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Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months (www.cnn.com)
8 days ago

Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments (darioamodei.com)
8 days ago

Dario Amodei says Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to giving third-party evaluators permanent access to verify its adherence to safety measures (x.com)
8 days ago

As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago AI

Scientists Create a New Form of Ice At 2,357 Degrees Celsius (science.slashdot.org)
8 days ago

South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Korea

Little Mercury May Be Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Expected (science.slashdot.org)
8 days ago

Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more (www.dwarkesh.com)
8 days ago China AI

Can Red-Light Therapy Treat Brain Injuries? (science.slashdot.org)
8 days ago

Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp (www.axios.com)
8 days ago AI

NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (www.wealthmanagement.com)
8 days ago AI

Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom (games.slashdot.org)
8 days ago

Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Amazon

Positron, which is designing AI inference processor Asimov featuring a “memory-first architecture” and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI

Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago AI Apple

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago IPO Nvidia

Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago

Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago (www.businessinsider.com)
8 days ago

Sources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a “duty of care” for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago AI Senate

PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima's 'Physint' on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines (games.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Budget

Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago

FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking (www.wired.com)
9 days ago Google CFTC

US Legislators Complain About Secretive British Court and Apple Encryption (news.slashdot.org)
9 days ago U.K. Apple

Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago Android

Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, which Groq called a “nonexclusive licensing agreement” (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Nvidia

NYC-based AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize (www.businessinsider.com)
9 days ago Google LinkedIn Startup AI

A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
9 days ago AI Mathematics

The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago AI GDP

Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago Database

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