Show Notes
OpenAI fired three researchers for allegedly sharing sensitive info with an AI safety group, and the whistleblower talk started. Cloudflare launched Clef to challenge Jev, Suno added Speech, and Slovenia's .si domains boomed after Trump's "super intelligence" rebrand.
OpenAI says it "parted ways" with three researchers for violating its "handling sensitive" info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization (WSJ)
Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B (The Register)
Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices from scripts or prompts, with optional background music, in public beta, as its music generator faces lawsuits (The Verge)
Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns (Reuters)
Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI "super intelligence" (BBC)
Longreads
Mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls point to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence, as a California man is arrested over $300M+ in smuggled chips (Bloomberg)
A huge, in-depth profile of Oracle's billionaire owner Larry Ellison, from self-taught programmer to bombastic media figure and yacht-racing obsessive (Vanity Fair)
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