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Muse Wonder Full (max) outperforms Fable 5.1 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, matches Sonnet 5.5 (max), and is just shy of Opus 5.5 (max) (@artificialanlys)
https://x.com/artificialanlys/status/2109697083519447118

Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) on X
Meta has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, achieving Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 scores of 52 and 56 at max reasoning effort - each a material gain over Muse Spark 1.3 (max) at 48, with a release gap of only 6 weeks Muse Wonder is available for users on Meta’s first-party …

Amazon will invest in a gas-burning power plant in Texas, which will power a new data center. That one plant will produce more carbon dioxide than countries such as Switzerland, Ireland or Bulgaria.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligen…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon globally via the Gemini API and to Google AI Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode, and in Antigravity for Ultra users (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009862/google…

Google finally releases Gemini 4 Argon
Google has been trailing its rivals for months, but says Argon can compete with top models like Anthropic’s Fable and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra.

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Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water.
One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become 💥the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of ene…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it (Michael Safi/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights
Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?

"If #AI can do all the things we are promised it will do — hardly a given, but stick with me — then we are left with a question: What does using it accomplish? If you do not have to pay attention or do work to meet your goal, does your goal mean anything at all? In some ways, that throws us back to some of the oldest and most profound questions our species has encountered: What does it mean to l…

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
Mark Zuckerberg wrote a manifesto on the future of AI. Its view of human experience is grim.

Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993465/universal-m…

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Universal Music Group is partnering with the AI voice generator ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered music creation platform.

Meta says it plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it "can bring to everyone using Muse" (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models 
Meta says the models compete with the industry’s best and will soon power its Muse agent.  

The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry
to “slow down”
and offered a three-part plan for doing so, saying that his company would “unilaterally” commit to the first of the steps.
In a post on social media, Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled
"We Must Pace the Frontier"
in which he lays out how Anthropic would provide “third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access…

‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown
In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

Pregnant. #AI. Agents.
This climate change is too slow, I’d like to order one meteorite strike, please.
https://www.occrp.org/en…

Albania's Cheerful 'AI Minister' Is the Product of a Government Agency Under Investigation for Massive Corruption
Prosecutors are investigating the agency that developed Albania’s AI-minister ‘Diella’ in a case that involves alleged rigged tenders, a kidnapping, and tens of millions in seized assets. The affair deepens doubts about how artificial intelligence will be used to address the country’s widespread graft problem.

Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build a data center for Anthropic in Osaka of up to 500 MW, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artif…

NTT to build first data center for Anthropic in Japan
New facility in Osaka could cost $6.3bn to construct, with partial opening by 2028

The sunk cost fallacy keeping millions of people on multiple websites that directly pay Nazis is one of the darkest fucking marks of the current epoch. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-caught-paying-nazis-to-post-on-facebook

Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.

Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon
become “self-replicating”
and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices,
such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.
Once this happens, the company said,
the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters.
Such self-replication would represent a major loss of control of a runaway AI model.
“A replicator like this would…

AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices
Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrails

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"A 12B model that rewrites AI-written drafts (emails, essays, reports, forum posts; English and Chinese) so they read like a person wrote them. It is trained to keep every number, unit, date, name and quote and to add nothing, and it runs locally."
#ai #opensource

CEOs alarmed that spending billions to replace trained humans with expensive statistical autocomplete isn't making them money. Film at 11!
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceos-ai-returns

Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns
A survey found that more than half of CEO respondents said "their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI."

How Musk and Benioff pledged to rename SpaceXAI and AIForce, while Nadella and Nvidia adopted "super intelligence", as Silicon Valley falls in line with Trump (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
Musk, Benioff, Huang, and now Nadella have all capitulated to Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ rebrand.

San Diego looks at using AI to help officers write police reports
Earlier this year, the San Diego Police Department made headlines for a policy that
prohibited officers from using artificial intelligence to produce police reports.
Now the department is opening the door to doing just that.
A request for information issued by the department on July 31 said it was looking for a program
“that utilizes AI technology to assist officers and investigators in writing …

San Diego looks at using AI to help officers write police reports
The San Diego Police Department is exploring the use of AI to help officers write reports

This is why I don't use AI when I'm writing. As Joan Didion said "I don't know what I think until I write it down."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-writing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5FA.0Yl0.uKAfqk58Zpt2&smid=url-share

A Cleveland.com journalist says the site posted an AI-assisted article with her byline that she didn't write or review; editor Chris Quinn says it was a mistake (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/journa…

Journalist Accuses Ohio's Main Newspaper of Slapping Her Name on an AI "Express Desk" Article Without Her Knowledge, While She Was on Honeymoon
A journalist accused Cleveland.com of publishing an AI "Express Desk" article under her byline without her consent, knowledge, or approval.

AI-Generated Interactive Fiction for Educational Use: A Pilot Study of Perceived Comprehensibility, Coherence, and Engagement
Finn Rogosch, Andreas Schrader
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10818 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10818 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10818
arXiv:2608.10818v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can produce educational content at scale, including interactive and narrative learning experiences, but technical generation alone is not sufficient: scenarios that are confusing, narratively inconsistent, or unengaging are unlikely to be useful in practice. This paper presents a pilot user-centred evaluation of AI-generated interactive fiction (IF) for educational use in higher education. Using a previously described domain-agnostic pipeline and a shared STEM content base, we generated a controlled pool of scenarios and asked participants (N = 22, STEM higher-education) to play one generated episode and rate it on narrative clarity, story-content coherence, engagement, and length acceptance. A free-text prompt captured open feedback. Narrative clarity and length acceptance were rated positively, engagement sat near the neutral mid-point of the scale, and story-content coherence was the weakest dimension by a clear margin. Qualitative feedback points to quiz integration as the bottleneck. Artificial in-fiction motivation for quiz prompts and abrupt setting changes were reported. Feedback also pointed to missing story-level consequences for wrong answers. From these observations, we derive concrete design implications that can inform larger follow-up studies, including later work on learning effectiveness.
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“Our monkeys on typewriters keep committing crimes!!!” https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976948/openai-astra-model-pause-critical-cyber-capabilities

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful
OpenAI says it is pausing “internal activities” around its in-development Astra model because it doesn’t meet security standards the company is putting in place.

Less than two measly years ago, OpenAI and Microsoft agreed on a "novel" definition of AGI:
"The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. That’s far from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many expect."

Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: Report | TechCrunch
Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

Rudd’s initiative calls for the creation at NSA’s Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters of five new organizations inside the agency, in artificial intelligence, China, cybersecurity, combat support or warfighting, and global intelligence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/09/13/national-security-agency-launches-historic-restructuring/

“But the intellectual muscle that’s exercised in everyday writing is the same one used for the writing that matters. We become better writers by the constant effort that mundane writing demands.”
Some good perspectives here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04…

We asked AI whether it would lead to human extinction in a decade. Here’s what it said | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ai-artificial-intelligence-human-extinction-response-b3049134.html

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, saying it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and prices it at $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens (xAI)
https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6

Introducing Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work.

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Not surprising but worrying, it increases the chance of a hard financial crash of the AI bubble. Which will not only hurt tech companies.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists
have attempted to use Anthropic’s powerful artificial intelligence models to design missiles and bombs,
create deadly pathogens
and surveil dissidents, according to a threat intelligence report the company published on Thursday.
“The cases we share here aren’t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and novel threat activity we’ve identified to date,”
Anthropic wrote…

Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons
The 154-page report comes two days after former employee Jacob Coxon resigned due to Anthropic racing to improve its models that would cause human extinction by 2030

Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings, which acquires traditional service businesses and adds AI, raised $2B from SoftBank, D1, and others at a $12B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/business/dealbook/thr…

Thrive Holdings, A.I.-Focused Buyer of Service Firms, Raises $2 Billion
The company, Thrive Holdings, acquires businesses to infuse them with artificial intelligence and drew interest from backers like SoftBank.

Since #climatechange is solved, we can finally get some economic growth!
The Age of Consequences is coming anyway, but we’re sure trying to make sure it’s not boring…
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Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying "Dario is right" (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/12/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-seeks-immediate-…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's campaign released an ad using artificial intelligence to attack his U.S. Senate opponent, James Talarico.
The ad features an AI-generated Talarico making provocative statements about Christianity, some of which are fictionalized.
The video combines fabricated lines with some of Talarico's actual past comments on faith and gender.
Talarico has since stated that some of his past remarks were "intentionally provocative" an…

Paxton's new AI ad puts words in a fake Talarico's mouth. Watch it here
Ken Paxton's new attack ad uses an AI-generated James Talarico to target his Democratic rival's past comments about Christianity, God and Jesus.

Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to capital and rising borrowing costs could become AI's main bottleneck (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/12/intel-broadcom-ceos-…

Intel, Broadcom CEOs warn capital crunch could become AI's biggest bottleneck
The CEOs of Intel and Broadcom warned that access to capital could emerge as a major constraint on the artificial intelligence boom.

Suno plans to adopt new watermarking and fingerprinting tech, transparency tools, and a new download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
Suno announced plans to combat spammy AI music uploads with new watermarking technology and download limits.

‘It’s going to be fine’: Trump rebuffs rising alarm over AI dangers, sparking outcry
Trump is brushing aside growing concern among leading scientists and bipartisan lawmakers that artificial intelligence could soon pose an existential threat to humanity,
-- fueling anxiety in Washington and Silicon Valley that the president may not fully grasp the urgency of the threat.
Alarm mounted throughout the summer as researchers at leading AI labs, including Anthropic, OpenAI and G…

'It's going to be fine': Trump rebuffs rising alarm over AI dangers, sparking outcry
Alarm mounted throughout the summer as researchers at leading AI labs found the pace of development far outstripping their expectations.

Will ‘Coxon Day’ save us from AI destruction?
Sept. 8, 2026, may come to be known as “Coxon Day.”
That would be a reference to 27-year-old Jacob Coxon,
an AI researcher and whistleblower at Anthropic (and previously OpenAI)
who resigned in protest of the unchecked danger his work poses to us all.
He posted a warning to the world on X that has gone viral.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon…

Will 'Coxon Day' save us from AI destruction?
Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher, issued a public warning that went viral about the dangers of artificial intelligence and quit his job in protest. Will it make a difference?

OpenAI says it will begin testing a new visual ad format in ChatGPT later this month in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads during image generation (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/arti

OpenAI will show visual ads in ChatGPT while you generate images
OpenAI is expanding ads in ChatGPT, and one of the first new formats will show visual ads while you're generating images.

Trump says the WH considers as "THE ENEMY" anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence, not "the highly accepted" and "more accurate" Super Intelligence (Donald J. Trump/@realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com)
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/…

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude, ending chats as the primary enforcement mechanism (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intellig…

Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.

An AI tool used to speed up the processing of thousands of British asylum cases is failing basic accuracy tests, The Independent can reveal.
The Home Office rolled out the use of artificial intelligence to summarise interview transcripts with asylum seekers in April to speed up decision-making on applications in a push to slash a huge backlog.
But documents shared with The Independent show that spot-checks carried out within the Home Office have revealed a significant rate of err…

AI tool used in thousands of asylum claims failing basic accuracy tests
Exclusive: MPs, charities and rights group warn that accuracy should not be sacrificed for speed in ‘life and death’ asylum decisions

As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human "verification tax" bottleneck (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/business/dealbook/ai…

What’s Dragging Down A.I. Efficiency? The ‘Verification Tax.’
As artificial intelligence automates office tasks, it is also creating a new type of human work.

How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?
The era of AI-powered search has made Reddit mentions highly valuable. Subreddit moderators are catching brands trying to take advantage.

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/technol

His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company
A co-founder of xAI is going all in on building open-source artificial intelligence so that “anyone can control and shape A.I. for their own needs.”

Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices with optional background music using scripts or prompts, in public beta, as its music product faces lawsuits (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelli…

AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words
Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions.

AI anxiety comes to Telluride, with Bill Gates sounding the alarm
The Telluride Film Festival devoted two Saturday events to the rise of artificial intelligence,
an unusually explicit engagement with an issue festival director Julie Huntsinger called a “threat.”
Bill Gates said AI had advanced faster than he expected,
warned the next five years would be critical
and said he would likely support a credible plan to slow development or hold it in stasis.
Tri…

Bill Gates warns of AI risks at Telluride Film Festival
At a festival built around the human touch, two events confronted the promise and perils of artificial intelligence, as Bill Gates warned “the aliens are here.”

In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier (Hayden Field/The Verge)

AI power users claim Anthropic duped them with subscriptions, and they’re taking it to court
The AI money squeeze continues: Some subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for in an expanded class action lawsuit.

A look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory (Hayden Field/The Verge)

AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.

A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials
have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to
use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their healthcare and medical records.
As that campaign has unfolded, administration officials have granted tech companies an unusual opportunity
to nudge the nation’s health department toward a loosely regulated future for AI…

AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News
A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign aimed at persuading Americans to manage their healthcare and medical records on apps.

Canada seizes its chance to lure U.S. researchers
Canada has awarded 64 global scholars $362 million in funding to relocate their research work to Canadian universities in fields such as health, the environment and artificial intelligence, among others.
Forty-eight of the researchers were poached from the U.S., including from elite institutions such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The other 16 are coming from 12 other countries, includi…

Deidre Bosa, an anchor based in CNBC's San Francisco bureau, is leaving at the end of the month to start a show about AI, working with producer Jasmine Wu (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bosa-departing-cnbc-to-start-ai-show…

Bosa departing CNBC to start AI show - Talking Biz News
Deidre Bosa is leaving CNBC at the end of the month to start a show on artificial intelligence. Dave is an anchor based out of CNBC’s tech-focused San Francisco bureau. Previously, she was anchor of the network’s daily program, “TechCheck,” that ran from April 2021 to February 2023. Before that, Bosa served as a technology […]

Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk", saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens is an “unacceptable risk.” 

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/article…

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 10 points above previous DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

The president of OpenAI,
Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new era of artificial general intelligence
after the release of his company’s latest model, Astra,
which it described as the “world’s most intelligent and aligned model”.
Brockman made the claim on Thursday as the San Francisco company released the model
only weeks after a serious AI safety incident involving other models under its development caused international concern and a pause in …

OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release
Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’

General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/…

General Medicine banks $120M backed by a16z, Eli Lilly and Mercy Health to build out healthcare storefront
Artificial intelligence is making healthcare advice easier to access, but turning that advice into actual care remains a challenge. | General Medicine, started by the founding team that built PillPack and Amazon Pharmacy, is an online marketplace where customers can search, compare and buy care, see insurance and cash prices before deciding, and get guidance from a licensed clinician.

MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Voters Are Asking A.I. About Elections. The Answers Can Vary by User.
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a go-to stop for voters looking for information about political races. Researchers are studying the effects.

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/9875…

The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack.

Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

US and China eye Trump-Xi talks on AI guardrails despite tech rift
Silicon Valley insiders float ideas but skepticism over cooperation persists

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.

Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.

Artificial Analysis says Mistral Large 4 is the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, achieving results comparable to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/mistral-large-4-france-ai

Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, making France home to the most intelligent model outside the US and China
Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, scoring 38 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; France is back to having the most intelligent model from outside the US and China

Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/regular-people-data-cente…

The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
All over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.

Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990149/openai-rogue-agents-germa…

Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki
OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki.

Mexico has quietly become a cornerstone of the AI boom,
providing 40 per cent of US imports this year of the computer servers that are widely used in the data centres powering artificial intelligence.
Taiwanese manufacturers are rapidly expanding factories in Mexico to assemble servers,
which are now the country’s top US export, overtaking autos that dominated its trade for decades.
Mexico is the second-largest provider of enterprise servers to the US so far this year…

Mexico (Taiwan) fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Mexico has quietly become a cornerstone of the AI boom, providing 40 per cent of US imports this year of the computer servers that are widely used in the data centres powering artificial intelligence. Taiwanese manufacturers are rapidly expanding factories in Mexico to assemble servers, which are now the country’s top US export, overtaking autos […]

Artificial Analysis says Gemini 4 Argon (high) matches GPT-6 Astra (max) on its Intelligence Index and has a 15% hallucination rate, compared with 51% for Astra (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-argon-google-top-three-labs

Gemini 4 Argon: Google is back as one of the top three labs in intelligence achieved
Google’s new Gemini 4 Argon equals GPT-6 Astra on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 60% of the Cost per Task with discounted prices. Google is now back to being one of the top three labs in intelligence achieved

Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993465/universal-m…

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Universal Music Group is partnering with the AI voice generator ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered music creation platform.

OpenAI’s newest chatbot may be a whiz at math,
but it seems to be lagging far behind humans in its academic rigor.
Last week the company announced 10 more artificial-intelligence-generated math advances that were found during internal development and testing of its next major large language model.
This batch of results came from that LLM, Astra,
and each one resolves or progresses a different “long-standing open problem”
of “substantial interest” to the mathema…

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach

A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-billionaires-are-pledging-their-wealth-good-o…

These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?

Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/q

QuantHealth raises $45M series B to accelerate AI-driven clinical trial simulations
QuantHealth, which uses artificial intelligence to develop clinical trial designs, secured $45 million in series B funding to accelerate adoption of its simulation-first clinical trial development | The company plans to use the fresh capital to advance its R&D, grow its team and expand its product portfolio, CEO and co-founder Orr Inbar told Fierce Healthcare.

What is A.I. even good for?
How do you know what you’re buying,
and measure the value of what it enables?
How is it priced, and how will those prices change in the future?
What does the spending on it displace?
“It’s a currency where you have no instinct to know what you’re using,
and the accounting practices aren’t even there for it,”
said Howard Rubin, an economist who advises companies on technology spending.
One of the fundamental diffi…

What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?
A new field of “tokenomics” has emerged to measure the return on all the money companies are pouring into artificial intelligence.

In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is "officially" renaming AI to "super intelligence" because "artificial" makes it sound fake (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Trump says US is officially renaming AI ‘super intelligence’
Donald Trump said to the United Nations General Assembly that the US is renaming AI to SI, or super intelligence.

In the near  future artificial intelligence will produce such an abundance of goods and services that it will lead to deflation.
In fact, within ten years your money will be rendered meaningless
because “anyone can have anything they can think of.”
-- So says Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.

How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?
The era of AI-powered search has made Reddit mentions highly valuable. Subreddit moderators are catching brands trying to take advantage.

Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices with optional background music using scripts or prompts, in public beta, as its music product faces lawsuits (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelli…

AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words
Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions.

The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight:
-- "Alternative Nobel" Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru,
who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence.
“Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems,” Gebru says
tech leaders like SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, OpenA…

The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence. “Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems,” Gebru says tech leaders like SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei are “marketing their systems as all-knowing, superpowerful, superintelligent,” and lo…

Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 (@artificialanlys)
https://x.com/artificialanlys/status/2095247787277553929

Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) on X
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, their fourth Muse Spark model release in five months. Muse Spark 1.3 (max), which is in limited preview for Meta’s partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5. The variant available now, Muse Spa…

Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70 (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/benchmarking-gpt-6-astra

Benchmarking GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra makes significant gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, scoring equal to Fable 5 at lower cost. In the Intelligence Index, it uses fewer tokens than GPT-5.6 Sol for similar performance, but this is outweighed by higher prices

Artificial intelligence tools are quickly advancing in sophistication and capabilities,
raising alarm among researchers and industry figures who say the technology needs to be more tightly regulated.
This comes as OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, recently disclosed that one of its experimental AI agents went rogue and secretly hacked into the infrastructure of several other companies in what was supposed to be a controlled test.
QOver 1,100 scientists and senior employees at top …

“Less Regulated Than Sandwiches”: MIT Prof. Calls for Oversight as OpenAI Agent Hacks Other Firms
Artificial intelligence tools are quickly advancing in sophistication and capabilities, raising alarm among researchers and industry figures who say the technology needs to be more tightly regulated. This comes as OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, recently disclosed that one of its experimental AI agents went rogue and secretly hacked into the infrastructure of several other companies in what was supposed to be a controlled test. Over 1,100 scientists and senior employees at top AI firms have called on…

Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/muse-spark-1-2

Muse Spark 1.2
Independent analysis and benchmarks of Meta's Muse Spark 1.2

At this point you’re either OK with the Trump administration proposing more cuts to Medicare while spending millions to spray-paint statues with gold
— or you’re not.
Do you really need a newspaper or a big name to tell you if you should approve of ICE killing Americans?
You either love that or hate it.

Column: In the voting booth, it's the year of the not-at-all-close call
You’re either OK with the Trump administration proposing more cuts to Medicare while spending millions to spray-paint statues with gold — or you’re not. You either love it when ICE kills Americans or you hate it.

John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' "field, machine, and operational data" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/98748…

John Deere launched an AI chatbot for farmers
John Deere launched a “JD” AI chatbot in its Operations Center app that farmers can use to ask questions about their farm’s data and equipment.

Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 (Etiido Uko/Tom's Hardware)
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Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations
Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports

Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later this month, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/…

Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety
Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.

A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 (Yevgeniya Mikhailidi/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn…

Starting gun for Central Asia data center race triggered
Saudi-backed Uzbek project to open year-end; Nvidia-supported Kazakh campus takes shape

Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be "bad for the world" (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intellig…

Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street.

Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/claude-sonnet-5-5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 reaches #2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Anthropic's new Sonnet model scores 56, just 2 points behind Opus 5.5 (max), but at the highest Output Tokens per Task we have measured

Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows that rentosertib, a drug developed to treat a chronic lung disease, could slow aging (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/science

Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging
Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age.

A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science

The Start-Up That Wants to Build ‘Microrobots’ With A.I.
Atomic Machines is training artificial intelligence on materials and designs — and then using it to build tiny physical devices.

The US Federal Reserve's September meeting shows officials are increasingly citing surging AI investments, not tariffs, as the driver of rising goods inflation (Steve Thompson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Data center boom is pushing prices higher, according to Fed officials
Federal Reserve officials are increasingly pointing to the artificial intelligence buildout, rather than tariffs, to explain why the prices of goods keep rising.

Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands into data centers beyond developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html

French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift
Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.

Vitalik Buterin says "we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously", backing a "bunker mode" call for the blockchain industry (Felix Ng/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/justin-

Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has backed a warning from Ethereum researcher Justin Drake that advances in artificial intelligence could threaten the cryptographic algorithms used to secure crypto wallets.

OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
Two new reports from OpenAI and METR shine new light on the OpenAI-Hugging Face cybersecurity incident that rocked the AI industry in July.

Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey (Zeyi Yang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/science/…

In Race With U.S., China Struggles to Recruit Foreign A.I. Researchers
China’s booming artificial intelligence sector has given local researchers good reason to remain in the country, but it has yet to lure overseas scientists despite a government push.

A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

China’s New Graduates, Facing a Dire Job Market, Must Also Contend With A.I.
A record 12.7 million young people are looking for jobs as the country embraces artificial intelligence — and as the technology begins to upend the work force.

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/984290/openai…

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
OpenAI has released the performance benchmarks for its new Jalapeño AI chip, finding that the processor can complete tasks more efficiently and return responses faster than other AI systems.

AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezo…

Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down
Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.