🤖 OpenAI and Microsoft forge restructuring deal 🤖
Partnership allows ChatGPT maker to become for-profit while nonprofit retains control.

The newly announced agreement enables OpenAI to restructure into a for-profit company while its nonprofit arm maintains oversight and secures a stake valued at over $100 billion. The deal requires regulatory approval and signals Microsoft's shift toward a diversified AI strategy mixing internal models with partner technology. Microsoft plans significant investments in proprietary AI development alongside continued OpenAI collaboration.

🏛️ Switzerland launches national AI model Apertus 🏛️
Government-backed Open-Source alternative to proprietary Generative AI chatbots announced

Switzerland has officially released Apertus, a comprehensive open-source AI model positioned as a national alternative to proprietary systems like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. The government-supported initiative represents Europe's growing push for AI sovereignty and transparent alternatives to Big Tech monopolies. Apertus offers full transparency in training data and methodology while maintaining competitive performance across multiple languages and domains. This marks a significant step towards European AI independence.

🧠 Claude gains long term memory for Work 🧠
Anthropic’s AI assistant can now remember conversations and carry context across projects

Anthropic's latest update gives Claude the ability to remember previous conversations and automatically maintain context across ongoing projects, but exclusively for Team and Enterprise subscribers. The memory feature helps Claude tailor responses to specific team processes, client requirements, and project continuity. Users maintain full control with options to view, edit, or disable memories, plus incognito chat modes for private conversations. Administrators can deactivate the feature organization-wide at any time.

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🏛️ Albania appoints AI cabinet minister 🏛️

Albania makes history by naming "Diella," an AI system, to an official cabinet position with full authority over government procurement contracts. Prime Minister Edi Rama unveiled the virtual minister during this week's cabinet announcement, calling her the first member "virtually created by artificial intelligence." The AI avatar will evaluate and award all public tenders while already serving citizens through Albania's digital services portal via voice commands.

🔬 Meta's secret TBD Lab wars 🔬

Meta's mysterious TBD Lab (prev. called SuperIntelligence Lab) operates in a badge-access area near Zuckerberg's desk, hidden from internal organizational charts and creating unprecedented compensation disparities. New hires routinely leverage competing offers from frontier labs to secure massive pay packages while existing employees lobby for raises. ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao quit within a week but returned after Meta tripled his compensation and appointed him chief scientist.

H-FARM EVENTS ON AI

Club AI @ H-FARM Campus - September 18, 6:00 PM

H-FARM’s AI Club is a monthly community meetup that brings up to 500 people together to cut through the AI noise with real news, real cases, real debate.

On stage this edition:

• Diego Pizzocaro (CEO, H-FARM AI): the latest AI news but mixed with our comments, perspectives and your questions.

• Luca Pezzullo (President, Order of Psychologists of Veneto Region): “AI & Consciousness: Illusion, Reality, and Risks.”

• Enterprise Voice Agents (CISCO): what really works in large organizations - architecture, rollout, ROI with AI Voice tech.

Language: English (full session)