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Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor (www.semafor.com)
2026-9-23 AI

TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-23

Chinese hackers exploit multiple technologies to steal govt data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23 China

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores (www.techradar.com)
2026-9-23

San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-23 Trump San Francisco California

Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse “from scratch” but was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse “OpenClaw for normies” (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-23

New York-based Ande, whose AI agents help businesses arrange corporate events for employees or customers, emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-23 AI New York

ShinyHunters claims FBI hack, data theft in PeopleSoft zero-day breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23 FBI

In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a “globalist scheme to control” AI, saying the US is “leading now over China by a lot and everyone else” (www.ft.com)
2026-9-23 Trump China AI

ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data; it also defaced the FBI jobs site (www.404media.co)
2026-9-23 Oracle FBI

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-23 AI

Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-23

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (www.zdnet.com)
2026-9-23

GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-9-23

New ClosedQuorum Windows malware uses AI for attack decisions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23 AI

QuickBooks Pro Plus 2024 is on sale for just $299.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23

Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset (www.zdnet.com)
2026-9-23

'Coyote vs. Acme' Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-9-23

OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-23 AI

Reducing shadow IT visibility gaps with Wazuh (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23

Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens (the-decoder.com)
2026-9-23

Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-23 Apple

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-23

Check Point warns of Management Server zero-day exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23

In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is “officially” renaming AI to “super intelligence” because “artificial” makes it sound fake (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-23 Trump AI Intelligence

Sources: in a London presentation, SpaceXAI says Grok Bot hit 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% from the week prior; SpaceXAI launched it in mid-August (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-23 London

Chamelio, which is building AI tools designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment, raised a $26M Series A (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-9-23 AI

Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-23 CFTC

EvilTokens PhaaS disrupted after compromising 12,000 Microsoft accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23 Microsoft

Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-23 AI

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