US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is reportedly meeting AI hyperscalers about putting data centers on federal land.
The Washington Sun : Sources: US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump's push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash — The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department's land. — Copy
Bitcoin miners are converting facilities into AI data centers as the crypto market slump undermines US mining expansion.
Bloomberg : Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump — Donald Trump's pledge to ensure that Bitcoin mining activity is centered in the US is rapidly disintegrating under the twin forces …
Bloomberg examines US cases involving chatbot legal counsel, AI-generated evidence, and alleged AI-assisted violence.
Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg : The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting — The first line Phoenix Ikner typed into ChatGPT was a quadratic expression. It was March 2024, and Ikner was a 19-year-old student at Tallahassee State College, in Florida.
Bloomberg reports Trump is prioritizing US AI competitiveness over regulation ahead of a Xi summit centered partly on AI safety.
Bloomberg : Trump is taking a hands-off approach to AI regulation to preserve the US lead over China, ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, where AI safety is a top issue — In June 2024, during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, then-candidate Donald Trump got a glimpse of the technology that would come to define his second presidential term.
A technical reverse-engineering effort recovers 50 GB/s of bandwidth from Apple's Neural Engine.
English and Welsh police recorded 163 crimes mentioning AI-generated, deepfake, or nudify terms by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023.
Mark Tovey / Telegraph : Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like “AI-generated”, “deepfake”, and “nudify” by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 — Forces see a surge in crimes involving deepfake technology being used to ‘undress women’
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year, citing the current safety climate.
Jason Ma / Fortune : Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public” — Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.
Hugging Face's Open Alignment Initiative seeks to participate in Anthropic's proposed embedded-evaluators program.
Clem / @clementdelangue : Hugging Face says its Open Alignment Initiative, led by co-founder Thomas Wolf, seeks “to be part of the ‘embedded evaluators’ program that Amodei” committed to — It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingface and asking to be part of the “embedded evaluators
The Atlantic had no hurricanes through September 12, breaking a 60-year record.
Transformer Circuits presents a mathematical framework for analyzing transformer computations and their internal circuitry.
Trail of Bits explains its work verifying the integrity of Signal chats.
LG disputes allegations that its TVs spy on owners, directly addressing tracking and snooping claims.
JetKVM introduces its Mini hardware KVM device for remote management of physical machines.
Homebrew 7.0.0 is released by the package manager's official project.
Rust's never type is moving toward stabilization, clarifying a long-running edge of the language's type system.
A Bun build visualizer exposes compilation phases and timings to diagnose Bun compile performance.
Trigora proposes durable execution without history replay, tackling a core workflow-engine reliability tradeoff.
AgentsDock launches an IDE specifically designed for agentic AI research workflows.
Norton unveils Neo Browser, an AI-branded browser product.
Tedium investigates spam outreach from iLands' AI-agent hustle.
Cory Doctorow argues that “AI” is a misleading umbrella label while LLMs are a concrete technology.
Aligned to whom? examines the contested question of whose values AI alignment should represent.
Armin Ronacher's “P(doom)” examines how to reason about existential-risk probabilities in AI discourse.
A large Hacker News discussion compares the default AI models practitioners actually use and why.
Waymo reportedly stopped and summoned police after juvenile passengers were found with a ghost gun.
Apple's C2 modem reportedly ships across iPhone Duo and 18 Pro variants, with a Qualcomm exception for US 18 Pro Max units.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm — As noted by Nicolas Lellouche, who writes for the French tech website Numerama, Apple has updated its tech specs pages …
Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg remains chairman and CEO after an attempted ouster.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO “with full support of the board”, after an attempted ouster this week — After a tumultuous week, which saw WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ousted from his position as CEO of Automattic …
Ken Shirriff dissects the 8087 floating-point chip's microcode implementation of its scale instruction.
A GitHub project aims to keep the SPICE circuit-simulation ecosystem alive.
A programming-language essay collects several underappreciated design ideas worth revisiting.
John Egan / Dallas Innovates : Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M — As rules about heat and lightning grow nationwide, the Uptown Dallas company is betting AI and automation can take the guesswork out of calls regarding severe weather.
Michael Safi / The Guardian : A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it — Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools.
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal : An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth — The tech roll-up relies on aggressive price hikes and bespoke metrics. Rising interest rates could crimp its growth.
Politico : Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right” — Top executives at three of the nation's leading AI labs are calling for a slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence. — The comments are a rare display …
Sam Altman / @sama : Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same — I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
Bloomberg : Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify — Leaders of the world's biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it's time to slow the development pace of their most advanced …