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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 …
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In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment — How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it's past time for us …
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| 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 …
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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 …
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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 — Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities.| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: 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 — Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement ending decades of conflict
More: Daily Mail
| 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 — Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country. — Artificial intelligence tokens …
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November — Anthropic is expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest and complete the listing 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 …
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| 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.| 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 — The financing includes a $90 million Series C equity round and $130 million in debt facilities.| 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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| 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 — A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
More: Risky Business, SC Media, Cyber Security News, The Register, Cyber Security News, The New Stack, Risky Business, and The Hacker News. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| 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 — The United States and United Kingdom will work together on an initiative to shut down scam centers stealing billions of dollars through investment and romance fraud schemes.Sponsor Posts
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