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Leading AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia significantly increased their lobbying efforts in the third quarter, collectively spending nearly $6 million. This surge reflects their growing focus on shaping policy around cybersecurity, child safety, and AI oversight.
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Uber and OpenAI have expanded their partnership, with the ride-share company announcing that its entire global workforce of 30,000 employees will now utilize ChatGPT Work. This follows a successful pilot program that involved 1,000 employees across various departments.
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Travis Knight, CEO of stop-motion animation studio Laika and director of "Wildwood," asserts that generative AI is fundamentally opposed to his studio's artistic values. He argues that while technology has a place, AI doing the artist's work lacks humanity and constitutes theft.
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Chinese state-aligned hackers breached IT giant ConnectWise's cloud backup service, stealing credentials and using AI agents to rapidly compromise approximately 2,250 customer organizations. Microsoft reported the attack, which leveraged AI to achieve nearly 3,000 attempted sign-ins per minute.
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Software testing and validation platform Blacksmith has raised a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia, pushing its valuation to $1 billion.
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The NSA has issued an urgent warning after critical vulnerabilities spanning two decades were discovered in PHP using AI tools from OpenAI and Google's Wiz.
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Walmart is introducing support for AI shopping agents next month, giving automated assistants their own profiles with strict spending limits and purchase approvals.
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Walmart is introducing an Agent Gateway and dedicated profiles to manage transactions for customers using AI agents, contrasting with competitors who are blocking automated shoppers.
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Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a new AI agent designed for professionals and small business owners that integrates with connected apps and runs complex workflows.
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AI startup Recursive has released Flint, a free coding model that runs locally on laptops and was developed largely with the assistance of its automated research system.
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Meta's Muse AI app has surpassed 10 million users, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighting strong daily engagement and high-value shopping activity.
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