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Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says the AI chipmaker pulled its IPO filing to share updated financials, admitting it was a mistake not to explain the move sooner (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14% (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams (CoinDesk)

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OpenAI makes Codex generally available, and announces new features: Slack integration, a new Codex SDK, and new admin tools (OpenAI)

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OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI unveils a new feature in preview to let developers build apps that work directly inside ChatGPT, starting with Spotify, Figma, Expedia, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT feature that lets users connect to third-party apps like Spotify and Zillow directly within the chatbot (Bloomberg)

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Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers "have built with OpenAI", and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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A live blog of the OpenAI DevDay 2025 keynote, where Sam Altman announced new developer tools (CNBC)

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Coupa, a Thoma Bravo-owned supply chain tech company, acquires procurement tech startup Scoutbee, with the deal expected to close by the end of October (Colin Campbell/Axios)

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The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November (New York Times)

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Deloitte announces a deal to roll out Anthropic's Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees globally, marking Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment ever (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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As part of its deal with AMD, OpenAI will receive the first gigawatt's worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chips in H2 2026, when the chip is scheduled for deployment (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Instagram launches Rings, an awards program recognizing 25 top creators; the judging panel includes Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs, and Adam Mosseri (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an AI agent that detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent exploits by leveraging Gemini Deep Think models (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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Deloitte says it will partially refund payment for an AU$439K Australian government report with multiple errors, after admitting it was partly produced by AI (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)

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Paris-based Filigran, which develops open-source threat intelligence tools, raised a $58M Series C led by Eurazeo and says 6,000+ organizations are its clients (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)

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Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg effective immediately; Schulman is a former PayPal CEO, and Vestberg will help manage the transition (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

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