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Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (www.wired.com)
2026-9-20

India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a “one-way exchange” that is “anti-competitive” (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20

Business intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures (tech.eu)
2026-9-20

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20

Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M+ from Silversmith Capital Partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20

Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20

EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until “all possibilities” for taxation at the global level are exhausted (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20

ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20

Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers (www.scmp.com)
2026-9-20

Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV (www.axios.com)
2026-9-20

Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-20

Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20

Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20

Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20

Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20

Clinicians raise concerns over medical AI adoption beyond diagnostics and imaging, citing limited clinical and performance data on its broader effectiveness (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20

US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies (www.npr.org)
2026-9-20

US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-20

Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI (slashdot.org)
2026-9-20

Developer Abandons 'PS5 Linux' Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit (games.slashdot.org)
2026-9-20

Fake AI Intelligence Almost Made the US Military Start a War With China (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-20

Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-20

Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal (politics.slashdot.org)
2026-9-20

Sources: Anthropic told investors it will be profitable for a second straight quarter, with 80%+ gross margins before partner revenue sharing and training costs (www.ft.com)
2026-9-14

NASA and IBM Open Source Lunar Mapping Tools (science.slashdot.org)
2026-9-14 IBM Open Source NASA

Satya Nadella says “we welcome” the “deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right”, and announces a “Code of Conduct” for Microsoft's MAI models (x.com)
2026-9-14 Microsoft

Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-14 Google AI

Xi Jinping calls for a “consensus-based global AI governance framework” and says China will pioneer the establishment of a BRICS AI open-source community (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-14 China AI

Dario Amodei says the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to “pace the frontier” is what happens if China does not do the same (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-14 China

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