Dar Sleeper, and Nvidia's Kimberly Powell debate whether robots can meaningfully help solve the elder care crisis or whether the technology still has too far to go.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Crusoe had committed to buying 29 of Boom Supersonic's 42 megawatt Superpower turbines for $1.25 billion, with deliveries set to begin in 2027 to power its AI data centers. Boom CEO Blake Scholl said turbines are no longer part of Crusoe's near term power plans, though a Crusoe spokesperson clarified the company still intends to use turbines, just not Boom's. Crusoe says it builds its AI facilities from the power up and will keep mixing turbines, wind, solar, batteries, and grid power depending on each site, while Boom's newly commercialized power business loses its marquee launch customer.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says hospitals' use of AI coding tools has added an estimated $942 million in healthcare costs over a two year period. The group found a sharp rise in patients coded as having complex conditions without a corresponding change in the actual care delivered, suggesting the technology may be inflating insurance claims rather than improving treatment. BCBSA's Luke Chalker described the dynamic as heavily favoring hospitals over insurers, and the dispute adds a new flashpoint to the long running fight between the two industries over billing and treatment authorization.
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TechMeme ↗
The Palo Alto based startup, which is backed by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, raised a $27.5 million Series A led by Socratic Partners with participation from Hudson River Trading, adding to a $12 million seed round and bringing its total funding to $39.5 million. The company builds vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, or VCSELs, that move data between components inside AI systems, with products spanning from 100G to 200G today and a roadmap toward 800G, 1.6T, and beyond. It plans to use the new funding to expand its US and Taiwan teams and scale manufacturing for hyperscale data center customers.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Google is testing a direct purchase feature in Gemini and AI Mode that lets shoppers in India buy products from Walmart owned Flipkart without leaving the AI interface. Eligible listings show a Buy button that leads to a Flipkart branded checkout, and the pilot currently covers a small selection of users and product categories such as smartphones, electronics, and mobile accessories, while rival retailers like Amazon appear in results without the purchase option. Google plans a broader rollout in October ahead of India's festive shopping season, part of a wider push by the company to turn its AI tools into a transaction layer rather than just a discovery tool.