The US Federal Trade Commission is running an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and the research group Metr over the dangers their agentic AI poses to consumers, The Guardian reported on 30 September, the same day President Trump signed a code of conduct that Politico describes as only "morally binding".
Shopify launched Canvas on 1 October, a site builder that creates a live Shopify store by chatting with its Sidekick AI agent, while a Dutch security nonprofit disclosed a breach driven by an autonomous AI agent.
YouTube said on Monday it had reached a new licensing deal with SESAC and would restore music from Adele, Kendrick Lamar and others within "the next day or two", after hundreds of tracks vanished from YouTube and YouTube Music over the weekend.
On 30 September, Tigris published a post-mortem on running its object-storage queue inside FoundationDB and moving async work to Kafka. It is not a sports story, but it describes the exact plumbing that now carries high-volume sports media, and it lands the same week Europe's data centres were told they cannot keep their water and power numbers secret.
