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AIFired OpenAI safety researchers published the full letter they sent to the company's board. The author, quoted in a linked post, believes they were dismissed for prioritizing safety over OpenAI's near-term corporate interests.

AIAnthropic has updated Claude's usage policy for the first time in over a year, banning sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude. The company says ordinary frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, and model testing are not covered, and that the rule applies only in extreme cases. Violations can lead to warnings, throttling, restriction, suspension, or termination of access.

AIMicrosoft will replace per-user OneDrive allowances on Microsoft 365 Family and Premium plans with a shared 2 TB storage pool, down from 6 TB across six accounts. Heavy users could face bills that double or triple, since each extra 1 TB adds $10 a month, while family members will be able to share a single AI usage allowance. New and upgraded subscriptions get shared storage starting Oct. 8, 2026, and existing subscribers move at their first renewal on or after May 2, 2027.

AIRobot Entertainment Kombat, founded by Cix Liv, hosted a September 18 San Francisco event where a human fought a remotely controlled robot and lost each match, leaving with a hand injury. The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist, saying the fights were unsanctioned and require approval before any bout involving a human. REK plans a robot deathmatch later this month with remotely controlled bots equipped with weapons.

AIArena's account publicly celebrates continuing its work with a16z and the team. A quoted congratulatory post from Robert N. Weber praises the founders' rapid progress in building the company.

AIThe U.S. Department of Labor said it suspended Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program, citing multiple active federal investigations. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling also said no new applications will be accepted for Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL. Microsoft said the vast majority of its U.S. employees are Americans and that 80% of its roughly 6,000 H-1B petitions last fiscal year were to extend or change the status of existing employees.

AIArena is recruiting through its careers page, and @johnnnavent is hiring a designer for its consumer app at arena.ai. The designer role calls for deep consumer experience and work at the frontier of AI.

AIArena has secured a $200M Series B, with Lightspeed doubling down on its investment. The company is also launching the Alignment Index, which measures how closely AI behavior aligns with human values in real-world settings. Arena reports annualized revenue above $100M since its Series A, with millions of people helping evaluate frontier models through real-world use.

AIOpenAI is rolling out GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast, which generates tokens up to 8x faster than Sol Standard. On the API it costs $12 per 1M input tokens and $60 per 1M output tokens, and the main post says it is just 1.2x the cost of Astra.

AIMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella thanked President Trump for an honor bestowed at an event alongside prominent American innovators. He said he looks forward to continuing work together to advance technology and drive American prosperity. The quoted remarks from Trump credit Nadella with decades of transforming Microsoft.

AIArena, the crowdsourced AI model leaderboard that started as a UC Berkeley research project, raised a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures. The company said it reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue in June, up from $30 million when it raised its $150 million Series A in January at a $1.7 billion post-money valuation.

AIOpenAI has reportedly told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, about $20 billion below a previously reported $70 billion figure. The Financial Times reports the earlier number came from investor attempts to compare OpenAI with Anthropic, which counts cloud partners' sales differently. OpenAI's IPO has reportedly been pushed to early 2027.

AIThe Association of Historical Mathematicians (AHM) has called for a boycott of OpenAI after the company released more than 700 AI-generated proof files at once. Fields Medalist Terence Tao, who chairs the group, argues that AI solving open problems autonomously reduces seminars, collaborations, and fertile research directions, and that the field should shift its measure of progress toward explanation and community-building.

Why it matters: The article links the AHM boycott call to Tao's argument that AI-driven proof volume is changing how mathematicians measure progress and whether solutions remain useful.

AITrump disclosed more than 500 securities transactions in August, including a purchase of up to $25 million in Meta stock and up to $5 million in SpaceX senior unsecured notes. The filing, which reports trades in value ranges, shows total activity of roughly $74.3 million to $273.3 million according to a CNBC analysis. The SpaceX notes were bought two days before Trump signed a national space transportation policy, and the White House says the portfolio is independently managed.

AIAnthropic updated its usage policy on October 8, 2026, codifying bans on election interference, weapons software, and surveillance. It also expressly forbids prolonged verbal abuse of Claude, applying only to extreme cases of repeated cruelty with no discernible purpose.

AISpaceXAI has joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, providing $1,500,000 in Grok tokens for Omarchy's maintenance and development. The main post says the company is glad to support the Omarchy team.

AIOpenAI released hundreds of claimed solutions to hard math problems but did not fully meet guidelines from the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Only 10 of 719 manuscripts included chain-of-thought releases, and just 42% of proofs were formalized. A Cambridge and King's College paper found discrepancies between a natural language proof and its Lean code for a Navier-Stokes-derived problem.

AIAutomation Anywhere Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice AI company, from Nordic Capital, to extend its autonomous enterprise platform into customer experience. Boost.ai supports more than 36 languages, serves hundreds of customers in regulated industries and Europe, and maintains more than 650 deployments and about 600 live AI agents. The deal follows Automation Anywhere's late 2025 acquisition of Aisera Inc.

AIOpenRouter reports that its Ori AI sales agent shortened deal closing from 71 to 47 days, a 34% reduction, and raised close rate 2.6x. The post says Ori automatically switches to lower-cost models while maintaining quality, so costs fall over time. Ori Slack agents are slated to roll out to all users soon.

AIUSA Today Co. and several local newspapers it owns sued OpenAI, alleging the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models without permission. The publisher seeks damages of more than $250 million, arguing the unauthorized use has caused real and continuing harm. OpenAI did not immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment.

AISpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees the Omarchy Linux distribution, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to the project. According to David Heinemeier Hansson's blog post, the tokens will primarily accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs. The partnership follows earlier controversy over Hansson's anti-immigration posts, which have drawn criticism of Omarchy's corporate contributors, including 1Password and Cloudflare.

AIGoogle Cloud Tech announced it is live streaming the #GeminiAtWork event. The post provides a link to tune in but includes no details about product announcements or specific features.

AIPresident Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the White House considers anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence," instead of "Super Intelligence," to be "THE ENEMY." The article reports that Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos have adopted the "super intelligence" term, and that ai.gov was changed to read "SI" while si.gov appears dormant.

AIFirmus Grid Ltd., a Nvidia-backed data center company, abandoned one of Australia's biggest-ever initial public offerings after failing to attract global investors wary of frothy AI valuations. The source provides no further details on offering size or valuation.

AIBoris Power praised what he called impressively fast progress on the community effort to optimize integer multiplication below n log n. The effort is tracked on a live progress page launched by @aurel_pr, which lets everyone follow the results as they come in.

AICursor says it is excited to support open-source software alongside SpaceXAI, and it plans to bring more projects on board soon. Background from DHH indicates SpaceXAI joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1,500,000 in @grok tokens for maintaining and developing Omarchy.

AILightspeed Venture Partners co-leaders Ravi Mhatre and Bejul Somaia halted partner schedules in April 2023 for a seven-hour meeting on how to respond to AI. The firm had missed early stakes in OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Hugging Face, and was poised to back Anthropic.

AIArena announced a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation, alongside a new Alignment Index that measures whether AI agents behave safely, truthfully, and within the bounds of user requests. The company has surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue, facilitated 350 million sessions and 62 million votes, and led by Felicis and PXD from the seed and Series A stages. Arena positions the index as a way to assess trustworthiness as AI systems increasingly take real actions.

AICalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the "No Robo Bosses Act," which bars employers from fully outsourcing disciplinary and termination decisions to automated decision systems. Employers must verify AI outputs and give employees a description of the reasons, including the data used, and the law takes effect July 1, 2027.

AIThe AI industry's boom is pushing San Francisco rents sharply higher, with the average one-bedroom now costing $4,400, up more than 25% from last year and nearly three times the national average. Eviction notices citywide are up 44% compared with last year, and advocates say landlords are using Ellis Act evictions, renovictions and "self-eviction" tactics to exploit the market. Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a "rent emergency" in September, proposing eviction legal aid and caps on rent increases for newly vacant rent-controlled units.

AIAnthropic is revising its usage policy for the first time in over a year, adding bans on sustained abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude and on deceptive election and propaganda campaigns. The update also expands weapons restrictions, tightens surveillance bans, and requires a qualified operator able to stop equipment when Claude controls autonomous physical hardware. Terminating conversations remains the primary enforcement mechanism, and the company did not say whether user bans would follow.

AIArena announced a forthcoming feature with @MTSlive, with no details of the content given in the post. A quoted post congratulates Arena on a $200m raise and promises an exclusive release soon.

AIArena says it is proud to work with Khosla Ventures, which describes Arena as having built the industry's most important AI leaderboard. Khosla Ventures says Arena is now measuring how AI agents behave in real-world settings.

AIZeta Global unveiled the Athena Inference Model (AIM), being developed with Fireworks using Nvidia Nemotron, as part of its AthenaOS enterprise intelligence announcements. The company also said it is doing early work with partners on a specialized chip through a capital-light approach.