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Animikii, a BC-based tech company, has partnered with Manitoba's Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation to steward data about the community's history.
Source: BetaKit
https://betakit.com/setting-the-pace-in-data-sovereignty-and-ai-adoption/
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VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/factory-ceo-just-accused-his-vc-board-advisor-of-spying-for-cognition/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to the NHS Federated Data Platform that runs on Palantir software.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/palantir-nhs-data-platform-44000-objections-38-degrees
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Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform. Why are  are investors betting so big on this category? …

Google has asked the EU court to suspend an order that would require it to open its platform to AI chatbots and search engine rivals.
Source: CNA
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/google-asks-eu-court-suspend-order-open-up-ai-chatbots-search-engine-rivals-6422341
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The White House launched America.gov, an AI chatbot intended as a single front door to federal services.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/america-gov-ai-chatbot-trump-gemini-grok-minecraft
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The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/hackers-stole-millions-of-us-military-personnel-records-during-months-long-data-breach/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Rippling's AI agents can move across payroll, spend, devices, and headcount with the same permissions as a person.
Source: Kleiner Perkins
https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/meet-rippling-ai/
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DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/doordashs-drone-strategy-started-on-the-ground/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/bmw-built-the-same-car-for-gas-and-electric-the-ev-is-4400-cheaper/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and the nonprofit METR over potential dangers of their technology.
Source: Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/30/2026/ftc-probes-openai-anthropic-and-metr
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OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/openais-jev-clone-could-help-the-frontier-lab-stop-its-swarming-agents/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/ai-voice-startup-elevenlabs-doubles-valuation-to-22b/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The price of AI is crashing faster than the rate of Moore's Law, a report suggests. The report says AI costs have fallen by thousands of times, roughly 50% cheaper each quarter.
Source: Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/the-price-of-ai-is-crashing-faster-than-the-rate-of-moores-law-report-suggests-intelligence-costs-are-in-freefall-outpacing-comparative-technologies-like-compute-dna-sequencing-and-lithium-batteries
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Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The African Union is drafting a continental AI model law. Malawi's communications regulator backed AI surveillance cameras for Blantyre.
Source: Innovation Village
https://innovation-village.com/ai-africa-intelligence-september-24-30-2026-vol-25-a-lighter-week/
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There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/the-ugly-economics-of-consumer-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Cloudflare announced a closed beta of its Monetization Gateway, which lets domain owners charge AI agents for access to websites, APIs, tools or datasets.
Source: Cloudflare
https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway-beta/
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Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/meta-disputes-claim-that-muse-read-a-users-private-messages-without-permission/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Apple Pay has officially launched in India through a partnership with Axis Bank.
Source: Gulf News
https://gulfnews.com/business/banking/apple-pay-finally-launches-in-india-after-years-on-the-sidelines-but-theres-a-catch-1.500693857
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