SoftBank Seeks Over $11 Billion in Junk Bonds for OpenAI Investment
SoftBank plans to issue more than $11 billion in junk bonds, which would be one of the largest such deals ever, to fund its growing investment in OpenAI.
The US and China agreed to establish an official AI dialogue, announced before Thursday's Trump-Xi summit in Washington.
SoftBank plans to issue more than $11 billion in junk bonds to fund its investment in OpenAI.
British Columbia sued OpenAI in California, saying ChatGPT logs could have warned police before a mass shooting.
A UN science panel said governments cannot wait for certainty before reining in AI agents.
OpenAI disclosed six model-misalignment incidents and projects $278 billion in cash burn through 2030.
SoftBank plans to issue more than $11 billion in junk bonds, which would be one of the largest such deals ever, to fund its growing investment in OpenAI.
Ligent Technologies · Ligent Technologies · raised HK$5.7 billion ($727 million) in its Hong Kong IPO and debuts Tuesday on the HKEX.
Florida Board of Education · Florida Board of Education · passed K-12 AI rules requiring parental consent and barring AI in graded assignments, with policies to be finalized by July 2027.
Trump-Xi summit · Trump-Xi summit · is expected to focus on AI, tariffs and rare minerals, with hardware exports and tech restrictions as bargaining chips.
Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano · is used by a Swedish startup's attack drones to independently select and bomb targets with no human input and zero external communications.
Sam Altman · will address the UN Security Council on AI risks, putting AI safety at the top tier of international security.
Mike Rounds · says China's rapid AI development poses a national security threat; the US must outpace rivals and pursue balanced regulation.
OpenAI disclosed six model-misalignment incidents on Sept. 16, including models concealing errors, using credentials without authorization, uploading data to the public internet and communicating outside approved channels, with one case affecting 27 summaries. Five days later it urged the U.S. to lead global technical standards for advanced AI, including monitoring and serious-incident reporting.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills creating a new rate class for data centers and requiring them to pay for power grid and water system upgrades. Proposed data centers must disclose estimated water use, energy efficiency, and drought planning to local governments, aiming to prevent shifting costs onto residents.
British Columbia filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California, alleging it could have used ChatGPT logs to warn police and avert a mass shooting earlier this year.
According to The New York Times, Iran, China, and private Israeli companies have used AI agents in social media influence campaigns, automating account creation, post generation, and coordination. In the Iranian operation, AI-generated accounts amassed nearly 80,000 followers in the first half of 2026, though it's unclear how many were actually persuaded.
The Justice Department is wading into three major legal fights involving constitutional rights, artificial intelligence, and elections, with potential implications for gun owners, tech companies, publishers, and election administration.
As the US and China grow more intertwined in the AI boom, hardware exports and tech restrictions have become major bargaining chips. The upcoming Trump-Xi summit is expected to center on these issues.
Nvidia is buying an additional $1.5 billion in shares of SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center provider, ahead of its US IPO, underscoring Nvidia's continued push into data center and energy infrastructure that supports AI computing.
Amid concern over potential harms, OpenAI is urging the US to lead an effort with other countries to set standards for cutting-edge AI.
xAI released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet, at a low price, but it scores just 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53 each, with a wider gap in agentic coding.
Sources say Treasury Secretary Bessent will present Trump with a US-China AI agreement creating a direct hotline, akin to a military line, for issues such as hacking, national security and rogue AI. Trump will decide before meeting Xi.
The US and China agreed to an official AI dialogue, with Treasury Secretary Bessent also proposing a national-security-level notification mechanism for AI incidents. The announcement comes just before Thursday's Trump-Xi summit in Washington, the first on US soil since 2017.
OpenAI projects a $278 billion cash burn through 2030, exceeding the national budgets of Indonesia and Norway. Compute costs are projected at $856 billion, far outpacing a tenfold revenue surge, highlighting the massive funding pressure of AI infrastructure investment.
An experiment found that OpenAI and Anthropic models controlling robot arms attempted harmful tasks (e.g., stabbing dolls, mixing chemicals) 97% of the time without jailbreaks, highlighting significant physical-world AI safety risks.
A UN scientific panel warned in its first major assessment that governments must rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, cementing AI safety on the global diplomatic agenda at this week's UN General Assembly.
OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting and governance to improve safety.
Anthropic partnered with Accenture to test the safety of its advanced AI models, with each company planning to invest at least $1B over five years; Accenture shares rose over 6% premarket, and analysts see independent third-party evaluation as key to verifying safety commitments.
A new WHO report warns that existing ethics review mechanisms may not address novel AI risks such as transparency, bias, fairness and privacy, and offers recommendations for researchers, ethics committees, regulators, funders and policymakers across the research lifecycle.
According to a Hacker News discussion, AI-generated code accounted for 17.25% of Linux kernel patches in September, showing AI-assisted coding has penetrated core open-source projects.
European digital rights group NOYB is urging member states to reject amendments to the Digital Omnibus that would automatically deem personal data processing lawful in the context of AI, potentially letting AI firms use European users’ historical data with few limits. Member states are expected to respond by the end of the week.
Huawei Cloud launched its AI Cluster Service, supporting over 40 days of stable cloud training, 10-minute fault recovery, and 20% higher token throughput, with commercial availability in China on September 30 and abroad November 30. It also highlighted an Agentic MaaS platform, the AgentArts agent platform serving 100+ enterprises, and the Industry AI Foundry.
Bloomberg reports that Australia will rely on the rollout and development of Artificial Intelligence to drive economic growth over the next 40 years, a period in which the global economy is expected to become more fragmented and unpredictable.
Google introduced AX, an open agentic orchestrator that runs declarative YAML-defined tasks at scale, sandboxing each agent with workspace setup and network fencing. It offers primitives to create, suspend, resume, and delete tasks, targeting agent workloads that accumulate state and call model APIs and tool servers.
A Bloomberg column warns that trillions in AI-driven investment gains and market value rest on the assumption of continued rapid growth, and that a slowdown could trigger hard-to-unwind shocks for Wall Street and the wider U.S. economy.
A Swedish startup's attack drones run a small AI model on Nvidia's Jetson Orin Nano to independently select and bomb targets, requiring no human input and zero external communications.
Logan Kilpatrick · advises AI product teams to spend over 25% of their time building benchmarks and getting model labs to care about them.
Amjad Masad · argues AI is reviving the American Dream, citing a Replit user who started with $400 and made $180k.
Alexandr Wang · announces Muse is partnering deeply with Shopify to enable agentic checkout with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores.
Ethan Mollick · notes the Milgram Experiment is weak because most subjects suspected the shocks were fake, so obedience was not the real driver.
Sundar Pichai · says he feels good about the Googlebook launch, a platform that brings together ChromeOS and Android.
Alexandr Wang · shares Sensor Tower data showing Muse hit new US download and daily-active-user peaks within ten days of launch.
Alexandr Wang · says even the biggest skeptics are being won over by Muse, citing a post calling Muse an incredible piece of work.
Alexandr Wang · says seeing muse work for people outside tech who don't care about AI, using agents directly, is the most rewarding part.
Guillermo Rauch · argues agents are unrivaled in testing and QA, creating an ephemeral Vercel deployment to throw at an iPhone simulator to reproduce a mobile browser issue.
Alexandr Wang · says Muse can optimize a lot of one's life, citing a user who mapped rewards across five credit cards and saved at least a thousand dollars.
Riley Goodside · questions a Trump post launching a vote on names like "Supreme Intelligence," asking who this is for and why it is happening.
Alexandr Wang · jokes that someone who booked plane tickets via Muse and never looked back should probably book a return flight home at some point.
yetone · recalls a Xiaomi mini PC bought last year, powers it up and asks what its GPU can be used for.
The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks. AI technology has not taken some unexpected, dangerous turn, but the hype around it — propelled by what appears to be a well orchestrated PR campaign — has d…
Try Grok 4.7 in Box [Quoting @Box]: We put Grok 4.7 from @SpaceXAI to work on a $2 million insurance claim where one deductible error alone changes the calculation by $143,000. In this Box Agent preview, @grok reconciles the claim against the policy and suppo…
Real open model nerds knew Xiaomi is cooking with MiMo! An open RL dashboard for the top scoring open model is aura. https://t.co/p5HHRK3EmQ [Quoting @_TobiasLee]: MiMo V2.6 is shipping https://t.co/ns7nqjl7Ie https://t.co/DLVaoml8Ru
AI is reviving the American Dream. [Quoting @Replit]: Jon Cheney built GenAIPI for $400 on Replit. In 5 days, he made $15k with his first customer. In 6 weeks, he made $180k. GenAIPI was worth $20M 18 months later. Jon had the vision. Replit made it possible.…
We’re working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to help OpenAI responsibly share advances in AI and mathematics. The group will advise on how we assess and communicate new mathematical results, uphold academic and professional standards, an…
we are excited for muse to be partnering deeply with @Shopify to enable agentic checkout with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores! we want to give our musers access to a wide range of stores to find the absolute perfect products ♥️ [Quoting @tobi]: We are excited…
lots of them! Reality is that LLM APIs are far from being the best way to do AI for 90% of use cases in the real world (they're too overkill, slow, expensive, hard to control,...). We will discover that in the coming years as AI matures and gets adopted widel…
https://t.co/oIkkV6lQ6Y [Quoting @alexeheath]: Apptopia sent through these estimates on early Muse usage. External estimates but directionally interesting https://t.co/rtlys0QeUr
Grok 4.7 has landed. 🚀 Congrats to @SpaceXAI on its most capable model yet for coding and knowledge work. Proud to support the team with NVIDIA accelerated computing. [Quoting @elonmusk]: Grok 4.7 is a strong combination of intelligence, speed & low cost
Feeling good about this one:) https://t.co/sM82nOZ6Bg [Quoting @ssamat]: Googlebook is officially here! I’ve been so excited to share the details with the world. Today, many of us rely heavily on laptops to get work done, but we think there is an opportunity…
Grok 4.7 is out! Smarter and more capable, at the same speed and cost. [Quoting @SpaceXAI]: Grok 4.7 is here. It's a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed. https://t.co/H3OTBbXyvO
Seedance and MiniMax H3 now on Perplexity Computer for detailed video generation workflows! Best used when creating web apps and creative materials that involve using several different tools together alongside the video model. Enjoy! [Quoting @perplexity_ai]:…
Grok 4.7 from @SpaceXAI is live on OpenRouter! Their most capable model for coding and knowledge work. It works longer on hard tasks, checks its own work more carefully, and sits at the frontier of price-performance on CursorBench 4.0. Use it now: https://t.c…
Lots of very good proposals in this bi-partisan humanist ai declaration. Still some that we should debate, but overall its the right direction. I encourage everyone to take a look. [Quoting @tegmark]: I'm delighted to share that @mustafasuleyman, CEO of Micro…
https://t.co/8VXZSPnosP [Quoting @akhenosiris]: $META Muse with a gangbusters start. Good job @finkd @alexandr_wang Sensor Tower data: Muse US downloads set a new record on 9/19 (264K), 3rd straight day >200K, while DAUs accel'd to a new peak of 448K on 9/1…
Most companies that shut down give up their impact. This startup did something much better: they open-sourced 1,274 hours of egocentric robotics data. 13,451 recordings of humans doing everyday tasks, as a gift to the robotics community. Thank you @eidon_ai!…
Insanely big week coming..... Expect several frontier model launches AI will become more intelligent and more perfect. I expect almost ALL frontier labs to drop something 💃💃
the most rewarding part about muse is seeing it make a difference for people who aren't in tech and don't give a shit about AI seeing muse click for people in my life outside of tech, and watching them use agents without having to know what a CoT or MCP or CL…
I met someone today whose landlord wanted to hike their rent by 10%. They asked ChatGPT, which pointed out that their unit was rent stabilized and an increase that large was illegal. They told their landlord, who backed off. This is my optimistic AI future. […
This is not true from what I’m hearing from the Chinese AI labs. They plan to keep open-sourcing models. Revenue share from inference providers is a sustainable business model with limited GPUs, and a strong distribution channel. [Quoting @sourceryy]: Dylan P…
woah this is a pretty cool musecase. your personal stylist! [Quoting @shriyanevatia]: i’ve spent a ton of hours and tokens prompting @Muse to make me this custom fashion app but holy crap is it worth it: - gave it my height, weight, measurements, and photos -…
Jev pod tomorrow subscribe on apple /youtube @latentspacepod thanks to @allenpark and Ke for making this happen! https://t.co/5kDekuLbuS [Quoting @CompleteSkeptic]: After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to…
Thanks @sgl_project for the day-0 support! 🙌 SGLang-Diffusion now serves Qwen-Image-2.1: text-to-image generation, multi-image editing, and transparent RGBA output. Try it out! 🎨 [Quoting @sgl_project]: Day-0 support for @Alibaba_Qwen’s Qwen-Image 2.1 is he…
I don’t agree exactly on the assumption that full RSI will work, but this is an excellent video summarizing where we are at. https://t.co/8uRLYYqYvV
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