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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AI defined: the terms with a legal test and the ones without
Four bodies define an AI system and their wordings do not match. The EU gives 68 terms a legal test and excludes chess engines; AGI has no definition anywhere.
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S&P Global Energy opens commodity data to agents on preview MCP servers
S&P Global Energy turned its commodity data estate into MCP endpoints by curating one Databricks Genie Agent per dataset group. The managed servers carrying it are still in Public Preview.
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AI platforms compared: what each one is actually built for
The word platform covers five different products with five different bottlenecks. What inference engines, GPU clouds, Kubernetes serving layers, agent runtimes and lifecycle platforms are each built to protect, read from their own documentation.
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FAA launches $875M SMART tool, claims its highest staffing in a decade
The FAA launched its 875 million dollar SMART tool in Washington airspace and claimed its highest controller staffing in a decade. The GAO counted 13,164 controllers at the end of fiscal 2025, about 6 percent below 2015.
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Geneva benchmark: Claude Opus 4.7 scores below 4.6 on legal text
A University of Geneva benchmark for international legal text puts Claude Opus 4.6 first at 0.873 micro-F1, with the newer Opus 4.7 three places behind it.
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Bill Gates backs mandatory AI monitoring, not a dramatic slowdown
Gates warned AI could drive events causing a billion deaths, then said required safeguards would be overhead rather than a dramatic slowing. That is not Amodei-style pacing.
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Snorkel AI raises $350M at $3.5B and discloses its QC agent figures
Snorkel AI raised a $350M Series E at a $3.5B valuation. Its own announcement post carries quality-control figures and an investor list the trade coverage left short.
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AWS pairs OpenCode with Kimi K3 on Bedrock, but its benchmark link 404s
AWS says to compare open weight coding models on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index. The link it gives returns a 404, and the live index ranks only one of its three models, under a rival agent.
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Ema raises $77M as its own release undercuts the 50% ticket figure
Ema’s $77M Series B takes total funding to $140M and more than quadruples its valuation. The press release credits 60% ticket avoidance and a 50% leaner operations team, two numbers the coverage merged into one.
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