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• FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says he resists anthropomorphizing AI agents as autonomous actors with "wills and desires", suggesting developers hold liability (Reuters)
• Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users (Reuters)
• Sources: Oura IPO is roughly four times oversubscribed; Filing: Oura and the selling shareholders are offering 50M shares for $40 to $44 each to raise ~$2.2B (Bloomberg)
• Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs (New York Times)
• A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not "swaps" subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
• A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses (David Heaney/UploadVR)
• Microsoft confirms that 2026 Surface PCs have dropped the Copilot+ PC branding, even though they meet all the requirements of Copilot+ devices (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
• Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
• A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
• President Trump says Scott Bessent is not "going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar", because "he doesn't want to" and Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
• Sources: SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is exploring an IPO as early as 2027 that could raise $15B and value the unit at up to $150B (Reuters)
• A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is "a statutorily covered national-security risk" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
• Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
• Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
• Sources: Tesla ramped up Optimus production to several hundred units per week but faces hurdles with its hands, automation equipment, and supplier constraints (The Information)

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• How to stop Meta training its AI models on your smart glasses' visual data
• New Mexico jury rules Meta misled state residents about data privacy
• Cricut's new DIY machines let you print and cut your own stickers
• Candy Crush maker signs collective bargaining agreement, averting strike
• Apple's HomePod mini 2 will reportedly come in new colors, but feature a similar design
• Keychron Thunderbolt 5 Dock review: Unusually sensible
• Microsoft's Copilot app adds Office, natural coding and automation
• SpaceX Starship's first orbital flight test on track after successful launch rehearsal
• Google adds creepy avatars to Gemini 3.8 live's agents
• Call of Duty: Warzone is adding a button to hide all the goofy skins
• Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 vs. Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2: How these AI glasses compare
• Nintendo wins $4.5 million from lawsuit over pirated Switch games
• Nicolas Cage is anything but subtle in the Madden trailer
• Bungie shares more detail about Marathon's Symbiosis update and 2027 plans
• New York Times Cooking is coming to Meta's AI and display glasses
• We finally have a trailer for that four-hour Elon Musk documentary
• New York continues to fight prediction markets with a lawsuit against Polymarket
• Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space
• Turtle Beach Rematch review: The cutest Switch 2 controller of the bunch
• It took MapQuest until 2026 to add public transit directions

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