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OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace

Author: Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

· 15 sources

Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave

Also: The latest on Apple's big Sept. 9 event.

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New York Times ·

· 4 sources

How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

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Nikkei Asia ·

· 3 sources

At the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls

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Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal ·

· 2 sources

How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex

Americans are vibe-coding trading algorithms and handing over their stock portfolios to AI agents. Welcome to the world of the robot retail investor.

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UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy

Graduates and interns hoping to join Swiss bank must show they can use the technology to improve outcomes and efficiency

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Valida Pau / The Information ·

· 3 sources

Analysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade

Anthropic in the last year has scrambled to line up cloud computing deals with SpaceX, Google and others to meet the skyrocketing demand …

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Robert Hart / The Verge ·

· 22 sources

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack

The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack. … Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face …

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@openai: In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment

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@openai: In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment

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Miranda Murray / Reuters ·

· 5 sources

Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans

Berlin's state government said on Saturday it was reviewing with the highest intensity a trove of stolen data published by a ransomware group …

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Philip Wegmann / Wall Street Journal ·

· 3 sources

Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies

Trump administration officials are wrestling with the spiritual consequences of AI as the president embraces it as an economic engine

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Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times ·

· 6 sources

Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms

Atoms gears up for hiring spree and could link with Uber, the company he was ousted from almost a decade ago

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Emily Forlini / Fortune ·

· 4 sources

OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch

OpenAI has changed several evaluation benchmarks for its GPT-6 Astra model since first publishing a blog post announcement mid-afternoon on Sept. 3.

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Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times ·

· 5 sources

The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state

For 30 years the state has profited from going the extra mile for business. Data centres are putting that to the test.

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Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg ·

· 3 sources

As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals

AI could transform our understanding of other species. It also risks giving humans powerful new ways to manipulate, exploit and harm them.

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·

· 16 sources

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times

Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday …

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ABC News ·

· 21 sources

Trump admin launches arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake game clone and a Tetris-like game; Tetris says it takes "copyright infringement very seriously"

In "Build the Wall," players aim to "protect the border" from zombies.

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Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal ·

· 4 sources

Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas

AI hyperscale data centers are exposed to a dizzying array of potential threats during construction and operation

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Kinling Lo / Rest of World ·

· 3 sources

Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles

Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country.

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica ·

· 10 sources

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters

A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …

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Philip Wegmann / Wall Street Journal:

Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies

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Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:

Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms

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Emily Forlini / Fortune:

OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch

More: The Decoder , The Kaitchup

r/BetterOffline

@emilyforlini , @akhenosiris , @katiemiller , @mark_k , @emilyforlini , @jeremyakahn , @garymarcus

Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times:

The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state

More: RealClearPolitics , Financial Post , TechRadar

@aaron_renn , @cbsnewstexas , @neuralkian

Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg:

As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals

More: New York Post

r/HotScienceNews , r/AnimalBehavior , r/Futurology

@business

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times

More: The Verge , Newsday , TechCrunch , Digital Trends , Engadget , Mashable

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ABC News:

Trump admin launches arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake game clone and a Tetris-like game; Tetris says it takes "copyright infringement very seriously"

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Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal:

Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas

More: ReinsuranceNe.ws , The Indian Express

@tcarmody

Kinling Lo / Rest of World:

Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles

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@restofworld.org

Sunil Nair

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters

More: Risky Business , SC Media , Cyber Security News , The Register , Cyber Security News , The New Stack

r/technology , Ars OpenForum

Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk:

Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after "purported white-hat hackers" withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet

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Mishal Husain / Bloomberg:

Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more

More: Telegraph , New York Times , Noahpinion , Bloomberg Podcasts on YouTube

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Robert Hart / The Verge:

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack

More: Reuters , TechCrunch , Engadget , The Verge , BleepingComputer , Don't Worry About the Vase

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Kinling Lo / Rest of World:

Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles

More: Unite.AI

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Sunil Nair

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Mishal Husain / Bloomberg:

Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more

More: Telegraph , New York Times , Noahpinion , Bloomberg Podcasts on YouTube

r/Futurology , r/China

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Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters

More: Risky Business , SC Media , Cyber Security News , The Register , Cyber Security News , The New Stack

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Jonathan Greig / The Record:

The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia

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Eve Bender / MobiHealthNews:

Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity

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Moneycontrol:

India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B

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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:

Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process

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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:

US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year

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