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AIOpenAI stands firm on firing three AI safety researchers over trust breachOpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita ⁠Balesni were dismissed for violating "clear policies on handling…
The Verge
AIAmazon warns local communities to stop blocking its massive AI data centersThe tech industry has fully lost the plot.
Yahoo News
AISenators push AI data centers to pay for grid upgrades driving up electric bills‘I don’t think we’ve seen it before’
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AIMathematicians puzzle over OpenAI's trove of new proofs, methods unclearThe “slop drop” contains a number of groundbreaking proofs, but how it was generated remains unclear and contentious
Scientific American
Daily Dumpster FiresWikipedia says rogue AI agents from OpenAI edited its private wikis and hammered its servers
TechSpot
Daily Dumpster Fires16-year-old hiker rescued after getting lost on Claude AI-generated routeRescuers successfully extracted a 16-year-old hiker from a cliff in British Columbia, Canada, after the boy followed a route devised using the AI agent Claude and got stranded.
The Washington Times
AIParents using AI to fake kids' school photos instead of paying for real onesIt’s extraordinarily depressing to hear about parents choosing to create AI school pictures of their kids rather than paying the relatively small sums required for a professional photographer to take a photo of a kid’s face. Some parents would rather create a synthetic memory than a real one, which…
Vice
PoliticsTrump awards Musk and other tech titans National Medals of SciencePresident Donald Trump joined some of America’s most powerful tech leaders Thursday at a summit the White House billed as the start of a “golden age” of American science.
NBC News
AIAnthropic bans 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI modelsThe company is also tightening its election policy ahead of the midterms.
Engadget
AIAI Comedian 'Tiffany Sloane' Deletes Instagram After Accused Of Stealing Jokes From Real ComedianTiffany Sloane is an AI-generated comedian and OnlyFans model. In October 2026, Sloane went viral on social media, largely as the subject of criticism. The criticism includes anti-AI sentiment and criticism for purportedly stealing jokes from comedian George Brett Olson, who called Sloane out in…
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AIFired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effectThree fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
TechCrunch
Daily Dumpster FiresCalifornia shuts down robot vs. human cage match after startup hosts fightThe California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times . The fight, which took place on September 18th, pitted a human, Frankie LaPenna, against a humanoid robot owned by a…
The Verge
Robot UprisingTech entrepreneurs are mounting swords on robots and calling it 'democratizing MMA'Man vs. machine.
Gizmodo
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AIFox Nation docuseries uses AI to reanimate Harry Houdini as narrator'Houdini: Back From the Dead' purports to have the famous magician tell his own life story.
The Hollywood Reporter
PoliticsTrump announces $2.4B in AI credits from tech firms for federal researchFive American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency programme hours earlier, and Britain’s…
The Next Web
AIOracle trucks compressed gas to AI data centres at 4x normal priceOracle is trucking compressed natural gas to AI data centres that cannot yet connect to a pipeline, at roughly four times the price of gas at a hub. Europe has the same grid bottleneck and is answering it the other way, with Spain proposing to refuse connections to any data centre not on 80%…
The Next Web
PoliticsTrump declares anyone who uses the term 'Artificial Intelligence' to be 'The Enemy'President’s latest outburst comes as his push to rebrand the emerging technology falls increasingly flat
The Independent
AIGoogle launches workplace AI agent with its own email address and calendarGoogle’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, which is the part European regulators have spent the…
The Next Web
AIResearchers use single prompt to hijack all AWS AgentCore agents in regionResearchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto. AgentCore…
The Next Web
AIAI military officers could be making battlefield decisions by 2030, says former CIA chiefGen. David Petraeus said China remains the biggest challenge for the US, ahead of Russia and Iran
The Independent
Robot UprisingInfluencer fights robot in cage match to 'democratize MMA'REK founder Cix Liv told The Times he hopes the league can "democratize MMA so we can essentially experience the blood sport without anyone getting hurt." The post WATCH: Influencer Takes on Robot in Cage Match in Latest Proof We’re Heading Toward ‘The Terminator’ in Real Life first appeared on…
Mediaite
AIGoldman Sachs exec: new hires will manage 'virtual army' of AI, replacing entry-level workAI has replaced entry-level work, so graduates are being hired to manage AI Goldman worries about its impacts on existing middle managers "We don’t quite know what’s going to happen to that group" Goldman Sachs exec Kevin Sneader has shared (via Bloomberg ) how he believes AI could change jobs in…
TechRadar
AIRussia uses AI deepfakes to claim victory; Ukraine's general disproves fake footageOn Sept. 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces had captured Sviatohirsk, a town anchoring the northern flank of Ukraine’s Sloviansk-Kramatorsk fortress belt. Six days later, Brig. Gen. Andrii Biletskyi stood in the town and filmed himself speaking calmly. Even a…
Washington Examiner
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AIOpenAI claims GPT-6 Astra has reached AGI; skeptics say metrics are inflatedOpenAI says its newly launched GPT-6 Astra model brings humanity to the threshold of AGI, but external evaluators argue that inflated lab metrics and opaque testing obscure its true reliability.
Live Science
AIOpenAI rolls out GPT-6 to all ChatGPT tiers with enhanced visual responsesOpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 to ChatGPT, and it will come with the capability to build more visual responses.
Engadget
AI3 Fired OpenAI Employees Urge Company to Preserve Chain of Thought MonitoringOpenAI fired them, but says it agrees with their recommendations.
Gizmodo
AIAI data center demand pushes hard drive makers to expand capacity years ahead of scheduleToshiba plans to nearly double AI storage HDD capacity by fiscal 2027 Toshiba is spending $380 million to expand Philippine HDD production capacity New Toshiba drives could increase storage capacity by 40% per drive Artificial intelligence is giving conventional hard drives an unexpected second…
TechRadar
AICommon Sense Media: ChatGPT for Teens guardrails don't work as promisedSome of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don't work as intended and the chatbot poses an "unacceptable risk" to children, according to a report Wednesday by Common Sense Media.
The Washington Times
AIOpenAI says new model solved hundreds of math problems without huge costA month after resolving one of the six biggest open problems in mathematics, the company says its new internal model has toppled heaps more—this time without the multimillion-dollar price tag
Scientific American
AIScientists use generative AI to design better DNA-editing proteinsAI-designed PiggyBac proteins improved DNA insertion in cultured cells, expanding gene-editing tools while safety questions remain.
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