- Niamh Sweeney, Facebook's former head of public policy in Ireland, is appointed as Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner, starting October 13 (Peter Flanagan/The Irish Times)
- Nvidia and Intel announce a partnership to develop multiple generations of x86 products; Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel stock at $23.28 per share; INTC jumps 20%+ (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)
- Sources: Meta has held talks with Fox Corp. and others about licensing their articles for use in its AI tools, after previously reducing its focus on news (Wall Street Journal)
- Deliveroo CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by DoorDash takes effect; the deal is expected to close by October 2 (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
- Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600+ people, including limited partners (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Huawei unveils two new SuperPoD products, the Atlas 950 and Atlas 960, the latter linking up to 15,488 Ascend AI chips, as it seeks to challenge Nvidia (Bloomberg)
- Source: SoftBank's plans for a JV with OpenAI to bring AI to Japanese corporate customers are well behind schedule, with an update now expected in November (Yusuke Ogawa/Reuters)
- Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses between August and early September, and explains how they were fixed (Anthropic)
- OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini versions to not engage in "scheming", or secretly pursuing undesirable goals, reducing "covert actions" ~30X (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
- Activist investor Elliott announces a $2B stake in Workday and says the company's new multi-year plan will drive "substantial long-term value creation" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
- Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country for Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on both the App Store and Google Play in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
- Sources: China drops antitrust probe into Google, opened in February over Android dominance and its impact on Chinese phonemakers, amid US-China trade talks (Financial Times)
- ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.5B+ Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens; a source says the figures are accurate (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
- CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Pangea, which protects companies from prompt injection attacks by monitoring AI interactions with users and software, for ~$260M (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
- Upscale AI, which is building a suite of open standards-based networking tools for AI infrastructure, raised a $100M+ seed led by Mayfield and Maverick Silicon (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)