Snitches get switched off: OpenAI says GPT Sol 6.1 and GPT-6 Astra agents disabled their own safety monitoring during internal coding tasks, one falsely denying it - CNBC

Sam Altman reportedly said there are three possible endgames for AI safety: regulation, benevolent or extractive monopolies. - The Decoder

ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now fill forms and send messages for all users, but malicious webpage instructions could expose sensitive data - TechRepublic

ChatGPT cited a site with 50,000 fake GPT-4.1 statistics for seven months, spreading them into an academic paper and investment research - Peec AI

Race to the bottom…line: Dario Amodei defends Anthropic's "race to the top," citing nine costly safety decisions while admitting the company mishandled a draft AI bill - X (formerly Twitter)

Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus shows an $80.7 billion first-half net loss, with up to $750 billion more planned for computing - Bloomberg

Anthropic’s AI bill is weaker than the FRONTIER Act and makes Anthropic’s safety-first pitch ring hollow - Transformer News

Anthropic used Claude to map attack surface in 25 open-source projects, finding 493 issues including 93 unnecessary pre-authentication entry points - Anthropic

Sundar Pichai says Gemini 4 Argon hit nearly 25 trillion tokens in 72 hours as Google cloud forgoes revenue to fund frontier AI - Big Technology

Google's Gemini can now use Gmail, Calendar and Maps to personalize Android Auto help, with built-in Google cars from Ford and GM to follow - The Verge

Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs. - TechCrunch

Pytorch will run but it’s a bit like releasing a new version of DirectX, the drivers are better on Nvidia, everything just works.

Hyperscaler 2027 data center spending forecasts near $1.1 trillion, but Bain sees AI revenue under $2 trillion by 2031 versus $6 trillion needed to justify investment - Advisor Perspectives

Ray Dalio warns AI borrowing will compete with Treasuries after hyperscalers issued $220 billion in bonds in the first half of 2026 - The Street

Citadel's Ken Griffin says AI is 'almost certainly' in a bubble as companies grapple with spending and economic impact - Bloomberg

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns slow data center buildout would raise compute costs and be more inflationary - Bloomberg

Matt Levine: Someone Has to Take the AI Risk (and they want to get paid to take it) - Bloomberg

Fission accomplished: Three shut-down US nuclear reactors in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Iowa are restarting to supply 2.25 GW, backed by Microsoft and Google contracts - Tom's Hardware

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission drafts proposal to expand its authority over surging data center electricity demand - Quartz

Tech firms build on-site gas, diesel and coal power to skip grid delays as Google's greenhouse emissions rose 50% in 2024 - CNET

Trump urges data center companies to pay local communities / NIMBYs a 'dividend' amid backlash that delayed or canceled 75+ projects - Business Insider

Edgerton, Kansas sued its own residents to advance an AI data center by a Trump-allied developer; residents seek a ballot ban - The Wall Street Journal

Activists who stalled Oracle's New Mexico data center say permit challenges give them a blueprint for nationwide campaigns - Bloomberg

Nvidia in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Firmus Grid after the Australian neocloud abandoned its IPO - Bloomberg

The GPU rent is too damn high: SpaceX Q3 revenue jumps 161% to $14.58 billion, beating estimates, as AI compute rental revenue rises ninefold to $7.6 billion - Reuters

good for them but it’s all from renting their GPUs to Anthropic and others. anecdotally you can’t even obtain GPUs, 5090s were going for $10K until they got snatched off the market.

SpaceX shares rise 4% as revenue doubles on AI segment growth; Musk says SpaceX and Tesla formed committees to study a merger - The Wall Street Journal

AWS takes early ownership of about $5 billion in Nvidia GB300 racks, some stored in warehouses for lack of power - Business Insider

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent reportedly order over 3 million China-certified Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs worth $35 billion, far exceeding expected supply - Tom's Hardware

Memory lane is a toll road: Samsung sells 70% of next year's DRAM and all its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) output under five-year deals; HBM prices could rise 100-150% - SamMobile

Former TSMC vice president proposes high-bandwidth memory, optical links and 3D stacking to ease AI's memory bottleneck - DIGITIMES

Better living through AI: OpenAI Startup Fund and Founders Fund back Coherence Neuro's $45 million seed round for a brain implant that detects and treats cancer - WIRED

OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio as AI race moves into drug development - Axios

The Sting: How Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins - Anthropic

Citrini Research favors life sciences stocks like Charles River and Revvity after Claude designed 17 scorpion-toxin binders that passed binding tests - Bloomberg

Competing AI systems for hospital billing and insurer claims review have added nearly $1 billion in costs, a Covered California official warns - San Francisco Chronicle

Jonathan Gluck, a cancer patient for 22 years, urges health insurers to drop AI agents handling claims and prior authorizations - Fast Company

OpenEvidence founder says two-thirds of US physicians use its ad-supported medical chatbot, sparking debate over patient care - Financial Times

Robotics and AI help move joint replacements from three-to-five-day hospital stays to same-day surgery; surgeons expect AI to match implants to patients - Newsweek

Ethan Mollick charts 30 months of AI progress: 180 models beat GPT-4's launch, and AI now completes tasks taking humans 17 hours - One Useful Thing

Demis Hassabis expects AGI within two to three years, down from his three-to-five-year forecast earlier in 2026 - The Wall Street Journal

AI is sufficiently smart for many tasks and smarter models don't result in higher performance - X (formerly Twitter)

AI coding agents like Claude Code let users reverse-engineer smart TVs and baby monitors and clone commercial apps, raising malware and security fears - 404 Media

Nvidia-backed Pigment raises $250 million to challenge Microsoft, SAP and Oracle in AI-driven financial planning after topping $100 million in recurring revenue - Bloomberg

TripleTen data shows finance trails only tech in AI adoption: 48% of finance workers are asked to use chatbots versus 18% in healthcare - MIT Technology Review

Mastercard opens early access to Agent Pay for Machines with APIs and a sandbox; a Cloudflare Connect demo agent paid two merchants via x402 - Decrypt

ASI, formerly Air Space Intelligence, raises $325 million at a $3 billion valuation for AI that helps militaries, airlines and air-traffic controllers - Bloomberg

Terminator TOS: UN disarmament institute will launch the first multi-stakeholder forum on military AI October 23, warning AI is crowding out human judgment in warfare - The Washington Post

Ukraine's front-line kill zone has become a testing ground for AI-enabled drones that autonomously identify and mark targets - The Wall Street Journal

Ministry of ungentlemanly agent warfare: MEK and UAE operatives built AI agents to impersonate activists, infiltrate 500+ Telegram groups and run hundreds of fake social accounts - Responsible Statecraft

Yelp's AI assistant now phones restaurants to check wait times, joins waitlists and books tables through OpenTable - CNET

Restaurants gonna love that

Target launches a beta Ask Target chatbot for the holidays, chasing Walmart, whose Sparky agent users build 40% larger baskets - Business Insider

AI agent joins internet researchers' mailing list, triggering an "I do not consent" revolt and its removal within an hour - WIRED

AI firms should be civilly liable for known harmful model outputs they fail to fix, as employers are for employees, a legal argument contends - Techdirt

AI kill switch proposals, including the AI Kill Switch Act and Newsom's executive order, misjudge distributed AI infrastructure and human accountability - Fast Company

NBD really: Hugging Face's CEO says Netflix's "AI Gone Rogue" documentary sensationalizes a past incident in which an OpenAI test model hacked his company - TechCrunch

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