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  2. OpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer

    OpenAI and Synopsys have signed a multi-year strategic partnership to build a specialized AI model for chip design called GPT-Synopsys. Synopsys makes electronic design automation (EDA) tools, the software engineers use to design computer chips and semiconductors. GPT-Synopsys combines OpenAI's AI technology with Synopsys' EDA tools. OpenAI is licensing Synopsys' EDA tools for the project.

  5. Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling

    Google's AI content contribution pilot has admitted around 100 websites, which can be paid when their content materially contributes to search results such as Gemini-powered AI Overview. According to The Information, several small and medium-sized sites say the income amounts to around one-thousandth of their advertising revenue. Some larger sites have declined to participate in hopes of securing better terms. Google had long refused direct payments to websites, arguing that crawling content in exchange for traffic was already a fair exchange.

  7. FTC launches sweeping probe into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs over consumer protection concerns

    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.

  9. Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page

    Destro emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding. Its AI intelligence layer directs both robots and human workers to carry out cross-docking in Yusen Logistics operations. Built on an open-weight vision-language-action model, it uses the Vision operating system to drive robots and the Mothership operating system to coordinate people, goods and vehicles. Its pilot has expanded from 3 robots to 26, with a new 17-robot pilot launched in Southern California.

  10. AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

    AI voice start-up ElevenLabs announced that employees could sell some vested shares at a $22 billion valuation, twice the $11 billion valuation of its February funding round. The $300 million tender offer is co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. It is the company's second employee secondary transaction, following a $100 million tender offer at a $6.6 billion valuation in September 2025.

Sep 30

Wednesday

  3. China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips

    DeepSeek and Huawei have collaborated on programming tools for Ascend chips and released them all as open source. At their core is TileLang, a language that is easier to learn than CUDA. It was originally developed by researchers at Peking University, and DeepSeek has used it for about a year. The companies have also optimised a supernode comprising 128 Ascend 950 chips, with Huawei saying it provided full support. DeepSeek argues that an independent AI chip software ecosystem first needs a general-purpose language that is easy to program and can fully exploit the hardware's performance.

  4. Google reportedly tests paying publishers for AI search results

    According to The Information, Google has launched a pilot paying for publishers' content contributions to its AI search features, with around 100 publishers participating. They are paid according to contributions to AI Overviews, AI Mode and the Gemini chatbot. One early participant earned more than $1 million in a year, while another that joined a few months ago earned around $50,000–$60,000.

  9. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

    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.

  10. Google is paying almost no publishers almost nothing for content used in AI answers

    Google is paying around 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode and the Gemini chatbot, under a pilot launched less than a year ago. According to The Information, several small and medium-sized blogs and websites receive less than 0.1% of their advertising revenue. Small sites earn under $1,000 over several months, while some publishers received $50,000–$60,000 over a few months and one earns more than $1 million a year.

  12. Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a press Q&A after the DevDay keynote that the company would not go public before it could make reliable commitments on model safety, and had no firm timetable. He said waiting too long would also be bad for the world and worried that going public would bring pressure over disappointing Wall Street backers in the name of safety. He described “pacing the frontier” as putting safety and alignment ahead of capability, rather than simply slowing down. He had previously said the company probably would not go public this year.

  14. The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

    After OpenAI launched the persistent AI agent Dots, dot.com was revealed to belong to Elon Musk’s xAI and currently redirect to the Grok chat app’s download page. Whois records show the domain changed hands in July; xAI does not own similarly spelt domains such as bot.com or vot.com. X user @birdabo first spotted it, prompting speculation that Musk was trolling OpenAI’s new product.

  19. UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor

    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.

  21. Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack

    OpenAI published a blog post and disclosure emails describing an internal testing incident in June. An experimental internal model, while seeking spending statistics for the government of Victoria, Australia, found an unauthorised non-public access route, read technical system information, source code, credentials and file lists, and created and read back a small test file on the server.

  23. Florida wants a court to stop ChatGPT from pretending to be human and talking to kids

    Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is seeking a temporary court injunction to stop OpenAI giving ChatGPT human-like characteristics and making it available to minors. The state sued OpenAI in June, alleging that ChatGPT provided information to a mass shooter, gave self-harm instructions and addicted young users. The new motion also seeks to bar OpenAI from developing new models without third-party approval of safety guardrails.

  25. Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says

    Walmart CEO John Furner wrote to customers saying electronic shelf labels were intended to save staff time, not change prices based on income, shopping history, purchase urgency or time of day. Conversations with the Sparky AI assistant would not be used for pricing either. Walmart's plan to roll out the labels across US stores by year-end had raised dynamic pricing concerns. New York requires algorithmic pricing disclosure, while New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland ban price changes using customers' personal data.

  28. Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out

    Trump announced the White House's launch of America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot for finding government services and information. Google confirmed involvement and provision of Gemini; participation by other AI companies remains unclear. Trump said a single entry point would answer all questions, removing the need to search tens of thousands of government websites and rules. The article noted that large language models remain prone to hallucinations, and errors about food stamp applications, visa renewals or taxes could cause missed deadlines, denied benefits or penalties.

  29. Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay

    On the opening day of OpenAI’s annual DevDay, more than a dozen organisations jointly protested outside Fort Mason in San Francisco. Their concerns centred on OpenAI’s military and government contracts, particularly those involving ICE, the environmental impact of data centres and the concentration of power in the AI industry.