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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Security researchers in an OpenAI bug bounty program hacked OpenAI, accessing its “monorepo” on GitHub, using a cybersecurity version of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 — A bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI's internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats
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Bluesky: @coolhand and @hailey.at
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/technology
| Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
The US CFTC exempts “passive software” providers from broker registration if they never hold user assets, expanding crypto and prediction market online trading — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission moved to expand crypto and prediction market trading via online platforms … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated — AI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves.
More: Washington Post, Implicator.ai, Unite.AI, SiliconANGLE, and CNBC
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic says Claude “leads” 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and “collaborates” on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction — More than a quarter of Anthropic PBC's research and development work for artificial intelligence …
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| Financial Times: |
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
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| Claude: |
Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code — A new experience for Claude projects, now available in beta in Claude Code — https://claude.com/blog/projects- redesigned
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms — Our most powerful model, configured into a new AI foundation for law. — Explore solutions for law Contact Legal sales
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| Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial “super app” in 150+ countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts — - World is rolling out World Money, a financial “super app” spanning stablecoins, investing, yield, and global payments in more than 150 countries.
More: World, Cointelegraph, and crypto.news
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores — If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be — not because it's raised gobs of money (it hasn't yet …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries — The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use.
More: Livemint, Google, and Tech in Asia
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more — “We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI.” — New episode with Noam Brown.| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption for platforms that offer tokenized stock trading, relieving them of many rules that apply to stock exchanges — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited exemption that will allow companies …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta launches a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier this month, allowing it to manage files, pull from apps, more — Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
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| 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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LinkedIn: Dave Schroeder, PhD, Mark Glynne-Jones Frsa, Luiza Jarovsky, PhD, and Dr. John Rares Almasan
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| Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico: |
A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review — A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to force the disclosure of a settlement agreement between Apple and SpaceXAI …
More: 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and AppleInsider
| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India — Apple (AAPL.O) is poised to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's (AXBK.NS) credit cards, three sources familiar with the matter said …
More: Inc42
| Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and 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.
More: Implicator.ai
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