NYT examines Corporate America’s accelerating adoption of open-source AI models.
Reuters reports Anthropic may publish its IPO prospectus in late September ahead of a November listing.
Echo Wang / Reuters : Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November — Anthropic is expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest and complete the listing days …
Reuters reports the US and China plan to discuss AI-safety risks in mid-September talks.
Laurie Chen / Reuters : Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side — The U.S. and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed …
California’s AG is investigating OpenAI over the July Hugging Face hack, joined by more than a dozen states.
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico : California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation — SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the recent hack its programs carried out on their own …
EEBench tests whether current AI systems can actually design usable circuit boards.
Spotify Engineering explains how Portal reduced Claude Code token consumption by 90%.
GitHub introduces HydraFusion, a multi-model orchestration project claiming frontier-quality results.
Wired investigates the unexplained outages at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Microsoft court filings say only about 60,000 of 8.2M Copilot chats shared 16+ words with news content.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge : Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content — Fewer than 1 percent of more than 8 million chat logs regurgitated at least 16 words. … Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces …
FT reports Pennsylvania voters organizing against the local costs of data-center expansion.
Micro1 offered $12.5M for Spirit Airlines’ data, highlighting a dispute over valuable training data.
Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg : Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google — An artificial intelligence startup is attempting to wrest away a vast trove of Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc.'s business records from Google LLC.
A technical essay argues that “next-token predictor” is an inadequate mental model for LLM behavior.
ProductRise finds Google AI Mode surfaced identical products at prices 21.6% higher than traditional search.
Mullvad explains why it is shutting down its public encrypted DNS service.
The US military disabled ad trackers on troops’ phones after location-data exposure concerns.
A government Rails site was compromised only hours after a CVE patch, examining the response failure.
RSA-260 has been factorized, a notable public milestone against the RSA challenge number.
WSJ reports US negotiators used prospective Nvidia-chip access for an Armenian data center in peace talks.
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal : Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year — Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement ending decades of conflict
Sylvain Kalache examines how AI-driven incident handling can erode engineers’ operational system knowledge.
Google announces Gmail will end third-party-address “Send as” support, including Yahoo addresses.
Nvidia says DLSS 5 is planned for RTX 40-series GPUs after RTX 50-series performance is tuned.
Sean Hollister / The Verge : Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs “once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned” — Nvidia won't confirm that previously announced DLSS 5 games will still ship with the tech. … But unofficially, modders have already ported a leaked version …
Rust React Compiler support is now native in Vite.
IBM launches Bob, a new offering hosted at bob.ibm.com.
TERMy is an open-source fast terminal assistant built without an LLM.
Pushin offers Git hosting designed to keep repositories entirely within Europe.
OpenTrailPaper publishes an open-source e-ink bike computer design.
Charles Petzold explores how guitar frets can encode multiplication.
@openai : In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment — How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it's past time for us …
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg : Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more — Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with US rivals, even after years of restrictions on their access to advanced chips.
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal : Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale — John Borthwick's venture firm wrote the first check Hugging Face ever received, and now owns a stake that could be worth $650 million.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters — A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
Jonathan Greig / The Record : The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia — The United States and United Kingdom will work together on an initiative to shut down scam centers stealing billions of dollars through investment and romance fraud schemes.
Eve Bender / MobiHealthNews : Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity — The financing includes a $90 million Series C equity round and $130 million in debt facilities.
Moneycontrol : Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B — The downround, which marks a nearly 70% correction from Slice's earlier valuation, comes after funding talks with Accel …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process — Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities.