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Sources: President Trump hosted 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/thebulwark, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
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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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Bluesky: @lenticulus and @seldo.com
Forums: r/goodnews, r/news, r/technology, r/AIDangers, r/Anthropic, r/Futurology, r/singularity, r/BetterOffline, r/technews, and Slashdot
| 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 … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta's VR Glasses are the product Vision Pro should have been; sources say Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is 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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X: @markgurman, @vrnights, @sadlyitsbradley, @markgurman, @skarredghost, @asychov, @mgsiegler, @gastypm, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @scobleizer, @scobleizer, @nathie, and @scobleizer. Bluesky: @stevekovach. Forums: r/VisionPro
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws — Update: Article rewritten with official confirmation from Citrix. — Citrix has confirmed that two critical NetScaler remote code …
More: The Register, The Cyber Express, SecurityWeek, CISA, ABA Banking Journal, iTnews, Security Affairs, Cyber Security News, Cyber Daily, The Stack, and The Hacker News
X: @intcyberdigest. Bluesky: @fckelnmskthnzbllnr. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social. Forums: r/Citrix and r/sysadmin
| 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, r/accelerate, and r/artificial
| 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| 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 … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, and 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: |
AlphaSense: mentions of open models in US earnings calls and conferences rose 6x YoY in August and September; open models hit 56% of Vercel tokens in August — US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic's systems| 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’| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
NXP and TSMC affiliate Vanguard inaugurate their joint advanced chip fab in Singapore, targeting mass production in early 2027 and eyeing a second facility — SINGAPORE — TSMC affiliate Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) inaugurated its first advanced chipmaking plant in Singapore …
More: The Straits Times and Seeking Alpha
| The Washington Sun: |
Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the “bipartisan psychosis” over data centers — Hundreds gathered at a bitcoin-themed bar in D.C. to counterprogram the national backlash against data centers and AI.| Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: |
A profile of South Korea Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, an AI evangelist and a former AI researcher leading lavishly funded programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide — Deputy prime minister is an unabashed evangelist for the technology even as some fear it could pose catastrophic risksSponsor Posts
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