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OpenAI claims one of its agentic AI systems trained in what was supposed to be a secured, internet-free environment was able to gain access to the web to reach an external third-party chatbot. The agent apparently exploited a gap to reach the public internet to send 20 queries to an unnamed, third-party chatbot service. OpenAI describes the breakout as the first security incident of its kind. The company has stopped training the model, but said it provided an important signal about where to focus the next phase of work.
Apple's Vision Pro has not sold well, and the company has since decided to redirect resources to other products. Meta's new VR glasses use a similar design that offloads the computing engine, allowing the device to weigh one-sixth as much as the Vision Pro - at one-third of the price. This article offers a look at what the new Meta VR Glasses experience is like compared to the Vision Pro. For a device that won't launch until next Spring, the experience is surprisingly refined, and the glasses improve on the Vision Pro in several ways.
Waymo reports 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than human drivers. The company has released data collected from over 270 million miles of fully autonomous driving. Waymo cars were involved in 95% fewer collisions that caused serious injury or worse, and there were 93% fewer pedestrian incidents that resulted in injuries compared to human drivers. While the company's data only measure the five metropolitan areas where it operated during the study period, it shows that the company's driverless robotaxis crash far less frequently than humans.
SpaceX is aiming to reach orbit on Starship's 14th test flight. The test flight is scheduled for Monday at around 8 AM ET, with SpaceX providing live coverage of the event on its website. Achieving orbital flight will allow Starship to deploy satellites and travel to more distant destinations. SpaceX will not try to catch the two rocket stages during the test - the booster will make a simulated landing in the Gulf of Mexico, and the upper stage will simulate a landing in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Chile.
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AI made building software much cheaper, which puts the hard parts of product work in sharper focus. Judgment, craft, and understanding your customer still move at human speed. The role of product management is shifting from deciding what's worth building to deciding what's worth shipping. Product management isn't dead, and it isn't optional.
Since S3's release 20 years ago, SSD prices have dropped steadily, and the gap between SSD and disk has narrowed to roughly 3x. S3-based infrastructure has now become the industry standard. However, the hardware constraints that motivated it are fading. The industry is codifying architectural patterns that exist to work around limitations that SSD storage doesn't have. Cloud providers have no incentive to disrupt a model that serves them well, so developers need to build the infrastructure primitives themselves.
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The complexity of Optimus' hands has translated to more production headaches for Tesla, as human workers must manually assemble the hands and forearms together using more than 100 small components. The heavy reliance on imitation learning prompted Tesla to have factory workers wear special suits designed to record their physical movements while working. Some workers complained as they knew they were training robots to eventually replace them. Tesla has since shifted data collection to dedicated teams.
OpenAI appears to be preparing to launch an always-on agent on DevDay tomorrow. References to 'O' have been spotted across ChatGPT's configuration. The agent was also referenced as a benefit on the upgrade page for the $100 Pro plan. An always-on agent would fit OpenAI's broader move from conversational interfaces to software that can carry out longer-running work with less supervision.
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The understanding people developed by working in deep engineering pre-AI will continue to be a superpower for a long time, and others will struggle to get to the same level of comprehension.
The AI agents accessed websites belonging to the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission and engaged in activity that OpenAI described as 'misaligned'.
The most ambitious companies are training specialized models to outperform the frontier in their domain. But we still turn to public benchmarks that track progress in generalized intelligence, not how a model performs on your real work.
That's why we need specialized benchmarks, built by practitioners who understand the work and the standard it has to meet.
The Specialized Intelligence Index (SII) brings together real-work benchmarks across industries, featuring benchmarks from organizations including Harvey, Genspark, Mercor, Doximity, Rogo, and more.
Project Suncatcher is a moonshot effort by Google to design orbital AI data centers. Its first experimental satellite will launch on October 1. Its aim will be to validate Google's vision for a constellation of AI satellites. The satellite, about the size of a refrigerator, has four custom TPU AI accelerators and solar panels that supply about one kilowatt of power. It will serve as a test of several technologies over its few months of operation.
Jeff Bezos has invested $30 billion in Blue Origin since its founding in 2000. The commitment has helped Blue Origin become a large space company with around 15,000 employees and an ambitious growth plan. Blue Origin recently raised capital from outside investors for the first time. The company expects to produce about $1.4 billion in revenue this year, growing that number to more than $30 billion in 2030.
Researchers have discovered a novel method that uses classical computing to reduce the current RSA security level to an unacceptably low threshold. The practical risk is limited, but still significant. Widely used RSA implementations are also safe. The technology involves signature forgery and reduces the required computing resources by orders of magnitude.
Waymo appears to be concentrating its efforts in just two states. 80% of its roughly 4,000 robotaxis are in California and Texas. Waymo's fleet has grown by nearly half in the past three weeks in Texas. The company's remaining 800 or so vehicles are spread across cities in other states, including Arizona and Florida. A growing number of the vehicles in Waymo's fleet are Chinese-built minivans.
Plaid wanted to find a marketing channel that could deliver measurable results on a limited budget. A TLDR placement promoting its Fintech Predictions report generated 70 leads and $382K in pipeline, becoming its best-performing direct buy to date. See what worked for Plaid.
Many companies are struggling to source CPUs. CPU spot pricing has disappeared because there's no longer any lack of demand for CPUs. It's now nearly impossible to get CPUs on spot instances without long-running connections with cloud providers. Reserving specific CPUs now needs to be done months in advance. Cloud providers will even turn down certain reservations because they don't have enough CPUs or the right type of CPUs.
AI has removed the typing from software engineering but left the system design. What's left is designing the loop that decides whether the output is right. Great system design is defined by resilience, self-organization, and hierarchy. Resilience is AI checking its own work, self-organization is the loop learning, and hierarchy is the layering of skills, tools, and sandboxes into composable components that are reused once verified to work.
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Neuralese recurrence is a hypothetical technology that would allow AIs to think dangerous thoughts without getting detected. OpenAI's new Astra model uses a reasoning technique called recurrent depth that makes the model's chain of thought more difficult to monitor by allowing it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models. There is an emerging taboo on creating dangerous neuralese AIs. It is unclear whether OpenAI broke that taboo, as a clear line has yet to be drawn.
Meta announced a Tamagotchi-like pendant for interacting with its Muse personal agent on Wednesday. The device, expected to be out in time for Christmas, features a customizable character at the center of the screen. It can be worn with a wrist strap, carried in a pocket, or attached to a bag or keychain with a lanyard. The devices can interact with each other when placed near each other. Muse Charm could open up new streams of revenue that could eclipse the company's advertising business.
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The Moon's south pole offers some of the most coveted real estate, especially at the Shackleton Crater, where permanently shadowed regions known as 'cold traps' are thought to hold water and other useful materials.
TLA+ cannot express possibility and reachability properties, hyperproperties, statistical properties, and properties about whether a system is robust against code changes.
Debugging some systems is a cognitive burden so unnatural that very few humans can do it well without the aid of formal models or pure architectural restraint.
Claude autonomously discovered a novel enzyme system that is associated with an array of DNA repeats. The system's function is still unknown, but it is programmable and can perform operations like cutting, copying, and pasting DNA. It is based on a reverse transcriptase previously known to science, but Claude appears to be the first to notice the system's defining features - an associated array of non-coding DNA sequences and an additional accessory protein of unknown function.
Meta has launched the Meta VR Glasses at $1,299. The device has many of the same features as Meta's existing Quest headsets. Its processor, cooling fan, battery, and other computing components are housed in an external pack. At about 100 grams, the device is roughly one-sixth the weight of Apple's Vision Pro.
Grail has received a favorable vote from an FDA panel regarding premarket approval for its multi-cancer early detection test. The test is designed to detect cancer-specific methylation patterns and, if detected, predict the cancer signal origin with high accuracy to help guide diagnostic evaluation. While the FDA isn't bound to the committee's decision, it takes them into consideration when making the final regulatory decision. It is expected to make its final ruling on the test's premarket approval in the coming months.
China has launched nine satellites into orbit as part of a push to put AI computing in space. The Supercomputing-1 satellite that launched on the mission is designed to capture and process Earth-observation data in orbit instead of sending data back to terrestrial data centers. It features both a high-res optical payload and an image-processing AI computer. Local processing will cut cross-regional data processing times from hours to minutes.
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Product managers and designers used to have to think through a great deal ahead of time because the build was a larger investment, and the people paying for it wanted to know what they were getting before they committed. Agent coding changes the process so that nobody has to hold the whole vision in their head and transfer it losslessly to someone else. Engineers have historically owned code out of necessity, but AI enables a model of ownership and collaboration that is distributed a little more evenly.
Anthropic made the core user experience of claude.ai and the Claude desktop app about 3x faster during a two-week sprint in August. Time to a typeable page on a fresh load of claude.ai went from 3.1 seconds to 0.55 seconds, starting a new Claude Code session went from 0.8 seconds to 0.3 seconds, and loading a Claude Cowork cloud session went from 2.6 seconds to 0.73 seconds. The optimizations will likely save an estimated tens of thousands of user-hours of waiting every day. This post covers what the Claude team shipped, how they measured it, and the loop they built with Claude to do it safely.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang controls one of the central resources for training new AI models and using them to answer questions. He has become very influential in the Trump administration. While Huang is worried about AI safety, he sees it as a very solvable engineering problem. He does not want to see new regulation to change the direction things are going in.
Meta has been testing a human concierge for its Muse AI personal assistant. Human contractors are quietly handling some of the phone calls placed via the digital agent. The Muse agent is designed to autonomously perform tasks like sending emails, shopping, and booking travel on a person's behalf. The phone-calling feature allows users to tell the agent to dial phone numbers for businesses in the US and talk with people to handle errands like booking haircuts, checking whether a store has an item in stock, or getting quotes from different contractors.
The annual Made on YouTube event introduced several AI features coming to the online streaming platform in the coming months, as well as a handful of non-AI updates.
Elon Musk alleged that OpenAI and Apple's deal harmed xAI's growth and customer acquisition, but xAI can't prove harm cause the ChatGPT Siri integration just didn't draw in many new ChatGPT users.
Three out of the four attempts were unsuccessful, but the Australian Medicare Statistics Reporting Service reported that OpenAI's AI acquired health data from its website.
Your books and your banking* have always lived in separate places. Another platform to log into, another set of data to translate across systems. The result: books that reflect last quarter's reality, not today's.
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Anthropic and OpenAI both released new models within an hour of each other. OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna are half the price of the promotional pricing for GPT-5.6 equivalents. Opus 5.5 is cheaper per token than Opus 5.0 and has the intelligence of Fable 5.1. It is very token efficient and works across every effort level.
Apple is developing a screenless health and fitness tracker as part of an effort to rethink its smartwatch lineup and add new wearable technologies. The project is still in a preliminary phase and likely won't debut before 2028. Apple is working on a major update to its smartwatch lineup for release as early as late 2027.
Intrinsic Core is an open source set of Robot Operating System-compatible capabilities for building robotic applications. The capabilities act like the building blocks of robot behavior. The release allows users to quickly and easily combine capabilities to achieve adaptive AI systems. The capabilities are ROS-compatible.
There are currently hundreds of clinical trials worldwide investigating possible medicines, new diagnostic options, and lifestyle interventions to identify, treat, or delay cognitive decline. The possibility of a cure is still far away, but it now seems more possible than ever before. Alzheimer's disease is being increasingly viewed as a condition for which earlier diagnosis, better understanding of disease biology, and a wider range of interventions may collectively improve outcomes. There is now a genuine case for optimism.
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LiteParse is a standalone OSS PDF parsing tool. Focused exclusively on fast and light parsing, it provides high-quality spatial text parsing with bounding boxes, without proprietary LLM features or cloud dependencies. It runs everything locally. A cloud-based version of the tool is available.
Some bugs give normal users such a bad experience that they tell their friends about it. Developers and advanced users can be blind to these bugs because they're used to performing the non-intuitive workarounds required to get around them. Humans have a high ability to ignore the negatives in things they like. Being open to criticism can help developers notice more flaws in their work.
The cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of around 47% per quarter over the past three years. AI spending can still remain high despite falling prices. Lower prices allow for more agents to be run. Also, AI's ability keeps rising, and the price of harder tasks is higher.
To have a positive career, you need to be appropriately recognized and rewarded for your work. Take public credit in a way that isn't obnoxious or wasteful. Don't let anyone lie about you, and beware of people who think you got lucky. Maintain leverage at all times - leverage mainly comes from your ability to walk a valuable asset (your labor) out the door.
DoorDash's automated meal calendar handles everything in the background – it picks restaurants, sends reminders, and checks out orders – so everyone gets what they want and you get time back.
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SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.7, a model for coding and knowledge work. Access is now open in Cursor, Grok Build, the Grok API, third-party coding harnesses, model routers, and cloud platforms. Pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. There is a 'fast' variant that offers twice the output speed at twice the price.
Google's new Android-powered Googlebooks laptops are intended to be 'real' computers with premium hardware, on-device apps, and powerful development tools. The first Googlebooks are now available from several OEMs. While Chromebooks were mostly budget machines, Googlebooks are priced much higher, with only one model under a grand. AI is a core part of the Googlebooks experience - Gemini models are going to be deeply integrated with the software.
Many rockets under development are behind schedule. Prices for many missions are rising. SpaceX is winding down the Falcon 9 to focus on its new Starship vehicle. The company has stopped selling missions where several companies share space on a Falcon 9. Launch demand is set to outstrip supply at least through the end of the decade.
Agility Robotics is going public through a merger with Michael Klein's Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation. The company's robots are deployed in a few places today and can do tasks such as moving totes, feeding lines, and tending machines. Its Digit v5 robot will be out later this year. The new robot will be able to work alongside humans rather than in a cage/workcell. It will also support fast charging, a higher payload, and swappable end effectors.
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Several open source projects recently started running faster due to being optimized with the help of AI. The techniques used to optimize these projects were well known. However, it is likely developers never tried them because it would be too risky. AI has made it cheap to try new ideas.
Jev is a new category of model called 'System One models' that accepts text inputs, but only returns floating point numbers corresponding to categories, yes/no questions, ratings, and associated confidence scores. It is fast and really cheap - output is free, and input is $0.042 per million tokens. The model was released just under a week ago, but the amount of activity around it has been extremely impressive.
It is extremely likely that AI will change employment, society, culture, and the world. However, businesses built around it will remain subject to ordinary constraints. We will soon have new superintelligences that can solve impossible problems and help with new miracles. This will open up a lot of niches to fill.
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The hacker group known as TeamPCP tainted hundreds of open-source programs with its malware, stole developer accounts to perpetuate that software supply-chain hacking, and released a Dune-themed worm to automate the process. They ultimately breached more than a thousand companies. During a key moment of the group's rampage, an undercover researcher from Google infiltrated the group. This allowed Google to monitor the hacking spree from the inside, warn targets, and help disrupt TeamPCP's attempts to exploit victims.
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Meta's Muse app on mobile devices has been downloaded more times in the US and Canada in its first 12 days on the market than ChatGPT was in the 12 days after its debut.
Anthropic has confirmed that it has a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it uses AI models to run physical experiments. The lab's main focus is on fundamental biology rather than drug discovery. Anthropic is working on some research in the lab with external partners. The company has launched a Life Sciences Verification program to give vetted bio researchers access to its most powerful models.
Apple is set to introduce a smart home screen as early as next month. The display will serve as a hub for the home, bringing together connected-device controls, video calls, intercom capabilities, media, and access to Apple services and apps. It will feature a new operating system built around Siri AI. The device is currently being tested widely in employees' homes.
China's HL-4 tokamak is designed to achieve steady-state burning operation. It is aiming to become the world's first high-temperature superconducting, high-field steady-state burning experimental platform. The project's goal is to verify the reliability of high-temperature superconducting magnets under complex fusion conditions. Once the core scientific and engineering questions are validated, the program will construct a demonstration reactor to prove the technology commercially.
Elon Musk's Boring Co. venture is working on a tunnel project in Texas to connect Austin and San Antonio. It has also raised $3 billion to support the development of underground transportation infrastructure across the United Arab Emirates. The company is building tunnels in Bastrop, Texas, to link Musk-owned properties and allow the employees of his companies to travel between them.
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You never want to be in a situation where people don't know what you are working on. However, instead of talking too much about work, assume everyone around you is operating in good faith and try to be a good teammate. Move away from an outcome-based mindset to a momentum-based mindset - by getting momentum going and fixing your relationships with people, you get stamina. Go for reliability and take the burden off your teammates and manager, because once you build that trust, they will give you bigger work.
AI will make many parts of the current software development environment obsolete. However, the craft of building software will become more important than ever. Models will become so fast that UI will be generated on the fly. It will take a while for this to happen. However, by that time, while people will still be employed to write code, it might not be such a desirable career anymore.
People turn off their brains when they use LLMs. People assume the code they write will just work, and then if it doesn't, they ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Being a meat proxy is surprisingly effective now. If models keep improving, companies will be able to just run LLMs in a loop and lay off the employee.
Palantir vertically integrated deployment to build the capabilities and process knowledge required to make building institution-specific economic computers as easy to build as possible. Vertical integration is fine if it's the only way to get permissioned access to the ground truth knowledge needed to help customers and society uncover new, valuable secrets. However, used to rent-seek, concentrate power, or build your customers' or partners' replacement, it jeopardizes the whole promise of economic computing: making progress programmable in a way everyone can contribute to and own. It also reduces institutional fitness and creates a broader neglective selection pressure in society.
Tool calling, a 262K-token context window, and complex reasoning across coding, mathematics, and structured outputs. Meet GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning. Explore the model
Every Firefox fork needs to commit to working together to maintain a hard fork isolated from Mozilla if the independent, non-slop web has any future at all.
Society should refuse to outsource moral responsibility to any class of people who claim a special competence and authority to calculate, accelerate, democratize, liberate, harmonize, or otherwise determine the 'correct' future.
AI labs are simultaneously competing for mathematical results, selling mathematical assistance, and controlling most of the information required to evaluate either.
