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The Association for Human Mathematics says OpenAI's new math documents show power, not scholarship, and urges mathematicians to stop working with the company — Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI - which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism …
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/artificial, r/aiwars, r/singularity, and r/accelerate
| Felix Ng / Cointelegraph: |
Vitalik Buterin says “we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously”, backing a “bunker mode” call for the blockchain industry — Ethereum researchers say crypto users should consider moving funds to fresh addresses …
More: The Block, The Crypto Times, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoSlate, and Decrypt
| Scott Aaronson / Shtetl-Optimized: |
A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have quietly started probing whether their models can break important cryptographic protocols — -friend-of-the-blog Omer Reingold (shared with permission) — Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife …
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| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summary and classification requests — Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we've ever released.
More: Artificial Analysis, Claude, Neowin, Implicator.ai, iClarified, TestingCatalog AI News, Techstrong.ai, Forkast, Cyber Security News, Advertising, Marketing …, SiliconANGLE, Simon Willison's Weblog, Decrypt, CoinGape, Unite.AI, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/ClaudeAI
| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
More: XDA Developers, The Decoder, Unite.AI, Reuters, and Yahoo Finance
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft opens preorders for the $2,599+ Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping from October 16, with an RTX Spark and three USB-C ports; one is magnetic like MagSafe — Surface Laptop Ultra is available to order today, with shipments expected to begin on October 16.
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| Janine Liberty / MIT News: |
Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90 — Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase — Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs among lenders in talks to finance megadeals worth tens of billions of dollars apiece| OpenAI: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes graphics and interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers — Last month we introduced the first GPT-6 models for paid customers and today we're bringing that next generation of intelligence …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung reports preliminary Q3 operating profit up 782% YoY to ~$80.1B, below ~$81.2B est., and revenue up 127% to ~$145.7B, below est., amid the AI boom — Samsung Electronics Co. reported a nearly nine-fold rise in quarterly operating profit, though that was still just shy … | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
Unsealed docs: in its lawsuit, New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including youth, non-functional safety features as part of placebo experiments — TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions …
More: Greensburg Tribune-Review and Bloomberg Law
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others — Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Playground, a no-code web platform for making games using AI prompts, available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — Google Playground is a browser-based tool for making games from AI prompts. … Google today announced Playground …
More: Google, Unity, Bloomberg, Unity, Video Games Chronicle, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Financial Times, 80 Level, Mashable, mxdwn Games, Inven Global, Decrypt, Dexerto, Gizmodo, Quartz, Neowin, PCMag, and GamesBeat
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Forums: r/technology, r/Bard, and r/UnityStock
| Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — In a letter to the board, recently-terminated employees ask that the industry not move forward with work that would degrade the ability to monitor AI| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
The DOD offers chipmaker Wolfspeed, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a conditional loan of up to $1.5B in exchange for warrants for up to 7.5% of the company — By continuing, I agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. … Explainers| Priyanka Salve / CNBC: |
Elon Musk claims “certain oligarchs” are stalling Starlink's India launch to protect a “monopolistic chokehold”; SpaceX signed MOUs with Jio and Airtel in 2025 — SpaceX founder Elon Musk has accused vested interests of blocking the launch of his company's satellite internet service … | Reuters: |
OpenAI releases its first report on teen ChatGPT use, saying teens spend <15 minutes per day on average on the chatbot, with <2% using it for 3+ hours straight — Teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on ChatGPT, while less than 2% of them interact with the chatbot …
More: OpenAI, The Verge, The Neuron, New York Post, Unite.AI, and Fox Business. Bluesky: @metacurity.com
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: New York Times, Youth AI Safety Institute, Common Sense Media, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Business Today, Los Angeles Times, The Economic Times, Baller Alert, The Deep View, CNET, International Business Times, BBC, Digital Trends, Government Technology …, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and KQED
X: @katiemiller, @commonsense, @sfmcguire79, and @choblin29. LinkedIn: Robbie Torney. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Brent Crane / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Garmin CEO Cliff Pemble, who helped diversify its GPS product lines and grew its annual revenue from $2.6B in 2013 to a record $7.2B in 2025 — The company hit $7.2 billion in sales last year across fitness, outdoor, marine, automotive and aviation.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery startup spun out of Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise new funds …
More: RuntimeWire
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built — Atomic Machines is training artificial intelligence on materials and designs — and then using it to build tiny physical devices.
More: San Francisco Business Times and RuntimeWire
| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
Manus' parent Butterfly Effect raised $500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition — AI agent startup Manus has raised more than $500 million in its first funding round since Meta was forced to abandon its acquisition of the company.
More: The Information
| Connor Jones / The Register: |
The AGs of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska sue TP-Link, alleging it deceptively marketed its routers' security and didn't properly disclose ties to China — Router maker rejects allegations it misled buyers about protection and its reliance on Chinese suppliersSponsor Posts
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