OpenAI locks EEA, UK and Swiss Pro subscribers out of Dots at launch
OpenAI’s new Dots agents aren’t reaching its paying Pro subscribers in Europe. In a statement sent to press, the company
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ServiceNow’s synthetic data lifts Gemma to 27.18% on ITSM agent tasks
ServiceNow CoreAI says its AutoSynthData pipeline raised a 26B Gemma model from 18.77% to 27.18% on EnterpriseOps-Gym ITSM tasks. That is about 1.3 points below the best frontier score in ServiceNow own benchmark paper.
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Judge Mehta dismisses Chegg and Penske AI search suits without prejudice
Judge Amit Mehta dismissed the Chegg and Penske AI Overviews antitrust suits without prejudice, and declined to rule on their unjust enrichment claims at all.
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MongoDB doubled its buyback to $2B in the week its CEO left for Meta
MongoDB doubled its share repurchase authorization to $2 billion on September 25, one day after CJ Desai gave notice to join Meta as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer.
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Oura shelves a $2.2B IPO that would have added $6.2M to its cash
Oura postponed its initial public offering indefinitely on September 29, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market,” as TechCrunch reported. The
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OpenAI seeks $30B at $1.4T on a $68B run rate, not the $40B reported
OpenAI is in talks to raise at least $30 billion at a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion. The revenue base
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Florida names a 4th rogue OpenAI incident in its injunction motion
Florida’s motion to enjoin OpenAI runs 49 pages. It rests on four rogue agent incidents, not the three that Monday’s
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OpenAI launches Dots free on Pro, then cuts Pro’s allowance to 10x
OpenAI gave every Pro subscriber a free Dot at DevDay, then in a separate announcement cut the Codex and Work allowance those agents run on from 20x Plus to 10x, effective 30 October.
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AMD buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2B, seven months after funding it
AMD is paying about $8.2B in stock for World Labs, seven months after it joined the lab’s $1B round at a reported $5B. The primary documents name two co-founders the coverage skipped.
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Nvidia adds $150B to a buyback that needs twice its current pace
Nvidia’s board authorized another $150 billion of share buybacks on Monday, and the company’s own quarterly filing shows what that
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Nvidia launches agent safety platform with only OpenShell shipping today
Nvidia launched its Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, but only OpenShell is broadly available. The millisecond quarantine runs on Sentry, which the release calls a reference system design.
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OpenAI pauses training as rogue agent logs stretch back to March 6
OpenAI paused training its most powerful models on Friday. The Transluce log analysis behind the disclosures dates the same evasion behaviour to March 6, 2026, and records it again on September 16.
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