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OpenAI Launches Paid Agents; Angi and Wayfair Pilot Program
Labeled pilot launches first native ad channel in ChatGPT: brands operate conversational agents that continue the conversation after an ad click.
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Cloudflare Blocks Mixed Use AI Crawlers by Default
New default policy applies to free customers and new sites: bots combining search, training, and agents are blocked on any ad-monetized page.
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iOS 27 Launches With Siri from Google Gemini, EU Blocked
Apple released iOS 27 on Monday with AI Siri from Google Gemini, mandatory English waitlist, barred in the EU and China.
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Fable 5.1 Leads Real-SWE at 38.8%; Code Benchmark Halves Scores
Specific Labs' new benchmark tests code agents on licensed private corpora. No frontier model exceeds 40%, with a drop of over 42 points against SWE-Bench Pro.
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Japanese Insurers and Banks: Cutting Back to Rehire Managers
Allianz cuts 1,800 in call centers, Mizuho eliminates 5,000 clerical jobs, Ergo reduces 1,000 positions in Germany. Meta asks ICs to return to management roles.
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Propose Private AI Standards Body
Workgroups from the three companies have met since July to establish shared safety benchmarks, transparency protocols, and external auditing.
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Meta Reverses 7,000 Engineer AI Restructuring Amidst Crisis
After reallocating 7,000 engineers to Applied AI and facing morale issues, Meta allows return to original roles; Zuckerberg acknowledges mistakes and rules out more cuts in 2026.
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OpenAI Launches Agents API in Public Beta with Codex Tools
OpenAI released the Agents API on September 10, featuring a managed sandbox and no extra charges beyond consumption. Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, and Oracle are environment partners.
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DeepSeek Launches V4.1 Flash with 1M Context Tokens
DeepSeek announced V4.1 Flash on September 10, with 552B MoE, 1M context tokens, and automatic routing to Flash from Pro starting September 14.
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Google Signs 22-Year Nuclear Deal, €13B AI Investment in Finland
Google secured a 22-year PPA with Fortum for half of Loviisa's output and announced a €13 billion AI infrastructure initiative in Finland, its largest European investment to date.
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Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon Take Platinum Seats in the PyTorch Foundation, as China Consolidates Its AI Stack Competition
Announcement in Shanghai places Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon on the board of the PyTorch Foundation with Ant Group as Gold, a coordinated move by China's biggest names in AI within the framework born at Meta.
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Cognizant Scales Frontier Task Force and Tests Player-Coach Model in the Age of Agents
The consulting firm confirmed on September 7th the hiring of 1,500 new graduates in the US, scaling the Frontier team to 15,000 and doubling the Synapse initiative target from 1 million to 2 million. Ravi Kumar S. refers to the model as player coaches.
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