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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more — Cyber operations Surveillance operations Influence operations Conventional weapons Biological misuse Scams and fraud Illicit distillation| Madison Mills / Axios: |
AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI — Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more — Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment …
More: The Information, MS NOW, Business Standard, CBC News, International Business Times, The Neuron, The Free Press, NBC News, and The Decoder
LinkedIn: Sebastian Flückiger and Maxwell Zeff
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| Paul Christiano / @paulfchristiano: |
OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an “acceptable” level — I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight.
More: CNBC, Washington Post, The Guardian, Search Engine Roundtable, Financial Times, Telegraph, Business Insider, The Decoder, and Axios
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Paul Christiano, an AI researcher and CAISI advisor, joins the OpenAI Foundation board of directors and OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee to reduce AI risk — Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: PIF is considering combining EA with Savvy Games to better coordinate its gaming assets, but not before Savvy closes its $6B Moonton acquisition — Saudi Arabia's wealth fund is considering combining Electronic Arts Inc. with Savvy Games, people familiar with the matter said … | Reuters: |
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context — Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model …
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| Kenneth Chang / New York Times: |
Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem — Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Nasdaq invests $100M in Kraken parent company Payward, valuing the crypto exchange at $21B; in March, Kraken said it will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks — Nasdaq Inc. is investing $100 million in Payward, the parent of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, as the firm continues to build … | Peter Adams / Marketing Dive: |
Amazon partners with OpenAI to let Amazon DSP users run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; in August, OpenAI said ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR — Conversational ads inventory will be available as a managed service via Amazon DSP, but OpenAI will handle placement through its own systems.
More: CNBC, PYMNTS, Quartz, The Information, Adweek, Mobile Dev Memo, and Bloomberg Law. Forums: Hacker News
| Ghosts of Electricity: |
A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years — The following post represents the personal views of the author(s) and does not reflect or represent the positions of their employers.| Scott Horsley / NPR: |
More: Anthropic, Tom's Guide, Quartz, Seoul Economic Daily, Business Today, and Computerworld
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Positron, which is designing AI inference processor Asimov featuring a “memory-first architecture” and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation — NEA, Atreides and Jim Clark are among investors putting $875 million into firm making chips designed for fast running of AI models| Sonia Sirletti / Bloomberg: |
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B, implying an equity value of ~$1.79B — Bending Spoons SpA agreed to acquire workplace-collaboration platform Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the business at $1.36 billion …
More: TechCrunch, The Information, PYMNTS, Bending Spoons, Finimize, Reuters, Pulse 2.0, Cautious Optimism, EU-Startups, and Dow Jones Newswires
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| New York Times: |
Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, which Groq called a “nonexclusive licensing agreement” — The Justice Department is examining whether the tech giant sought to sidestep antitrust scrutiny.
More: Bloomberg, Axios, DatacenterDynamics, The Information, Reuters, RuntimeWire, PC Gamer, and Tech Times
| Axios: |
Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Senator Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless” — A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned.
More: The Information, International Business Times, Reuters, and TechSpot
| Grace Kay / The Information: |
Sources: SpaceX shifts its data center strategy to redesign existing facilities and prioritize power and cooling redundancy, potentially slowing new build-outs — Elon Musk is famous for his “move fast” management philosophy, which he demonstrated most starkly when he built new data centers …
More: Yahoo Finance and Investor's Business Daily
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M — In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—"a cartoon of a robot and a team of people," CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch.| Christine Mui / Politico: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs into law two bills, backed by Anthropic in August and OpenAI day of, regulating how outside groups evaluate AI for safety — SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed two bills regulating how outside groups evaluate AI programs …
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members and was voted interim CEO — Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members “conspired” …
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 — Fintech company Ant International announced Thursday it has signed on Visa and Mastercard to collaborate on a new standard for payments …
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| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic gives EU cybersecurity agency ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months of talks that began in late May; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1 — Anthropic PBC has handed the European Union's cybersecurity agency access to its powerful Mythos artificial intelligence model …
More: Reuters, ExchangeWire.com, Silicon Republic, The Next Web, and Financial Times
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month — Apple today announced AppleCare One Family, a new option for U.S. customers that extends AppleCare coverage to every eligible device across … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B — Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension round that has doubled its valuation …
More: FinSMEs and Tectonic Defense
| Océane Herrero / Politico: |
French public officials and other sources detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron — How Emmanuel Macron brought France's AI darling — to the world stage — Mistral has forged unrivaled ties with the French presidency.
Bluesky: @wildebees
| Mark Chediak / Bloomberg: |
TAR, which builds off-grid power systems for data centers, raised a $120M Series A led by Spark Capital at a ~$1B valuation — A startup that builds off-grid power systems for data centers said it raised $120 million in a Series A funding round led by Spark Capital, an investor in artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic PBC.
More: FinSMEs and RuntimeWire
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who in October 2025 came over from Thinking Machines Lab as one of the highest paid employees, is leaving the company — Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who gained attention for being one of the highest paid employees in tech industry …
More: Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Gizmodo, CTech, and Implicator.ai
| The Verge: |
Hands-on with the iPhone Duo: the folding mechanism is smooth, the crease is almost impossible to find with a finger, and the inner screen has a matte finish — We've tried the first ever foldable iPhone at Apple's launch event. … The first foldable iPhone is finally here …
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