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| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it — A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
More: Tristan Buckmaster, Financial Times, Quartz, Business Insider, The Decoder, Unite.AI, and AIM
X: @sebastienbubeck, @dheeraj_nagaraj, @kevinroose, @thom_wolf, @katiemiller, @irl_danb, @david_kasten, @natolambert, @exomnium, @suchenzang, @grogbogan, @anshulkundaje, @tekbog, @ns123abc, @thezvi, @katiemiller, @antirez, @ccatalini, @teortaxestex, @nic_carter, @phl43, @_arohan_, @luke_metro, @boazbaraktcs, @antonioregalado, @yacinemtb, @mackenz_arnold, @cljack, @deliprao, @mikeisaac, @itaisher, @wildtypehuman, @suchenzang, @basedalexandoor, @quantian1, @bubbleboi, @fulligin, @13yroldwithcc, @anthonyronning, @konstiwohlwend, @malemanlpulator, @willdepue, @malemanlpulator, @jsevillamol, @jsevillamol, @jsevillamol, @jsevillamol, @jsevillamol, @willdepue, @polynoamial, @aisafetymemes, @hosseeb, @__alpoge__, @eliebakouch, @_sholtodouglas, @_sholtodouglas, @polynoamial, @_sholtodouglas, @suchenzang, and @etale27
LinkedIn: Ben Feuer, Chandrasekar Subramanian, PhD, Daniel McQuillan, Mark Riedl, and Sebastien Bubeck
Bluesky: @thelasttheorist, @qjurecic, @kashhill, @samthielman.com, @benbraun.eurosky.social, @nsaphra, @70sbachchan, @nickevershed, @chrischirp, @maxkennerly, @sciam, @dangaristo, and @minimaliste13.cpesr.fr
| Madison Mills / Axios: |
OpenAI says an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours — OpenAI says its AI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, a potentially historic breakthrough shadowed …
More: New York Times, New Scientist, Scientific American, Anima on AI, Neowin, RuntimeWire, TBPN, Newser, and The Deep View
X: @openai, @iterintellectus, @iterintellectus, @miles_brundage, @aravsrinivas, @weijie444, @antoniogm, @deanwball, @_nathancalvin, @liuzuxin, @ericjang11, @jj_mccubbin29, @mckaywrigley, @apples_jimmy, @openai, @_aidan_clark_, @tszzl, @victornunez, @gdb, @_benjaminparry, @natolambert, @chetaslua, @markchen90, @boazbaraktcs, @_aidan_clark_, @emollick, @deredleritt3r, @boazbaraktcs, @reach_vb, @radishharmers, @__nmca__, @ccatalini, @kimmonismus, and @openai. Bluesky: @michaelmclean.me. Mastodon: @cdarwin@c.im
Forums: r/accelerate, r/antiai, r/neoliberal, r/neoliberal, r/Innovation, r/technology, and r/aiwars
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says, while unlikely, it “cannot rule out that de-identified data derived” from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models — Read the paper Link to Lean formalized proof — We're sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence …
More: TechCrunch, Simon Willison's Weblog, BBC, NBC News, New York Times, The Information, Engadget, The Guardian, and The Verge
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LinkedIn: Nathaniel Craig, Romain Huet, Ethan Mollick, Konstantin Hemker, John Olafenwa, and Olga Holtz
Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com, @spignal, @jamesomalley.co.uk, @thalysandratos, and @davidcrespo. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/informatik, r/codex, r/mathe, r/aiwars, r/csMajors, r/accelerate, r/CFD, r/mathematics, r/singularity, and Lobsters
| Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck: |
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses — Meta on Tuesday announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.
More: Meta Newsroom, Wired, The Verge, Meta AI Research, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Android Authority, Techstrong.ai, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, The Information, CNBC, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, and Engadget
X: @finkd, @punished_daniel, @ivanhzhao, @jasontoff, @alexandr_wang, @yanyanista, @devahaz, @neil_chilson, @zachperret, @blakeir, @alexrkonrad, @spencerbarnett, @loktar00, @alexandr_wang, @rihardjarc, @jerrycap, @metanewsroom, @altryne, @altryne, @kenwattana, @giffmana, @beffjezos, @taylorotwell, @finkd, @aiatmeta, @beffjezos, @suchenzang, @rmsherman, @thatguybg, @mgsiegler, @rmsherman, @icesolst, @levie, @charlieholtz, @rihardjarc, @mikeisaac, @finkd, @gergelyorosz, @scottbelsky, @omooretweets, @davidpawlan, @mikepat711, @boztank, @rauchg, @kenwattana, @adamlags, @katiemiller, @boztank, @pitdesi, @signulll, @giffmana, @michaellee04, @harjtaggar, @camilobacosta, @marshal, @boztank, @muse, @rexsalisbury, and @plumberbutt97
LinkedIn: Jessica Sherrets, Srikanth Chinmay, Reece Jones, David Singleton, and Sebastian San Juan. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg. Forums: Slashdot
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers — Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user's behalf …
More: New York Times and Associated Press
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more — Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media's consumer harms …
More: Reuters, Fast Company, Forkast, and The Independent
X: @alexandr_wang, @alexandr_wang, and @alexandr_wang
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2025 — Microsoft's patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.
More: BleepingComputer, Zero Day Initiative, The Verge, CSO, Krebs on Security, Microsoft Security …, The Register, CyberScoop, The Record, The Stack, Windows Central, and SecurityWeek. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control — Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control
More: Livemint, Gizmodo, Moneycontrol, VINnews, Marcus on AI, and RuntimeWire
X: @hilbertspaess, @evanhub, @aisafetymemes, @adamcrafton_, @krystalball, @evanhub, @garymarcus, @alexberenson, @jonfavs, @_nathancalvin, @infinite_jaz, @andreamiotti, @taylorlorenz, @hilbertspaess, @hilbertspaess, @carlquintanilla, @suchenzang, @peterwildeford, @dkokotajlo, @_nathancalvin, @rohanpaul_ai, and @sneharevanur
Forums: r/singularity, r/artificial, and r/technology
| Reuters: |
The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns — The U.S. government on Tuesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of maliciously copying technology …
More: CISA, Bloomberg, CyberScoop, CISA, Unite.AI, South China Morning Post, NBC News, KVIA-TV, and Nextgov/FCW
X: @nsacyber, @cisagov, @danielremler, @theobearman, and @niubi. Bluesky: @self.agency. Forums: Slashdot
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT — OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, the company shared first with Axios. … - The new model can generate images up to 50 percent faster, OpenAI says.
More: OpenAI, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Digit, iThinkDifferent, iClarified, and Seeking Alpha
X: @angaisb_, @openai, @yanabana, @venturetwins, @linusekenstam, @codestantine, @openai, @chatgpt, @charlierguo, @yanabana, @openaidevs, @kimmonismus, @arena, @boyuanchen0, @skeptrune, @chefbrent, @chetaslua, @deryatr_, @gdb, @fal, @taesung, @reach_vb, @mark_k, @luminabench, @deryatr_, @openaidevs, @askvenice, @ayaanzhaque, @manusai, @angaisb_, @openai, @openaidevs, @sama, and @gdb. LinkedIn: Adele Li
Forums: r/aiwars, r/codex, and r/aigamedev
| Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ: |
Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code — The media regulator Coimisiún na Meán has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns … | Google: |
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome — AlphaGenome Atlas is the most comprehensive catalogue of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology. — VP Science, Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist, Google Cloud
More: Google DeepMind, The Verge, MarkTechPost, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Nature, Fortune, Stowers Institute …, Techstrong.ai, and TechEBlog
X: @demishassabis, @googledeepmind, @pushmeet, @pushmeet, @sporadica, @antigravity, @s6juncheng, @pushmeet, @kimmonismus, @pushmeet, @perrymetzger, @avsecz, @sundarpichai, @aleximarkett, and @googledeepmind. LinkedIn: Anna Koivuniemi. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/science, r/singularity, r/Bard, and Slashdot
| Samantha Oltman / Bloomberg: |
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M — Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. has raised $2 billion in a new round of funding that vaulted its valuation to $48 billion.
More: Cognition, PYMNTS, SiliconANGLE, Seeking Alpha, and Reuters
X: @cognition, @htaneja, @eglyman, @jtlonsdale, @nmasc_, @cognition, @scottwu46, @everettrandle, @cognition, @cognition, and @cognition
LinkedIn: Rob Scales and Oscar Rivera
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Qualcomm announces a data center infrastructure partnership with AWS, as part of which it issued warrants to Amazon to acquire $4B worth of Qualcomm's stock — Qualcomm shares rose 4% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services …
More: Qualcomm, US Securities …, Reuters, Pulse 2.0, Fierce Network, International Business Times, Motley Fool, and The Register
X: @benbajarin and @qualcomm
LinkedIn: David Altavilla, James Jeon, and Cristiano R. Amon. Bluesky: @wittywebhandle. Forums: r/BetterOffline
| Clare Armstrong / ABC: |
Australia proposes a “My Feed, My Way” initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content — In short: — The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.
More: CNBC, Prime Minister of Australia, Reuters, The Guardian, BBC, Social Media Today, The Guardian, Prime Minister of Australia, The Register, The Conversation, CleanTechnica, Senator the Hon Sarah …, Investor's Business Daily, TechRepublic, iPhone in Canada, The Conversation, ABC News (Australia) on YouTube, NEWS9 Live on YouTube, The Straits Times, and Quartz
X: @harriblogs, @senshenderson, @justinebateman, @mattjcan, @sanjiva, @kapoorkkunal, @kaelaris, @pwafork, @harriblogs, @mattjcan, @andrewbogut, @ryandally08, @neeleshmisra, @mattjcan, @tsourlinis, @kriswilliams, @paulinehansonoz, and @qbccintegrity
Forums: r/Destiny and r/UpliftingNews
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures — Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council, an industry advocacy group, over legislation … | Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements — Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements — How much of the rapid progress in AI that we've seen over the last few years 1 …
X: @dwarkesh_sp, @sarahookr, @arimorcos, and @dorialexander
| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust — The financial technology company is seeking to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank — Block wants to build a bank.| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours — Chime Financial Inc. struck a deal to buy Stride Bank for $590 million in cash, snapping up its longtime partner as the fintech streamlines its operations.| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier — Anthropic says power users are key to its business — it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw.
More: The New Stack
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ramp is in early talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $750M at a $44B valuation in June; founded in 2019, Ramp has raised $3B to date — Ramp is in early talks with investors for a new round of funding at a roughly $60 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the efforts … | Wall Street Journal: |
Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash — Amazon, Meta and Google risk losing decadeslong exemptions due to a backlash against their facilities| Bloomberg: |
Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks — ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking …
More: CNBC, Reuters, Samsung Newsroom, ASML, Wccftech, Phoenix Business Journal, and The Register
X: @tculpan, @bamabonds, @intellionaire, @asmlcompany, and @aschilling
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a ~€21B valuation, up from €11.7B in September 2025, as it expands from developing AI models into data centers — Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
More: Mistral AI Blog, CNBC, Samsung Newsroom, Wall Street Journal, The French Tech Journal, ITPro, Seoul Economic Daily, SammyGuru, TechCentral.ie, Pulse 2.0, WOWTALE, Financial Times, Reuters, and Tech.eu
X: @mistralai, @thezvi, @willchen500, @eliebakouch, @clementdelangue, @paulbz, @beffjezos, @arthurmensch, @theo, @anjneymidha, @mistralai, @mistralai, @obrien, @pakgowithai, @nikhilbhima, @obrien, @aimanhasnoname, and @pckraftwerk. LinkedIn: Arthur Mensch
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google rolls out search result changes in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest quality of service reduction in Search's 29-year history — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday rolled out changes to its online search results in Europe to satisfy EU antitrust regulators …
More: MediaPost, Quartz, Search Engine Journal, and Skift
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