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India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

September 11, 2026
Pocket FM, an Indian audio storytelling platform, has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million over the past year as it increasingly turns to artificial intelligence to produce its content. AI now powers 93% of Pocket FM’s overall catalog and is used to produce 99% of its new content, co-founder and CEO Rohan Nayak said in an interview. The shift comes as generative AI makes…
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AI agents are flooding public services with new requests

September 11, 2026
As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests. In the United Kingdom, complaints to the housing ombudsman more than doubled since the introduction of ChatGPT, rising…
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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

September 10, 2026
As AI agents gain access to the same sensitive corporate data and systems as human workers while operating at machine speed, enterprises are prone to new security risks. Storied venture firm Sequoia Capital is betting big on that shift, backing startup Cymphony as it emerges with $30 million in funding to help companies keep their growing AI workforce in check. The funding includes a $25 million…
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

September 9, 2026
NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in collaboration with Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge and using both Codex and Claude AI models, are significant in themselves – but they’re also accompanied by an unusual controversy…
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Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

September 8, 2026
AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF – and, as of last week, terms like “opaque recurrence,” the reasoning technique in OpenAI’s new Astra model that’s got AI safety…
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