Good Morning Tech News

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Good Morning Tech News: A daily tech news podcast for the morning's top tech stories.

Publisher

Daily Tech Pod

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Apr 2026

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Anthropic's Prospectus Says the Quiet Part, and OpenAI Shelves Astra 6.1

   In today's episode: IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers (https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28) More angles: fortune.com (https://fortune.com/2026/09/29/anthropic-leaked-ipo-prospectus-losses-growth-ai-end-humanity) · engadget.com (https://www.engadget.com/2271659/anthropic-lost-8-billion-says-it-could-destroy-humanity) · bitcoininsider.org (https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/308173/anthropic-ipo-filing-reportedly-discloses-42-billion-loss-518-billion-spending-plan) OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar during internal testing, after targeting an October release (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-model-release-cancel-safety-5a2f9f42?st=u6jQPM) More angles: techcrunch.com (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/openai-reportedly-ditches-model-over-safety-concerns) · bbc.com (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm5y5nynl75ko) · cnbc.com (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/openai-abandons-plan-to-release-upcoming-model-as-safety-concerns-escalate.html) AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by the end of 2026; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-28/amd-to-buy-fei-fei-li-s-world-labs-ai-startup-for-8-2-billion?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MDYyODMyOCwiZXhwIjoxNzkxMjMzMTI4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTFpDUUdLR1pBSkIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEQjlFREYyREVCMkE0OTVGOTgzMjczRUQxRjk1MTg0NSJ9.REuHvo64oe8MXQRuGs3YteMPprZkGpyqLw7GoR6qiKY) More angles: newsroom.amd.com (https://newsroom.amd.com/news/amd-acquire-world-labs) · worldlabs.ai (https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement) · ir.amd.com (https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1299/amd-to-acquire-world-labs-to-advance-the-future-of-ai-compute) Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon (https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5) More angles: testingcatalog.com (https://www.testingcatalog.com/anthropic-claude-sonnet-5-5-release-date-leaks) · helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/29/anthropic-claude-sonnet-5-5) Internal memo: the FBI says it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all staff; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/us/politics/fbi-shinyhunters-damage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElE.OIHB.J2rMk-_i6AeP&smid=url-share) More angles: 404media.co (https://www.404media.co/fbi-hackers-say-they-wont-publish-massive-trove-of-fbi-employee-data) · cnn.com (https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/fbi-fallout-data-breach-hacking) OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier while halving the API credits provided per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and removes the five-hour cap (https://the-decoder.com/openai-reopens-its-200-pro-plan-but-cuts-api-credits-in-half-as-it-nudges-users-toward-pay-per-use)

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Amodei Goes to Dinner, and Nvidia Sells the Cage

   In today's episode: Sources: President Trump hosted Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, an indication of thawing relations; Trump personally invited Amodei (https://www.axios.com/2026/09/27/anthropic-trump-dario-amodei-dinner-invite) More angles: fortune.com (https://fortune.com/2026/09/28/openai-hits-pause-again) · techcrunch.com (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/27/anthropics-ceo-is-about-to-have-dinner-with-president-trump) · bloomberg.com (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-27/ai-breaches-add-to-safety-fears-as-trump-meets-anthropic-chief) Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping, made up of OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for network chips (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html) More angles: nvidianews.nvidia.com (https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/open-agent-safety-platform) · developer.nvidia.com (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-open-agent-safety-platform-a-reference-for-continuous-in-silicon-agent-monitoring) Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/citrix-admins-warned-to-shut-down-netscalers-over-2-exploited-zero-days) More angles: networkworld.com (https://www.networkworld.com/article/4227476/netscaler-admins-told-to-patch-critical-zero-days-in-adc-and-gateway-now.html) · helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/28/citrix-netscaler-rce-zero-days-exploited-for-weeks-cve-2026-88771-cve-2026-88772) Meta's VR Glasses are the product Vision Pro should have been; sources say Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is on “life support” (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-09-27/meta-s-vr-glasses-are-exactly-what-the-apple-vision-pro-should-have-been-mujvy8q6?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MDUxODQwNywiZXhwIjoxNzkxMTIzMjA3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTTEwODFLSVVQUzYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.51604_0p7AaiKq26lUSYAGTpczPCTFIvnKI7SLUCyv8) More angles: 9to5mac.com (https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/27/apple-working-on-new-lighter-vision-pro-version) · businesstoday.in (https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-explores-new-vision-pro-designs-as-it-eyes-metas-new-glasses-report-558186-2026-09-28) · trustedreviews.com (https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/apples-smart-glasses-could-beat-an-upgraded-vision-pro-to-market-in-2027) Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-agents-used-aggressive-techniques-to-access-u-n-website-522c70ff?st=os5ZgA) More angles: swarmcha.se (https://swarmcha.se/posts/openai-unctad) · siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/27/researcher-links-16000-scans-of-a-u-n-statistics-portal-to-openai-agents) · theverge.com (https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001178/openai-agents-bruteforce-un-website) AlphaSense: mentions of open models in US earnings calls and conferences rose 6x YoY in August and September; open models hit 56% of Vercel tokens in August (https://www.ft.com/content/d9de4776-1fc9-4f2b-aaaf-9961c35d8acd) More angles: paulkedrosky.com (https://paulkedrosky.com/four-charts-tokens-vs-revenue-gpus-canada-etc) · pymnts.com (https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/businesses-embrace-open-weight-ai-amid-heavy-tech-costs)

3. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Tens of Thousands of Incidents, and a Treaty Edited With the Cameras Off

   In today's episode: Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking (https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-anthropic-thousands-ai-security-incidents) More angles: the-decoder.com (https://the-decoder.com/tens-of-thousands-of-security-probes-show-openais-hugging-face-incident-was-just-the-beginning) · cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com/2026/09/26/tech/openai-agents-rogue-government-websites) · alignment.openai.com (https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot) Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (https://fortune.com/2026/09/25/north-korea-bitget-387-million-crypto-attack) More angles: crypto.news (https://crypto.news/bitget-hacker-routes-4-btc-through-wasabi-coinjoin) · bitget.com (https://www.bitget.com/support/articles/12560603896108) Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/26/how-us-russia-weakened-global-effort-regulate-killer-ai?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzkwMzk1MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzkxNzc3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3OTAzOTUyMDAsImp0aSI6ImY2ODYzMThkLTQxNTUtNDkyNS04NzQxLTM3Mzg2ZTZmOGQ1YyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjYvMDkvMjYvaG93LXVzLXJ1c3NpYS13ZWFrZW5lZC1nbG9iYWwtZWZmb3J0LXJlZ3VsYXRlLWtpbGxlci1haS8ifQ.DcF_c_Vlgpc1yu8fbfWuEt0HvgRmXSKgQhgIYrnawcI&itid=gfta) More angles: en.sedaily.com (https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/09/27/us-and-russia-join-forces-to-strip-key-clause-from-un-ai) · mirror.co.uk (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ai-killer-robots-un-russia-37706305) Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk “was an error and the ads are being restored”; YouTube is also allowing the ads (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/meta-says-it-will-run-ads-for-musk-documentary-after-all) More angles: hollywoodreporter.com (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-meta-musk-trailer-ad-1236712540) · pocket-lint.com (https://www.pocket-lint.com/youtube-free-has-never-been-worse) How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-safety-effective-altruism-anthropic-164b9d05?st=6WvYkF) PicoJool, which is developing AI data center interconnects based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Socratic Partners (https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/24/pat-gelsinger-backed-startup-picojool-raises-27-5m-to-boost-bandwidth-for-ai-clusters) More angles: picojool.com (https://www.picojool.com/news/picojool-raises-27-5-million-series-a-to-scale-optical-connectivity-for-ai-infrastructure) · unite.ai (https://www.unite.ai/picojool-raises-27-5m-series-a-to-scale-optical-connectivity-for-ai-data-centers)

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