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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.
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X: @full_kelly_, @singhns, and @openai. LinkedIn: Ian Tien. Bluesky: @profchildermass. Mastodon: @ArthurZork@mstdn.party
| 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.
More: Help Net Security, Unite.AI, Key Context, Engadget, and The Neuron
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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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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @mclem.org, @turntrout, and @carlquintanilla
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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Bluesky: @stevekovach, @stevekovach, and @hern. Mastodon: @ianbetteridge@social …. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet — worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …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: The Block, Decrypt, Reuters, Livemint, The Crypto Times, Bitcoin News, Yahoo Finance, Nairametrics, The Cyber Express, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Cointelegraph News, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoNinjas, Bloomberg, CryptoPotato, CoinGape, [your]NEWS, and Web3 is Going Just Great
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage — Five years after finance chief Meng Wanzhou's release from detention in Canada, the company itself is going on trial| 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.
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence
| 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 …
More: The Verge, The Information, Moneycontrol, RTÉ, Huawei Central, and DigiTimes
| 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: TechRadar and Australian Financial Review
| Bloomberg: |
Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing — Shein Global Holdings Ltd. has lost about $5 billion in market value since its initial public offering as it finished one of the worst opening weeks …
More: KrASIA
| 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
| Yan Zhuang / New York Times: |
A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles — A record 12.7 million young people are looking for jobs as the country embraces artificial intelligence — and as the technology begins to upend the work force.
More: Barron's Online
| Reuters: |
LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M — Indian space tech startup Pixxel said on Monday it had raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by Singapore state investor Temasek … | 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 agoSponsor 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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Diwali 2026: Your festive planning checklist with Zoho Notebook — The Diwali countdown is on! From lighting up every corner of the house to going a little overboard with the festive shopping …
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