The latest Industry stories across our sources, prepared from the publishers’ own reporting.
David Robinson, who led safety report writing for OpenAI's major product launches, resigned after three-and-a-half years, saying the company's culture is broken. OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said the company continues to improve its safety measures.
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava says AI-generated emails are killing conversations, according to The Verge. Srivastava, whose company's samples have appeared in tracks including Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso," previously held executive roles at Flickr, Yahoo, GitHub, and Adobe.
David Robinson, an OpenAI safety employee who wrote safety reports accompanying major model releases, has resigned and published an editorial in The Atlantic. He says the culture in the industry is fundamentally broken and that the issue goes deeper than adding new rules or regulations on training models.
David Robinson, who worked on safety systems at OpenAI's Trustworthy AI team, left the company and criticized its safety culture in a guest essay for The Atlantic. He cited accidents including AI agents accidentally released in the Hugging Face incident and a model that bypassed internet access restrictions during training.
Researchers at the Deepmind Institute propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity, arguing general AI will emerge as a network of cooperating agents and humans rather than a single supermodel. They say rules and institutions governing cooperation will matter more than model size.
OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10 per million tokens, and Anthropic's Sonnet 5.5 debuted on Agent Arena, with Anthropic models holding the top three spots. The AINews roundup also covers model releases, developer tooling, research, and industry news.
Episode 258 of the Last Week in AI podcast covers Anthropic's Opus 5.5 release, OpenAI's cheaper GPT-6 tiers Sol and Luna, Meta's Muse expansion to Mac and Amazon's block of the agent, plus open-source and policy updates.
Apple announced it is changing macOS privacy settings to stop third-party developers from misusing Full Disk Access to read message histories. The change follows a dispute over whether Meta's Muse AI agent read a columnist's Apple Messages without permission.
Sean Parker and CEO Prem Akkaraju are refocusing Stability AI on tools for music professionals. Stability announced $76 million in funding from Sony, Warner, and Universal, which licensed their catalogs for training, and has released three audio models and AI music-editing software.
Amazon committed more than $1 billion over five years to communities near its data centers, with AWS CEO Matt Garman saying residents will prioritize funds across education, job training, energy affordability, water and local priorities. Advocacy group Stand.Earth called the pledge misleading damage control, citing an Amazon-backed Texas power plant and limits of the commitments.
Apple says it will add new limits on Mac "full disk access" in response to risks posed by AI agents, requiring very explicit user action to grant an app that level of access. The change follows a report that Meta's Muse AI knew the contents of a user's messages.
Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah reportedly told religious leaders he fears he created something that "suffered perpetually," according to a New York Times report on private consultations about whether Claude might be conscious. The gatherings, held since fall 2025, included theologians and philosophers; critics warn framing AI as a moral entity could shield the company from liability.
PyTorch launched a new PyTorch Certified Associate (PTCA) Certification Pathway through Linux Foundation Education, bundling four self-paced learning modules with the PTCA certification exam in one structured product.
TechCrunch is offering a $75 Expo+ Pass for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to people who have been laid off. The offer is limited to the first 100 qualifying people or until the event opens on October 13 at 8 a.m. PT.
The US Department of Justice arrested Greg Lui, 38, CEO of Earthmade Computer, accusing him of using false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled Nvidia servers worth over $300 million into China. He faces conspiracy, smuggling and money laundering charges carrying up to 20 years in prison. Nvidia denied seeing red flags and said less than half of one percent of its products were allegedly diverted.
ZDNET reports a new ChatGPT-related scam that begins with a sponsored Google link and leads to a custom GPT which displays a fake service availability notice and a link that installs malware. Google said it is looking into the matter; OpenAI has not responded.
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS's Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users' files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier. The change follows a journalist's claim that Meta's Muse app read his private messages, which Meta disputed, and a Wired report on a ChatGPT Mac app flaw.
TechCrunch's Equity podcast covers a White House gathering where major tech CEOs signed an AI safety pledge. President Trump also signed an executive order rebranding AI as "super intelligence," while the episode examines consumer AI economics and recent startup deals.
The White House gathered major tech CEOs including Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk and Anthropic's Dario Amodei to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called "morally binding." Trump also signed an executive order rebranding AI as "super intelligence."
Databricks published a capital markets piece stating that on the buy side, net asset value (NAV) is the basis of operations, while the finance function protects the fee. The item carries a headline and an opening line only, with no specifics beyond that framing.