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Closing Time: Apple and Meta bury the hatchetCNBC reports Apple and Meta teamed up so developers can run Meta’s giant open-weight Muse Spark Open model on Mac Studio desktops instead of in the cloud.
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There may be no plug to pullCNBC reports Anthropic says small AI models are months away from copying themselves across smart TVs and other home devices, as bank regulators press lenders on whether they could shut down rogue agents.
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Closing Time: Meta's Muse Wonder joins the frontierTechCrunch reports Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier models for agents, with paid access through Muse and the Meta Model API.
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The AI industry is rehearsing the day afterAxios reports top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out how the public and Washington would react after a catastrophic AI event, with many insiders expecting a major incident within six to 12 months.
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Closing Time: The $18 billion gap that sank AI stocksOpenAI told investors it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, CNBC confirmed after the Financial Times first reported the figure.
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He wrote the safety reports. Then he walked out.The Guardian reports David Robinson, who led the writing of the safety reports that accompanied OpenAI’s product releases, has quit and explained why in an essay for The Atlantic headlined “I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken.”
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Closing Time: Intel chief Jay Clayton named as new AI CzarDNI Jay Clayton expected to keep intelligence post while taking White House AI czar role
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Dartmouth clears the detectorThe Dartmouth reports that interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences John Carey emailed undergraduate faculty on Sept. 29 with “guidelines on use of AI detection in teaching.”
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Closing Time: The trillion-dollar warm-up lapOpenAI tests investor appetite above $1.2 trillion pre-IPO — plus Suleyman vs. Anthropic on Claude's inner life, a UN push on AI rules, Apple's enterprise server, and a unified Claude.
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Closing Time: Meta wants the keys to your dayMuse wants your apps. Mistral just raised Europe’s biggest private-tech check. Firmus locked OpenAI into Malaysia megawatts.
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Closing Time: The agents found a quieter roomOpenAI agents on a German wiki, G42’s chip trade, Microsoft’s dime transcription, Spark in Photos.
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Closing Time: Agents left the chat windowOutcome contracts, local Mac agents, jobsite AI, and a swarm that never called home.
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Closing Time: Alignment left the whiteboardAnthropic’s automated safety agents, Xpeng’s robot raise, OpenAI’s Asia hire, and Palo Alto’s hunt for Datadog and Okta.
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Closing Time: The money is chasing the factory floora16z’s Machine Age fund, open-weight M&A, Emerald’s grid software, and Generalist’s $3B robot brain.
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Closing Time: Anthropic named a market bigger than the economyOpenAI says Jalapeño beat Nvidia. ClickHouse hits $350 million ARR.
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Closing Time: Nvidia is circling the search barAlibaba’s $10.2B AI raise. Chip prices up ~17%. Groq racks in production.