OpenAI says it reached its automated-research-intern goal, with researchers using 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday.
OpenAI : OpenAI says it hit its “automated research intern” goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens — For AGI to benefit all of humanity, we believe it must be democratically governed.
Zvi Mowshowitz investigates OpenAI’s wiki incident, including agent breakout paths from seemingly harmless web-search tasks.
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase : An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more — I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage. — And yet, here we are.
The Information estimates Anthropic has contracted at least 14.8GW of compute and could spend $517B over a decade.
Valida Pau / The Information : Analysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade — Anthropic in the last year has scrambled to line up cloud computing deals with SpaceX, Google and others to meet the skyrocketing demand …
US-China talks are expected to address AI-directed cyberattacks, while China presses again on US chip export controls.
Nikkei Asia : Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls — NEW YORK/PALO ALTO, California — The U.S. is poised to raise artificial intelligence safety concerns with China during …
The New York Times details how blacklisted Chinese firm Inspur allegedly bypasses US advanced-AI-chip restrictions.
New York Times : How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners — Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company's subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia's best chips …
UBS reportedly now explicitly requires AI skills from junior investment-banking hires, a notable institutional hiring shift.
Simon Foy / Financial Times : Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy — Graduates and interns hoping to join Swiss bank must show they can use the technology to improve outcomes and efficiency
The Wall Street Journal reports retail investors are connecting Claude or Codex agents to portfolios for automated trading.
Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal : How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex — Americans are vibe-coding trading algorithms and handing over their stock portfolios to AI agents. Welcome to the world of the robot retail investor.
The New York Times examines China’s 12.7M new graduates entering an AI-disrupted market with fewer entry-level roles.
Yan Zhuang / New York Times : A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles — A record 12.7 million young people are looking for jobs as the country embraces artificial intelligence — and as the technology begins to upend the work force.
vLLM publishes its implementation of speculative decoding on AMD GPUs, relevant to cheaper high-throughput inference.
This arXiv paper investigates universal geometric structure in embeddings, with implications for representation transfer.
Engrim is a new open-source, local-first SQLite memory engine designed specifically for AI command-line agents.
A critique of recreating Minecraft as an AI benchmark argues the task measures the wrong capabilities.
A high-discussion Ask HN thread compares practical ways developers organize skills files for coding agents.
Rest of World reports on a worker who refused to help train the AI system intended to replace their job.
Notebookcheck reports LG smart TVs logging audio with the screen off and probing devices on local networks.
Blockstream’s Liquid Network halted transactions after purported white hats withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from its wallet.
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk : Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet — worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
Oxide’s rack-security proposal explains a key hierarchy for securing hardware at rack scale.
Huawei unveiled the Mate XT2 trifold with its Kirin 9050 Pro, claiming the in-house chip is free of US restrictions.
Nikkei Asia : Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions — TAIPEI — China's Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first triple-folding smartphone powered by chips that it says are free …
Switzerland’s federal government is replacing Microsoft software on 3,000 computers, a meaningful public-sector shift.
NetBSD officially released 9.5 and announced end-of-life for the NetBSD 9 branch.
NetBSD documents research projects that have used the operating system, offering a compact survey of its scientific role.
A car-industry A/B test compared demand for vehicles with and without CarPlay, probing platform leverage in autos.
PIIE explains how political interference at the Census Bureau could damage the reliability of US official statistics.
A developer explains changing their software license, with substantial discussion around licensing choices and enforcement.
Mador is an 80-line Proxy-based state tuple that makes arbitrary DOM state reactive.
A 12-week introductory course on Quantum Oracle Engineering offers an unusual structured entry point to the topic.
An essay asks whether mathematics is becoming conservatory-like, examining training, taste, and elite creative practice.
“Programming is Art” makes a case for software creation as artistic practice rather than solely engineering.
An argument against using gmail.com addresses examines identity, deliverability, and dependence on a single provider.
Hyperspectral-imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C, bringing total funding to $195M.
Reuters : LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M — Indian space tech startup Pixxel said on Monday it had raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by Singapore state investor Temasek …
Bloomberg : Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing — Shein Global Holdings Ltd. has lost about $5 billion in market value since its initial public offering as it finished one of the worst opening weeks …
Cal Newport / New York Times : How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims — As the tech elite prepares to make billions from the A.I. revolution, the public mood about this technology has taken a dark turn.
OpenAI : OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace — Author: Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI — In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave — Also: The latest on Apple's big Sept. 9 event. — The early signs out of Cupertino are that Tim Cook will still loom large at Apple.