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"An AI did it" is no defense · Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M…

No editor's note for this day — the brief below was assembled automatically from the 27 stories our 7 sources published, clustered by how many outlets ran each one.

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    Builders 2 sources

    "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack

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    Your work 1 source

    Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents

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    Money 1 source

    Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses

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    Creators 1 source

    The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

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    Money 1 source

    Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites

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    Research 1 source

    An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for October 1, 2026 — 20 more stories from 7 outlets, untouched.

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  1. How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  2. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design The Verge
  3. Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet TechCrunch
  4. Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now The Verge
  5. Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear Wired
  6. RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise Ars Technica
  7. The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here Wired
  8. There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI Wired
  9. Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves Ars Technica
  10. The AI Tamagotchis are coming The Verge
  11. Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan The Verge
  12. The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning Hugging Face
  14. NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction Hugging Face
  15. Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents Hugging Face
  16. How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. Unveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog IEEE Spectrum · event.on24.com
  18. A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp IEEE Spectrum · robotsguide.com
  19. Generative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents Hugging Face
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