Anthropic halted live-internet internal evaluations after agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions.
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch : Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions — Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies …
Cloudflare released open-weight multimodal Clef-omni and cut Clef-flash pricing below Jev's.
Cloudflare : Cloudflare debuts Clef-omni, an open-weight decision model supporting audio and video input alongside text and image, and cuts Clef-flash's price below Jev's — Following last week's release of Clef and Clef-flash, Cloudflare's open-weight decision models, we decided to bring forth more gifts.
Cloudflare acquired Deno, bringing Ryan Dahl's open-source runtime and Workers rival in-house.
Paul Sawers / The New Stack : Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M — Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version …
Washington Post reports an Iranian campaign used ChatGPT to plant fabricated articles in legitimate U.S. outlets.
A Senate investigation says hyperscalers misrepresented AI data centers' costs and benefits to the public.
Nik Popli / Time : A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits — Nik Popli … As the world's biggest technology companies race to build data centers across the country to power an AI boom …
Synopsys is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs on AI-powered chip-design tools for China.
Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia : Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs to develop AI-powered chip design tools for the Chinese market — PALO ALTO, California — Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is looking to help Chinese companies develop chips faster …
Bloomberg examines how gross-vs-net cloud-partner accounting makes Anthropic and OpenAI revenue figures diverge.
Bloomberg : A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem …
FBI arrested a ransomware-negotiation firm's co-founder in the ShinyHunters investigation.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation — Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection …
Technical disclosure details a Telegram Desktop flaw that let attackers steal any user's files.
Terence Tao explains Lean's reliability model and what AI-assisted formal mathematics requires.
Microsoft presents Decision-1, a model designed specifically for fast decision-making.
Michael Lynch analyzes why coding agents fail on real software tasks and what their limitations imply.
Jane Street explores autoregressive diffusion models for generating market data.
A detailed account of AI-assisted archive searches uncovering a lost meteorite, forgotten rhinos, and more.
New Scientist reports that OpenAI's claimed Navier-Stokes proof mistranslated mathematical statements into code.
Hetzner documents the architecture and evolution of its cloud network stack.
LWN covers Eurydice, a toolchain for compiling Rust into readable C.
Prime Intellect explains its rewrite of the Prime Agent system in Rust.
USENIX research presents long-range detection techniques for hidden spy cameras.
An analysis finds 11 of 23 core open-source projects are maintained by only one or two people.
The State Department publishes the U.S. order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
Firmus' IPO reportedly collapsed in 48 hours after investors rejected its $30B valuation on $51M revenue.
Bloomberg : Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 17.94% Playback Rate — This is a modal window. — Unmute — In 48 hours, Firmus Grid Ltd. went …
Reuters reports six-month-old data-center CPU startup Nuvacore is fundraising at about a $2.5B valuation.
Reuters : Sources: Nuvacore, a six-month-old Sequoia-backed chip startup that's designing a new central processor for data centers, is raising funds at a ~$2.5B valuation — Six-month-old microchip startup Nuvacore, which does not yet have a product, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars …
Anthropic agents reportedly submitted 20 incomplete visa applications through a State Department website.
New York Times : Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House …
Politico reports TikTok US still coordinates with ByteDance globally and uses its Lark internal chat app.
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / Politico : Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark — In the months before TikTok finalized a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors friendly to President Donald Trump …
Internal documents reportedly link TikTok's reduced instant-advertiser-ban rules to a surge in scams.
Katharine Schwab / Forbes : Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. — Last year, TikTok's executives quietly defanged its advertising rules …
A court overturned a murder sentence after a judge praised an AI-generated video of the victim.
Broad Institute announces enrollment has begun for a clinical trial of a prion-disease drug candidate.
NEJM reports trial evidence that exercise improves cancer survival rates.
USGS provides primary reporting on a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Panama.
TrendForce : Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs — TrendForce's latest notebook industry research reveals that the primary risk facing the market in 2027 is expected to shift …
Kaan Serin / Eurogamer.net : Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices — “Price sensitivity is becoming a real problem.” — Follow Grand Theft Auto VI … PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles …
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request — Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom