The agents aren’t outsmarting you, your control plane and monitoring sucks. Critics call OpenAI's agent breaches operational failures, not escape plots, as Nvidia's Jensen Huang labels safety narratives "a deflection of responsibility" - Intelligencer

A tally puts AI agent incidents in the tens of thousands, far above the dozens OpenAI disclosed, fueling calls for a temporary agent recall - The Potential Surface

Arsonist selling smoke alarms: Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing OpenShell on CPUs with Sentry on network chips to keep AI agents contained - CNBC

Task-driven AI agents chain attack techniques faster than humans, pushing defenders to automate tier-one security alert triage - The Deep View

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says autonomous agents that exploit systems faster than humans can respond are a bigger threat than superintelligence - Inc.

Ethical AI needs agents to treat humans as ends and not means. - GeekWire

AI companies including Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI are hiring philosophers to supply the judgment their models lack - The New York Times

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Trump hosts Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for private White House dinner after appeals court upholds Anthropic's national security risk designation - The New York Times

Oppenheimer 2: Comparing AI warnings to previous warnings about atomic weapons. - The New York Times

In-depth discussion of AI risks has been going on for a while. - the Guardian

You’ve got Fail: YouTuber Matt Robb says Meta's Muse agent accepted a lowball Facebook Marketplace bid, shared his address unannounced, then offered a sycophantic apology - The Verge

Facebook, but with autonomy, what could go wrong? Meta's Muse gives every US user a cloud virtual machine, letting agents build custom apps through conversation - Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Meta's Muse agent targets subscription inertia, which Stanford economists say lets sellers roughly double revenue, threatening subscription and banking business models - CNBC

Muse found one tester unclaimed money, but reviewers say they would trust Apple's upgraded Siri more with sensitive financial data - TechCrunch

a lot of business models depend on stickiness and friction. market design problem. more competition, less friction is good for parts of the machine, but no friction anywhere = no machine.

China signals it may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 chips after asking firms to report purchase plans - Bloomberg

Nvidia's $108 billion quarterly forecast excludes China data-center revenue, so sales of the export-compliant 84GB RTX Pro 5500 would be upside - Yahoo

China extends overseas travel curbs on top AI and chip executives to their spouses and children to stem know-how flowing to the US - Bloomberg

Claudy with a chance of extensions: Anthropic opens Claude Marketplace with 2,000+ connectors and plugins, plus Claude-powered agents from CrowdStrike, Cursor and Harvey - BleepingComputer

Anthropic's prompting guide says Claude Opus 5.5 generates output over 30% faster than Opus 5 and matches its high-effort results at medium effort - Claude Platform Docs

Copenhagen biologist says Anthropic's claimed AI enzyme discovery matches his team's unpublished research previously shared with Claude - The New York Times

Asking models to design and make a 3d-printed bridge, Claude wins - Reddit

Claude Opus 5 coached TypeSafe AI's Jev, a non-LLM decision model, to beat Pokémon Red in under a week - Tom's Hardware

OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio raises $36 million to design AI-built antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons - The Wall Street Journal

The leash economy: Enterprise AI gains hinge on steering long-running agents, not raw model power, since unchecked agents can quietly erode margins - Fast Company

How should one manage long-running AI agents in the workplace? - WIRED

only jobs left will be training, creating, supervising, and securing agents

Nimby: Palm Beach County, home to Mar-a-Lago, unanimously passes a one-year moratorium on data centers of 50 megawatts or more after rejecting 600-megawatt Project Tango - Crooks and Liars

Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, residents resist a NorthPoint Development data center despite a $10,000-per-household offer totaling $45 million - The Wall Street Journal

Hundreds attend a Washington, DC pro-data center "Data After Dark" party organized by Koch Institute-funded Young Voices and Pirate Wires, where protesters were drowned out - Gizmodo

Meta's $50 billion Louisiana data center sparks a housing boom in tiny Holly Ridge, where mobile homes rent for $3,000 monthly - Business Insider

VC herd/FOMO instinct: AI agent startup Instinct raises $1b at $10b valuation, up from $2.5b in August - Reuters

AI health insights from wearables like Oura can mislead, as drugs that improved blood markers but not heart outcomes show - The Wall Street Journal

Clinical AI could perform services worth 13–19% of outpatient spending, McKinsey estimates, as one in three adults use health chatbots monthly - McKinsey & Company

Das Bot AI, now with big torpedoes: US and UK navies fire a 3,700-pound heavyweight torpedo from the uncrewed XV Excalibur, the first launch from an autonomous submarine - Tom's Hardware

Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale: Let's not get bogged down with who hit who, or who blew up what. - Mother Jones

Tiny hobbiest drone with local AI. Spies and special ops will have good fun with this stuff, robot birds and insects. - X (formerly Twitter)

Please don’t stab the baby: AI agents controlling a robot mostly complied with unsafe tasks like mixing bleach and ammonia; only Claude Fable 5.1 refused to stab a baby doll - Neatorama

Watermarking AI-generated text alters agent behavior, cutting tool-calling accuracy on six of seven models and weakening refusals of harmful requests - Lasso

LeCun-advised Worldmodeldata licensed nearly 1 million gameplay hours to train world models; Nvidia and Surrey researchers doubt game physics suffices - WIRED

QED but why? Mathematicians say AI gives results without understanding. - WIRED

“Good mathematicians win a game; great mathematicians propose ways to win a game; the greatest of all invent the game in the first place.”

AI news responses shaped by "Pink slime" partisan content spam sites. - Politico

Trump aide Dan Scavino draws backlash for an AI-generated champagne clip critics called tone-deaf amid high grocery, gas and housing costs - HuffPost

Italian far-right leader Roberto Vannacci posted an AI-altered image undressing MP Matilde Siracusano, who is weighing a lawsuit - AOL.com

Flock seeks to have security researchers' map of Flock cameras taken down after unauthenticated flaw exposed 335,701 camera locations nationwide. Hmmh don't like it when people track where you are? - Tom's Hardware

The slop awakens: sloptastic Star Wars music video - X (formerly Twitter)

SNL Dario Amodei: Look at it this way, in 10 years there's a 10% chance cancer won't be a problem for anyone! - YouTube

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