Onsemi's Synaptics Bid: $7B Stock vs. $5.7B Cash
After a rival bid, Onsemi replaced its nearly $7 billion all-stock Synaptics agreement with a $123-per-share cash offer worth roughly $5.7 billion. The lower headline value does not, by itself, establish a cut in per-share consideration.
OpenAI Staff Fund a PAC Against Brockman's AI Group
AI policy advocacy groups now sit between frontier labs, lawmakers, and their own workers: seven current OpenAI employees gave more than $215,000 to a PAC opposing a Greg Brockman-backed network.
Meta’s Virtue AI Hires Lasted 99 Days
Virtue AI had raised $30 million and named frontier labs among its customers before Meta hired its founders in June 2026. Meta said 99 days later it was letting those hires go; the status of Virtue AI’s product and customer work remains unknown.
Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement
Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service.
Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5
The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link — We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …
David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over
The industry's approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes. — What I'm about to tell you has …
Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash
Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers …
Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access”
Days after a journalist claimed that Meta's Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed …
Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch
The ongoing memory shortage has prompted Nvidia to create a 64GB version of its DGX Spark mini PC, which runs AI models locally. The only problem?
A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment
Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
Tavus unveils Griffin, the “first Human Interaction Model”, which it says passed the “video Turing test”, with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's ben...
Supabase raised $150M led by Singapore's GIC and agrees to acquire Turso, which offers a database optimized for AI agents, for an undisclosed sum
Supabase Inc., a startup that commercializes the open-source PostgreSQL database, has raised $150 million in funding. — Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund led the deal.
Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI “super intelligence”
Donald Trump's push to rename AI may be behind an “unprecedented” rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry.
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week
David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, has resigned from the company. — An OpenAI spokesperson told Business Insider on Friday that Robinson left last week …
Anthropic launches the Claude Frontier Academy with a $100M commitment to train 10K “Frontier Deployed Engineers” by 2028, starting with Accenture, Bain, others
The first-of-its-kind Academy trains Frontier Deployed Engineers using the same standard of skills as Anthropic's own engineers …
Elon Musk confirms TSMC discussions on a Terafab deal to supply Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, as TSMC also mulls a Texas presence; Musk didn't elaborate
[Exclusive] Taiwanese foundry giant may use Terafab as anchor client for a future Texas semiconductor factory.
YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize “original content” and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content
YouTube says it wants to ‘focus on originality’ in a push to surface better Shorts recommendations for users.
Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM
DUV tools, though not as advanced as EUV, can be adapted to manufacture 7-nm logic chips and advanced memory for AI processors, report says.
California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry …
Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles
Meta said it's letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company in June …
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation
THE SCOOP — On June 1, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon gave employees a preview of a blog post denying the company …
A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents
Swarm chasers hunt for clues of bad behavior. Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong.
Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns
Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid
ON Semiconductor says it will pay $123 a share for Synaptics, giving the deal a value of around $5.7 billion
Memo: the US Army is creating an autonomous systems command, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Meridian and Agincourt robotic warfare projects
The U.S. Army is creating a new autonomous systems command and appointing an acquisition executive to prioritize buying …
Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5, from Project Amethyst, a collaboration with AMD
A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them
- 8 min Click here to listen to this article — Coyotec, an AI co-host on Los Angeles' José FM …
Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka “Rey,” was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach
A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee …
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon form a JV that aims to expand US satellite coverage and eliminate dead zones, appointing industry veteran Paul Roth as interim CEO
Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils a $35 Kindle Click page-turning remote
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model
The focus of OpenAI's Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined …LinkedIn:Nicholas ArbuckleLinkedIn:Nicholas Arbuckle:Some very inter...
Nasdaq-listed neocloud Nebius acquires Inferize, whose tech helps optimize GPU utilization and reduce AI request costs, sources say for $100M to $150M
The Israeli startup, which was founded by former Granulate executives and employs 17 people, built technology designed to reduce idle GPU capacity when AI demand changes.
Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence
Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M
Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises start deploying AI agents en masse.
US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024
Sources: Broadcom's Wall Street syndicate is amassing $60B in AI chip financing to help Anthropic and others access chips and other key AI infrastructure
Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture “frontline intelligence”
The business communications startup Relay Inc. says it's trying to capture “frontline intelligence” …
Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance
Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices from scripts or prompts, with optional background music, in public beta, as its music generator faces lawsuits
TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida says Jev is in use by ~25% of Fortune 500 companies and “we were at a trillion tokens per day about a week ago”
Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later
OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack of Australia's federal government
Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums
In a blog post published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says it's already taking around data centers.
Source: FieldAI, which is developing a “universal general-purpose brain” for robots, is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, up from $2B in 2025
Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B
Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture
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