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Archive September 2, 2026 10:07 UTC
Signal: The cyber threshold got measured on live hardware for $535 - while token prices halve and the G20 is told to stand back.
$535 of Claude Bought a Working PLC Exploit
Forescout's Vedere Labs pointed Claude Code at a WAGO controller and got working pre-authentication code execution on live hardware - $535.74 and eight and a half hours for the final stage, and a second session permanently bricked the device.
SecurityWeek: the AI chased wrong leads until researchers moved it to Opus
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWToken Prices Halve, and Two IPOs Are Waiting
Silicon Data's index for what a million tokens actually trades at hit 97 cents Monday, less than half its summer high and driven by Chinese open-weight models - and OpenAI and Anthropic have both filed confidentially to go public.
Seoul Economic Daily: Kimi K3 and dynamic pricing are pulling the whole market down
Anthropic Cuts Claude's Price and Its Refusals Artificial Analysis: Fable 5.1 tops its index but costs 20% more per task
Dell Guides to 81% Growth. Shares Jump 9%.
AfterQuery Hits $3.2B in Five Months
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Astra Finds Unknown Flaws Using Less Compute
OpenAI restarted training on 28 August after a two-week pause and now says Astra spots more vulnerabilities than any model it has shipped while using less compute - the one thing that has ever limited who can run an attack at scale.
WIRED: Astra exploited two zero-days on a benchmark OpenAI's own engineers modified PCMag: an ex-employee warns Astra could metagame the researchers watching it
CrowdStrike's Security Model Attacks Itself CNBC: Palo Alto's Arora puts the world's pre-AI security debt at $1 trillion
NEWAtlas Won Every Benchmark World Labs Ran World Labs: every input is pinned to a position in 3D space
Meta's Transcriber Decides How Long to Listen
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Can Now Approve Your Pull Request
NEWGemini Picks Which Frames It Pays For The Decoder: the savings land on long recordings, and it is Google's benchmark
The FightLaw, policy and power
US 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
Google AI Secrets Thief Gets Under a Year
NEWJudge: HHS Cited Studies That Don't Exist
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
New York Bars AI for 600,000 Students
Waymo Opens 3 Cities, Days Before Cybercab
NEW2,000 Sydney Staff Strike Over AI
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
AI Picks the Road to Alpha Centauri
Ghost Note A Camera in Your Mouth, 28 Times a Second
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