Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models
Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the High…

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It is the first Sonnet to ship with frontier-style cyber safeguards and wit…

Instinct raised $1B at $10B for an AI agent that rings restaurants on its own phone
Instinct raised $1B at $10B for an AI agent that rings restaurants on its own phone

Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books trips, orders groceries and telephones businesses using its own phone. Since 2 August, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required systems th…

Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI
Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October. Anthr…

China extends AI travel curbs to executives’ families, Bloomberg reports
China extends AI travel curbs to executives’ families, Bloomberg reports

China now requires the families of some top AI and chip executives to get Beijing’s approval before travelling abroad, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The rule covers spouses and children, even for short trips. Governme…

Chery built the first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, and measures its electric range on NEDC
Chery built the first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, and measures its electric range on NEDC

Chery has built the world’s first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, the Stockman, developed for Australia rather than China, with a 2.5-litre turbo-diesel, a 34 kWh battery and a claimed 100 km of electric range on the NEDC cycle. Volvo invented the diesel…

Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days
Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days

Attackers are exploiting two critical flaws in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Companies use the devices to give staff remote access to internal networks. Citrix confirmed the attacks in a security bulletin on Sunday and released fixes. Bot…

Microsoft’s Suleyman tells Bloomberg AI needs a ‘red line’ on control
Microsoft’s Suleyman tells Bloomberg AI needs a ‘red line’ on control

Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman says the industry should reject any AI it cannot prove it controls. He made the case in an interview with Shirin Ghaffary for Bloomberg’s Q&AI newsletter. “Unless we can prove ahead of time that we can …

Trump dined with Amodei after saying he is for ‘let’s go and let’s win’
Trump dined with Amodei after saying he is for ‘let’s go and let’s win’

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday night, Semafor confirmed. It was the first one-on-one meeting between the two, which Axios first reported and TNW covered on Sunday. Hours before…

Walmart’s CEO rules out personalised pricing, including by its AI assistant
Walmart’s CEO rules out personalised pricing, including by its AI assistant

Walmart will not use a shopper’s income, shopping history or urgency to charge them more, chief executive John Furner said in a letter to customers posted on 25 September. The pledge also covers Sparky, the retailer’s AI shopping assistant. “I want to …