All G20 nations endorsed the US-backed Carolina Principles for lighter-touch, sector-specific AI regulation.
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg : All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework advocating for a lighter-touch, sector-specific AI regulation — Representatives from the world's largest economies unanimously agreed to adopt guidelines proposed by the US that call …
METR published its report on the OpenAI/Hugging Face hacking incident.
Anker unveiled Eufy MindBase, a local camera AI hub with an on-device LLM, dedicated chip, and up to 48TB storage.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge : Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage — The company also announced a new Eufy video doorbell with VR features and a window camera.
At the G20, major AI CEOs joined Trump officials in lobbying against stringent AI regulation.
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal : At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations — Company bosses, officials say advances in technology are already making AI safer than under government regulations
A Virginia coalition that stopped a $100B data-center project is becoming a template for US data-center opposition.
Dawn Lim / Bloomberg : How organized opposition that toppled a $100B data center project in Virginia's Prince William County became a blueprint for data center backlash in the US — Organized opposition toppled a $100 billion project from developers backed by two of the world's biggest private equity companies.
Moonshot reportedly filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO and is seeking pre-IPO funding at a $50B valuation.
Juro Osawa / The Information : China-based Moonshot filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO; source: the company is in talks to raise a pre-IPO funding round at a $50B valuation — Moonshot AI, whose Kimi K3 open-source model has become a global hit, has filed confidentially an application for a Hong Kong initial public offering …
South Korean semiconductor exports rose 209% year over year to a record $46.65B in August.
Lim Hui Jie / CNBC : South Korean semiconductor exports surged 209% YoY to a record $46.65B in August, accounting for 47.5% of the country's goods exports, according to officials — South Korea's semiconductor exports have been an absolute boon for Asia's fourth-largest economy, sending overall numbers to a record.
ByteDance reportedly secured a $29.6B loan, Asia's second-largest US-dollar borrowing this year.
Bloomberg : Sources: ByteDance has secured a $29.6B loan in Asia's second-largest USD-denominated borrowing this year, behind SoftBank's $40B bridge loan signed in March — ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, has secured a $29.6 billion loan, according to people familiar with the matter …
Uber is reportedly partnering with driver unions to slow US robotaxi deployment.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times : Uber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business — Ride-hailing app admits its effort to back workers may appear ‘ironic’ after years of clashes with drivers.
curl disclosed six CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic security reports ultimately found zero issues.
Polars announced the pre-release of Polars 2.0.
Anthropic released a tool to check whether a file was made with Claude.
Equinix signed with Nvidia to let customers run models on Together AI through its infrastructure.
CNBC : Equinix, whose stock is up 33% YTD, pushing its market cap to $100B, inks a deal with Nvidia to let customers run their AI models on the Together AI platform — Long before the era of the hyperscalers and neoclouds, and decades ahead of the AI data center boom, there was Equinix.
An audit found roughly one-third of Perplexity citations lacked the number they were cited to support.
Taiwan logged 166 China-tie investigations and 67 trade-secret probes linked to chip talent and technology.
Kinling Lo / Rest of World : Taiwan investigated 166 cases in six years involving companies allegedly hiding China ties while pursuing chip talent and tech, alongside 67 trade-secret probes — Previously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan's crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties …
FrontierHarness compared nine agent harnesses and found cost per successful pass varied by 17x for the same model.
WebLLM offers high-performance LLM inference directly in browsers.
Cloudflare details using Zstandard and Pingora to cut cache-storage needs by petabytes.
LA Unified blocked AI tools on district devices for about 378,000 students while reviewing classroom AI use.
Julia Szymanski / LAmag : The LA Unified School District bars ~378,000 students from using AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets as officials review AI's role in classrooms — The district has blocked generative AI tools on student devices as officials review the role of AI in classrooms
New York City schools are reportedly banning AI under Mayor Mamdani.
International law firms are building bespoke AI systems to protect IP and differentiate from commodity tools.
Nick Huber / Financial Times : Several international law firms are seeking to build bespoke AI tools to gain an edge and protect their IP, while using off-the-shelf AI for everyday tasks — Desire for differentiation drives push to build in-house platforms — After a few short years of learning, experimenting and planning …
A technical essay explains why real-world robotics remains difficult despite rapid AI progress.
UNICEF's 21-country survey finds nearly one in five online teens experienced tech-facilitated sexual exploitation.
UNICEF : A survey of 21,000 internet-using children aged 12 to 17 across 21 countries finds almost one in five experienced tech-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse — More than half of abuse occurred on mainstream social media platforms; less than 1 per cent of all experiences were reported to authorities, new report finds
Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux.
GrapheneOS reports that Google's Pixel 11 does support Memory Tagging Extension hardware security.
wasmi-labs examines engineering techniques behind the fastest WebAssembly interpreters.
A hands-on guide shows reverse-engineering unknown file formats with ImHex.
The Dutch central bank moved 86 tonnes of gold from US custody to London, citing geopolitical unrest.
Uber announced layoffs affecting 10% of its workforce.
SteamDB joined Nexus Mods, linking a major Steam data service with the modding platform.
Steve Lohr / New York Times : US federal courts have consistently shown a wariness in demanding structural remedies against Big Tech despite finding antitrust liability, as tech races ahead — After finding antitrust violations, federal courts have been reluctant to impose harsh sanctions. They fear meddling in markets where technology is racing ahead.
Valeriya Safronova / Financial Times : How some parents, mostly mothers, use AI to help them organize their families' schedules and automate mundane household tasks via apps like Ollie and Cozi Max — Parents are using AI to organise their families, from managing busy schedules to researching preschools, planning meals and grocery shopping.