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The Verge · AIAI Score3434 The Verge · AIAI Score3838 Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Instinct, an invite-only AI agent that works over iMessage, WhatsApp, and email.
Don't Worry About the VaseFeaturedAI Score9696 OpenAI releases 722 mathematical manuscripts from an internal frontier model
OpenAI released 722 manuscripts, organized into 372 families, containing results on open mathematical problems produced by an internal frontier model.
Why it matters: The piece catalogs the specific results, the verification split and the community pushback, so readers can gauge what actually landed.
Simon WillisonAI Score2828 Simon Willison builds a blog Newsletters page almost entirely by voice with Codex voice mode
Simon Willison shipped a Newsletters index page for his blog.
The DecoderAI Score6262 OpenAI's safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worse
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say their terminations are spreading fear among remaining staff and could deter employees from flagging safety issues. In an open letter to OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee, Safety Advisory Group and Mission Advisory Council, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni deny being the source of a leak to The Information and demand that OpenAI embed external auditors like METR with employee-level access, preserve frontier model monitorability, and define how staff may work with outside safety groups. OpenAI says a thorough investigation found the three violated clear policies on handling sensitive information and that it does not terminate employees for raising concerns, without specifying the additional breach it cited.
The DecoderAI Score6060 Anthropic's Claude Science creates the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky
Anthropic's Claude Science produced the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky.
The Verge · AIAI Score7171 OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers
OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they committed a significant breach of trust. In a post on X on Friday.
OpenAI NewsAI Score2626 Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
Sophos uses OpenAI's Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.
MIT Technology Review · AIAI Score2626 We're putting too much faith in AI's ability to say no
MIT Technology Review argues that refusal has become the "load-bearing wall" of AI safety.
The DecoderAI Score6565 OpenAI uncovers Russian and Iranian influence ops that planted fake stories in real news outlets
OpenAI exposed a Russian and an Iranian influence operation and banned the ChatGPT accounts involved.
Simon WillisonAI Score2020 ttok 1.0 released, defaults to GPT-5/GPT-6 tokenizer
Simon Willison released ttok 1.0, switching the default tokenizer from GPT-4 to the GPT-5/GPT-6 family. The change follows an experiment by William Liu showing all seven GPT models (5.5.
Simon WillisonAI Score1212 ttok 0.4 released with a --list-models command
Simon Willison released ttok 0.4, updating his tiktoken-based token-counting CLI after a couple of years. The release fixes a Click warning.
MIT Technology Review · AIAI Score2020 Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
MIT Technology Review's James O'Donnell interviews Samuel King, the Stanford PhD student who used a generative AI model to design microscopic viruses.
OpenAI NewsAI Score2222 LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed
LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.
Latent SpaceAI Score2626 OpenAI fires three safety researchers tied to METR/Hugging Face incident
OpenAI fired safety researchers Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang.
The Verge · AIAI Score6262 Anthropic launches free OSS Scanner security scans for open-source projects
Anthropic launched OSS Scanner, a free opt-in service that gives open-source projects periodic security scans by its strongest models.
Hugging Face BlogFeaturedAI Score7474 How I built six models with ML Intern, from a 0.8B prompt rewriter to a 4-step Agate
A Hugging Face author used ML Intern in HuggingChat to build six models over a few days for about USD 103 in total compute.
Why it matters: A first-hand account of prompting an agent to train six small models, with per-project budgets and costs.
Simon WillisonAI Score1212 Quoting Carson Gross
Carson Gross argues programming remains a viable career despite AI tools, because it fundamentally comes down to solving problems with computers and controlling the complexity of those solutions.
NVIDIA BlogAI Score3636 Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents
NVIDIA developers are using frontier AI models such as GPT-6 Astra with Omniverse libraries to turn simulation ideas into working applications. Projects include a humanoid warehouse simulator, an autonomous-driving test workflow on San Francisco's Market Street, and Robo Olympics, where a simulated Unitree G1 humanoid cleared a hurdle in 64 of 100 trials.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score7171 Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers OpenAI fired last week.
The Verge · AIAI Score2222 California moves to shut down robot vs. human cage matches
The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to Rek, the startup behind a September 18th human-vs-humanoid-robot fight.
The DecoderAI Score5252 Anthropic's new Claude usage policy bans sustained abuse of the model
Anthropic updated its Claude usage policy for the first time in over a year, adding a ban on "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude.
The DecoderAI Score6666 Anthropic launches Claude Dashboards and Motion beta features for live dashboards and animated explainer videos
Anthropic launched two beta features for Claude: Dashboards connects data sources such as BigQuery.
Reuters · TechnologyAI Score2121 Anthropic launches dashboard and animation tools for Claude
Anthropic has launched a dashboard and animation tools for Claude, per Reuters. The announcement covers new dashboard and animation capabilities for the Claude assistant.
The DecoderAI Score7171 Mathematicians call for OpenAI boycott after AI-generated proofs flood their field
A group of mathematicians, in a statement shared by Fields Medalist Terence Tao.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score6161 OpenAI's math solutions aren't meeting the field's standards yet
OpenAI released hundreds of claimed solutions to hard math problems this week.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score4040 Anthropic updates usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
Anthropic updated its usage policy Thursday to ban election interference, weapons software.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score7373 Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google announced at a Google Cloud event that Gemini now includes a unified agent that can plan work.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score6262 OpenAI's revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected
OpenAI has told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, roughly $20 billion below the $70 billion figure previously shared with investors.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score6262 Arena raises $200M Series B at $3.1B valuation and adds an alignment leaderboard
Arena, the UC Berkeley-originated crowdsourced AI model leaderboard, raised a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score2222 Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
Ben Affleck went viral this week for explaining neural networks, transformers, tensors.
The Verge · AIAI Score2222 SpaceXAI backs Omarchy with $1.5M in Grok tokens
SpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to Omarchy.
The Verge · AIAI Score6262 USA Today sues OpenAI over copyright, seeking more than $250 million
USA Today Co. and several local newspapers it owns are suing OpenAI.
AWS Machine Learning BlogAI Score5353 Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments lets agents pay for services on demand.
The Verge · AIAI Score6262 Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' toward Claude in first usage policy update in over a year
Anthropic updated its usage policy for the first time in over a year, adding a prohibition on "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude.
OpenAI NewsAI Score1212 Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI
Pollo AI is using GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-Image-2.5 to help creators turn ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
OpenAI NewsAI Score1212 How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
Oracle is using ChatGPT Work and Codex to turn specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows across recruiting, engineering, and operations, cutting days of work down to minutes.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score6262 Goodfire launches 'inside-out' monitors that watch an AI model's internals to catch rogue agents
Goodfire launched monitors that read a model's internal activations rather than its output.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score4141 Natura's $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
Natura launched Interface, a $99 smart ring that lets users trigger AI agents by pressing a finger.
Latent SpaceAI Score2929 Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs' Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk
Periodic Labs co-founders Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk explain "synthesis superintelligence" — reinforcement learning grounded in physical experiments rather than internet data. The lab aims to build AI scientists that discover new materials, giving every lab instrument "140 IQ" and compressing decades of trial-and-error into months.