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Robert Hart / The Verge:
Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout  —  OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. … A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered …
Dylan Freedman / New York Times:
How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Business Standard and Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API  —  Update: A day later, GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to Business and Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plan.  This follows other new model releases …
Matt Shumer / Something Big Is Happening:
Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters  —  Everyday work, ambitious experiments, and the Manager Loop. … For nearly a year, OpenAI models were my unquestioned default …
Celia Ford / Transformer:
OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing
Anthropic:
Anthropic says Claude worked “largely autonomously” over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language  —  We are sharing the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.  Claude worked largely autonomously over 11 days …
Laurie Chen / Reuters:
Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side  —  The U.S. and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed …
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  —  Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities.
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:
Source: 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  —  John Borthwick's venture firm wrote the first check Hugging Face ever received, and now owns a stake that could be worth $650 million.
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  —  Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with US rivals, even after years of restrictions on their access to advanced chips.

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta says it may delay its new commercial terms past Nov. 20 after publishers and politicians voiced concerns the terms could let it train AI on their content

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Bedford Media plans to relaunch Life magazine in November as a print quarterly, following its closure in 2000, and will expand into short-form video and more

Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico amend their lawsuit against the White House, alleging it has kept all three off press pool duty since Sept. 18 despite an injunction

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a “distraction-free Windows experience” for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory
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