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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking — OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps …
More: Associated Press, The Decoder, Marcus on AI, The Guardian, Implicator.ai, New York Post, Politico, Mother Jones, Luiza's Newsletter, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, CNN, The Hill, OpenAI, New York Times, and Reuters
X: @madisonmills22, @tinys7udio, @perrymetzger, @gtwhitesides, @hesamation, @_nathancalvin, @madisonmills22, @krherr, @aiwithsally, @mattyglesias, @garymarcus, @ns123abc, @jason, @jbsdc, @kimmonismus, @aisafetymemes, @trungtphan, @tszzl, @tedlieu, @transluceai, @npcollapse, @icesolst, @transluceai, @rynorhn, @stevesi, @billackman, @latkins, @thezvi, @mehdirhasan, @repyassansari, @richardhanania, @deanbaker13, @darrigomelanie, and @openai. LinkedIn: Timothy Ruff
Bluesky: @lenticulus and @seldo.com
Forums: r/goodnews, r/AIDangers, r/news, r/technology, r/Anthropic, r/Futurology, r/singularity, r/BetterOffline, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data — Autonomous bots hit public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter — OpenAI agents bombarded … | Axios: |
Sources: Trump plans to host Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, an indication of thawing relations; Trump personally invited Amodei — President Trump plans to host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening, sources familiar told Axios.
More: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reuters, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Financial Times, Euronews, Forbes, CNBC, The Wrap, Bloomberg Law, Daily Mail, Chicago Tribune, Gizmodo, Superpower Daily, The Information, The Daily Wire, Mashable, Business Insider, Politico, Fox Business, Washington Examiner, The Hill, and Moneycontrol
X: @andrewcurran_, @kimmonismus, @rohanpaul_ai, @garymarcus, @marcacaputo, @marcacaputo, @aishahhasnie, and @andrewcurran_
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta's VR Glasses are the product Vision Pro should have been; sources: Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is on “life support” — Apple weighs what to do next with its headset. — Meta's new VR Glasses are what Apple should have created for its Vision Pro line.
More: 9to5Mac, Tech Times, The Apple Post, iClarified, The Ghost Howls, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, and TechRadar
X: @markgurman, @vrnights, @sadlyitsbradley, @markgurman, @skarredghost, @asychov, @mgsiegler, @scobleizer, @gastypm, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @scobleizer, @nathie, and @scobleizer. Bluesky: @stevekovach. Forums: r/VisionPro
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws — Update: Article rewritten with official confirmation from Citrix. — Citrix has confirmed that two critical NetScaler remote code …
More: iTnews, CISA, Security Affairs, ABA Banking Journal, Cyber Security News, Cyber Daily, The Stack, and The Hacker News
X: @intcyberdigest. Bluesky: @fckelnmskthnzbllnr. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social. Forums: r/Citrix and r/sysadmin
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: China's government asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and others to report on their plans to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500, saying it intends to approve the purchases — China's government has signaled it could allow some domestic companies to buy a new Nvidia chip built for high-end professional computers …
More: Bloomberg, The Hindu, Reuters, Superpower Daily, The Ken, Seeking Alpha, Chip Briefing, Coinpaper, Bloomberg Law, Tech in Asia, and COINOTAG
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives — One of Anthropic's earliest investors, Jaan Tallinn dances hip-hop and warns about ‘racing to build a technology that could end humanity’
More: Business Standard
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more — The software giant's AI chief also thinks the government should help “drive” the process of evaluating models.
X: @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, and @shiringhaffary
| Financial Times: |
Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads — US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic's systems| Wall Street Journal: |
How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry — Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at Anthropic| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup with $36M raised to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons — Red Queen Bio is using artificial intelligence to design antibody drugs for novel pathogens—before future AI systems create them
X: @brooke
| Nate Jones / Washington Post: |
The US DHS says it will “revolutionize” its FOIA process by using AI to handle certain types of requests and recommend what information should be redacted — Redactions are the Freedom of Information Act requester's bane. Those black boxes that often hide wide swaths of words …
Forums: r/politics
| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, which develops brain-computer interfaces, raised a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $430M — By backing Precision Neuroscience, the billionaire Bill Ackman joins Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in diving into an emerging industry.
More: Precision Neuroscience, Pulse 2.0, MedTech Dive, FinSMEs, Tech Funding News, and The Next Web
| Lily Kuo / New York Times: |
In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chinese AI companies from overtaking their US rivals — In China, A.I. doomsday warnings can feel distinctly Western or like a ploy to stop Chinese A.I. companies from trying to overtake their U.S. rivals.
Bluesky: @bigtentsocialist, @jessefelder.com, and @paul.kinlan.me
Forums: r/singularity, r/accelerate, and r/artificial
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