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| 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: Clay Mathematics Institute, Clay Mathematics Institute, TheJournal.ie, New Scientist, Scientific American, The Deep View, and Neowin
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Forums: r/antiai, r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/Innovation, and r/accelerate
| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Marc Avila, Dimitris Chatzigiannis, Olga Holtz, Nathaniel Craig, Romain Huet, John Olafenwa, Konstantin Hemker, and Ethan Mollick
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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, The Hans India, The Indian Express, Digit, Financial Times, and AIM
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| 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.
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LinkedIn: Raveesh Bhatnagar, Jessica Sherrets, Sebastian San Juan, Srikanth Chinmay, Reece Jones, and David Singleton. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
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, and New York Times
LinkedIn: Rohan Khanna, Aditya Tomar, Derek Drawhorn, and Radhika Gemawat
| 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: Business Standard, Livemint, Neowin, Forkast, and The Information
X: @alexandr_wang, @alexandr_wang, and @alexandr_wang
| 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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Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/antiai, and r/politics
| 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.
More: Politico, CNBC, BBC, CoinDesk, ABC, The Independent, Forbes, and Spyglass
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| 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.| 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 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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X: @nsacyber, @cisagov, @danielremler, @theobearman, and @niubi. Bluesky: @self.agency. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| 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.
More: US Department of Justice, Associated Press, and Cointelegraph
| 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, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Neowin, iClarified, SiliconANGLE, and Digit
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Forums: r/aigamedev, r/aiwars, and r/codex
| 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: 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.
More: ITPro
| 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, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Dow Jones Newswires, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Richard Rosenthal and Mark P.
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| 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, Silicon Republic, The SaaS News, Verdict, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
X: @cognition, @htaneja, @eglyman, @jtlonsdale, @nmasc_, @cognition, @scottwu46, @everettrandle, @cognition, @cognition, and @cognition
LinkedIn: Rob Scales and Oscar Rivera
| 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
| Kirsi Heikel / Bloomberg: |
Google plans to invest €13B+ in Finland over two years, its biggest investment in Europe to date, to build three new data centers and expand an existing one — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is planning its biggest investment in Europe, an artificial intelligence infrastructure build out worth …
More: DatacenterDynamics, CNBC, Google Cloud, Evertiq, Helsinki Times, Sweden Herald, and Dow Jones Newswires
| 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 facilitiesSponsor Posts
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