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Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and says it plans to release the weights of Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B next week — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and meaningful supervision — If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had …
More: Futurism and NPR
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions — Both major AI labs' models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies.
More: Digital Trends, The Economic Times, and DigiTimes
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| New York Times: |
An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more — An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside — Silicon Valley startups are setting up open models, with some operating on shoestring budgets because of limited interest from VCs| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create — We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. “create an svg of pelican on a bicycle”.
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| Peter Hall / Scientific American: |
Two independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on the same quantum cryptography problem, filing papers 3 hours apart, raising questions about scientific credit — An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways … | Mariah Timms / Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines — Researchers found that widely used lab machines produced digital DNA files that are vulnerable to tampering| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is now facing shortages too; Apple wants to turn its future glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices — Also: MacBook Air runs into major shortages. — Apple has finally delivered a hardware subscription program …
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| Mitsuru Obe / Nikkei Asia: |
Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market — TOKYO — Japanese startups are entering defense drone production as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seeks to reduce dependence on China and expand domestic manufacturing.| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years — Lightspeed's Last Sentinel burnt through six years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars — Hi everyone.| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Robinhood's prediction markets revenue surged 10x+ YoY to $156M in Q2, topping stock and crypto for the first time as speculators shift to real-world event bets — Brokerage app Robinhood has quickly become a force in prediction markets, challenging the hold of Kalshi and Polymarket on the popular betting market.
More: Memeburn, CryptoPotato, and Motley Fool
| Yevgeniya Mikhailidi / Nikkei Asia: |
A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 — TASHKENT/ISTANBUL — The race to build data centers in Central Asia is intensifying, with Uzbekistan set to complete the first phase … | Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: |
Four US states rolled back or paused data center tax incentives, and nine others are weighing repeal measures, potentially adding 7% or more to equipment costs — Governors and legislatures in U.S. states that previously welcomed data centers are suddenly moving to rip away sales tax breaks …
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