A River of News

AI headlines, Wednesday, September 30, 2026

28 items. Times are UTC.

23:00 UTC 3

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    Revenue Quintupled at AI Memory Maker Micron The Information (paywall) by Amir Efrati story
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    Microsoft Science President Peter Lee to Step Down The Information (paywall) by Aaron Holmes
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    Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, Pricing It Well Below Rivals The Information (paywall) by Jason Dean story

22:00 UTC 2

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    Exclusive: Meta’s Muse Tops 3 Million Weekly Users The Information (paywall) by Jyoti Mann story
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    DeepSeek Open-Sources Software Tools for Huawei AI Chips The Information (paywall) by Juro Osawa story

21:00 UTC 2

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    Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work and Cyber Defense MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq story
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    OpenAI Releases GPT-6.1 Sol: Near-Astra Coding and Computer Use at One-Fifth of Astra’s Token Price MarkTechPost by Michal Sutter story

20:00 UTC 2

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    Banks Including SocGen, MUFG Pull Back From Data Center Loan Deals The Information (paywall) by Dakin Campbell story
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    Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence Google DeepMind story

19:00 UTC 2

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    Can You Trust Your Agent With Your Credit Card? The Information (paywall) by Yueqi Yang
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    Sydney Sweeney-Backed Novig Raised at $2 Billion Valuation The Information (paywall) by Yueqi Yang

18:00 UTC 2

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    Meta Data Center Deal Tests Limits of AI Debt Markets The Information (paywall) by Dakin Campbell story
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    Apple Plans Aggressive New Push Into Smart Home The Information (paywall) by Aaron Tilley story

15:00 UTC 1

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    Introducing SynthID Bio Google DeepMind story

14:00 UTC 1

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    Why OpenAI’s DevDay Looked Like Catch-Up The Information (paywall) by Stephanie Palazzolo story

13:00 UTC 1

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    Wall Street and Silicon Valley Split Over AI’s Price Tag The Information (paywall) by Cory Weinberg story

12:00 UTC 1

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    The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay story

10:00 UTC 4

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    Exclusive: GPU Cloud Provider GMI Raises $668 Million From Nvidia and Others The Information (paywall) by Phoebe Liu
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    “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over Hugging Face, says OpenAI’s chief research officer MIT Technology Review by Will Douglas Heaven story
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    Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign OpenAI story
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    Helping small businesses put AI to work OpenAI story

08:00 UTC 1

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    Perplexity Introduces Photon: A Rust-Based Retrieval Engine That Cuts p99 Latency From 800 ms to 65 ms MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq

07:00 UTC 2

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    NVIDIA Researchers Introduce Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Physical Language That Lifts Cosmos 3 Past Veo 3.1 on Physics Benchmarks MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq
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    Alibaba’s AliExpress Tests Membership Program in Challenge to Amazon The Information (paywall) by Juro Osawa

01:00 UTC 2

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    One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise MarkTechPost by Jean-marc Mommessin
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    Oura, World Labs Show Divergence in VC Exits The Information (paywall) by Julia Hornstein story

00:00 UTC 2

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    Oura’s IPO Delay Signals Broader Market Stall The Information (paywall) by Martin Peers story
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    Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning Hugging Face