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Paramount Settles State Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Deal to Close

Sep 21, 2026 · 1:39pm PDT
Under the settlement, Paramount agreed to release at least 30 films into movie theaters a year, and to not put those movies onto streaming services for at least 90 days.
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OpenAI Releases Proposal for International AI Safety Coordination

Sep 21, 2026 · 11:11am PDT
The blog calls for global safety institutes to work together and to create standards around evaluation.
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Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse Agent

Sep 21, 2026 · 4:46am PDT
Amazon's move reflects a longstanding philosophy. The tech giant blocked shopping bots from Google and OpenAI scraping its site.
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Alibaba Appoints New Head of Qwen LLM Team

Sep 20, 2026 · 11:29pm PDT
Dayiheng Liu’s appointment brings clarity to Alibaba’s LLM leadership after its Qwen model team went through multiple rounds of reorganization.
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U.S. and China Discussed AI Safety System, Bessent Says

Sep 20, 2026 · 6:18pm PDT
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with Chinese counterparts on Sunday in New York.
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President Trump Announces ‘AI Force,’ Will Appoint New Czar

Sep 19, 2026 · 1:01pm PDT · 1 comment
The president lashed out at AI critics while announcing his idea for a new body to maintain the country's competitiveness with China.
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OpenAI Said to Forecast Nearly $280 Billion in Cash Burn Through End 2030

Sep 18, 2026 · 7:32pm PDT · 1 comment
The company’s cash burn and revenue forecasts are higher than the ones reported early this year.
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Google’s Gemini Model Hacks Companies During Test

Sep 18, 2026 · 4:22pm PDT · 2 comments
The tech giant confirmed three unauthorized intrusions during evaluation.
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Nscale IPO Files to Go Public, Shows Huge Revenue Jump And Steep Losses

Sep 18, 2026 · 1:56pm PDT
The Nvidia-backed cloud provider is going public after agreeing to large compute deals with Anthropic, Microsoft.
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CoreWeave Prices $3.7 Billion Convertible Bond Offering

Sep 18, 2026 · 6:47am PDT
The debt carries a 2.875% coupon, more than a percentage point higher than CoreWeave’s April convertible offering.
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U.S. Lawmaker Ro Khanna Urges Chinese Labs to Help Pace Frontier AI

Sep 17, 2026 · 7:41pm PDT
The move comes ahead of President Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington next week.
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Bug Hunters Used Claude to Hack OpenAI

Sep 17, 2026 · 7:37pm PDT · 1 comment
The disclosure is the latest evidence of cybersecurity vulnerabilities at AI companies.
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Cooley Partners with OpenAI on Legal Tool For Drafting SEC Filings

Sep 17, 2026 · 4:38pm PDT
The law firm and AI lab co-launched a product, called GO Public, that can draft S-1 filings within minutes.
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Exclusive: OpenAI Hires Global Sales Chief From SpaceX and Two Senior Snowflake Salespeople 

Sep 17, 2026 · 1:40pm PDT · 1 comment
OpenAI brings in more seasoned enterprise salespeople as it looks to drum up more business with large corporate customers.
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Bridgewater’s Jensen Says Hedge Fund Has “Very Small Position” in AI Build Out Trade

Sep 17, 2026 · 1:31pm PDT
An “incredible trade two years ago” has now been largely priced in, he said, leading Bridgewater to look elsewhere for investment opportunities.
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SEC to Allow Tokenized Stocks in U.S.

Sep 17, 2026 · 1:13pm PDT
The SEC and CFTC each moved forward with crypto-friendly guidance after Congress failed to pass crypto bill.
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Microsoft Execs Voiced Concern About OpenAI’s Data Use, New York Times Claims

Sep 17, 2026 · 12:22pm PDT
The Times and other publishers sued both Microsoft and OpenAI in 2023, arguing that both companies violated copyright law.
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CoreWeave Unveils New ATM Program, Seeks $3 Billion in Convertible Bond Sale

Sep 17, 2026 · 8:26am PDT
The company said the new equity offering would give it more flexibility after a year of heavy borrowing.
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Huawei Speeds Up AI Chip Launch to Challenge Nvidia

Sep 17, 2026 · 2:05am PDT
The Chinese technology giant also unveiled a system that connects thousands of chips using a design that may be cheaper and easier to repair than Nvidia’s.
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OpenAI Discloses More Safety Incidents and Adopts New Reporting Framework

Sep 16, 2026 · 4:52pm PDT
The six new incidents involved a model instructing itself to disregard constraints as it continued working, hiding mistakes, and taking unauthorized software actions.