New arXiv work proves models can conceal arbitrary capabilities, a direct challenge for capability evaluations.
Intel unveils the D270 AI accelerator with up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory.
Anthropic reports that AI models may self-replicate without datacenter access.
Character.AI files Chapter 11 and agrees to sell assets to Disney for $20M.
Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters : Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale — Character.AI said on Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney (DIS.N) for $20 million.
IDC says Nvidia's China AI-chip shipments fell 44% in H1 as share dropped to 34%.
Reuters : IDC: Nvidia's AI chip shipments in China fell 44% YoY to 678K in H1 2026, as its market share slid to 34% amid US export curbs and rising domestic competition — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) share of China's market for data-centre AI chips fell to 34% in the first half of 2026, as US export controls restricted supplies …
CXMT plans a 4F² server DRAM chip, a long-sought density breakthrough for Chinese memory.
Bloomberg : CXMT says it plans to launch a 4F² design DRAM chip for data center servers before the end of 2026, achieving a breakthrough that rivals have pursued for years — CXMT Corp. declared it achieved a breakthrough in chip technology that rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. had pursued for years …
Alibaba launches Qwen Glasses N1, including a Pro model with eye tracking and 50MP cameras.
Bloomberg : Alibaba unveils its next-gen Qwen Glasses N1, starting at ~$450, with 50MP cameras, sensors, and eye-tracking on the ~$520 Pro model, and Qwen Clip AI earbuds — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. on Tuesday unveiled the new generation of its smart glasses, deepening its foray into consumer electronics …
Anthropic says Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 protections cut distillation harvesting by 90%–99%.
Anthropic : Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% — In recent months, we've made substantial progress on reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks on Claude using new methods, as we outline in this blog.
NTT Data is reportedly nearing a $6.3B, 500MW Osaka data-center deal for Anthropic.
Nikkei Asia : Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build an up to 500 MW data center for Anthropic in Osaka, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B — TOKYO/OSAKA — NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in western Japan for U.S. AI company Anthropic, multiple sources have told Nikkei.
A global chip sell-off follows Broadcom's CEO comparing AI investment to a casino.
Financial Times : A global chip stock sell-off deepens after Broadcom's CEO likened AI investing to a casino, with Samsung down as much as 8.8%, SK Hynix down 9.2%, and Micron 4% — Declines for Samsung and SK Hynix drag Kospi sharply lower as investors fret over scale of AI investment
Chinese firms reportedly bought over 1M Nvidia gaming and workstation GPUs for AI workloads.
Financial Times : Sources: Chinese tech companies bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming and workstation chips, mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro, for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage — The country's tech giants are snapping up products never designed for advanced AI to satisfy soaring computing demands
Data-center developer DayOne raises $3.67B to fund expansion in Malaysia.
Jasmeen Ara Shaikh / Reuters : Singapore-based data center developer DayOne raises ~$3.67B, including a ~$2.4B offshore term loan facility, from seven banks to fund its Malaysia expansion — Singapore-based data centre developer DayOne on Tuesday said it secured an additional 15 billion ringgit ($3.67 billion) …
Amazon's warehouse-robot fleet has surpassed one million active machines.
Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica : A deep dive on Amazon's robotics efforts, resulting in 1M+ active warehouse robots; Amazon is still the world's 2nd-largest corporate employer with 1.5M workers — No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working …
A technical audit examines OpenAI's claimed faster Fourier-transform mathematics.
Janas streams MoE experts from SSD, aiming to run LLMs larger than system RAM.
AWS introduces Lambda Web Functions, a new official serverless web-development primitive.
DishwasherBench tests whether frontier models can execute a concrete embodied household task.
Auto Research claims an integer-multiplication algorithm below n log n complexity.
YC's Agent37 launches low-cost isolated sandboxes designed for executing AI agents.
Filippo Valsorda lays out practical right answers for post-quantum cryptography choices.
Wired reports federal warrants authorized fake cell towers to locate Don Lemon's producer.
GitHub details an incident affecting Actions, pull requests, and issues.
A technical implementation makes large Firefox downloads resumable.
A cyberattack shut down refrigerators at French supermarkets, disrupting physical retail operations.
Crypto thieves are selling hardware wallets fitted with hidden eSIMs.
China surpassed the US as the largest R&D spender in 2024, according to the report.
SolidCraft is an open-source Rust parametric CAD system with MCP support.
RimWorld 1.7 replaces Unity with Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine.
Rich Hickey argues that AI should not be understood as a conventional tool.
Phreak.ing offers an internet phone-switch project for experimenting with telephony infrastructure.
Reece Rogers / Wired : Meta confirms Muse lets users “engage in adult conversations, if they choose, using a private and secure VM”, saying it doesn't block “legal adult behavior” — My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters.
Mariella Moon / Engadget : SpaceXSI launches a unified X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium, with tiers at $8, $30, $100, and $200 per month; the $30 tier includes Grok Bot — One membership will give you access to SpaceXSI's products. — SpaceXSI has announced a unified membership scheme across its products called the X Subscription.
Reuters : IDC: China's Q3 smartphone shipments fell 15.4% YoY to 57.9M units, the sixth straight quarter of decline; Huawei led with a 21% share and Apple had 17.8% — China's third-quarter smartphone shipments fell 15.4% from a year earlier to 57.9 million units, research firm IDC said on Tuesday.
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg : China-based Transsion, which dominates the market for smartphones in Africa, raised $390M from a Hong Kong share sale after pricing the deal near the top end — Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co., which dominates the market for smartphones in Africa, raised HK$3.1 billion ($390 million) …
Cheeky Pint : Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang on the Muse app, Muse Wonder, the risks of committing $100B+ to AI, rebooting Meta's AI team, agentic commerce, more — As Meta scales its AI infrastructure past five gigawatts, Mark Zuckerberg (founder and CEO, Meta) and Alexandr Wang …