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The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports

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The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 September. Nikkei Asia reported that on Sunday, citing people familiar […]

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Italian hosting collective Autistici/Inventati is shutting down after a US terrorist designation

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Autistici/Inventati, an Italian nonprofit that has hosted email, websites, mailing lists, and blogs for activists since 2001, is closing down. The collective said it will discontinue all services and help users retrieve their data, eleven days after the United States listed it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation was announced by the State […]

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Taiwan pledges $20bn more in US chip investment while courting the EU, Reuters reports

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Taiwan spent this week’s SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once to Brussels: that its chips arrive with democratic governance attached. The commercial half of that argument came with a number, and economy minister Kung Ming-hsin supplied it, announcing a further $20bn of planned Taiwanese investment […]

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OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed

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OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put in themselves. The other says nobody should be going this fast. Both are on the company’s own site, dated 6 September, three days after it shipped GPT-6 Astra. The chief scientist wants a […]

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An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word ‘funding’ in spam

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For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is told. Microsoft has now found somebody using the same characters for something far less clever. They were splitting up the word […]

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Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections

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Anthropic’s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported on Friday that the company expects to start marketing its offering in mid-October at the earliest. The listing would then complete shortly before the US midterms in November. Echo Wang had the story from people […]

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Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo

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On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trademark. Chief Judge Colm Connolly ruled on […]

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Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports

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Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers. The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publishers have filed competing claims over the same titles. The […]

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Nscale is selling Figure $3.5bn of compute and buying a stake in it

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Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power. It has also bought a stake in Figure, which is the part worth looking at. The London company announced the partnership on 3 September in a statement also carried on PR Newswire. The deal covers up to 100,000 Nvidia GPUs running the Vera […]

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Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips

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Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the company’s own quarterly filing. CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier the figure stood at about $7bn. Two years earlier, […]

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