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Snap targets enterprises with Salesforce, Nvidia AI tools for augmented-reality glasses
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Snap on Wednesday announced partnerships with companies including Salesforce, Nvidia and Amazon Web Services to integrate workplace tools into its Specs augmented-reality glasses, courting enterprise demand to carve a foothold in the heavily contested market.
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OpenAI to regularly disclose AI misbehavior, warns safety challenges remain
Sept 16 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Wednesday it would begin regularly publishing reports on unexpected or unauthorized AI behavior, while warning that the industry has yet to solve key alignment challenges as systems grow more powerful.
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Google should relax ad tech rules, appoint antitrust monitor, US judge finds
Sept 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge said Google should relax its rules governing its online advertising auctions and appoint an internal antitrust compliance monitor, while stopping short of demanding that the Alphabet unit break up its advertising technology monopoly.
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Banks provide $22 billion chip loan to Blackstone, Alphabet cloud venture, Bloomberg News reports
Sept 16 (Reuters) - A group of 10 banks is providing a $22 billion chip loan to support Blackstone and Alphabet's new cloud venture Crux AI, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
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Trump adviser Sacks says AI fears driven by 'fear-mongering playbook'
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's outside tech adviser David Sacks on Wednesday argued that public concerns about AI are being driven by advocacy campaigns and media coverage, echoing Trump's comments earlier this week dismissing calls for new AI regulation.
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Explainer-Do AI companies have to disclose dangerous incidents?
Sept 16 (Reuters) - As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, researchers have documented cases in which AI models have attempted to deceive users, evade restrictions on their use or access other computer systems. Are companies required under U.S. law to tell the public or regulators when such events occur?
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OpenAI says CEO Altman will attend Trump's state dinner for Xi
Sept 16 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Wednesday that CEO Sam Altman will attend U.S. President Donald Trump's state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Revolut says no direct demand received over alleged data breach
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Revolut has had no direct contact or demand from the individuals or group claiming responsibility for a data breach, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Anthropic to fold Claude AI features into one interface, launches document tools
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Wednesday it is combining the chat and Cowork features of its Claude AI assistant into a single interface and launching new document and presentation tools.
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DeepMind co-founder warns AI capabilities must not outrun safety controls, FT reports
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warned that rapidly advancing AI must not outpace safety controls, as he launched an institute to explore the deployment of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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Microsoft AI chief calls out Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said he shared Anthropic's focus on safely managing AI, but flagged risks in the way it trains its Claude chatbot on ideas related to consciousness and welfare interests.
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Amazon raises minimum hourly pay by $1 to $20 for US operations workers
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Amazon.com is raising the minimum hourly pay for its eligible full-time U.S. operations workers by $1 to $20, the e-commerce and cloud giant said on Wednesday.
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Cohere, Aleph Alpha combine to target enterprise AI market
(Corrects from "this year" to "last year" in para 9)
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Apple weighs Nvidia technology for potential server market return, The Information reports
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Apple is considering returning to the enterprise server market, combining its own chips with Nvidia's networking technology, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Exclusive-OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the activity.
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EU's von der Leyen backs AI slowdown, to invite frontier labs for talks
STRASBOURG, Sept 16 (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday backed calls by leading U.S. AI labs for a pause in the development of the technology, saying she will invite the main frontier AI labs to discuss efforts to tackle the risks.
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Exclusive-SK Hynix in talks with Intel about deal to make memory chips in US for the first time, sources say
SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - SK Hynix is in talks with Intel about a deal that would see the South Korean company manufacture memory chips on U.S. soil for the first time, three people familiar with the discussions said.
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Smaller phone and laptop makers dig in for years of memory scarcity
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Independent phone and laptop makers are redesigning products, testing incoming chips for fakes and passing on costs as a memory shortage they expect to last through 2027 squeezes the lower end of the device market.
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Explainer-India's UPI fee shake-up: What changes and why it matters
MUMBAI, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Using mobile phones to scan a QR code for payments has become near ubiquitous behaviour in India over the last decade, thanks to a widely used homegrown network, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
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Anthropic signs first Australia data centre agreement
SYDNEY, Sept 16 (Reuters) - AI giant Anthropic signed its first data centre lease agreement in Australia, two people familiar with the deal said, capitalising on a favourable political environment and abundant renewable resources to secure capacity at what would be one of the world's largest computing facilities.
