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| 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.| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it hit its “automated research intern” goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens — For AGI to benefit all of humanity, we believe it must be democratically governed.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/neoliberal, and r/accelerate
| 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 — Author: Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI — In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/singularity, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave — Also: The latest on Apple's big Sept. 9 event. — The early signs out of Cupertino are that Tim Cook will still loom large at Apple.
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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white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet — worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …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, The Block, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, Cointelegraph News, Bitcoin Magazine, Blockchain.News, and Web3 is Going Just Great
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| New York Times: |
How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners — Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company's subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia's best chips … | 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 …
More: Foreign Affairs
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms — Atoms gears up for hiring spree and could link with Uber, the company he was ousted from almost a decade ago| Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex — Americans are vibe-coding trading algorithms and handing over their stock portfolios to AI agents. Welcome to the world of the robot retail investor.
Bluesky: @clebsaints
| Valida Pau / The Information: |
Analysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade — Anthropic in the last year has scrambled to line up cloud computing deals with SpaceX, Google and others to meet the skyrocketing demand …
More: The Diplomat. X: @edzitron, @hesamation, @validapau, @bdsams, @rohanpaul_ai, and @validapau. Bluesky: @stevenjcbuckley
| 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| ABC News: |
Trump admin launches arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake game clone and a Tetris-like game; Tetris says it takes “copyright infringement very seriously” — In “Build the Wall,” players aim to “protect the border” from zombies. — Isabella Murray, Nicholas Kerr, and Michelle Stoddart
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Forums: r/SEGA, r/politics, r/AskConservatives, r/Teachers, r/fednews, r/Conservative, and r/technology
| New York Times: |
How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work — Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.| Philip Wegmann / Wall Street Journal: |
Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies — Trump administration officials are wrestling with the spiritual consequences of AI as the president embraces it as an economic engine
More: Axios. X: @humanharlan, @ibrycecrawford, @jeffjarvis, and @philipwegmann
Forums: r/politics, r/TrueChristianPolitics, and r/technology
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