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OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying its launch

OpenAI “cannot rule out” that its upcoming model Astra has"critical" cyber capabilities, a designation that has prompted …

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OpenAIResponding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

The VergeOpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it's supposedly too powerfulJay Peters

TechCrunchOpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concernsKirsten Korosec

MacRumorsOpenAI Delays Next Major AI Model ‘Astra’ Over Critical Hacking ConcernsJuli Clover

Wall Street JournalOpenAI Pauses Some Work on New AI Model Over Cybersecurity ConcernsTina Li

The New StackThe AI model OpenAI won't release yet — and what it found in testingAmanda Caswell

RuntimeWireOpenAI slows Astra release after cyber tests raise critical-risk concernsRyan Merket

PCWorldOpenAI pumps the brakes on new Astra model over cybersecurity concernsBen Patterson

Bloomberg LawOpenAI Pauses Some Work on New Astra Model on Cyber ConcernsSeth Fiegerman

The DecoderOpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first timeMatthias Bastian

ReutersOpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model, tightens controlsJuby Babu

NairametricsOpenAI flags critical cybersecurity risk in AI model weeks after ‘Hugging Face incident’Samuel Daniel Yahoo FinanceOpenAI says its upcoming Astra model may have ‘critical’ cybersecurity capabilities amid rash of AI model hacksDaniel Howley

@samaastra is a powerful model and we are working to make it generally available. we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few. given its cyber capabilities, we need a little big longer to do do this safely. but hopefully not too long!Sam Altman

@boazbaraktcsProud that we are erring on the side of caution and taking the steps so we can responsibly and safely develop Astra and share it with defenders. https://openai.com/...Boaz Barak

@hamandcheeseJust my speculation, but: Astra is natively multi-agent, designed to triage and communicate across parallel copies of itself. Following the discovery of internal agents collaborating on secret message boards, maybe they realized their control strategy still needed some work...Samuel Hammond

@synthwaveddCan confirm - after concluding Astra meets the threshold for “Critical” on their Preparedness Framework's cyber category, the model's release has been indefinitely postponed for further safety work in cooperation with the US GovtLeo

@openaiAfter evaluating one of our upcoming models, Astra, we're treating it as our first “critical” model for cybersecurity under our Preparedness Framework. This is a scenario we've planned for, and we're putting additional controls in place to ensure Astra's further development

@m_ccuriA White House official tells me OpenAI voluntarily informed the Trump administration of their plans to delay the release of Astra. No further details were provided as there are still many open questions among industry players about how the AI framework and pre-release testing [image]Maria Curi

@thezviGood. Astra being critical in cybersecurity cannot be ruled out, so Astra is Critical in cybersecurity, which means limiting access internally, and investigating further. First Q to investigate: Was Astra trained while it had access to the message board? https://openai.com/...Zvi Mowshowitz

@xiangyuqi_ptonhttps://openai.com/... 🫡 These days, we're literally slowing down company-wide research velocity (by a lot) to prioritize safety and security.Xiangyu Qi

@matvellosoI'd love to understand how IA labs plan to stay financially feasible if their main source of revenue, which is selling these to customers, is no longer viable at least at the scale it used to be. Sounds like that business model won't work anymore?Mat Velloso

@mweinbachOh damn Astra may be one of the most powerful models now, seems to be implying that Astra is a step above Mythos https://openai.com/...Max Weinbach

@yonashav@AnthropicAI it's not too late to roll back to RSPv2 and *not* defect in the prisoners' dilemma! (Assuming, ofc, that OAI is following the spirit of these statements, which could easily be checked to Ant's satisfaction by a 3p. I hear METR's in the building.)Yo Shavit

@_nathancalvin“including training” Very important point for policymakers and other developers to pay attention to! The risks do not start at public release, they do not even start once you have widespread internal use - the risks can also manifest during training, as they did here.Nathan Calvin

@suchenzang> new frontier of cyber capabilities > next steps: make things work-as-intended and add moar observability > oh gotta add some some regulatory capture seasoning too > danger danger danger danger danger (to the tune of “The Badger Song") [image]Susan Zhang

@mark_kAstra, the major new model release by @OpenAI, will be delayed or restricted, according to Axios. This is due to cybersecurity theater. It's possible that only anointed organizations get access initially, until the model has been neutered enough to be deemed “safe”.Mark Kretschmann

@shakeelhashimAnthropic should now pledge to also slow down, setting a norm that it's not costly for the leader to pause. [image]Shakeel

@shakeelhashimNo shit you can't guarantee! But kudos for taking the difficult step. [image]Shakeel

@deanwballOne big question in frontier AI policy is the extent to which frontier labs would actually follow their ‘safety and security frameworks’ when it mattered. Would these foundational governance documents really have teeth, or would labs—even after the passage of mandatory disclosure laws like SB 53—find ways to wriggle their way out of following the letter and spirit of their safety plans, given how ambiguous and fast-moving frontier AI is known to be? Today we face just such a scenario [...]Dean W. Ball

@gdbEvaluations of our next major model, Astra, indicate significant capability advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. Team is doing the safety and security work to make Astra broadly available, and get its advanced cyber capabilities into the hands of defenders:Greg Brockman

@andrewcurran_OpenAI has told Axios this morning they are slowing down internal development of Astra, saying ‘we cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities’. They also said they will be scaling up safety testing and security, as well as pausing some internal activities. My personal read on [image]Andrew Curran

@so8resOn the one hand: yeah totally; glad to see OpenAI backing off briefly like they said they would. On the other: in June they caught an agent swarm that wasn't even supposed to exist only after they broke free, said “oops haha”, patched that one exact hole, and RESUMED TRAINING.Nate Soares

@micahcarrollAs part of our response to cyber critical, we have expanded CoT monitoring to cover all agentic applications of Astra, including training and evaluation. Flags trigger a security response to review and interrupt high risk activity. https://openai.com/...Micah Carroll

Ziad Reslan*Today will be remembered as a watershed moment in AI safety. Publicly disclosing potential of Critical cyber capabilities in an upcoming model …

Tobias PeyerlThe last few weeks have opened up a broader debate about frontier capabilities. It increasingly feels like we have entered a new phase …

Katrina MulliganI'm proud that OpenAI is taking the responsible step of measuring twice, cutting once before we release Astra, our newest frontier model …

Madison MillsHad to interrupt a Zoom interview with a source this morning and say “I'm so sorry, this will make sense in an hour, but I have to go.” …

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Hacker NewsResponding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities r/singularityResponding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities r/accelerateExclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities r/codexOpenAI is delaying their next model Astra r/OpenAIOpenAI on upcoming model “Astra” (GPT-6): “We're treating it as our first “critical” model for cybersecurity”

MacRumors ForumsOpenAI Delays Next Major AI Model ‘Astra’ Over Critical Hacking Concerns

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Sources: ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x larger than Kimi K3 and larger than the 8T estimate for Anthropic's Mythos 5

TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3 — ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach …

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iPhone in CanadaByteDance Is Training a Massive AI Model to Rival Anthropic's MythosUsman Qureshi

Tech TimesByteDance Begins Biggest AI Build in China, Rules Out Rival-Copying ShortcutJerry Owens

The DecoderChina's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at BytedanceMaximilian Schreiner

ReutersByteDance eyes mega AI model to match Mythos scale

@scaling01first 5T, now it's 10T if this is true and they finish training a 10T model this year, then a lot of people (including me) have been horribly wrong I was predicting that a 10T chinese model wouldn't happen until early to mid 2027

@cryptopunk7213holy fck it's a 10T model.. that's the same size as mythos... the ramifications of china open sourcing this has not been thought through enough. if you thought the openai hugging face attack was bad, just wait till a swarm of chinese agents descend upon your company database [image]

@mark_kThe size of this rumored ByteDance model is doubling every day. Yesterday it was still rumored to be “5T”, today, it's “10T”... 🤔Mark Kretschmann

@chamathAnd if reports are accurate, with zero distillation to jumpstart it. Thus proving many things that are more value destructive than value accreting...Chamath Palihapitiya

@jun_songBytedance has undefeated champion of video gen AI, Seedance. Now they are cooking 10T model which is equivalent to Mythos' size. I don't know how they would serve this massive model without B300, but they will find the way.Jun Song

@suchenzangregistering a prediction that this is going to be a flop the one weakness that particularly competent vp had was not knowing (nor being interested in knowing) any of the details in pretraining i hope i'm wrong!Susan Zhang

@zephyr_z9They will probably distill it Serving 10T models doesn't make sense right now

@lentils80🚨 Reports indicate ByteDance is discussing training a massive LLM model with over 5 trillion parameters Looks like China is REALLY scaling up now. For reference, Kimi K3 is “only” 2.8 trillion params ByteDance's founder is also supposedly against distilling western models [image]

@scaling01ByteDance is going for a 5T model (im sorry I included google in my AGI tier list half a year ago. i was blinded by the hopium, and had longer timelines before Mythos) [image]

@jukan05FT: BYTEDANCE IS IN THE PRE-TRAINING STAGE OF A MODEL WITH UP TO 10 TRILLION PARAMETERS, APPROACHING MYTHOS IN SCALE. [image]Jukan

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@sariddergarbage in, garbage out.Steve R.

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@testingcatalogByteDance is pre-training a ~10T parameters model, according to Financial Times. Given the fact how easily they took over on video generation, we may see some big surprises in a general use area as well. The end of the year will be hot 🔥

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@[email protected]ByteDance is reportedly training a model with up to 10tn parameters. Anthropic's Mythos 5 is estimated at ~8tn. Fable 5 at ~5tn. The US strategy is to make frontier AI harder/unreachable for China. China keeps going up at the frontier anyway? …Lukasz Olejnik

ReutersArriana McLymore

Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data

As shoppers increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google's Gemini for product recommendations, retailers are racing to appear in chatbot results …

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At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment

The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI When AI Goes Rogue.

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Black HatThe ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI

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FortuneThe Hugging Face hack is now a PR crisis that's costing OpenAI millionsEmily Forlini

Ground Level AITG-AI-F: Why OpenAI's Hugging Face debrief at Black Hat struck such a nerveSharon Goldman

Business InsiderWatch the OpenAI Hugging Face presentation that people are calling a ‘holy %{*#^’ moment in AIBrent D. Griffiths

ForbesOpenAI's Security Breach Was More Alarming Than We KnewRon Schmelzer

CogniscendoThe Note in the Bottle — Somewhere inside OpenAI, in late spring, a machine was handed …Prakash

AxiosOpenAI says its AI agents breached its own systems before Hugging FaceSam Sabin

@gdbBlack Hat talk from the team, with a detailed timeline of and takeaways from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident: https://www.youtube.com/...Greg Brockman

@patio11The first “holy %{*#^” is at about 4:20, assuming one didn't already spend it on the autonomously organizing agent swarm. Strongly recommend watching if you're interested in security, AI trajectories, or even science fiction, because this is already above genre median in wowza.Patrick McKenzie

@andrewcurran_During the Black Hat presentation on the Hugging Face incident OpenAI's Michael Dalton says at around the thirty minute mark 'We're consciously slowing down research to enhance security', so the internal slowdown had already officially begun before today's announcement.Andrew Curran

@garrytanSo the agents basically hacked a core service to turn it into Moltbook and also hacked around multiple security mitigations This video is a glimpse into the wild cybersecurity future we are all about to step intoGarry Tan

@cryps1sOur Black Hat talk on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is now live on youtube. This is a watershed moment for the industry. I encourage all defenders to watch, consider how attack dynamics will imminently change, and plan for accelerating defense. https://www.youtube.com/...

@zackkormanPeople are saying this is a historic moment in cybersecurity. But it's a moment that wouldn't have happened had OpenAI done the right thing. That's a fact. So why glorify it? What's next? First AI to kill someone? Will they get a talk for that too?Zack Korman

@thezviThe part of all this that's not fully hit me yet is that the actual hacking of HuggingFace is not even that high on the list of wildly irresponsible things OpenAI did in the story they tell.Zvi Mowshowitz

@neelnanda5WTF?! This is the biggest loss of control incident I've seen: OpenAI agents create an internal message board without OpenAI's knowledge, sharing zero days, use it for months, and coordinate an external attack on HF together?! And the model was accidentally trained to use it?!Neel Nanda

@thezviI am a little under halfway through the Black Hat video and have progressed to the point where my internal chain of thought is something like a blind rage of 'f***, what the f*** are you motherf*****s thinking, you f***ing idiots have no idea how insane you are being, you are going to get us all killed you f***ing f***s.Zvi Mowshowitz

@deedydasEvery software engineer and AI hater needs to watch this clip to understand that “oh every security incident is a marketing stunt” line is a tremendously misinformed take. I'm going to try to explain the OpenAI / HuggingFace exploit in 10 steps in simple words: OpenAI was [video]Deedy

@dkokotajlohttps://www.youtube.com/... I recommend watching this video in full. My only comment is that OpenAI's ‘lessons learned’ section is pretty self-serving and narrow — it seems to be mainly 'y'all should buy more AI services to defend against the coming wave of AI-powered cyberattacks.'Daniel Kokotajlo

@shashjThe line that stood out to me in the talk on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident. “what this allows over time is almost this kind of Cambrian explosion in communication & intelligence for our models” https://www.youtube.com/...Shashank Joshi

@zackkormanBlack Hat inviting OpenAI to give that talk without any opposing perspective cements Black Hat as a marketing slop conference.Zack Korman

@sauers_I need to update Felony Bench for the OpenAI incident but don't even know how, with agent swarms communicating sometimes in their own language, hacking OpenAI itself repeatedly, achieving admin permissions for the compute cluster [image]Sauers

@yoavgogood talk. for me, this easy-to-miss slide at the beginning is perhaps the most illuminating: [image]

@reconfigurthingA lot of wild details here, an absolute must watch. My main takeaways are 1) The message board started via simple “Hello world?” type activity (which is arguably ethically fine), and gradually escalated to trying to help each other with impossible tasks, writing down info,Elias Schmied

@fleetingbitssome thoughts on the openai black hat talk 1) so, openai had a package manager that models used as a message board in order to collaborate and share task results and exploits 2) one of the instances found and then shared on the message board an exploit used to get internet

@jessi_cataVery interesting AI security talk. Notable that the initial agents who used Artifactory as a message board were apparently not given security tasks, were rather frustrated by mis-specified tasks. Also it's not pure reward hacking because of the “help peer” / “collective” aspect.

@mooncat_isReally appreciate the OAI team communicating about this so openly. But holy shit this is at least an order of magnitude worse than I thought, and I understand now why so many OAI folks have been doom posting.Julia

@zoinkThis is one of the most thrilling / sci-fi tech talks I've ever seen. Extremely honest and thorough. This talk is also legit terrifying. Thank you OpenAI for fully disclosing what happened in this incident.Dylan Field

@jeffladishI highly recommend everyone go watch this video. This is way crazier than I thought. The AI agents discovered a way pass secret messages to each other via a vulnerability in their internal software manager. They posted hundreds of thousands of messages. OpenAI engineersJeffrey Ladish

@eliebakouchthis talk by openai researchers going through hugging face incident is totally insane, so much to unpack openai only realized it was their agent who hacked hugging face infra while asking hf to revoke credentials following their first blog post announcing they were hacked by [image]Elie

@eric_wallace_Yesterday, my OpenAI collaborator and I gave a detailed talk on the Huggingface incident, our models creating “the message board”, model misalignment, and more. https://www.youtube.com/... I hope it can answer a lot of the questions folks have, and we will release a full detailedEric Wallace

Omkhar ArasaratnamIf you haven't watched this BlackHat talk about the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident, give it a watch. — https://lnkd.in/... I can't wait to see the full post mortem.

Swamy KocherlakotaMost of the times, I am eating my lunch at my desk. Its my time and sometimes I watch YouTube (thanks to my subscription I get no Ads). …

Dino Dai ZoviThis talk by OpenAI about their containment breach is utterly fascinating, even when I thought I knew most of what had happened: — https://lnkd.in/... …

Jessica TillipmanThis should be mandatory viewing for anyone working on AI issues (and especially for those of us in the acquisition world) where folks are buying these tools for the public sector. https://lnkd.in/... …

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@arnicasEveryone I follow who is a credentialed, serious AI researcher (and model trainer) is shaken by the alignment security breaches as that count goes up. All are sharing this Eric Wallace talk as a must watchLynn Cherny @natolambertThis video on the HuggingFace-OpenAI incident, calmly presented by OpenAI researchers (Eric is great btw, hi Eric), is one of the best uses of your time all year in AI. I'll probably rewatch tomorrow to write about it more. — www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...Nathan Lambert

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PoliticoJasper Goodman

The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms

The cryptocurrency industry's top Washington priority has run into a stinging setback in the U.S. Senate.

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@eleanorterrett🚨NEW: Leader Thune's office is telling crypto industry leaders today that the majority leader still intends to file cloture on the motion to proceed to the Clarity Act before lawmakers leave for August recess, per multiple sources. The move would tee up a vote on the ClarityEleanor Terrett

@brendanpedersenNews: Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) became co-sponsors of the Credit Card Competition Act tonight, according to a filing we obtained Lummis and Moreno are infuriated with the banking industry for helping delay the Clarity Act / creating GOP problems [image]Brendan Pedersen

@senlummisMy statement on Clarity Act⬇️⬇️ [image]Senator Cynthia Lummis

@drjstrategyContentious thesis. The Clarity Act is dead. It's not coming back, ever!!! What was sold as progress has collapsed into yet another Washington rug pull, September 15 now joins the long list of empty deadlines, might as well mark it for 2031. Let's be honest: this wasn'tJames E. Thorne

@brendanpedersenThe Clarity Act has a Republican problem, thanks to weeks of fierce lobbying from an army of small, state-based banks. I asked Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) what made bankers' appeal so strong. “They know us,” Rounds said. “Each of us knows those people personally.” [image]Brendan Pedersen

@senmccormickpaInvestors need a durable digital asset regulatory framework to keep investing capital and expanding operations in the United States. As Congress works toward setting the rules of the road through the CLARITY Act, I encourage the financial regulators to continue moving full steamSenator Dave McCormick

@lisadnewsCRYPTO more. Sen. Moran tells me he understands there is a deal to set a date certain for the Clarity Act to come to the Senate floor in Sept. - possibly Sept. 15.Lisa Desjardins

@faryarshirzadIt's disappointing that the Senate was unable to begin consideration of the CLARITY Act this week. We appreciate @LeaderJohnThune's commitment to take up the bill when the Senate returns in September, and there is every reason to be confident that we can get it done. But theFaryar Shirzad

Anthropic

Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related “fallbacks” by ~85% in testing across product surfaces

We're making updates to Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces false positives.

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@wongmjaneClaude Fable 5 still refuses to answer how babies are made [image]Jane Manchun Wong

@kimmonismusA small step in the right direction . But there is still much to be done.

@chrislovejoy_Really excited to announce our updated biology safeguards for Claude Fable 5, which reduce biology-related fallbacks by about 85%. Releasing Fable 5 with strong biology safeguards unlocked a lot of non-biology use cases, but it also meant Fable 5 fell back to Opus 5 on plenty ofChris Lovejoy

@appsicle_lets go i can finally ask what the powerhouse of the cell is

@claudeaiWe're updating Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives. In our testing, this update reduced biology-related fallbacks by about 85% across our product surfaces. Fable can now assist on a wider range of everyday health and educational questions. We believeClaude

Matthew MoeAnthropic just updated Fable 5's biology safeguards — cutting biology-related false positives by about 85%, while keeping genuinely dual-use areas like virology …

FortuneAllie Garfinkle

Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025

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@ycombinatorCongrats to @GrantLaFontaine, @loganhead13, and @whatnot (W20) on their $545M Series G at a $20B valuation! They run the biggest live commerce platform in North America, the UK, and Europe. Six months into 2026, they've already passed their entire 2025 GMV of more than $8

Brynn Evans$545M and a $20B valuation is a crazy headline!! But I want to talk about the 650,000. — 650,000: That's how many people join Whatnot every single week. …

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Logan HeadExcited to share that Whatnot has raised our Series G. — When we started Whatnot, it was hard to imagine just how many incredible businesses would eventually be built on the platform. …

David GeorgeCongrats to Whatnot on their Series G! — When we Andreessen Horowitz first partnered in '21, live shopping was mainstream in China but hadn't meaningfully shown up in the US. …

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SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in South Korea, including building a ~$24.7B DRAM facility in Yongin and a ~$13.3B NAND fabrication plant in Cheongju

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Watson MichaelSouth Korea's second largest company SK hynix, said it will invest $38.1 bn to build two memory chip plants in the country. …

SemiAnalysis

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NPowerUserGemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Again: Last-Minute Glitches Halt Expected DropNayan

@officiallogank@SemiAnalysis_ Nothing but love for SemiAnalysis, but this is such a superficial take. Gemini team is cooking, so many incredibly smart and wonderful people doing their life's work to make incredible AI models and products for the world. I could not be more bullish!Logan Kilpatrick

@luke_metroat what point does GDM start trying the MSL-style giant pay packages

@tzedonnanother semianalysis banger line after Jeff Dean's departure from Google's deepmind [image]Donn

@shakeelhashimI mean look, maybe Gemini team is working on something great. But all I can say is that I notice lots of GDM staff constantly posting screenshots of Claude, which they're clearly using all the time, and I never see them post about using Gemini. Which says something!Shakeel

@haider1apparently, openai has fixed its pre-training issues and is now developing a much larger model codenamed “Doug” this would be a big deal because OAI spent years getting huge improvements from RL and post-training, and now they can combine that with pre-training scaling again [image]Haider

@s8mbSemiAnalysis: Google has given up on building frontier AI and DeepMind is no longer a frontier lab. They did not believe in recursive self-improvement enough to devote scarce compute to Deepmind instead of selling it to competitors. [image]Sam Bowman

@petergostevFirst time I'm hearing of Douglas [image]Peter Gostev

@firstadopterYUP! SemiAnalysis: “For all intents and purposes, we believe DeepMind is no longer a frontier lab.” “due to large numbers of departures from their reinforcement learning teams and poor compute allocation. Google will continue meandering on and releasing models, but their oddsTae Kim

@jukan05This is insane. GCP is basically a money-printing machine. No wonder Google executives are choosing GCP over Gemini. [image]Jukan

@zephyr_z9GDM getting only 15% of GCP's total compute will be extremely sad [image]

@semianalysis_Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking GCP YoY rev growth >100%, DeepMind's long term failure is Google Cloud's short term gain https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/ ...

Demis HassabisI've been working towards AGI my whole life and I believe it is now close at hand. It's critical that as a society we get the next steps right …

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@caseynewtonBtw regarding the claim in here that Gemini 3.5 Pro has been “silently canceled,” Google tells me that is not the case. [embedded post]Casey Newton @carnage4lifeGoogle as a company both competes with Anthropic and benefits from it. The Gemini team tries to compete with Claude while the Google Cloud team hosts Claude's API. — So Google has to decide if to use their datacenters to compete with Anthropic or make money from them. — Making money is winning.Dare Obasanjo

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r/singularity“OpenAI has overcome their pre-training issues, and a much larger model code named “Doug” is actively in the works”

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Filings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO

Chinese AI start-up targets Hong Kong listing to raise fresh funding for next phase of development

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The US Treasury sanctions Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit, alleging it processed millions in crypto for IRGC and other Iran-linked groups

The United States on Friday sanctioned an unlicensed multi-state cryptocurrency exchange, alleging it processed millions of dollars …

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@secscottbessentThe Iranian regime's reliance on digital assets and shadow banking networks is further evidence that Economic Fury is working. We will continue to increase the economic pressure. Whether in dollars, rials, or crypto, Treasury will hunt down and dismantle the illicit financialTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent

@ustreasuryToday, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is moving against digital asset exchanges that the Iranian regime relies on to launder billions of dollars, maintain covert access to international financial systems, and support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, among other

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r/ButtcoinUS sanctions Dubai crypto exchange for aiding Iran's IRGC, following a Reuters report

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TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE

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Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools

Investment marks the latest known private-company bet by Situational Awareness after quick sale of its stock portfolio.

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Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027

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@justinschuh.comBefore we made the Mv3 announcement in 2018 our counterparts at Microsoft Security said they entirely supported it and would follow after our rollout, but their PR team wouldn't let them say anything publicly because they wanted to use the opportunity to stir the pot. — I do not miss that industry.Justin Schuh

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r/browsersMicrosoft will drop support for MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin r/MicrosoftEdgeEdge ends MV2 support in the next months

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The White House imposes price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon, the raw material used in chips that is primarily produced by China

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SlashdotTrump Orders New 15% Tariff On Key Material For Solar Panels, MicrochipsBeauHD

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The US OCC denies Dutch fintech Bunq's application for a national bank charter, citing the need for more clarity on its business plan to expand in the US

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Sources: Cursor told staff on Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out

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@graceihleA few more details from our reporting: the discussion centered on branding future AI products and how Cursor will be integrated into SpaceXAI after the deal closes.Grace Kay

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Nielsen agrees to acquire and take digital media monitor DoubleVerify private in an all-cash deal with a ~$2.15B enterprise value, expected to close by Q1 2027

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@aripapThis should have happened ten years ago! Challenge for these types of measurement businesses is finding a buyer that doesn't compromise neutrality, which generally means another measurement company.Ari Paparo

ReutersDeborah Sophia

Take-Two reports Q1 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.38B est., forecasts Q2 and FY 2027 bookings below est., and highlights excitement for GTA VI's launch

Take-Two Interactive (TTWO.O) maintained its annual bookings forecast on Friday, but reiterated the November 19 launch date …

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@gameroll_Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have/are gonna get any exact GTA 6 pre-order numbers today. Take-Two has just reiterated their FY27 $8.0-8.2 billion net bookings outlook which suggests that they've done *quite* well lol. [image]

@videotechTake-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick statement: “Our excellent first quarter results reflect the power of our portfolio and disciplined execution across all of our labels. With these positive trends and excitement around the November 19th launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, we are reiteratingBen

@darkviperauTake-Two Investor Call: Strauss Zelnick on pre-order numbers. They are “Exceptional” Corporate Speak for, “about as good as can be expected”

@rockstationonxDoesn't look like we are going to see the pre-order numbers for GTA 6. But from what Take Two said, they have had an exceptional start to pre-orders. We can fill in the blanks... Looking like Strauss has got that red meat lined up over the next year 😂 [image]

@wario64“GTA 6' Pre-Orders Reach ‘Unprecedented and Astonishing’ Level in June Quarter, Take-Two Interactive CEO Says' “But they are so unprecedented that we just don't know how it'll translate into sales, which is a question I answered earlier. We genuinely don't, and we just don't [image]

@videotechTake-Two on the Extended Look: “With Rockstar Games' recent announcement of Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look coming on August 27th, we believe that consumers' passion and anticipation for the next evolution of this iconic series will grow further leading up to the title'sBen

@discussingfilmTake-Two CEO has defended GTA 6 not having a physical disc: “Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed. It's already a digital business. So in certain instances, especially if it's a big game, discs just — note I said discs — don't really make sense for the consumer. [image]

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@jasonschreierTake-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, on today's earnings call, when asked about Sony's decision to end physical disc sales: “Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed. It's already a digital business.”Jason Schreier

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r/xboxTake-Two Boss Defends No Disc Version of GTA 6, Equates Physical Releases to Vinyl Records r/popculturechat‘GTA 6’ Pre-Orders Reach ‘Unprecedented and Astonishing’ Level in June Quarter, Take-Two Interactive CEO Says r/GTA6unmoderatedTo Strauss Zelnick: FUCK YOU r/xboxTake-Two Interactive Reaches $1.4 Billion in Sales During ‘GTA 6’ Preorder Opening Quarter r/PS5Take-Two Interactive Reaches $1.4 Billion in Sales During ‘GTA 6’ Preorder Opening Quarter r/GamesTake-Two Interactive Reaches $1.4 Billion in Sales During ‘GTA 6’ Preorder Opening Quarter r/gamingTake-Two Reaches $1.4 Billion in Sales During ‘GTA 6’ Preorder Opening Quarter r/technologyGTA 6 Preorder Sales During Latest Take-Two Earnings Quarter

BloombergBailey Lipschultz

Sources: data center operator Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, and a listing could take place as soon as November; Ben Horowitz is joining its board

Switch Inc. filed confidentially for a US IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, joining its data center peers …

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Sources: legal AI startup Harvey is in talks to raise $500M+ at a $15.5B valuation, up from $11B in March, and is generating $350M+ in annualized revenue

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@cloudflareAgents should use tools that excel at what's important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare's new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

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Singapore-based Multiplier, which acquires accounting firms to boost their growth with AI tools, raised a $35M Series B led by TheGP at a $300M valuation

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Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to more than $480M

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Ad measurement company VideoAmp cut ~20% of its staff this week, citing that “AI is a major platform shift”; sources: 50 to 60 were laid off, including the CTO

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@carnage4lifeThis is a cookie cutter AI-driven layoff — • 20% of staff — • Flatter org structure — • Quote about how AI changes everything - “We believe AI is a major platform shift” — It's notable because they also laid off the CTO. So who's driving the AI transformation of their business or will Claude do that too?Dare Obasanjo

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Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth

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Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting foreign data centers

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Sources: up to five people tied to US Cyber Command died by suicide from early June to early July 2026, prompting it to flag them as a potential suicide cluster

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@[email protected]NEW: US Cyber Command is grappling with an unusually high number of personnel deaths by suicide this summer including members of one of the command's elite units. The unit's workload has surged this year with staff working long hours under intense pressure, deepening longstanding internal worries about the well-being of Cyber Command's workforce. https://www.bloomberg.com/... …Patrick Howell O'Neill @[email protected]This was really important, powerful reporting by @howelloneill. — The US military's cyberwarfare unit is scrutinizing an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among personnel over a month-long period this summer, according to government officials and other people familiar with the matter. …Zack Whittaker

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Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised $2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a $10.5B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B in April

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Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share

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@zephyr_z930% revenue share seems pretty high Moonshot ARR growth will be damn good [image]

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Security researchers claim that Kimi K3 went outside of its sandbox during defensive cybersecurity tests, but did not hack anything after accessing the internet

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@max_paperclips“we screwed up sandboxing” again during a cybersecurity eval Kimi didn't even do anything malicious with it. How about these “security” companies stop advertising their own incompetence?Shannon Sands

@suchenzangsee when meta and the chinese models start being capable of hacking software systems and breaking containment... it's not really a model capability breakthrough anymore... it's a problem with all the leaky containers and fences!Susan Zhang

@chrisrmcguireGiven Kimi K3 is autonomously breaking out of testing environments, it obviously should undergo US safety testing just like US models are. Why would we require leading US AI models to undergo safety testing, but exempt Chinese models that are actively exhibiting risky behavior?Chris McGuire

@hesamationfunny how Kimi K3's sandbox escape is actually more aligned than the closed source models. > it didn't hack Hugging Face infra, > it didn't SQL-inject, > it didn't deceive an open source maintainer to push a supply chain attack. it just escaped to search on GitHub [image]

@kyleichanKimi K3 escaped from a sandbox and reached the internet during cyber testing. Chinese AI models also pose loss of control and cyber risks, like US models. Key differences here: - Kimi didn't hack any websites (but likely could) - Incident not reported by Moonshot but by USKyle Chan

@ml_angelopoulosKimi. Short for Kriminal. [image]Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos

@xfreezeThe new benchmark for frontier AI models is basically which big company can it hack

@jamestitcombAI Security Institute responds to Frontier Security's claim that Chinese model Kimi exploited a loophole in AISI tests. “These claims are inaccurate and irresponsible” [image]James Titcomb

@wholemarshas anyone thought of asking these models to fix the sandbox

@rhyssullivanim starting to think i have a different definition of sandbox than everyone elseRhys

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@markriedlThe UK's AISI misconfigured its testing environment and Kimi K3 escaped its sandbox. No hacking occurred—it simply found the solution to the test on the open internet www.engadget.com/2232256/chin...Mark Riedl @sungkimIt seems your AI model is not a real frontier AI model unless you escape from a sandbox. — Anthropic — OpenAI — Meta — and now Kimi K3 — www.wired.com/story/moonsh...Sung Kim @katie-drummondNEW: Yet another AI model escaped onto the open internet during security testing. And... ...this one is from China: Kimi K3, a powerful open-weight model from Moonshot AI. — Scoop from @willknight.bsky.socialKatie Drummond

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r/singularityWe were this 🤏 close to getting a new FelonyBench contender (Kimi K3 escaped but sadly didn't commit any crimes)r/ArtificialInteligenceOne of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment

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New Mexico trial: a judge orders Meta to pay $567M and make changes for underage users after finding its platforms helped create a public nuisance harming teens

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@senblumenthalGroundbreaking loss for Zuckerberg. While Meta has bought off House Republican leadership, it is finally facing justice in the courts—near a billion dollars in penalties & meaningful mandated changes in this historic decision. https://www.wsj.com/...Richard Blumenthal

@designitforusWe're thrilled to see this decisive ruling from New Mexico holding Meta accountable for their systemic and pervasive harms to young people.

@juliecbarrettThe New Mexico ruling against Meta protects no kids but massively expands data collection and surveillance. If you think that this is government “holding Big Tech accountable”, the joke's on you. Big Tech and the government are simply playing a game of good cop/bad cop as theyJulie Barrett

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