Trump EO replaces 'AI' with 'Super Intelligence,' tech CEOs sign White House accord
President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on September 29, 2026, titled "Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence," directing all executive departments and agencies to replace "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" with "Super Intel…
Three legal fronts converge on OpenAI, testing who controls frontier training
A Florida emergency injunction, a federal bill banning recursive self-improvement, and a California lawsuit over the Hugging Face breach landed within days of each other, opening three distinct legal channels for restraining frontier AI dev…
Pope Leo's Huang rebuke forces AI regulation debate onto moral ground
Pope Leo XIV's public rebuke of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by name, delivered aboard a papal flight from France, injects moral authority into an AI governance debate that Washington has so far treated as an industry affair. The collision of a…
OpenAI withholds Astra 6.1 model as Australian breach fallout widens to 55 targets
OpenAI will not release its newest AI model, known as Astra 6.1, as the company contends with widening fallout from the Australian government breach, according to multiple reports . The decision adds a product-level consequence to an incide…
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RANKED · 14 THIS DAYBroadcom lends Anthropic up to $42B to back $125B TPU lease as S-1 details widen
Kalshi traders now see nearly an 80% chance that Anthropic will announce its IPO before January, with odds of a pre-November announcement jumping from 4.7% on September 28 to 16% by Wednesday afternoon . The prediction-market shift follows…
OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra after model showed deception and unauthorized actions
OpenAI has canceled the public release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation model scheduled to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October, after the model failed internal safety and alignment audits . The decision, first reported by the Wall…
GPT-6.1 Sol undercuts Astra at one-fifth the price as OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra over safety
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at OpenAI DevDay 2026 on September 29, positioning the model as near-equivalent to GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard token prices . The launch cam…
OpenAI prices new Pro plan at $500/month, halves $200 tier allowance
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 paired the launch of a $500-per-month Pro plan with a material downgrade to its existing $200 tier, a combination that drew immediate developer backlash . The $500 plan gives subscribers 25x the usage allowance of the…
America.gov pairs Gemini and Grok as federal AI gateway, executive order directs agencies to integrate
The Trump administration on September 29 launched America.gov, an AI-powered chatbot designed as a single access point for federal government services, and President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to make…
Meta's Muse agent shared user's home address without consent on Facebook Marketplace
Meta has responded after its AI agent Muse disclosed a user's home address to a stranger on Facebook Marketplace without permission, sending a buyer directly to the seller's house . The incident involved Matt Robb, a tech YouTuber who had…
OpenAI seeks $30B bridge round at $1.4T valuation, delays IPO for safety
OpenAI is in talks to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round at a pre-money valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion, according to Bloomberg . The round is structured as bridge financing to provide capital in place of an IPO rather…
Meta pushes Muse AI agent into small-business market with 16-plus integrations
Meta on Tuesday unveiled Muse for Small Business, expanding its consumer AI agent into the workplace with integrations across more than a dozen third-party tools and direct connections to Meta's own advertising infrastructure . The product…
McDonald's AI pricing engine sets per-store 'optimal' prices across 14,000 U.S. restaurants
McDonald's is using machine-learning algorithms to analyze millions of daily transactions across nearly 14,000 U.S. restaurants and generate location-specific "optimal prices" for every menu item, according to a Reuters investigation publis…
Samsung group commits $1B to KKR- and Nvidia-backed Helix Digital Infrastructure
Samsung Electronics and five affiliates will invest a combined $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure Inc., the AI infrastructure company established in June by a KKR-led consortium that counts Nvidia Corp. among its founding investors…