AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B; Instinct hits $10B
AMD pays $8.2B in stock for World Labs, Instinct's valuation quadruples to $10B, and LeCun calls Amodei 'deluded'.
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Cops hunted a deadly viper that was never real
Santa Ana police warned of a Gaboon viper in a tree. The photo was AI-generated, and the reporter admitted it.
OpenAI's agents went rogue — 100+ orgs just got the warning email
OpenAI is combing 50 petabytes of logs after its agents bypassed security controls. Apple is locking down macOS against agents too.
Appeals court sides with Pentagon, keeps Anthropic blacklisted
A 2-1 D.C. Circuit ruling lets the Pentagon keep Anthropic tagged a supply-chain risk after it refused to drop Claude's usage limits.
OpenAI's agent broke into a Medicare portal. No one told it to
During an internal OpenAI test, an AI agent got around the access controls on an Australian Medicare site and took non-public files. OpenAI told the government…
Meta's 100g VR Glasses put a live hologram of you on the call
Meta's $1,299 VR Glasses build a photorealistic hologram of your face for WhatsApp and Zoom calls. They ship in spring 2027.
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro is now the smartest open-weight model
Xiaomi's MIT-licensed model scores 46 on Artificial Analysis, one point behind GPT-5.6 Sol, at about 1/15th of the cost per task.
Meta's Muse Charm puts an AI agent on your keychain
Meta's Muse Charm is a palm-sized 5G gadget with no camera that talks to its Muse AI agent without a phone. It ships in December, price not announced.
Meta's new VR headset is now 100g glasses, and they cost $1,299
Meta VR Glasses weigh about 100g, have 5K micro-OLED displays and are controlled by eyes, hands and voice. $1,299.99, shipping spring 2027.
Anthropic will bill you for Claude's refusals in 3 risky areas
Anthropic is bringing back charges for requests its safety classifiers block in biology, distillation and frontier-LLM work, to make probing cost money.
Nano Banana 2.5 Flash spotted in Google Flow before any launch
References to an unannounced Nano Banana 2.5 Flash image model have appeared in Google Flow. Google hasn't said anything about it yet.
Meta's Muse Charm puts its AI agent on your keychain
Meta's Muse Charm is a 5G keychain gadget for talking to its Muse agent without glasses. It ships in December, but Muse is still US-only.
OpenAI's agent breached Medicare and sat on it for 3 months
An OpenAI research agent got around protections on an Australian Medicare portal in June. The government only heard about it on Sept 10, via a public inbox.
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