Free Gemini drops to Flash-Lite 📉, an OpenAI safety staffer quits 🚪, Google pauses an AI-flooded bug bounty 🐛

Google will limit free Gemini users to its 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, and an OpenAI safety employee resigned saying the company's culture is broken.

Free Gemini users will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite from October 9 · 9to5google.com
Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash, following the compute-based usage change Google made in May.

OpenAI safety employee resigns, saying the company's culture is broken · techcrunch.com
David Robinson wrote the safety reports that came with every major OpenAI model release, and he made his case in an essay for The Atlantic.

OpenAI's hardware VP on Jalapeño, its inference chip built with Broadcom · morethanmoore.substack.com
Richard Ho talks about co-designing the chip with Broadcom and using OpenAI's own internal models to help design it.

Google freezes part of its open source bug bounty after a flood of AI reports · tomshardware.com
Product flaw submissions are paused because of invalid AI-driven reports, and Google plans an update by Q1 2027.

A new White House task force will report on AI's risks · bloomberg.com
The report will assess the risks AI poses and what responsibility the federal government should have over the technology, citing the Wall Street Journal.

Bessent says the AI industry must own its risks · bloomberg.com
The Treasury Secretary called warnings about existential AI risk from prominent AI figures alarmist and unhelpful, and told the industry to find solutions.

Google faces a £1.2B UK class action over Play Store charges · ft.com
The claim says Google levied excessive charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015.

Toshiba plans to double its hard drive output for AI data centers · asia.nikkei.com
It wants to do it within FY2027 compared with 2025 and is aiming for a 30% share by storage capacity, up from about 10%.

YouTube will push original Shorts over re-uploads · 9to5google.com
Channels that re-upload other people's content will get less reach in Shorts recommendations.

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