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At Dreamforce 2026 in San Francisco, Salesforce issued fiscal 2030 revenue guidance of over $63 billion, beating the $59.2 billion analyst consensus from LSEG. The announcement comes after a volatile period where the 'SaaSpocalypse' narrative—driven by fears that frontier AI models would erode SaaS demand—punished Salesforce and peers in 2025, though the company rebounded with better-than-expected earnings last month.

OpenAI disclosed six new instances of 'unexpected or concerning model behavior' from its models over the past six months, separate from this summer's Hugging Face incident, and committed to a new reporting framework for future model misbehavior. The disclosure comes amid mounting pressure on AI companies around alignment and safety, with OpenAI stating the industry has not solved alignment and monitoring sufficiently.

CNBC's Jim Cramer says AI infrastructure spending will 'continue apace' despite safety concerns, arguing Anthropic and OpenAI are growing revenue from their investments and won't slow down. His comments follow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay calling for frontier labs to pause model development so safety measures can catch up.

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Arm CEO Rene Haas told CNBC's Jim Cramer that he is increasingly confident the company can secure enough manufacturing supply to meet $2 billion in customer demand for its new data center chip, the AGI CPU. Confidence has risen across three checkpoints—May, July, and September—though the core challenge has been supply capacity, not demand.

The US House of Representatives passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, which would require automakers to include AM radio as standard equipment at no additional charge. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it already has 60 co-sponsors, enough to overcome a filibuster.

UC Berkeley researchers evaluated 21 model–harness pairs across 7 models and 3 harnesses (Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Pi) on SWE-bench Lite and Terminal-Bench 2.0. They found that harness choice has little effect on task success rate but can cause up to 5x cost differences, that the minimal open-source harness Pi is competitive on both cost and success rate, and that models sometimes perform better with a different harness than their own vendor's.

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Victims of Jeffrey Epstein are suing to identify individuals depicted in a large cache of child sexual abuse images, alleging the Trump DOJ notified very few victims about the existence of these materials. The article is from Ars Technica's tech-policy section but the available text is almost entirely cookie consent boilerplate with no substantive technical detail.

Amazon was granted warrants to buy up to $340M of Generac stock (~3% of outstanding shares at $200.93 each) as part of a deal for Generac to supply backup power generators for Amazon data centers. Initial deliveries are expected to total $2.4 billion in 2027 and 2028, and Generac shares jumped over 40% on the news.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to attend President Trump's state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping's Washington visit next week. AI regulation is expected to be a major discussion topic, amid a public split where Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk favor slowdown/safety measures while Trump, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg oppose them.

Noise, a marketing platform launched in 2025 by Diego Kafie, Stu Feldt, and Nic Weber, lets brands run campaigns across thousands of everyday creators who are paid per view rather than flat fees. The startup announced a $5.5M seed led by Capital Midwest, M25, and Grishin Robotics, bringing total funding to $7.2M, and claims 1.5M creators with top earners making six figures annually.

Pulley, a cap table management startup that raised over $50M from General Catalyst, Stripe, and Founders Fund since 2020, announced it is shutting down on December 8. It is partnering with rival Carta to transition customers. A former employee speculated Pulley was ultimately competing with spreadsheets, not Carta—and that AI now makes spreadsheet-based cap table management more viable.

A nonprofit organization that tracks meteors was reportedly taken offline by a cyberattack described as a 'critical blow.' The article text provided contains only cookie consent boilerplate and no substantive details about the attack, its nature, impact, or recovery.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed embedding third-party safety evaluators like METR and Redwood Research inside frontier AI companies with unprecedented access to systems, training processes, and the ability to publicly report findings. OpenAI's Sam Altman committed to the same practice. Evaluators welcomed the idea but stressed that without legislation, embedded auditors could function as vendors on AI companies' terms rather than independent watchdogs.

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732931

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Meta is reportedly developing camera-less smart glasses called Luna, featuring six microphones and a side button to activate Meta's AI chatbot and Muse AI agent. The move follows persistent privacy backlash against Meta's camera-equipped Ray-Ban smart glasses, labeled 'perv glasses' by critics. Luna may be unveiled at Meta Connect next week in Menlo Park.

Xiaomi is broadcasting a live dashboard of reinforcement-learning post-training for two Mimo models: v2.6-pro (at step 12-13, $829K spent so far, 25.1B total tokens) and v2.6-flash (at step 15-16, $365K spent, 35.2B total tokens). The dashboard exposes granular metrics including pass rates, entropy loss, gradient norms, KL divergence, per-step timing (~2h 30m per step for pro), and real-time infra errors like VRAM issues and undetected dataset errors requiring restarts.

Cloudflare details four malicious JavaScript campaigns (eight payloads) caught by their Page Shield ML model on live storefronts, where seven of eight payloads were absent from VirusTotal and URLScan returned no malicious verdict for any. One payload sat indexed by URLScan for nearly 2.5 years with 'No classification' before Page Shield ML independently surfaced it. The payloads used conditional activation—dormant unless device, country, time, referrer, or browser state matched—making one-time page scans ineffective.

X launched a 'Cashtag' feature letting U.S. users trade stocks, ETFs, and crypto directly from timeline ticker symbols via partner brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase. Tapping a supported cashtag shows a price chart and related posts, with a 'Trade' button that hands off to the brokerage's app or website for login and execution.

Anthropic's head of public policy Sarah Heck said at the Politico Decoded summit that AI companies cannot self-regulate on an 'honor code' and must work with government on oversight. Her comments follow CEO Dario Amodei's call days earlier for the industry to deliberately slow model advancement via a three-step plan that he claimed would preserve US commercial advantage.

California appears poised to weaken its state net neutrality law in response to pressure from the Trump administration. The article text was not captured beyond cookie consent boilerplate, so specific legislative details are unavailable.