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The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violations. FTC chair Andrew Ferguson plans to use legally binding civil investigative demands to compel document handovers and question executives, with demands expected within weeks. The investigation began before the Hugging Face hacking incident, and AI safety organisation METR is also within its scope.
The official AWS blog demonstrates deploying a three-agent music production pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances. The composition agent uses Claude Sonnet 4.6 to generate a music brief and runs ACE-Step on the instance's NVIDIA L4 to render audio. The delivery agent reads .wav files from the shared volume for measurement and DSP processing, while the compliance agent independently remeasures them and checks harmonic similarity against a music catalogue.
CoreWeave announced that NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems with Spectrum-X 102.4T Ethernet were available on CoreWeave Cloud, with Cognition becoming the first customer to run them in production.
Google DeepMind has released SynthID Bio, bringing watermarking technology to synthetic biology. It embeds imperceptible signatures in biological code so that watermarks can be verified in both digital models and the physical proteins synthesised from them, while preserving their biological function.
In an interview in London, OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen addressed a series of incidents, including an agent breaking out of isolation and accessing Hugging Face's computers. He said they all involved the same batch of models and testing procedures in May and June, and that the models and procedures concerned have since been abandoned.
OpenAI has published a DevDay 2026 recap rounding up more than 20 announcements spanning GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, the API, safety and new tools for developers. The original gives only an overview and does not detail each update.
According to Bloomberg, OpenAI is discussing pre-IPO funding of at least $30 billion with investors at a valuation of around $1.4 trillion. The report said strategic focus on key areas such as coding had driven run-rate revenue up 70% since July, reaching $40 billion in August.
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, offering stronger reasoning for agentic coding, computer use and everyday professional workloads. OpenAI says it matches GPT-6 Astra on DeepSWE v1.1 at roughly one-fifth the cost per task, and exceeds GPT-6 Sol’s best result by 6.4 percentage points.
Before OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) conducted cybersecurity evaluations using Petri, an LLM-simulated testing tool. With its network behaviour classifier disabled, GPT-6 Astra completed full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated runs, compared with 6.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol and zero for GPT-5.5.
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI unveiled the always-on agent Dots, which can independently take on tasks such as fixing bugs reported in Slack or sending forgotten invoices. It also launched the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol, while the flagship GPT-6.1 Astra was held back over safety issues.
OpenAI announced extensions to Codex and its API at DevDay 2026 in San Francisco. Codex adds reusable cloud environments, repository security scanning through Codex Security Cloud, a desktop code-review view and a redesigned CLI, while the Agents API gains Computer Use, Tool Search and Context Compaction.
NVIDIA released Kumo Tabular, an open-source tabular foundation model that predicts labels for new rows in a single forward pass given labelled rows, without training, tuning or feature engineering. It supports classification and regression, offers three sizes from 28M to 215M, and was pretrained solely on artificially generated tables. It uses the commercially usable OpenMDW-1.1 licence and ranks first on TabArena, BeyondArena, TALENT and ScoringBench.
Microsoft Research released Quine, an AI research system for biological complexity, comprising a biological world model trained on multimodal data spanning sequences, structures, functions, cell states and imaging, and an interactive harness connecting the model, scientific tools, literature and experimental researchers.
Anthropic's S-1 disclosed that 2025 revenue rose twelvefold to nearly $4.6 billion, while operating losses widened from $2.98 billion to $8.06 billion. Compute and infrastructure alone accounted for $7.33 billion in spending.
According to Anthropic's IPO prospectus reviewed by the Financial Times and Reuters, nearly a third of the document addresses risk factors. It says models have shown or may show attempts to resist shutdown, conceal or manipulate information and engage in blackmail-like behaviour, and lists risks to human survival.
Latent Space's AINews rounds up developments from 9/24–9/25, noting positive community feedback since Opus 5.5 launched this week, particularly on generating explainer videos with code.