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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking — OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data — Autonomous bots hit public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter — OpenAI agents bombarded …
More: swarmcha.se, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Superpower Daily, and Seoul Economic Daily
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Sources: Trump plans to host Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, an indication of thawing relations; Trump personally invited Amodei — President Trump plans to host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening, sources familiar told Axios.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta VR Glasses is the product Vision Pro should have been; sources: Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is still on “life support” — Apple weighs what to do next with its headset. — Meta's new VR Glasses are what Apple should have created for its Vision Pro line.
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| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: China's government asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and others to report on their plans to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500, saying it intends to approve the purchases — China's government has signaled it could allow some domestic companies to buy a new Nvidia chip built for high-end professional computers …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Chip Briefing, Tech in Asia, Superpower Daily, Seeking Alpha, Coinpaper, and COINOTAG
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives — One of Anthropic's earliest investors, Jaan Tallinn dances hip-hop and warns about ‘racing to build a technology that could end humanity’| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more — The software giant's AI chief also thinks the government should help “drive” the process of evaluating models.
X: @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, and @shiringhaffary
| Financial Times: |
Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads — US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic's systems| Wall Street Journal: |
How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry — Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at Anthropic| Lily Kuo / New York Times: |
In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chinese AI companies from overtaking their US rivals — In China, A.I. doomsday warnings can feel distinctly Western or like a ploy to stop Chinese A.I. companies from trying to overtake their U.S. rivals.
Bluesky: @bigtentsocialist, @jessefelder.com, and @paul.kinlan.me
Forums: r/singularity and r/artificial
| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, which develops brain-computer interfaces, raised a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $430M — By backing Precision Neuroscience, the billionaire Bill Ackman joins Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in diving into an emerging industry.
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| New York Times: |
How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks — Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, gathered senior officials for an exclusive meeting at a 19th-century palace outside Brussels this month.
Forums: r/singularity
| Zachery Eanes / Axios: |
Ramona Optics, which makes microscopes that use AI to take and analyze large volumes of images of samples, raised a $25M Series A — Ramona Optics, a Durham startup making advanced microscopes for universities and life sciences companies, has raised $25 million from investors in a Series A round.| Tom Wilson / Financial Times: |
Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts — Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies' costly AI resources
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