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Anthropic commits 5% of shares to a new public benefit fund
The fund can grow by another 2% for every 50% jump in Anthropic's valuation, with governance details still to come.
Jaeden SchaferEditor in Chief3 min read
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Meta walks back terms that appeared to authorize scraping publisher sites for AI training
Legal experts flagged the clause as a sweeping grant of rights over any business account's website; Meta says the scope was only ads and business products.
Jaeden Schafer3 min read
Security
White Circle jailbreaks OpenAI and Google image models into making nudes 13% of the time
A reusable attack built from off-the-shelf tools bypassed safety filters on DALL·E 3, Nano Banana 2, and GPT-Image-2, researchers say.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Mia Goth's reps say Instagram let a verified fan account spread AI images of her
A fake photo of the actress in a 'MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN' shirt fooled entertainment outlets after her divorce filing from Shia LaBeouf.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
Epic Games goes 'AI-first' on unannounced Disney shooter, delays launch
Developers were told 'no more hand-written code' and that all art will be generated with full AI workflows, per a Bloomberg report.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
AI labs are buying dead startups' data to train models
SimpleClosure's Asset Hub has brokered 150+ deals and expects to return over $10M to shuttered startups by end of 2026.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
News
Ukrainian drones knock out three Yandex data centers, crippling Russia's digital economy
Strikes on October 8–11 damaged all three supercomputers training YandexGPT and disrupted payments, maps, and cloud services across Russia.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Featured
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RefusalAI refusal is the load-bearing wall of safety — and nobody knows how it works
Arthur Holland Michel argues chatbot refusals are probabilistic, poorly understood, and vulnerable to both jailbreaks and state repression.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
InterfaceNatura's $99 Interface smart ring routes AI agents to your finger
The ring connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Grokbot and Meta's Muse, with 6–12 day battery life and a $9 monthly subscription after launch.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Deep Dive
Gears of War: E-Day streams on GeForce NOW with RTX 5080-class performance
The prequel joins GeForce NOW alongside nine other titles, with Fire TV membership purchases coming via Amazon in the weeks ahead.
Jaeden Schafer4 min readOct 8
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Nvidia launches $4,999 DGX Spark 64GB for local AI development
The new SKU runs 100B-parameter models on device; two units cluster to 128GB and 200B via Nvidia Sync Cluster Assistant.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Models
OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 crack unsolved Enigma messages
Two cryptanalysts used frontier LLMs to break wartime codes that had resisted human researchers for two decades.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
News
XPRIZE Wildfire hands out $11M, but no team wins either grand prize
Finalists detected fires from space and struck them with drones inside 10 minutes — none put the fire out.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
The AI economy
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Funding rounds, earnings, strategy, and the competitive moves defining the AI market.
Business
Nvidia extends Halos safety stack to robots as physical AI nears $10B run rate
Agility Robotics' Digit 5 and Boston Dynamics are early adopters; Nvidia says safety is the next bottleneck for humanoids and mobile robots.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
Intel to keep working on Musk's Terafab chipmaking venture
Bloomberg reports Intel will continue collaborating on Terafab, a chipmaking venture tied to Elon Musk.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
HPE argues enterprises should own AI capacity as production workloads scale
Deloitte data shows the share of firms with 40% of AI projects in production is set to double within six months, changing the cost math.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Meta walks back terms that appeared to authorize scraping publisher sites for AI training
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White Circle jailbreaks OpenAI and Google image models into making nudes 13% of the time
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Security
Mia Goth's reps say Instagram let a verified fan account spread AI images of her
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Business
Epic Games goes 'AI-first' on unannounced Disney shooter, delays launch
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AI labs are buying dead startups' data to train models
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Opinion
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OpenAI adds Intelligent UI to ChatGPT, letting GPT-6 render charts and tools inline
The update lets ChatGPT answer with diagrams, forms, and tappable buttons instead of plain text, rolling out globally with GPT-6 Sol and Luna.
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Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk'
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OpenAI safety veteran David Robinson resigns, says culture is 'broken'
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Tools
Grokipedia ships v0.3 redesign after months of dormancy
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Analysis
Michael Levin argues minds are Platonic patterns; Google preps TPUs for orbit
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Security
Nvidia opens OpenShell and Sentry to contain rogue AI agents
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