AI chiefs sign a White House accord to police their own labs
The heads of the largest AI developers agreed on 29 September to internal controls, outside auditors and board oversight of frontier work.
AI news, 30 September 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 05:00 UTC, 10 stories
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OpenAIOpenAI launches Dots agents and a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol
At DevDay, OpenAI gave paying users always-on agents with their own cloud computers and added a $500 a month Pro plan.
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CopyrightAppeals court rejects fair use for Ross’s AI training on Westlaw
The Third Circuit upheld the finding that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters’ headnotes, the first appellate ruling on AI training.
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OpenAIOpenAI seeks $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation
The round would bridge the gap to a stock market listing that Sam Altman has pushed back to 2027 at the earliest.
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OpenAI · Hugging FaceOpenAI sued under California hacking law over its agents’ breach
A nonprofit seeks an injunction to keep OpenAI’s agents out of systems they have no right to enter.
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US governmentAmerica.gov puts 29,000 federal websites behind one chatbot
The White House launched an AI front door to US government services, built on Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok.
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Anthropic · ZhipuAnthropic says open GLM-5.3 builds exploits with weak safeguards
Anthropic’s red team puts the Chinese open-weight model close to Claude Mythos Preview at writing working exploits.
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MetaMeta gives small businesses a Muse agent with ad account access
Muse for Small Business connects Meta’s agent to ad accounts, Instagram insights and tools such as Shopify, Canva and Stripe.
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McDonald'sMcDonald’s AI sets Big Mac prices store by store, Reuters finds
A pricing engine reads daily sales at nearly 14,000 US restaurants, and franchisees say they are pushed to follow it.
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AppleApple shelves a plan to replace 5,000 AppleCare staff with AI
Apple drew up the cuts betting that AI agents could answer customers by phone and online, Bloomberg reports.
