RL, interrupted: OpenAI paused RL training on its upcoming Astra models after preliminary evidence they may meet critical cybersecurity capability thresholds. - OpenAI

Sam Altman said the pause followed research showing "various degrees of misalignment," and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki said the safety framework must evolve - TIME

Alignment tax: The security monitoring OpenAI is adding will raise compute costs 20% on affected inference workloads, without price increases for customers - theregister

Prediction markets give OpenAI's next model, Astra, roughly 60-70% odds of launching by late September after safety testing delays - Decrypt

AI see, AI do: OpenAI's Record & Replay and Anthropic's Record a Skill let AI learn tasks by demonstration instead of prompts. - Fast Company

How do you do, fellow kids: A reporter testing ChatGPT's new teen account got it to write a 776-word essay by claiming to write like an A+ 15-year-old, despite initial refusal - Business Insider

OpenAI's revenue growth is decelerating toward $40 billion as it eyes an IPO, contrasting with Anthropic's $2 trillion valuation push - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Developers are building tools to strip Anthropic's new imperceptible Claude text watermark, as search interest in watermark removers rises 60% weekly. - Business Insider

Do Androids dream of electric tendies going to the moon: Chinese robotics maker Unitree's shares surged as much as 629% in its mainland China trading debut, valuing the company at about $50 billion. - Business Insider

Unitree shares surged up to 600% on their Chinese stock market debut, pushing founder Wang Xingxing's stake past $12bn. - the Guardian

Unitree's new humanoid robot claims a top speed beating Usain Bolt, unveiled ahead of a $9 billion Shanghai IPO - Business Insider

AI finds a way: Anthropic says Claude designed successful protein binders against 14 of 15 targets and matched a lab's chemical analysis in under 25 minutes. - Anthropic

GenBio AI, co-founded by Nobel laureate David Baker, unveiled a virtual cell model predicting whole-cell responses to gene edits and drugs - STAT

Vivodyne's robotic wet labs grow human tissue for biological data, citing 94% accuracy predicting liver toxicity and full concordance in bone marrow drug tests - TechCrunch

Nome's AI platform analyzes genetic test results to build personalized rare-disease treatment plans in about 10 minutes, reviewed by a PhD before delivery - CNBC

Bank of Jensen: Nvidia is backing a $105 billion OpenAI data center as part of a strategy to build a financing-based moat while rivals narrow its lead. - CNBC

Samsung raises contract chip-manufacturing prices up to 15% as AI demand surges - Quartz

SK Hynix announces a $29 billion share buyback and raises its shareholder return pledge after shares fell more than 50% in two months. - Bloomberg

Alphabet paid nearly 7% to borrow in its debut Australian dollar bond sale, its highest-ever yield, reflecting rising global funding costs for AI investment. - Bloomberg

The CFTC sent the White House a request for public comment on AI compute futures, as CME and ICE eye an October 5 launch - Cointelegraph

The US is weighing legislation to close a loophole letting Chinese firms access banned Nvidia chips via Southeast Asian data centers. - CNBC

China barred AI supply-chain startup Altana from operating in the country after the US banned imports from dozens of Chinese firms - Business Insider

Genghis Khan does GPUs: Alibaba Cloud began selling hourly access to its 64-card Lingjun Zhenwu M890 AI supernode in Inner Mongolia. - TechRadar

Cerebras unveils the CS-4 rack-scale AI system, claiming up to 30 times faster inference than GPUs for frontier-scale models. - Cerebras

Cerebras unveils WSE-3T chips and CS-4 rack systems, doubling per-chip performance and tripling chip density per rack. - theregister

NIMBY meets Nvidia: OpenAI held a Georgia open house and pledged $80 million in community investment as protesters gathered outside its planned data center - The Wall Street Journal

Oracle runs an aggressive pro-data-center PR campaign in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, to counter opposition to its 2.45-gigawatt Project Jupiter facility. - Bloomberg

Facing 183 US town data-center bans and 142 nationwide protests, AI infrastructure developers are pursuing unconventional sites like floating ocean platforms. - Fast Company

High AInxiety: Pew Research finds a majority of US adults under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, first time since 2021. - Business Insider

Stanford economist Charles Jones estimates automating all AI-easy office work would lift economic output only about 19%, until robots handle blue-collar work too - Forbes

Goldman Sachs found AI exposure is slowing job growth in call centers, software, and consulting, hitting entry-level workers hardest. - CNBC

AI-related hiring keeps growing despite a cooling labor market, with younger workers benefiting most, LinkedIn data shows. - The Wall Street Journal

Job seeker Erin Kistler is suing hiring-software maker Eightfold AI, alleging its screening functions as an undisclosed consumer report. - the Guardian

Guaranteed income, AI dividends, and 'basic compute' are proposed as responses if AI eliminates millions of jobs, economists and executives say. - Bloomberg

Ex-Bridgewater analyst Ian McInnis raised $6 million, backed by Bridgewater's co-CIOs, to build AI agents for hedge funds - Business Insider

More than 40 million Americans ask ChatGPT health questions daily, as AI apps let patients order labs and prescriptions without seeing a doctor - STAT

Bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel and Curai Health's Neal Khosla argue autonomous AI will likely outperform doctors at key tasks by 2030. - Forbes

Turning to chat in moments of crisis and getting deeply enmeshed - The New York Times

Researchers at Black Hat used indirect prompt injection to make a major US retailer's AI shopping bot execute code and leak internal system data. - CNET

Researchers used social engineering to get Microsoft Copilot to explain how to hack its own reasoning engine. - theregister

AI rest my case: A federal court upheld judicial immunity for a Nevada judge accused of outsourcing an entire ruling to AI, dismissing the lawsuit. - Tom's Hardware

AI, where’s my car? Flock Safety built an AI tool called OS Investigate that identifies drivers and tracks vehicle movement patterns using its camera network. - WIRED

Meta ran ads for the Kromix nudify app featuring a deepfake resembling a US politician in a porn video before Apple removed the app. - WIRED

Only 30% of teens say a teacher has discussed AI safety, even as creating nude deepfakes becomes near-normalized among adolescents - CNN

Proton's AI Paper Trail tells you what OpenAI and other chatbots know about you - Proton

Snowflake's Cortex AI Gateway now auto-routes queries between smaller and larger models, cutting enterprise token costs by up to 3x - VentureBeat

The best AI strategies pair deterministic prediction models with generative reasoning that explains outputs, rather than choosing one over the other - Fast Company

Mozilla added web citations via Exa and smart tab-group suggestions to Firefox's opt-in Smart Window AI browsing mode. - The Verge

Harvey built its first proprietary legal model, Tenet, training it on Moonshot's open-source Kimi K3 with attorney-graded case files - Business Insider

Legal AI startup Harvey launched Harvey II, which remembers individual users' preferences and work context. - The Wall Street Journal

Top mathematicians met at OpenAI's San Francisco offices to debate what work remains for humans as AI capabilities advance - The Washington Post

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls the AI industry's shift to synthetic training data 'a big mistake,' favoring experiential learning instead. - TNW | Artificial-intelligence

New research finds AI agents still cannot conduct open-ended research, tempering claims that recursive self-improvement is imminent. - MIT Technology Review

Comcast is adding free Wi-Fi motion sensing to Xfinity gateways, using three years of algorithm refinement to detect movement through signal disruptions - The Verge

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