Techmeme

• A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs (Bloomberg)
• NYC-based Confido, a provider of AI-powered workflow automation tools for consumer packaged goods companies, raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners (AlleyWatch)
• Russia has increased targeted strikes on Ukrainian data centers, disrupting internet access for ~100K Kyiv residents on Wednesday and Thursday (Christopher Miller/Financial Times)
• Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks (Joe Brock/Reuters)
• A US federal judge dealt fresh setbacks to Deel in the Rippling case over alleged spying, including rejecting its bid to strike testimony from a central witness (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)
• OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training (OpenAI)
• Google says ShinyHunters has renewed "mass exploitation" of a flaw in Oracle's PeopleSoft; ShinyHunters has said it accessed FBI data using a flaw in PeopleSoft (Reuters)
• A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems with Chinese optical transceivers (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
• Researchers: OpenAI's agents meddled with the US Commerce Dept. and SEC sites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge and tried to hack the Education Dept. site (New York Times)
• Former US Army soldier Cameron Wagenius, who pleaded guilty in 2025 to hacking into telecom companies and to extortion, is sentenced to 70 months in prison (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
• TikTok reaches a settlement with Alabama over social media addiction claims; Alabama will receive at least $100M, and up to $300M if certain conditions are met (Gnaneshwar Rajan/Reuters)
• OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on "image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed" and "most" of the images have been removed (@openai)
• 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)

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Engadget

• 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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