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| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet — worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
More: Reuters, PYMNTS, Bloomberg, The Register, The Block, The Crypto Times, International Business Times, crypto.news, The Coin Republic, Nairametrics, Cointelegraph, CryptoNinjas, The Cyber Express, Bitcoin News, CryptoPotato, CoinGape, Protos, The Daily Hodl, Blockchain.News, Cointelegraph News, Bitcoin Magazine, DataBreaches.Net, and Web3 is Going Just Great
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace — In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project, we saw the first results that gave us confidence that we will be able to scale …
More: Bloomberg, Business Insider, Don't Worry About the Vase, Metro.co.uk, The Stack, The Rundown AI, The Indian Express, Digit, Forkast, Unite.AI, The Neuron, Simon Willison's Weblog, and RuntimeWire
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @mclem.org, @turntrout, and @carlquintanilla
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/singularity, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow aging — Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition.
More: Nature, The Decoder, Insilico Medicine, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Unite.AI, and The Next Web
Forums: r/technology, r/longevity, and r/immortalists
| The Guardian: |
Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more — I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage. — And yet, here we are.
More: The Rundown AI, Cyber Security News, Forkast, MediaNama, Financial Express, Mashable, SecurityWeek, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Digit, Business Insider, Tom's Hardware, TechCrunch, Security Affairs, The Indian Express, Implicator.ai, Seoul Economic Daily, BleepingComputer, and Engadget
X: @full_kelly_, @singhns, and @openai. LinkedIn: Ian Tien. Bluesky: @profchildermass. Mastodon: @ArthurZork@mstdn.party
| Andy Bounds / Financial Times: |
Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan — Prosecutors in Belgium cite ‘indications’ suspect took role at tech company in China months after joining now-defunct semiconductor maker Belgan
More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Euronews, Associated Press, and Bloomberg
| Jack Clark / Import AI: |
Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters — Plus, a machine hermeneutics story — Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers.
More: arXiv.org. X: @jackclarksf, @andrewcurran_, @dynamicwebpaige, @aiamblichus, @jackclarksf, @jackclarksf, @vkrakovna, @jackclarksf, @maxhodak_, and @jackclarksf
| Tae Kim / Key Context: |
Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding — AI computer tool use is a big deal. — A reminder that I'm on vacation this week, but the flood of impressions people …
More: Digital Trends, Memeburn, The Mac Observer, and Creative Bloq
| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
The US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put “trustworthy” news providers at the top of social and video feeds — News Media Association warns forcing prominence for ‘trustworthy’ news could end up harming sector.| Stephen Council / Business Insider: |
A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products — Inside Anthropic, an unorthodox group can take a lot of credit for the AI company's meteoric rise. — The company's Labs team …
Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Simon Foy / Financial Times: |
Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy — Graduates and interns hoping to join Swiss bank must show they can use the technology to improve outcomes and efficiency
More: The Decoder, TechRadar, and Australian Financial Review
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month — ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc … | Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls — NEW YORK/PALO ALTO, California — The U.S. is poised to raise artificial intelligence safety concerns with China during … | Cal Newport / New York Times: |
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims — As the tech elite prepares to make billions from the A.I. revolution, the public mood about this technology has taken a dark turn.
X: @actuallykeltan, @chris_said, @natpurser, @jessesingal, @bgurley, @chris_said, @garrisonlovely, @sapinker, @boazbaraktcs, @eoinhiggins_, @mikeisaac, @genologos, and @stefanfschubert
Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/neoliberal
| Nikkei Asia: |
Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions — TAIPEI — China's Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first triple-folding smartphone powered by chips that it says are free … Sponsor Posts
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Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
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The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
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