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FTC Subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic as 8 States Sue Over ChatGPT Safety

Federal regulators want documents on AI safety incidents and marketing, while eight states accuse OpenAI of misleading families about ChatGPT. Here's what each move means.

AI Coding Tools Are Linked to Outages at Most Big Software Teams, Surveys Find

Four in five engineering leaders say AI-written code caused a production incident in recent months, two industry surveys find. Teams are writing code faster but spending more time debugging it.

Cloudflare Takes On the Deno Team. Deno Deploy Will Shut Down in Six Months

Ryan Dahl and the Deno team are joining Cloudflare. The Deno runtime gets one more year of fixes, and Deno Deploy users have six months to move.

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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Says AI Needs an “Emergency Brake” Humans Control

Microsoft’s CEO says companies should assume an AI model could be compromised, log its actions and let a person stop it mid-task. Here is what he proposed and why it is coming up now.

Just 10 Minutes of AI Help Made People Quicker to Give Up, Study Finds

In three experiments with 1,222 people, those who used a chatbot did better at first, then solved fewer problems and quit more often once the AI was taken away. How you use AI may make the difference.

Google’s New Gemini Agent Gives AI Coworkers Their Own Email, Calendar and Directory Listing

Google Cloud’s new Gemini agent can create AI “coworkers” with their own Workspace accounts that work across Gmail, Docs and even Slack. Pricing and a release date weren’t announced.

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Apple Is Tightening Mac “Full Disk Access” as AI Agents Ask for More of Your Data

Apple says it will add new controls to the powerful Full Disk Access permission on macOS, warning that AI agents raise the stakes. Here’s what the setting does and how to check it now.

An AI Just Crushed the World’s Best Stratego Player — on a Budget of a Few Thousand Dollars

A new AI called Ataraxos beat the strongest human Stratego player 15–1 with four draws. The bigger story: it was trained on 16 GPUs in about a week.

Free Gemini Users Will Be Limited to Google’s Smallest Model Starting Oct. 9

Google is reshuffling which Gemini models each plan can use. From Oct. 9, the free tier gets Flash-Lite only, and usage limits will reset every five hours up to a weekly cap.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Four Habits That Make You a Harder Target

This year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme is “Don’t Make It Easy for Them.” Here are the four everyday habits organizers want everyone to adopt.

A Light-Powered AI Can Screen Deepfake Videos With Almost 98% Accuracy

UCLA engineers built a detector that does most of its thinking with light instead of electricity – and checks 15 videos at once.

AI Chatbots Give a Narrower Range of Information Than a Google Search, Study Finds

Researchers tested 27 AI models and found every one returned less varied information than a plain web search, raising concerns about “knowledge collapse.”

Apple’s First Foldable iPhone Is Here: What the $1,999 iPhone Duo Offers

Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro. Here are the key specs, prices and dates.

Why AI Chatbots Make Things Up — and How to Catch Them When They Do

AI “hallucinations” aren’t random glitches. Here’s what researchers say causes chatbots to state false things with confidence, and a practical checklist for catching errors before they cause trouble.