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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says, while unlikely, it “cannot rule out that de-identified data derived” from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models — Read the paper Link to Lean formalized proof — We're sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence …
More: TechCrunch, Simon Willison's Weblog, CNBC, The Verge, New York Times, crypto.news, Implicator.ai, and NBC News
X: @markchen90, @openai, @tszzl, @__alpoge__, @krishnanrohit, @rynorhn, @aidangomez, @trapitbansal, @boazbaraktcs, @rynorhn, @suchenzang, @ednewtonrex, @quasilocal, @sebastienbubeck, and @johnschulman2
LinkedIn: Marc Avila, Dimitris Chatzigiannis, Olga Holtz, Nathaniel Craig, Romain Huet, John Olafenwa, Konstantin Hemker, and Ethan Mollick
Bluesky: @p-hunermund.com, @durumcrustulum.com, @jamesomalley.co.uk, @davidcrespo, @spignal, and @thalysandratos
Mastodon: @Mehrad@fosstodon.org and @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/informatik, r/mathe, r/CFD, r/aiwars, r/csMajors, r/codex, r/mathematics, r/singularity, r/accelerate, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Madison Mills / Axios: |
OpenAI says an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours — OpenAI says its AI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, a potentially historic breakthrough shadowed …
More: Clay Mathematics Institute, Clay Mathematics Institute, Scientific American, New Scientist, The Deep View, and Neowin
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Forums: r/antiai, r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/Innovation, and r/accelerate
| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it — A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
More: Tristan Buckmaster, Fortune, Stratechery, The Decoder, The Hans India, The Indian Express, Digit, and Financial Times
X: @kevinroose, @dheeraj_nagaraj, @sebastienbubeck, @katiemiller, @exomnium, @thezvi, @mikeisaac, @antonioregalado, @luke_metro, @anshulkundaje, @ccatalini, @tekbog, @_arohan_, @phl43, @deliprao, @thom_wolf, @natolambert, @antirez, @david_kasten, @cljack, @mackenz_arnold, @teortaxestex, @irl_danb, @nic_carter, @boazbaraktcs, @suchenzang, @katiemiller, @ns123abc, @yacinemtb, @grogbogan, @itaisher, @wildtypehuman, @suchenzang, @basedalexandoor, @quantian1, @bubbleboi, @fulligin, @13yroldwithcc, @anthonyronning, @konstiwohlwend, @malemanlpulator, @willdepue, @malemanlpulator, @jsevillamol, @jsevillamol, @jsevillamol, @jsevillamol, @jsevillamol, @willdepue, @polynoamial, @aisafetymemes, @hosseeb, @__alpoge__, @eliebakouch, @_sholtodouglas, @_sholtodouglas, @polynoamial, @_sholtodouglas, @suchenzang, and @etale27
LinkedIn: Ivan Vankov, Chandrasekar Subramanian, PhD, Sebastien Bubeck, Ben Feuer, Daniel McQuillan, and Mark Riedl
Bluesky: @bcardarella, @nickevershed, @kashhill, @qjurecic, @benbraun.eurosky.social, @thelasttheorist, @nsaphra, @samthielman.com, and @70sbachchan
| Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck: |
| Wired: |
More: CNN, The Overspill, and MIT Technology Review
X: @polynoamial and @kevinroose
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses — Meta on Tuesday announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.
More: Meta Newsroom, Wired, Meta AI Research, The Verge, Fast Company, Reuters, MediaNama, Implicator.ai, MarkTechPost, The Deep View, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, 9to5Mac, CNBC, and Engadget
X: @finkd, @muse, @finkd, @alexandr_wang, @ivanhzhao, @metanewsroom, @punished_daniel, @jasontoff, @yanyanista, @devahaz, @neil_chilson, @zachperret, @blakeir, @alexrkonrad, @spencerbarnett, @loktar00, @alexandr_wang, @rihardjarc, @jerrycap, @altryne, @altryne, @kenwattana, @giffmana, @beffjezos, @taylorotwell, @finkd, @aiatmeta, @beffjezos, @suchenzang, @rmsherman, @thatguybg, @mgsiegler, @rmsherman, @icesolst, @levie, @charlieholtz, @rihardjarc, @mikeisaac, @gergelyorosz, @scottbelsky, @omooretweets, @davidpawlan, @mikepat711, @boztank, @rauchg, @kenwattana, @adamlags, @katiemiller, @boztank, @pitdesi, @signulll, @giffmana, @michaellee04, @harjtaggar, @camilobacosta, @marshal, @boztank, @rexsalisbury, and @plumberbutt97
LinkedIn: Raveesh Bhatnagar, Jessica Sherrets, Srikanth Chinmay, Sebastian San Juan, Reece Jones, and David Singleton. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers — Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user's behalf …
More: Muse, Meta, New York Times, and Seoul Economic Daily
LinkedIn: Rohan Khanna, Derek Drawhorn, Radhika Gemawat, and Aditya Tomar
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more — Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media's consumer harms …
More: The Paypers, Business Standard, Livemint, Neowin, and The Information
X: @alexandr_wang, @alexandr_wang, and @alexandr_wang
| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control — Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control
More: Semafor, The Verge, Axios, The Hans India, CTech, Business Today, Nairametrics, Business Standard, Telegraph, Mashable, RuntimeWire, Livemint, Neowin, VINnews, Business Insider, The Indian Express, Digit, Gizmodo, and Moneycontrol
X: @hilbertspaess, @hilbertspaess, @hilbertspaess, @hilbertspaess, @peterwildeford, @hilbertspaess, @hilbertspaess, @hilbertspaess, @boazbaraktcs, @carlquintanilla, @andrewyang, @suchenzang, @billackman, @krystalball, @bigblackjacobin, @adamcrafton_, @milesdeutscher, @jasonkincaid, @johnschulman2, @dkokotajlo, @davidhogg111, @garymarcus, @matthewstoller, @kevinsabellico, @_nathancalvin, @richardbspencer, @aisafetymemes, @rohanpaul_ai, @alexberenson, @wholemars, @jonfavs, @sneharevanur, and @infinite_jaz. Bluesky: @katherinettyson
Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/antiai, and r/politics
| Evan Hubinger / @evanhub: |
Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement — Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
More: Axios, Politico, CNBC, IGN, Türkiye Today, The Crypto Times, Financial Times, ABC, CoinDesk, Forbes, and Spyglass
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Forums: r/politics and r/singularity
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's first foldable will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at $2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October — Apple Inc. is set to debut a roughly $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging product event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. local time from Cupertino, California.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2025 — Microsoft's patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.| Reuters: |
The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns — The U.S. government on Tuesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of maliciously copying technology …
More: CISA, Associated Press, Help Net Security, Gizmodo, CyberScoop, Bloomberg Law, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, India Today, CNN, CISA, Cyber Security News, CyberInsider, Business Standard, The Register, Modern Diplomacy, Unite.AI, Sputnik News, South China Morning Post, NBC News, and Nextgov/FCW
X: @nsacyber, @cisagov, @danielremler, @theobearman, and @niubi. Bluesky: @self.agency. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency — - Prosecutors say Malone Lam, who went by aliases “Anne Hathaway,” “$$$” and “King Greavy,” led the operation.
More: US Department of Justice, CoinDesk, Associated Press, Cryptonews, and Cointelegraph
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT — OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, the company shared first with Axios. … - The new model can generate images up to 50 percent faster, OpenAI says.
More: OpenAI, The Verge, Business Today, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, Android Authority, Neowin, Digital Trends, iClarified, and SiliconANGLE
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LinkedIn: Simon Logghe and Adele Li
Forums: r/aigamedev, r/aiwars, and r/codex
| Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ: |
Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code — The media regulator Coimisiún na Meán has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism — Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups.| Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements — Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements — How much of the rapid progress in AI that we've seen over the last few years 1 …
X: @dwarkesh_sp, @sarahookr, @arimorcos, and @dorialexander
| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust — The financial technology company is seeking to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank — Block wants to build a bank.
More: Decrypt, Block, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Richard Rosenthal and Mark P.
Bluesky: @smtuffy and @caseynewton
| Samantha Oltman / Bloomberg: |
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M — Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. has raised $2 billion in a new round of funding that vaulted its valuation to $48 billion.
More: Cognition, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, and The SaaS News
X: @cognition, @htaneja, @eglyman, @jtlonsdale, @nmasc_, @scottwu46, @everettrandle, @cognition, @cognition, @cognition, and @cognition
LinkedIn: Rob Scales and Oscar Rivera
| Bloomberg: |
Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when models are used — - New model was trained on music from Warner Music Group — Users won't be able to reference specific artists in prompts| Wall Street Journal: |
Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash — Amazon, Meta and Google risk losing decadeslong exemptions due to a backlash against their facilitiesSponsor Posts
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