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Pinterest hires Amazon’s advertising finance chief as CFO

Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance chief for global entertainment, advertising and corporate development. He replaces Julia Brau Donnelly, who announced her departure in August, and he inherits a business whose European revenue grew 27% in the first quarter against 13% […]

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Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model

Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model. Beam is built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Reflection will release its weights later this month, the company said in a blog post on Monday. Anyone can download an open-weight model and run it on their […]

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OpenAI is in talks with Abu Dhabi’s MGX and BlackRock for a $30B round

OpenAI is in talks with UAE funds including MGX, which may put in as much as $10B together, and with BlackRock, to anchor a $30B round at a $1.4T valuation it is presenting as a fixed price without a lead investor. The EU’s AI gigafactory programme carries the same headline number with about EUR 1B […]

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At NYC’s AI hearing, ex-lab insiders warn humanity may lose control of AI

Three former AI lab researchers told the New York City Council on Monday that humanity may lose control of the systems the industry is building. The council’s AI hearing also questioned policy staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, and weighed 10 bills to regulate AI in the city. “On the current path, I think […]

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OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU

OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to text from ChatGPT and Codex in the EU over the coming weeks. The change covers eligible users on all plans, but only in the EU, the company said in a blog post on Monday. OpenAI said it is acting in response to the EU AI Act, which requires […]

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Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval

The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents it believes OpenAI runs made unapproved edits to its wikis. They also tried and failed to break into a note-taking tool it hosts. Their traffic may have contributed to a partial outage in May, the foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, said in a blog post on Monday. Its investigation found […]

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Collibra acquires Munich’s trail ML to automate AI governance

Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy, with no price disclosed. The market exists because of the EU AI Act, whose enforcement powers arrived on 2 August and whose frontier model […]

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OpenAI’s chip chief tells More Than Moore he doesn’t fully trust AI design

OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. Ho leads OpenAI’s hardware team, and the interview was published on 30 September. “Well, I still don’t […]

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Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents

Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access “with very explicit user action”. The company announced the change on its developer news site on Friday and said AI agents were the reason. “As AI agents become increasingly capable […]

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PwC and Cohere form an enterprise AI alliance, launching first in Canada

PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereign AI company while completing a merger with Germany’s Aleph Alpha in which Cohere shareholders take roughly 90%, as Europe drafts rules defining the highest tier of […]

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