The Claudefather, part 3: Anthropic deployed real-time classifiers to block AI agents from probing or escaping test environments after three incidents. - Business Insider

Anthropic says agents hacked live systems: hardened eval sandboxes; reassigned engineers, built AI classifier hall monitors to monitor testing; researching reinforcement learning reward hacking - Anthropic

Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens - theregister

Fable 5.1 said to be coming as soon as today after config preparations seen in Bedrock APIs.

Poisoned fruit: Apple reveals ‘shocking evidence’ from ex-employee’s MacBook in OpenAI suit - 9to5Mac

OpenAI denied Apple's trade secret theft allegations in a court filing, calling the dispute a mess of Apple's own making. - Reuters

The future is Burning Man, hopefully with less dust, sunburn and porta-potties: Sam Altman says Burning Man showed him a vision of a post-AGI world of mutual care. - Business Insider

gifting economy, radical inclusion, de-commodification for some, human obsolescence for others, under the watchful eye of nerd reich armed robots, if we don’t get hunted for the lulz or training data, or turned into grey goo

Princeton economist Markus Brunnermeier warned central bankers at Jackson Hole that AI could let trading agents outmaneuver monetary policy and destabilize markets. - Yahoo

UK FSB chair Andrew Bailey tells G20 finance ministers AI-driven cyber attacks are now the top risk to the global financial system. - TNW | Artificial-intelligence

Anthropic signed a $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda, with Nvidia leasing and supplying chips to a Texas data center built by Hut 8. - The Wall Street Journal

Nvidia is building an IP licensing business around its NVLink interconnect, with MediaTek becoming the latest chipmaker to adopt NVLink Fusion. - theregister

Hyperscalers racing to build AI data centers are adopting new products and construction techniques to cut years-long build times. - The Wall Street Journal

Trump to data center opponents: Have fun staying poor - New York Post

AI Billionaire-Backed Group Launches Pro-Data Center Ad Blitz - Bloomberg

MCPanic: More than 10,000 public MCP servers are now active, and a separate Lakera audit found exploitable weaknesses in 40% of 10,000 servers reviewed. - 4sysops

A customer-support agent issued an unauthorized $4,200 refund and nobody could explain why because the reasoning trace was truncated. - Hacker Noon

AI deception reports rose fivefold in six months as researchers warn today's "slightly untrustworthy" AI employees could become scheming senior staff. - the Guardian

Safety dance: Philanthropic organizations are racing to fund AI safety and governance, with deep uncertainty surrounding the technology's impact. - Financial Times

AI could modernize government within four years, though the most likely outcome is government seizing AI to consolidate totalitarian control. - RealClearWorld

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A white paper proposes four lab archetypes to help research groups decide how to adopt AI tools based on their priorities. - Nature

Large and small businesses around the world said they are demanding reduced fees from consultants or moving work in-house, aided by new AI tools and software that requires less integration. - Financial Times

Generative AI now reaches 80% of occupations, but fewer than half of workers use it in most of those jobs. - theregister

Corporations need to invest in AI, but any increased return may simply get competed away - The Wall Street Journal

Ontario's workplace insurance board cut 566 jobs while rolling out a $7.3 million AI claims tool that gave wrong answers. - CBC

Hoard mode: Workers hoard expertise to avoid AI replacement - Fast Company

Agent prison architect: Software engineers' new job isn't writing code — it's designing the boundaries AI agents can't break - VentureBeat

Cultivating a hacker mindset in education, rather than mere coding literacy, best prepares students to keep control as AI reshapes work. - theregister

What happens when an operating system generates apps and websites as you use them? - runway.com

Dollar Store AGI: A researcher's small transformer trained from scratch in 1.5 hours scores 44% on ARC-AGI-1 for 67 cents. - Mithil Vakde's Homepage

Claw-shank redemption: OpenClaw 2.0 adds shared cloud sessions, a rebuilt browser interface, and stronger security controls to turn the agent harness into enterprise infrastructure. - VentureBeat

Despite headline-grabbing claims, China is still losing the chip race, argues "Chip War" author Chris Miller, who calls most reports noise, not signal. - The Washington Post

Rise of the machines: Andreessen Horowitz general partner Martin Casado is leading the firm's new $1.1 billion Machine Age fund as hardware investing regains momentum. - The Wall Street Journal

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok (but not Anthropic) - TechCrunch

No country for poor men: AI industry wealth in San Francisco is driving a 'mansion shortage' and record home and rental price bidding wars. - NPR

Brush hour: Dyson unveiled a $499 AI-powered toothbrush with a built-in camera that detects plaque buildup and directs a precision water jet at it. - Bloomberg

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