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Signal: Canberra offers an off switch the same day agents drain Claude tokens, leak Gmail, and put a payment card behind the buy button.
OpenAI Cracked Navier-Stokes. He Says They Front-Ran Him.
An internal model OpenAI says beats Astra produced a Lean-checked proof in about 50 hours - days after word of NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster's own approach reached the company, which concedes it cannot rule out that de-identified Codex data improved its models.
TechCrunch: 300 billion output tokens, and a route almost nobody else was working on Scientific American: the pair who invented the method are 'a little bit in shock' OpenAI: a spiralling vortex that blows up in finite time, formalised in Lean
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Meta Ships an Agent That Can Spend Your Money
Muse runs on a dedicated cloud VM per user, opens a browser, fills forms, sends email and books travel, and asks before it buys - launched weeks after Meta agreed to pay nearly $17bn to state attorneys general.
CNBC: internally code-named Hatch, free tier plus $20 and $100 plans Meta: $130,000 bounty for a single successful prompt injection
Cognition Hits $48B at the Same Multiple
Qualcomm Hands Amazon $4B to Buy Its Chips Tech Times: warrants vest only against $60bn of purchases through 2036
NEWChina Points Its Robot Boom at Urban Combat
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
AI Wrote the WeChat Worm in Two Days Calif: AI puts state-grade exploit work into less skilled hands
Planted Prompt Made ChatGPT Leak Gmail The Register: a second Check Point channel ran through ChatGPT's internal Artifactory
NEWHis Claude Tokens Drained While He Slept
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Microsoft Ships a Windows That Only Codes
GitHub Ships a Router That Picks the Model
Nvidia Lets You Write Kernels in Rust
The FightLaw, policy and power
NSA Names DeepSeek Among Six Distilling US Models
A joint CISA, NSA and FBI advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI as having pulled billions of tokens from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024 - and says Beijing likely knew.
The agencies say the traffic was spread across clouds and API aggregators to hide it
Ex-FTC Lawyers Sue Over Claude's '20x'
250 More Child-Abuse Ads Ran on Meta Times of India: India's child-rights commission summons Meta India's chief
Border Patrol's Secret Targeting Teams
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWAustralia Will Let You Switch the Algorithm Off
Draft laws released Tuesday would make every platform ask users over 16 whether they want a recommended feed at all - and extend a duty of care to games, apps and AI chatbots - with fines above A$100m for refusing.
PM's office: 'My Feed, My Way' goes out for targeted consultation Guardian: it captures search engines and chatbots, and Albanese expects blowback
42% of New Code Is AI. 96% Distrust It.
A $55,000 School With No Teachers Futurism: applicants wear a heart monitor while the class critiques their work
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWFacebook Paid the Fake Albanese Pages
Ghost Note Fake AI Eminem Outranks the Real One
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