OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees the company plans to go public by 2027, or sooner if revenue growth keeps accelerating. - CNBC

OpenAI pushes its zero data retention for business customers, after Anthropic instituted 30-day retention policy for Mythos/Fable. - OpenAI

OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a system that spots risk patterns across multiple interactions to catch malicious actors and misaligned AI agents. without exposing sensitive information to individuals outside the firm. - Bloomberg

OpenAI rolls out Computer Use across ChatGPT and Codex, but Altman and security experts warn of privacy and data risks - Business Insider

Anthropic's quarterly revenue more than doubled to $11.6 billion, overtaking OpenAI's $6.7 billion, as OpenAI's revenue grew just 18%. - Yahoo

Coders circumvented Claude's invisible EU-mandated watermarks within hours, and Anthropic says heavily edited text may still evade detection. - WIRED

AI-detection tool Pangram flagged 33% of a UC Berkeley professor's op-ed as AI-generated after she admitted using AI to edit it - the Guardian

Google DeepMind's Backstory tool, currently limited to a small group of trusted testers, checks whether images are AI-generated or manipulated and cites its findings. - Nieman Lab

MIT researchers find that individual training images become nearly untraceable in outputs as AI models and datasets scale, complicating copyright disputes - Digital Trends

Stripe told investors the singularity arrived on January 1, 2026, as it announced the OpenRouter deal and a 41% jump in first-half revenue - Business Insider

Etched in money: AI chip startup Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation; investor Michael Burry cited it as serious competition for Nvidia - Business Insider

Fractile has agreed to sell Anthropic $250 million in inference chips as part of a broader supply deal. - Bloomberg

Marvell shares jumped 10% after a filing revealed Google can buy up to $12.2 billion in Marvell stock tied to AI chip purchases - CNBC

Samsung plans a $72 billion shareholder return and SK Hynix a $29 billion buyback as AI-driven chip demand boosts both stocks - Bloomberg

Meet hot GPUs in your area: Nvidia is matchmaking companies that hold its GPUs with data center operators that have capacity in Finland and Norway, CFO Colette Kress said - CNBC

Meta now spends hundreds of millions a year on Azure, consuming trillions of AI tokens weekly, becoming one of Microsoft's biggest AI customers - Bloomberg

Alibaba's cloud revenue jumps 45% to 48.4 billion yuan as capital spending climbs 75%, extending a 12-quarter streak of triple-digit AI revenue growth - CNBC

We unmasked the cops who misused Flock to spy on their spouses. Their police departments weren't checking their searches, so we did it for them. One just got arrested. Here's how we did it. — Washington Post

A Florida police officer faces misconduct charges for allegedly running his estranged wife's plate through Flock's AI camera network 717 times. - Dexerto

Flock's drones, dispatched after 911 calls, read license plates from the sky in about 86 seconds; advocates warn of little oversight and views into homes. - TechSpot

AI-PEC: China unveiled a 29-country AI governance body at Xi Jinping's Shanghai summit, moving to fill the regulatory void left by US abdication of international cooperation. - Intelligencer

More than 300 companies unveiled humanoid robots at Beijing's World Robot Conference, as Unitree's shares soared sixfold in its Shanghai trading debut. - New York Post

Unitree's $1,600 Go2 robot dog drew on US military-funded quadruped research, even as the Pentagon and FCC now target the company. - Reuters

Cambridge startup Generalist AI's robot arms learn tasks like sweeping or unzipping a purse from one video, but succeed only 59% of the time. - WIRED

I think essentially all the robot uptake is experimental and going to labs and pilots to study more robots, it’s at the GPT-2 era.

NHTSA's investigation into Tesla's FSD now covers 3.2 million vehicles, days after a video showed V14 avoid an 82-mph highway collision. - Yahoo

Waymo's Ojai vans are now open to all riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco, as the company gains driverless approval in more cities. - Engadget

Amazon will expand Prime Air drone delivery to five more states by year's end, growing coverage sixfold to nearly 500 municipalities. - SiliconANGLE

AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its adviceFortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first - theregister

EPFL researchers built a tool called STING that breaks harmful requests into innocent-seeming steps, tricking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude agents more often than direct requests. - Digital Trends

The risks of a prompt injection worm - Daniel Miessler

this feels like a disaster waiting to happen

Former Goldman Sachs analyst gets probation for extensive chats with AI about killing his ex. - The Palm Beach Post

Experts warn AI-generated communication analyses, increasingly used as evidence in family court abuse cases, can miss abuse with no digital footprint. - Psychology Today

Google's new phones come with lots of AI, do people want that? - The New York Times

Leaked video shows Apple's camera-equipped AirPods reading book titles via Visual Intelligence, still on track for 2027 launch - Dexerto

Third-party vendors disable Meta Glasses' recording light so wearers can film people covertly, and Swedish investigators found contractors reviewing footage of nudity. - the Guardian

Meta's new Mac app lets its AI chatbot, aimed at businesses, read your screen and connect to Instagram, Facebook, ad campaigns, and Google Workspace. - TNW | Meta

Nuclear option: TerraPower's 345-megawatt molten salt-cooled reactor stores heat to ramp output quickly, addressing AI data centers' volatile GPU-driven power demand - TechCrunch

Git Out: :GitHub's Monday outage, its ninth service disruption since July, shows AI-driven coding demand outpacing infrastructure capacity, prompting a planned thirtyfold expansion - DevOps.com

Evidence is mounting that artificial intelligence is helping the richest people and cities pull further ahead. - The Washington Post

A Pew survey finds 52% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, with young adults' views flipping to skeptical. - theregister

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li warns tech leaders must better communicate AI's benefits or risk fueling backlash given the US's global influence. - Bloomberg

Fei-Fei Li says she runs World Labs — which raised $1 billion this year — like a 'tiger mom' - Business Insider

AI's flawless, tireless outputs are extending body-image-style insecurity to human minds, echoing philosopher Gunther Anders' 1956 warnings on self-alienation. - the Guardian

Nick Bostrom, author of Superintelligence and Deep Utopia, asks what gives life meaning once AI and robots outperform humans at everything. - Bloomberg

SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition (Windsurf/Devin) about an acquisition, its second major AI takeover bid in months, but Cognition declined to engage - Bloomberg

TIAA modernized its data and legacy systems before scaling AI, cutting investment-change processing from weeks to days - Yahoo

A Stanford-led study found small AI models running locally match or beat cloud LLMs on 81% of tasks while using far less energy - Klement on Investing

on-device AI is about to become good enough for most tasks, coding, summarization

Bigger context windows don't fix agent reliability — durable memory needs distinct layers for raw history, curated facts, and working context - Hacker Noon

Memory is the key, and not just HBM. But you can’t just say, remember this, how you store depends on the structure of data, how it goes stale. But with large LLM context, simple text like wikis can go a long way.

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