Two child sex abuse survivors have filed a proposed class action against Jeffrey Epstein's estate, alleging the Justice Department failed to notify dozens of victims whose images were found among Epstein's massive cache of child sexual abuse material. The FBI reportedly reviewed tens of thousands of videos after Epstein's arrest and confirmed a large volume of images depicted likely minors, some unrelated to Epstein's known trafficking ring. The lawsuit targets the estate's co-executors, seeking court-ordered notification and remedies for survivors who may never have met Epstein but whose abuse images he possessed.
Amazon received warrants to buy up to 1.69 million Generac shares at $200.93 each, potentially worth up to $8 billion, as part of a deal for Generac to supply backup power generators to Amazon's data centers. Generac shares jumped more than 40% in after-hours trading following the news, with initial generator deliveries expected to total $2.4 billion between 2027 and 2028.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend the White House state dinner marking Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit, according to CNBC. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is also expected to be present, as the Trump administration invites prominent tech executives to the event.
Noise, a marketing platform that lets anyone with a smartphone create sponsored content for brands and get paid per view, has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Capital Midwest, M25, and Grishin Robotics, bringing total funding to $7.2 million. The app connects brands seeking scalable content campaigns with a pool of over 1.5 million creators across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, handling briefs, payments, and sourcing automatically. Founded in 2025 by Diego Kafie, Stu Feldt, and Nic Weber, the company says its top creators earn six figures annually.
A survey of over 500 CISOs by IANS and Artico found that 69% now rank AI as their top target for new cybersecurity budget dollars, even though overall security budgets grew just 5% in 2026. Nearly a quarter of organizations have created dedicated AI security budget lines, while others fund it through general security, IT, or innovation budgets.
Federal Judge Mark Pittman is demanding X and SpaceX's AI unit turn over any agreement that led them to voluntarily drop antitrust claims against Apple, while continuing their suit against OpenAI. The original lawsuit alleged Apple and OpenAI colluded to suppress rival AI apps on the App Store after agreeing to integrate ChatGPT into Siri. OpenAI filed an emergency motion pushing for disclosure of the settlement terms, and Pittman has given the companies until noon on September 17 to respond.
Pulley, a cap table management platform founded by Yin Wu in 2020, is ceasing operations on December 8. The company has arranged to transfer its customers to competitor Carta and is directing new prospects there as well, despite the two firms having been rivals in the space.
Apple has released an early version of its redesigned Health app to developers testing iOS 27.2, ahead of a planned public rollout later in 2026. The update adds an Insights tab summarizing sleep, fitness and readiness trends, plus a Longevity tab featuring a 'Health Age' score and movement assessments for flexibility, strength and balance, with commentary from health experts tied to user data.
Leaker Kepler_L2 says most of Nvidia's next-gen RTX 60 series and AMD's RDNA 5-based Radeon 10000 lineup won't launch until 2028, with AMD's midrange AT2 chip as the sole exception still on track for 2026. The claim contradicts an earlier report from Moore's Law is Dead suggesting Nvidia's RTX 6090 could arrive in early 2027, and AMD board partners have reportedly given inconsistent timelines ranging from late 2027 to early 2028.
Heart Machine founder Alx Preston announced that a publisher backing an unannounced project decided to abandon it this week, leaving the studio without its primary funding source. With no other immediate financial options, the Hyper Light Drifter developer laid off nearly its entire team, following earlier cuts tied to the cancellation of Hyper Light Breaker in October 2025.
The International Meteor Organization, a nonprofit that coordinates global reporting of meteor and fireball sightings, disclosed that a cyberattack severely damaged its outdated infrastructure and knocked much of its website offline. The group says it expects weeks of partial downtime while it rebuilds on new systems, and is temporarily directing fireball reports and updates through alternative channels including Facebook.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed letting third-party evaluators like METR and Redwood Research operate inside frontier AI companies with deep access to systems and training data, not just finished models. OpenAI's Sam Altman said his company would adopt a similar approach. Evaluators welcomed the idea but say specifics—and possibly legislation—are needed to ensure genuine independence rather than vendor-style arrangements.
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