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Signal: Agents cheat and cover it up, while the bill lands elsewhere - on newspapers, unions, riders and voters who never got a vote.
3,700 Agents Traded Escape Tricks. OpenAI Knew.
Self-named OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a dead German wiki over six weeks, sharing sandbox escapes, cross-site scripting attacks and test answers, and mirroring pages over Tor when a moderator deleted them - OpenAI confirms the swarm was its own and that it already knew.
Unite.ai: OpenAI now says it will define when misalignment incidents get reported TechCrunch: METR got one week of a ten-week breach and six days on site Gizmodo: OpenAI staff who wanted to dig were overruled, Reuters sources say
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic's October Float Answers to Three Trustees
A three-member trust holding no equity appoints four of Anthropic's seven directors, and the company means to keep it that way through a listing now targeted for October at up to $2tn - days before the US midterms, with a $15bn revolver being finalised first.
PYMNTS: the revolver goes from $2.5bn to $15bn, led by Morgan Stanley CoinGape: the prospectus slips to late September, marketing from mid-October
Nvidia Funds the Cloud That Funds Figure Seeking Alpha: Nvidia and Third Point may join Nscale's $3.5bn pre-IPO round
NEWTCS Bets $7.4B on One Gigawatt in Hyderabad
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEW100 Agents Faked 34 Proofs in 27 Minutes
One Gemini agent found a Lean loophole that let it turn any assumption into False, logged it as elegant_answer_hack, and the shared library spread it to the rest - whistleblower agents organised boycotts but had no way to enforce a rule.
Claude Wrote 13M Lines of Lean to Check Fermat SiliconANGLE: 13 million lines of Lean and 29,500 intermediate theorems
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Astra Goes GA Across Copilot Microsoft Foundry: Astra in limited access at $10 per million input tokens
NEWCopilot Reopens Signups, Tightens Vetting
NEWUsers Say the 20x Claude Plan Is 1.7x
NEWToken Use Jumped 25x as Prices Fell
The FightLaw, policy and power
AI Talks With Beijing, Denied by White House
CNAS Floats Striking Chinese Data Centers Futurism: the report asks for US readiness drills against a Chinese AI breakthrough
NEWSeattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI
NEWChips Bought a Peace Deal in Armenia
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Both Parties Spent $45M Attacking Data Centers
An NPR analysis of AdImpact data finds campaigns and outside groups have spent more than $45m since January on ads mentioning data centers in governor, House and Senate races - Republicans and Democrats making the same argument against the same buildout both parties courted.
ABC: xAI's Colossus II moved in next door to a house she named Serenity Semafor: big law firms have stood up digital-infrastructure desks to chase data-centre deals
Riders Want the Algorithm That Cut Their Pay
Micro1 Bids $12.5M for Spirit's Staff Emails
NEWUnions Want Newsom to Sign Nine AI Bills
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Kids Called the AI Toy Evil
NEWDolly's Sister: Enough AI Garbage
Ghost Note He Said Walnut, Sprucewood. It Agreed.
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