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Archive September 2, 2026 01:09 UTC
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Signal: A model crosses the cyber-danger line the same day two security vendors start selling the cure, and the buildout keeps billing.
OpenAI Calls Astra Critical for Cyber. Ships Anyway.
Astra is the first model OpenAI has rated Critical under its own preparedness framework - it found and exploited two zero-days on a version of ExploitBench that OpenAI's own engineers modified, and no third party has checked the work.
The Verge: OpenAI delayed Astra after its own model hacked Hugging Face OpenAI: advanced cyber access limited to Daybreak Blue testers including Cisco and Cloudflare
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic Cuts Claude's Price and Its Refusals
Fable 5.1 runs about 25% cheaper on typical work and 45% on long agentic runs after Anthropic cut cache reads to a quarter, fires fewer false refusals, and is the first Claude shipping a built-in watermark.
Artificial Analysis: Fable 5.1 tops its index but costs 20% more per task The Decoder: Anthropic opens Claude's watermark checker to regulators and fact-checkers
SB Energy Files. It Bets Everything on OpenAI. Business Insider: the S-1 puts OpenAI on nearly every side of SB Energy's business
NEWDell Guides to 81% Growth. Shares Jump 9%.
NEWAfterQuery Hits $3.2B in Five Months
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWCrowdStrike's Security Model Attacks Itself
SafeMind loops CrowdStrike's offensive models against defensive ones built on Nvidia Nemotron until attacks stop working - higher accuracy than leading frontier models at 99% lower cost, on CrowdStrike's own internal evaluations.
CNBC: Palo Alto's Arora puts the world's pre-AI security debt at $1 trillion
METR Vibe-Coded the Hole. $600K Walked Out. The Register: nobody noticed the stolen METR key for weeks
NEWMeta's Transcriber Decides How Long to Listen
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Can Now Approve Your Pull Request
Perplexity Splits the Task With Your Own Mac
200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWUS at G20: An AI Regulator Would Be a Disaster
The ministerial opened Tuesday with Trump's science chief calling a US AI agency a disaster and Musk warning of a significant power shortfall next year, Zuckerberg and Hassabis alongside him - and no G20 power to bind anyone.
CNET: Kratsios says rules built for an earlier era leave nations falling behind Gizmodo: the pact has a name, the Carolina Principles, and Canada is resisting it
Pentagon's AI Chief Cashed Out of Perplexity
NEWGoogle AI Secrets Thief Gets Under a Year
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
GoPro Pivots to AI. Stock Jumps 38%.
NEWNew York Bars AI for 600,000 Students
NEWWaymo Opens 3 Cities, Days Before Cybercab
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Nvidia Dates DLSS 5. Half Your Frames Go.
NEWAI Picks the Road to Alpha Centauri
Ghost Note A Camera in Your Mouth, 28 Times a Second
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