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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis — Senior administration officials have gathered almost daily in recent months to map out potential guardrails
More: Wired, Fortune, Forbes, New York Magazine, Tech Startups, New York Times, Semafor, and Politico
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| Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend — Apple Inc. Executive Chairman Tim Cook and OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman are poised to attend a White House state dinner …
More: Axios, CNBC, Gizmodo, Washington Examiner, International Business Times, NPR, AppleInsider, Quartz, 9to5Mac, iClarified, MacDailyNews, and MacRumors
| Reuters: |
US and Chinese experts propose nuclear-style AI safeguards, including a dedicated AI military hotline, as part of a dialogue ahead of planned US-China AI talks — An AI system that interferes with a nuclear command network or launches a military cyber operation could leave Washington …
More: Gizmodo and Modern Diplomacy
| New York Times: |
More: FUNDA, Türkiye Today, and Bloomberg
| Axios: |
OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment — OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it discovered an unreleased Astra model added an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training but “did not observe any behavioral differences” — Summary — We observed rare cases of a model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries …
More: CSO, OpenAI, The New Stack, The Neuron, Cyber Security News, OpenAI, OpenAI, The Decoder, Tech Startups, Tech Times, OpenAI, OpenAI, Forbes, The Register, and Implicator.ai
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations — Remember when OpenAI landed in hot water earlier this month after mathematicians accused the company of trying to steal their thunder for solving an ultra-difficult math problem?| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
How Dario Amodei's AI safety essays help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance has shifted from wariness in January to calling for third-party evaluators — Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, on Tuesday.Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times| Wall Street Journal: |
More: Bloomberg, Implicator.ai, and The New Yorker
| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Snap is pitching its $2,195 Specs as an enterprise product, inking Salesforce, Amazon, and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays, alongside consumer features — Snap thinks its chunky, pricey smart glasses are the future of human computing, powered by a new AI app and features that do everything … | Bloomberg: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to “increase the speed of development” to “see the dangers” of AI, contrasting with the US' slowdown calls — Chinese tech executive's comments contrast with Silicon Valley calls for slowdown amid rising concerns about technology's existential risks
More: Reuters, New York Post, and Huawei Central
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| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers — Crusoe raised $3.9 billion at a valuation of nearly $31 billion, as it bets on factory-built data centers
More: Crusoe, Reuters, TheEnergyMag, Unite.AI, and Salesforce Ventures
| Amy Harder / Axios: |
Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions — A new coalition launched Wednesday is seeking a triple win for a data center industry that lately has struggled to notch any wins at all.
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X: @nvidianewsroom, @tylerhnorris, and @vsiv
LinkedIn: Wendy Zhu, PhD, Varun Sivaram, and AI Energy Management Alliance
| Bloomberg: |
King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests — Huang Says AI Firms Should Be ‘More Rigorous in Testing’ — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 32.44% Playback Rate| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption where many stock exchange rules don't apply to platforms facilitating blockchain and tokenized stock trading — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited exemption that will allow companies … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials are fantastic, the Health Sensing System is a big upgrade, but many features are coming later — The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are all about what's happening underneath.
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X: @chancehmiller, @ijustine, and @appledsign
| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training — Elon Musk's SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups … | Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: populations in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than growth — 37-country survey also finds growing awareness of AI - and growing concern in some places — Why did we do this?| Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS says it is unable to restore some data stored exclusively in Bahrain data centers and one UAE availability zone, after Iranian drone strikes in the spring — Amazon's announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever
More: Ars Technica, TechSpot, and Help Net Security
X: @lukolejnik. Forums: r/homelab, r/indotech, r/PrepperIntel, r/technology, r/amazon, and r/technology
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance agreements, worth $8.15M, during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO — Last week, on September 9, Automattic's board voted to put CEO Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, a decision the board still hasn't explained publicly.| Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ Bay Area workers in the 12 months to June; Bay Area software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 — The enormous wealth generated by Anthropic and OpenAI is overshadowing layoffs and an uncertain job market in the city.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space — It's both a “Snow Leopard update” and a major leap for Apple Intelligence. — Apple Intelligence is back, baby!
More: MacRumors, Six Colors, MacStories, OS X Daily, Pixel Envy, PCMag, Macworld, MacDailyNews, and Wired
X: @viticci and @johnvoorhees
Forums: Hacker News, r/MacOS, and Ars OpenForum
| Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: |
The UK FCA, working with tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to its “light-touch” crypto regulation — The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said Thursday that it conducted actions to crack down on three illegal peer … | Financial Times: |
A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare, as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes increase the risk of errors — Autonomous systems are being rapidly integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict.
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