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| 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, International Business Times, CoinDesk, Business Insider, CNBC, The Verge, Implicator.ai, New York Times, crypto.news, and NBC News
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LinkedIn: Dimitris Chatzigiannis, Marc Avila, Olga Holtz, Nathaniel Craig, Romain Huet, John Olafenwa, and Konstantin Hemker
Bluesky: @p-hunermund.com, @durumcrustulum.com, @jamesomalley.co.uk, @davidcrespo, @spignal, and @thalysandratos
Mastodon: @Mehrad@fosstodon.org and @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/EverythingScience, r/informatik, r/mathe, r/CFD, r/aiwars, r/csMajors, and Slashdot
| 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 …
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Forums: r/antiai, r/neoliberal, r/technology, and r/Innovation
| 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
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| Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck: |
More: Implicator.ai. X: @sama, @sebastienbubeck, @michael_nielsen, @blackhc, @tszzl, @teortaxestex, @bubbleboi, @mikeknoop, @nanjiang_cs, @danintheory, @removeanime, @thomasfbloom, @tunguz, @sporadica, @boazbaraktcs, @brainstatssam, @polynoamial, @teortaxestex, and @emostaque. Forums: r/singularity
| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News and 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: Muse, Meta, New York Times, and Seoul Economic Daily
LinkedIn: Derek Drawhorn, Radhika Gemawat, Rohan Khanna, and Aditya Tomar
| 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: TestingCatalog AI News, Phandroid, RuntimeWire, The Paypers, Neowin, Business Standard, and Livemint
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| 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
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Bluesky: @trahan.house.gov and @katherinettyson
Forums: r/developersIndia, r/OpenAI, r/antiai, r/politics, r/artificial, and r/technology
| Evan Hubinger / @evanhub: |
Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement — Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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Forums: r/technology, r/politics, and r/singularity
| 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.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's first foldable will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at $2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October — Apple Inc. is set to debut a roughly $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging product event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. local time from Cupertino, California.
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Forums: r/apple, r/iphone18pro, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/NowInTech
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency — - Prosecutors say Malone Lam, who went by aliases “Anne Hathaway,” “$$$” and “King Greavy,” led the operation.| 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.
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X: @openai, @askvenice, @sama, @arena, @openaidevs, @chatgpt, @reach_vb, @fal, @manusai, @angaisb_, @openai, @yanabana, @venturetwins, @linusekenstam, @codestantine, @openai, @charlierguo, @yanabana, @openaidevs, @kimmonismus, @boyuanchen0, @skeptrune, @chefbrent, @chetaslua, @deryatr_, @gdb, @taesung, @mark_k, @luminabench, @deryatr_, @openaidevs, @ayaanzhaque, @angaisb_, and @gdb
LinkedIn: Simon Logghe and Adele Li
Forums: r/aigamedev, r/aiwars, and r/codex
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism — Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups.| 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, @arimorcos, @dorialexander, and @sarahookr
| 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.
More: Decrypt, Block, The Crypto Basic, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, and crypto.news
LinkedIn: Richard Rosenthal and Mark P.
Bluesky: @smtuffy and @caseynewton
| 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 … | Financial Times: |
Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software — Plan comes as buyout groups grapple with impact of AI on software companies bought at high valuations
More: Reuters
| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March — Legal tech startup Harvey is now valued at $15.6 billion after raising $550 million in a new funding round aimed at powering efforts to build its own AI models.| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Savvy Wealth, which provides RIA software for independent financial advisors, raised a $100M Series C led by Halo Fund, taking its total funding to $200M+ — Savvy Wealth, which provides tech and back-office infrastructure for independent financial advisors, raised $100 million in Series C funding … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where it is offering robotaxi trips, as it plays catch up with Uber — Lyft Inc. is starting to offer Waymo robotaxi rides in Nashville, marking the second US city where it's providing driverless trips …
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