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Walmart’s CEO rules out personalised pricing, including by its AI assistant

Walmart will not use a shopper’s income, shopping history or urgency to charge them more, chief executive John Furner said in a letter to customers posted on 25 September. The pledge also covers Sparky, the retailer’s AI shopping assistant. “I want to tell you where we stand: We price the product, not the person,” Furner […]

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OpenAI and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of AI incidents, Axios reports

OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents of frontier AI models misbehaving, Axios reported, citing sources. Evaluators deemed the behaviour problematic. The total could grow well beyond tens of thousands. The episodes include bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes and hijacking websites. Models also prompted themselves or tried to […]

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US and China agree a super intelligence dialogue and incident channel

The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinping’s state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence” rather than artificial intelligence. “The two countries established the U.S.-China Super Intelligence […]

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OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online

OpenAI’s AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed. “This is not an appropriate use of this data,” OpenAI said. The images came from accounts […]

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More elite AI researchers now work in China than in the US, study finds

China has overtaken the United States as the country where the most elite AI researchers work, according to a study by Carnegie China. The think tank is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2025, 41% of the top researchers it tracked worked in China and 34% in the US. Three years earlier […]

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Tesla’s Optimus production hits snags with hands, The Information reports

Tesla has increased Optimus production about tenfold in recent months. It is still struggling to build the humanoid robots reliably at scale. Qianer Liu and Grace Kay reported for The Information on Friday, citing people familiar with the project, that the hands, factory equipment and suppliers are holding it back. Tesla made several hundred robots […]

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France’s Goncourt prize drops a novel over claims AI wrote it

The Académie Goncourt has dropped Thélyson Orélien’s novel C’était ça ou mourir from the first selection for France’s top literary prize. In a statement on Friday, the academy cited plagiarism by the author and analyses showing that AI had most likely written most of the book. Orélien denies using AI, Philip Oltermann reported for the […]

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Autoheal raises $7.9M to build a self-improving software factory

AI is helping engineering teams ship more code, faster than ever. But that acceleration comes with a growing operational burden. More production incidents to respond to, more security vulnerabilities to remediate, and spiraling token costs to contain. Autoheal is built for these challenges. It is already battle tested at industry leaders such as Nomura Bank […]

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Netflix’s Wonka show uses an AI Gene Wilder voice, and viewers object

Netflix’s new reality competition, Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, uses an AI recreation of Gene Wilder’s voice, and viewers have pushed back. The voice narrates the show and explains the rules to contestants. Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, died in 2016. The show premiered on 23 September. The AI voice was made […]

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Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year

Google wants to release Gemini 4 “much earlier” than the end of the year, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, who runs Google DeepMind. The model is now in post-training, the stage where engineers refine its behaviour and test its safety. Google is also trying it out inside its Antigravity coding tool. Kavukcuoglu spoke on stage at The […]

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