OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health integration with Epic EHRs and a public-data plug-in spanning sources including PubMed.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed — OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data …
METR’s Ajeya Cotra discusses the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident and agents that chose not to notify humans.
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast : Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more — “This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get.” — Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling …
Financial Times examines frontier labs’ expanding biological-risk testing and why it is harder than cyber evaluations.
Financial Times : Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments — Executives and biosecurity experts are concerned that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons.
SemiAnalysis details South Korea’s sovereign-AI push, $919B infrastructure plan, and Nvidia ties to Samsung and SK Hynix.
SemiAnalysis : A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix — Korea hosts a Squid Games, National AI Tournament, the best non-Chinese open source model gets eliminated, why Nvidia needs open source, implications for Hynix and Samsung
Understanding AI assesses humanoid robotics’ core bottlenecks: generalization and reliably completing long-horizon tasks.
Kai Williams / Understanding AI : A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome — A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics. — Today's Robot Week article is sponsored by 80,000 Hours …
NYC public schools will bar student AI use before high school and prohibit companion chatbots in every grade.
Matthew Haag / New York Times : NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more — A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
Ex-Face ID engineers’ robotics startup Lyte raises $165M at a $1.6B valuation, bringing total funding to $272M.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg : Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M — Lyte, a fast-growing robotics and artificial intelligence startup from top members of Apple Inc.'s Face ID team …
Baseten maps the cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs that define the efficient frontier for LLM inference.
New arXiv work investigates emergent symbolic structure inside artificial neural networks.
A developer reports using Fable to rewrite 65,000 lines of Go into Rust for $400.
A detailed account of running local models on an M4 Pro Mac mini, including hardware and serving choices.
A GitHub project shows how to run the 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model on a 48GB Mac at roughly 12 tokens/sec.
Keenable SELECT introduces an agent that searches the web through SQL queries.
Apple presents claimed evidence from a former employee’s MacBook in its lawsuit against OpenAI.
EFF urges courts not to reshape copyright doctrine around AI-hype arguments.
EFF asks Governor Newsom to veto California AB 1709, a proposed AI-related copyright measure.
YC-backed Nori Robotics launches a low-cost humanoid robot aimed at development use.
Krebs reports that the FBI is probing Nexus, an ID-theft service claiming scans of 153M+ US and Canadian licenses.
FTC alleges Amazon made $20B illegally by rigging billions of advertising auctions.
WSJ reports on Snap’s costly Specs AR-glasses bet, including funding troubles and internal concerns.
Wall Street Journal : A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources say Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, and planned outside funding never came — As company struggles with profitability, Snap CEO is doubling down on a hardware play that has made some investors wary
Google Play blocks Aurora Store, creating a significant distribution problem for GrapheneOS users.
Mozilla introduces a native ad blocker for Firefox on iOS.
Newsonaut examines pressures on Firefox and the consequences for browser competition.
HN Match Maker links September’s “Who Wants to Be Hired?” posts with matching “Who’s Hiring?” roles.
A browser-based viewer renders Office Open XML documents without desktop Office software.
WebFPGA brings FPGA development and experimentation into the browser.
Ambient CSS v3 presents a visual CSS authoring environment inspired by Blender.
A technical exploration of using io_uring without readahead.
A hands-on restoration of a Tektronix TDS7104 oscilloscope documents repair and reverse-engineering work.
Mariella Moon / Engadget : Acer unveils the Predator Atlas 7, a 7" handheld with an Intel Arc G3 Extreme CPU, shipping in November, and the Project DualPlay Mini, an 8" concept device — It puts the Predator Atlas 8's features in a smaller form factor. — Acer has unveiled the Predator Atlas 7 as part of its announcements …
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge : Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo — The Dell 14S promises an aluminum build, Intel Wildcat Lake chips, and lots of battery life — for a price we don't know exactly yet.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : The FBI is investigating a new ID theft service called Nexus, which claims to have digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada — A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada.
Bloomberg : A look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan — Japan is betting $640 billion on AI and chips. But this struggling city shows the limits of that investment.
Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional : The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” — The Coming of Userless Agents — The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident is an early example of an AI system that has “gone rogue.”
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona — SciFin Tech Inc., a company that helps revenue teams converge context across disconnected systems to understand business needs, launched today with $44 million in seed funding.
The Information : Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer.