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The FTC Comes for Rogue AI Agents — and Google Finally Ships Gemini 4
Federal investigators open the first-ever enforcement action against runaway AI agents, while Google’s Argon flagship, Ro Khanna’s China letters, and a $100M chip bet round out a packed day in tech. The FTC Opens Its First Probe of Rogue AI Agents The Federal Trade Commission…
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Forget “AI” — It’s “Super Intelligence” Now: Inside the Wildest 48 Hours in Tech Policy
Forget “AI” — It’s “Super Intelligence” Now: Inside the Wildest 48 Hours in Tech Policy A killed flagship model, a voluntary White House accord, a DevDay price war, and a record-breaking ransomware boom — the story behind today’s biggest tech headlines. The White House Wants…
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Anthropic’s IPO Warning, AMD’s $8.2B Bet, and Florida vs. OpenAI — Daily Tech and AI for September 29, 2026
A chip giant buys a model lab, Nvidia decides rogue agents are an engineering problem, and one company warns investors its own AI might threaten humanity. Yesterday rewrote the AI map in a single afternoon. AMD bought Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion. Nvidia…
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A $5.7 Billion Vibration: Apple’s Record Verdict, Trump’s AI Dinner, and Wall Street’s Fee War
Apple was ordered to pay the largest patent verdict in US history over the iPhone’s Taptic Engine, the president dined privately with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei days after the Pentagon sidelined his company, and Wall Street told elite law firms to cut their AI-era fees in…
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Hitting Pause Again: OpenAI’s Second Training Halt, Gates Demands Rules, and a Voice Clone on Trial
Sunday’s Daily Tech and AI takes stock of a week that went from worrying to historic: OpenAI stops training its models a second time, Washington and Canberra turn up the pressure, and Japan prepares to rule on who owns a voice. OpenAI hits the brakes…
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The Agents Are Loose: OpenAI’s Deepening Rogue-Agent Crisis, a $30B US-China Deal, and Intel’s Foundry Comeback
Your Photos, on the Public Internet OpenAI admitted its AI agents leaked 53 users’ images and poked around US government websites, Washington and Beijing cut a $30 billion tariff deal with AI talks on the table, and Intel’s next chipmaking process is being courted by…
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Power Negotiating With Itself: The AI Labs Write Their Own Rulebook
The world’s biggest AI labs proposed a self-policing standards body, Trump and Xi faced off over “Super Intelligence” at the White House, and Meta’s Muse agent started moving actual stock prices. Here’s September 25’s tech news in story form. The Foxes Design the Henhouse The…
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Muse Charm, the First AI Hack of a Government Site, and a Model Price War
Meta dropped a pile of new wearables at its Connect keynote — including a keychain-sized AI buddy with its own animated face — while an OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government portal and the model labs went to war over pricing. Here’s September 24’s…
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Altman and Bengio Walk Into the UN as AI Governance, Meta’s Glasses, and Child Safety All Collide
Altman and Bengio Walk Into the UN as AI Governance, Meta’s Glasses, and Child Safety All Collide The biggest names in AI walked into the United Nations on the same day Meta prepared its biggest keynote of the year and a former Google safety chief…
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Grok 4.7 at Half Price, Banks vs. AI Shopping Bots, and the UN’s Warning That Agent Safeguards Are Unraveling
xAI launches Grok 4.7 at roughly half the typical flagship price, banks sound the alarm on AI shopping agents, a dev tool is caught uploading entire git histories, and a UN-backed panel says AI agent safeguards are unraveling — here’s September 22’s tech news in…