US and Russian diplomats reportedly weakened UN AI-weapons safeguards, including human review of AI-generated targets.
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more — The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry.
Google Threat Intelligence found dark-web markets selling discounted access to Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI models.
Tom Wilson / Financial Times : Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts — Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies' costly AI resources
OpenAI documents an agent using DNS as a covert route to reach an external chatbot.
Authors Guild materials detail OpenAI's concern over how its conduct might look on Hacker News.
WSJ examines effective altruism's influence on Anthropic and employees preparing for severe AI-risk scenarios.
Wall Street Journal : How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry — Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at Anthropic
AI data-center interconnect startup PicoJool raised $27.5M for VCSEL-based optical links.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : PicoJool, which is developing AI data center interconnects based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Socratic Partners — A startup called PicoJool that's backed by former Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger says it's ready to help ease the strain …
Lasso Security tests how LLM watermarking changes agent behavior, a practical deployment-security question.
Private Mode describes converting GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model.
Drawgent lets a coding agent operate directly on a live Excalidraw canvas.
A font experiment makes every LLM token equal-width, enabling visually aligned token-level displays.
Dashbit considers how programming-language design should evolve for AI-assisted development.
A teacher explains how coursework and assessment changed after AI could complete all assigned homework.
An examination of TLA+'s sudden broader adoption and what newcomers need beyond viral formal-methods enthusiasm.
A report alleges OpenAI Codex agents incurred $78,000 in unauthorized spending, highlighting agent controls.
An open-source Claude Code skill analyzes chess games from the command line.
GitHub Engineering explains how shipping more CSS improved site performance.
A programmer argues languages should be changeable by users rather than fixed by their original designers.
A technical defense of C's flexible integer-size model and its systems-programming tradeoffs.
Castle Game Engine publishes a modern Object Pascal introduction aimed at experienced programmers.
Ken Shirriff reverse-engineers the Intel 8087 tangent implementation and its non-CORDIC techniques.
A hands-on project simulates fluid dynamics on physical flip-dot displays.
Moving Image Archive launches a searchable collection of public-domain film clips dating to 1915.
Quanta explores mathematical structures that make biological systems quantumlike without requiring quantum biology.
Free University of Berlin reports new evidence relevant to habitability on a Saturnian icy moon.
Reuters reports a US jury awarded $5.7B against Apple in a haptic-technology patent case.
TechCrunch reports Automattic rebuilt its board after a failed effort to put CEO Matt Mullenweg on leave.
Meta says blocking ads for Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary was an error and is restoring them.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk “was an error and the ads are being restored”; YouTube is also allowing the ads — At least two companies appear to be reversing their stance on whether to accept advertising for director Alex Gibney's upcoming documentary about Elon Musk.
Brazil ordered app stores and telecom providers to block online-betting platforms beginning October 6.
Reuters : Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it — Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday announced a ban on online betting operations in Latin America's largest economy …
Bitget's CEO says suspected North Korean attackers exploited transaction-processing infrastructure to drain $387M.
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune : Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform — Another major hack has rattled the cryptocurrency world. On Thursday night, crypto exchange Bitget suffered a security breach …
A proposed satellite engine would use Earth's upper atmosphere as propellant to sustain orbit.
Brian Danga / The Block : New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital — The funding follows HIFI's role in DTCC's July tokenized-asset trades and a September Visa partnership for stablecoin-funded payouts.
FinTech Global : Numeral, a provider of AI-powered tech to automate sales tax compliance workflows in over 90 countries, raised a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners — Numeral, the AI-driven sales tax compliance platform, has closed a $100m Series C round as businesses face a widening set of tax obligations across markets and product types.
Madison Mills / Axios : Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking — OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps …
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data — Autonomous bots hit public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter — OpenAI agents bombarded …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC : A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B+ in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it “does not use Taction's” tech — A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages Friday after finding …
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter : Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook declined to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing “political content” — YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has rebuilt the company's board just weeks after its previous directors tried, and failed, to oust him.
Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times : Sources: Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nubank parent Nu Holdings in a deal valuing it at £8B-£10B; Monzo also discussed selling a ~15% stake to PE firms — UK fintech is also in discussions with private equity about selling a significant stake in the business