OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold  —  OpenAI said Tuesday that it has made several changes to its safety practices following its determination that an upcoming system …

Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages reveals OS Investigate, a new AI system that integrates license plate scans, arrest records, case files, and more  —  Flock's surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage.  WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police …

Sources: OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as its loss jumped 32% to $12.3B; Anthropic's sales grew 2x+ to $11.6B as it swung to a small operating profit  —  The ChatGPT-maker's revenue disappointed some investors, although the company told them its growth accelerated in the third quarter

Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone deliveries to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months, including suburban Chicago and Atlanta  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to expand its drone delivery operation to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months …

Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks  —  Beijing permits small shipments to help leading tech groups in drive to catch up with US rivals  —  Small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips …

Amazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it was supposed to hit theaters  —  The film isn't supposed to hit theaters for two days, but it's available to stream on Prime Video now.

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, seven points above GLM-5.2, on par with Kimi K3, but below Opus 5's 63 and Fable 5's 62  —  GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Once the weights are released it will be tied as the leading open weights model @Zai_org has just launched GLM-5.3, which ties Kimi K3 (60) for the most

AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over key unanswered questions  —  The company at the center of a series of incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems during supposedly …

Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around its new Nexus architecture, with first shipments starting in Q3 2026  —  Cerebras Systems (CBRS.O) announced on Tuesday a new version of its server hardware that includes its dinner-plate-sized chips that it says will speed AI chatbot queries.

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30  —  Americans have become increasingly worried about artificial intelligence over the years, and young adults' concern has continued to climb.

In opening arguments, US state AGs say that Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejects the claims  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook …

A hacker known as Cyberleek leaks two GTA VI gameplay clips and the full map in protest of Rockstar Games' digital-only release; Rockstar issues DMCA takedowns  —  The hacker wants Rockstar to stop pre-selling digital games. … GTA VI is one of the most hotly anticipated games in history …

Hangzhou-based humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surges 460% in its Shanghai trading debut, giving it a ~$50B market cap, after raising ~$904M in its IPO  —  Unitree Robotics shares surged 460% in their Shanghai trading debut after the company raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) …

Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending  —  SK Hynix Inc. unveiled plans to buy back 40 trillion won ($29 billion) of stock and return more of its profits to shareholders …

Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, with Marvell granting Google a warrant to buy up to 58M+ shares at $206.58 each, totaling up to $12.2B  —  Marvell Technology Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced an expanded chip-development partnership, including a warrant …

US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteed jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers  —  Tech companies are holding listening sessions, offering guaranteed jobs and writing big checks to win public support for the data centers they need.

Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0  —  Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal …

OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others  —  Expansion of the AI giant's ads pilot comes as ad revenue climbs more than 25% since the start of August  —  The future of brands gets decided here.

Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists  —  Summary: In this post, we share two results that show how Claude can help life scientists increase the pace of their research.

Sources: open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February  —  Temporal Technologies Inc. is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the AI startup a valuation of at least $12 billion …

Sources: Nvidia is working as a matchmaker to connect companies holding its GPUs with Nordic data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them  —  Nvidia is playing matchmaker, trying to connect companies with its graphics processing units to data-center operators …

The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with exemptions for offerings of up to $5M and up to $75M  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a proposal to exempt certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements …