Triarom Computers https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters (Jack Clark/Import AI) since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade (Valida Pau/The Information) Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government’s science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns (The Guardian) The US raises censorship concerns over the UK’s proposals to force tech platforms to put “trustworthy” news providers at the top of social and video feeds (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month (Bloomberg) A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage (Financial Times) Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions (Nikkei Asia) A record 12.7M graduates are entering China’s workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (Yan Zhuang/New York Times) Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after "purported white-hat hackers" withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk) other hacked message boards, OpenAI’s cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don’t Worry About the Vase) How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal) at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls (Nikkei Asia) Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners (New York Times) Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy (Simon Foy/Financial Times) OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI) OpenAI says it hit its “automated research intern” goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens (OpenAI) LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M (Reuters) TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business Apple’s plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation How AI gutted Kenya’s essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students’ homework, leaving few paths back to work (New York Times) Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown Clucky’s new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch (Emily Forlini/Fortune) Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies (Philip Wegmann/Wall Street Journal) Travis Kalanick’s Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times) Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning Home Page 2 As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg) Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal) Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously” (ABC News) The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (Laurie Chen/Reuters) Berlin is reviewing Rhysida’s 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans (Miranda Murray/Reuters) Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge) Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs “once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned” (Sean Hollister/The Verge) India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B (Moneycontrol) Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity (Eve Bender/MobiHealthNews) Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles (Kinling Lo/Rest of World) The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia (Jonathan Greig/The Record) Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment (@openai) Blog Right Sidebar