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OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to identify who placed it (@openainewsroom)
https://x.com/openainewsroom/status/2110095403198849132

OpenAI Newsroom (@OpenAINewsroom) on X
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agen…

China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley (Works in Progress Magazine)
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/chinas-growth-machine/

Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/distillation-defenses

Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks
Illicit distillation allows model developers to copy frontier AI capabilities without creating proportionally robust safeguards. Here, we describe how we’ve reduced the rate of distillation by more than 90%.

Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshield systems and "any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2110445577184133456

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS. Starlink is a commercial service owned and controlled by SpaceX. Usage of Starlink is limited to civilian or defensive activities and cannot be used f…

Source: Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-selects-nasdaq-for-ipo-amid-ai-risk-concerns-2026-9

Anthropic selects Nasdaq for IPO amid AI risk concerns
Anthropic is eyeing a $2 trillion IPO in October amid AI safety concerns.

Sam Altman says "we welcome a federal framework" but "do not believe we need to wait" for an antitrust exemption or a law to pace AI development responsibly (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2099348812305473766

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot. We welcome a federal fr…

Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (@alibaba_qwen)
https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304

Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) on X
We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M

A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-profile/

Profile of Mark Zuckerberg
A journey to the heart of history’s largest nonterritorial empire

SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min (SpaceXSI)
https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-3

Introducing Grok Voice 3.0
The world’s most intelligent voice model.