Anthropic examines how AI could reshape employment, growth, and economic distribution.
Documents Qwen 3.8’s apparent adoption of GPT-5.5 Pro-style reasoning prefills.
OpenAI Foundation director Paul Christiano says industry is off track on acute loss-of-control risk.
Paul Christiano / @paulfchristiano : OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an “acceptable” level — I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight.
Anthropic granted ENISA testing access to Mythos 5, while withholding Mythos 5.1.
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg : Anthropic gives EU cybersecurity agency ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months of talks that began in late May; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1 — Anthropic PBC has handed the European Union's cybersecurity agency access to its powerful Mythos artificial intelligence model …
Chinese AI-chip vendors reportedly raised prices 20%–50% as HBM costs climb.
Reuters : Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs — Chinese AI chipmakers including Huawei Technologies [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and Cambricon (688256.SS) have sharply raised prices …
Reports Chinese tech giants recruiting specialist AI trainers for higher-quality data.
Viola Zhou / Rest of World : Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor — Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work …
Investigates how Mistral’s ascent was aided by unusually close ties to Macron’s government.
Océane Herrero / Politico : Sources including French public officials detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron — Mistral has forged unrivaled ties with the French presidency. Now, Emmanuel Macron is departing. — in Paris
Alibaba reportedly plans to lead UniPat AI’s $300M model-testing round at a $2.5B valuation.
Bloomberg : Sources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is slated to lead a $300 million investment in AI training and benchmarking startup UniPat AI …
Moonshot AI is reportedly weighing dual Hong Kong and Shanghai listings.
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post : Sources: Moonshot AI is exploring dual Hong Kong and Shanghai listings for greater capital and exposure, amid the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong — Moonshot's exploration of dual listings may stem in part from the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong, the sources said
A detailed argument against expectations of AI-driven double-digit GDP growth within 10–15 years.
Ghosts of Electricity : A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years — The following post represents the personal views of the author(s) and does not reflect or represent the positions of their employers.
Reports AI’s spillover into deep-tech bets, with non-AI deep-tech funding above $150B since 2024.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times : The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in “moonshot” sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 — Tech investors are rediscovering the kind of long-shot sci-fi bets that helped build Silicon Valley.
Cognition reports factoring RSA-260, a notable cryptanalytic milestone.
A reproducible account of training a 3.8B-parameter LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998.
Paper proposes procedural graphs that evolve execution structures for LLM agents.
Samsung unveils a zHBM prototype that stacks memory directly on AI accelerators.
Stockfish 19 release brings the latest version of the leading open-source chess engine.
IEEE Spectrum examines Rivian’s strategy and technical wager for full autonomy.
GNU Radio running in the browser makes SDR workflows accessible without local installation.
A technical walkthrough of Planet Labs’ open satellite imagery feed.
Read the Docs details the recent DDoS attack and its mitigation.
Presents a technique to compute polynomials roughly twice as fast.
Describes the accidental creation of a synthetic-cell production platform.
Luanti says Microsoft/TracerAI withdrew its copyright takedown request.
Introduces an open-source Durable Objects implementation backed by Postgres.
Microsoft explains the algorithm Windows XP used to assign initial user pictures.
Blizzard workers secured a historic union contract, shaping labor standards in games.
Automattic’s board reportedly forced CEO Matt Mullenweg into a leave of absence.
Covers the UN’s challenge to five centuries of conventional world-map cartography.
Reports how a Tesla’s remote-control features were allegedly abused by an ex-partner.
Apple announces the Apple Watch Series 12 hardware refresh.
Reuters : DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on a new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context — Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model …
Axios : Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless” — A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned.
Bloomberg : Sources: Grab is in talks to buy a majority stake in Advance Intelligence Group's Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome Financial at a $2B+ valuation — Grab Holdings Ltd., the biggest ride-hailing and food-delivery firm in Southeast Asia, is in talks to buy a majority stake in Singapore-based buy …
Emmy Martin / New York Times : How Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF — The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired : Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more — Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment …
Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon names Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, noting his extensive experience “combating cyber threats” in public and private sectors — Amazon said Kevin Mandia, the founder and former CEO of cybersecurity company Mandiant, is joining its board of directors.