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Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervision  —  If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had …
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
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.
Irina Anghel / Bloomberg:
Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere  —  UK employers are creating jobs for experienced staff with artificial intelligence skills and cutting back elsewhere …
More: Reuters
Washington Post:
An analysis of US police and court records finds 50+ officers were charged or accused of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking  —  JEFFERSON, Ga. — Marci Bakely couldn't understand how her ex-boyfriend always seemed to know where she was.
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”.
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
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.
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
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 …
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
The North American box office records its biggest weekend ever with ~$430M in total, driven by Spider-Man: Brand New Day's $355M and The Odyssey's $51M

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: former 60 Minutes EP Bill Owens seeks ~$50M to launch a rival news series with Scott Pelley and other fired staffers; a source close to Owens denies it

Natalie Korach / Status:
Sources: WaPo Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal's exit stunned some colleagues, as he sounded confident and recently boasted he pushed the section further to the right

More News

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
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

Earlier Picks

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety
Wall Street Journal:
Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan
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