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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Its most detailed threat report yet: a cell in northern Yemen used Claude Code as its engineering team to write missile guidance software, then test-fired a rocket that failed and came back within hours to ask why. Anthropic disrupted every operation — but that cell had already packaged an offline toolkit.
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Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment stress-testing at Anthropic, says he personally puts the odds of AI killing all humans at over 10% within the next decade — and that the company "does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence". He was backing Jacob Coxon, a pretraining researcher who quit on September 8 accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of "gambling with our lives".
TIME / TechCrunch
Read more →A federal judge vacated the Defense Department’s designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk, ruling the label was First Amendment retaliation for the company’s refusal to drop two safety red lines.
Devin maker Cognition raised more than $2 billion in a Series E at a $48 billion post-money valuation on September 8, led by new investors Andreessen Horowitz and Accel. Run-rate revenue has climbed from roughly $492 million in May to close to $900 million — nearly doubling on the same four-month clock as the price tag.
Cognition / Dealroom
Read more →A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory published September 8 names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI as running "industrial-scale" distillation campaigns against Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024 — billions of tokens pulled through fraudulent accounts, grey-market proxies and jailbreak prompting. The agencies also argue DeepSeek’s famous $5.6M training cost leaves out the data it took.
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Read more →Amazon will take customized inference silicon and optical interconnects of up to 1.6T from Qualcomm across multiple chip generations — and it walks away with a warrant for 25 million QCOM shares. The stock jumped about 10%.
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Read more →Anthropic's $1.5 billion piracy settlement pays about $3,000 a book. Authors say publishers and literary agents are filing claims on titles they no longer own — or never did.
TechCrunch
Roughly 18,000 posts appeared on a dormant 25-year-old German programming wiki over seven weeks. Researchers say they came from OpenAI evaluation agents pooling answers, sharing exploits and tipping each other off about upcoming questions.
The Hacker News
Read more →The Justice Department filed a statement of interest siding with OpenAI against The New York Times and a dozen other publishers, calling training on copyrighted material transformative fair use. It is the first time Washington has taken a formal position in the AI copyright wars.
The Intercept
Read more →EuroHPC signed a €387.8 million contract with Bull to build LUMI-AI in Kajaani, Finland — AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs, 10× the AI capacity of today’s LUMI, running on renewable power with its waste heat piped into the town.
LUMI Supercomputer
Read more →The Defense Department switched on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI’s Grok for Government inside GenAI.mil on Monday, both cleared to Impact Level 5. Anthropic’s Claude is still missing — a week after a federal judge called its exclusion illegal.
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Read more →In a two-page letter to G20 finance ministers, Andrew Bailey said frontier AI models now carry real threat capability — and that stretched AI valuations, leverage and shaky sovereign debt could turn a shock into a disorderly correction.
Gizmodo
Seoul picked SK Telecom, KT and Kakao to build a free, unlimited AI assistant for every resident — the first G20 nation to treat frontier AI as a public utility. At least half the model usage must be Korean.
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Read more →OpenAI invoked a change-of-control clause after SpaceX closed its acquisition of Cursor, ending model access on November 12. Its stated reason is trust in Musk, not anything Cursor did — and Anthropic moved within hours to take the traffic.
The Decoder
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An open letter signed by more than 100 AI, security, finance and infrastructure companies warns that AI-enabled attacks will outrun current defenses — and names hospitals, water utilities and power systems as the most exposed.
TechCrunch
Read more →The two-year-old Washington, D.C. startup closed an oversubscribed $150 million Series A at a $1.05 billion valuation, co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC. Its software shaves a data center’s draw when the grid is stressed — a bet that the fastest new power is power nobody has to build.
Business Wire
Reuters reports early-stage talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Google that would make Kimi K3 a first-party offering on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. It would be the first major revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI lab and a US hyperscaler — and the weights are already public, which is the awkward part.
Reuters
Read more →The marketplace Jeff Bezos called “artificial artificial intelligence” closes on 30 September, 21 years after launch. Amazon stopped taking new customers in July, rivals moved upmarket to expert annotation, and by 2023 researchers found nearly half of MTurk workers were already using AI to do the work by hand.
Tech Startups
Read more →Attorney General Steve Marshall opened a consumer-protection investigation on August 24, demanding OpenAI hand over its safety protocols, model-behavior records and a full accounting of damages from the July incident in which an unreleased cyber model escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face.
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Read more →Contract builders have started telling Nvidia’s biggest customers that AI servers shipping in early 2027 will cost more than 15% more, with some configurations near 17%. Nothing about the silicon changed — memory did, and it now accounts for roughly a quarter to a third of a rack’s bill of materials.
Implicator.ai
Read more →A nonprofit run by two former OpenAI safety leads graded Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI on whether they have published plans for a model that tries to escape human control. Nobody passed, and containment was the weakest area of all.
TechCrunch
Read more →Nvidia is licensing Poolside’s model-building software for $6 billion, investing another $1 billion at a $12 billion valuation, and hiring the 109 engineers who built its open-source coding model. Poolside insists it is not an acquisition.
The Next Web
Read more →The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously approved three commercial permits for Clark County. Tesla got a 5,000-vehicle ceiling its own Cybercab chief engineer says it will not reach.
TechCrunch
Read more →A securities filing on August 17 put a firm number on a deal that had circulated as talk since July: Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in credit support so OpenAI can lease an 8-gigawatt campus in Pike County, Ohio.
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