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Laya model plays Flappy Bird on CPU with OpenVINO INT8A user converted the 421M-parameter Laya model to OpenVINO and quantized it to INT8, running Flappy Bird locally on a 12th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, showing small-model inference on consumer CPUs.
User questions suspected bot comments on LocalLLaMAAn r/LocalLLaMA user posted a screenshot questioning whether comments under a thread appear AI-generated, suspecting bot activity in the community.
Illinois Governor Establishes AI CabinetIllinois Governor Pritzker established an Artificial Intelligence Cabinet to coordinate state AI policy and deployment. Details on membership and responsibilities were not disclosed in the report.
ABB Launches New Racks for AI Data CentersABB Motion President Brandon Spencer discussed the company's new data center rack portfolio for AI infrastructure. He said rack-level power demand is rising sharply, with deployments moving toward roughly one megawatt per rack and power needs increasing five to six times from current levels.
Anthropic Releases Opus 5.5 With Lower PricesAnthropic released Opus 5.5, claiming new state-of-the-art coding and knowledge work performance, beating the larger Fable model on many benchmarks. Output pricing drops to $20 per million tokens from $25, with faster, less compute-intensive serving and clearer communication. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are due in coming weeks.
Gulati: AI Security Investment Severely LackingTotal Capital founder and former Microsoft Azure executive Sheila Gulati says AI security is woefully under-invested, addressing warnings from Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and others about AI risks and oversight concerns.
State Regulators Share AI Examination FrameworkUS state regulators jointly released an artificial intelligence examination framework, offering a common standard for assessing AI use at regulated entities. The move shows AI oversight moving from federal to state-level implementation, though scope and effective dates remain undisclosed.
Ex-Anthropic Staffers' AI Startup in Talks to Raise at $5B ValuationMirendil, an AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise a new round at a $5 billion valuation, with Kleiner Perkins in talks to lead and up to $1 billion in new capital.
AI·rete·RAG: Rule Engine Decides, RAG Explains WhyAI·rete·RAG separates auditable decisions from LLM explanations: a pure-Python Rete engine evaluates YAML rules against facts to produce a single verdict, while RAG retrieves policy passages so an LLM writes a cited explanation without changing the verdict. It offers a free tier and an MCP server for agents like Claude.
Rabbit Returns With Cross-Platform AI Agent App OS3Two years after its dedicated AI hardware struggled, Rabbit is shifting to software with OS3, a cross-platform AI agent that runs on the screens users already own rather than separate hardware. The move marks a pivot from its hardware-first strategy toward agentic apps embedded in existing phone and computer ecosystems.
Trump Rejects Global Entity for AI OversightTrump rejected a global entity for AI oversight, signaling a unilateral US stance on AI governance that could affect international AI safety cooperation.
Siemens and Salesforce Deepen AI PartnershipAccording to Industrial Equipment News, Siemens and Salesforce are deepening their AI partnership, aiming to redefine industrial sales and service. The report gives no investment amount, deal structure or product details.
Agents Can Speed Up Rust Code 2x-20x, Study FindsTesting shows modern agentic LLMs with proper guardrails can write Rust code faster than current state-of-the-art approaches, with cumulative 2x-20x speedups across domains as frontier models improve.
xAI's Grok Bot tops 400,000 weekly users in first monthxAI's Grok Bot AI agent surpassed 400,000 weekly users about a month after launch, a sign of modest early demand for a product key to Elon Musk's AI ambitions.
AstroForge Puts In-House AI in Command of SpacecraftAsteroid-mining startup AstroForge built an in-house transformer-based autonomy stack, Solo, for its Autonomy-1 spacecraft, set to launch in 2027 on Stoke Space's first rocket with NASA backing. The company has raised $56M in venture funding, and anomalies on its two prototype spacecraft, including the loss of contact with Odin, pushed it toward onboard autonomy.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Hosts Five AI Safety SessionsTechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host five AI safety sessions across its AI Stage and Real World AI Stage, featuring speakers from Anthropic, NVIDIA, AWS and Waabi. The sessions focus on how enterprises can safely deploy AI agents into production, with passes discounted up to $200 before Sept 25.
Analysis: OpenAI may fast-follow TypeSafe's Jev modelAn Arcturus Labs piece argues TypeSafe's Jev model uses an approach close to conventional LLMs, so OpenAI is positioned to fast-follow and fold the capability into its models and agents. The key question is whether TypeSafe's training data and processes form a moat.
European Commission publishes two reports on AI in educationThe European Commission published two reports on generative AI's impact on teaching and how European education systems are handling digital transformation. GenAI is becoming mainstream, but its impact depends on use and long-term skill effects remain unclear; nearly two-thirds of systems have AI policy frameworks.
OpenAI Urges US-China Coordination on AI SafetyOpenAI is urging US-led global standards for the most powerful AI systems, including shared safety tests and US-China coordination on serious incidents. The proposal comes just before Trump's talks with Xi, with AI risks and technological competition high on the agenda.
Maryland Gov. Moore Proposes AI RulesMaryland Gov. Wes Moore proposed a series of AI regulations to protect residents' rights, privacy, and dignity, joining the national debate. The move contrasts with Trump's opposition to AI guardrails.
Jacksonville AI Adoption Expands Amid Security RisksThe University of Florida is investing $300 million in a new Jacksonville campus offering graduate programs in cybersecurity, AI, and data analytics to meet local finance, healthcare, and defense employer demand. US information security analyst jobs are projected to grow 21% through 2035, as local firms tighten fraud controls and privacy protections.
Stanford R&DE used AI to race-swap students in adsStanford Residential & Dining Enterprises used AI to change students' races and alter faces and body shapes in ads, according to The Review. Student Billy Ramirez said he was removed from a photo and replaced by an AI-generated Black woman, feeling erased from a representation meant to include him.
GPT-6 Astra cracks Enigma message unsolved since 2005On 15 September 2026, Carter Leffer submitted a break of German Army Enigma message MVUEH of 10 July 1941, unsolved since 2005. The key and plaintext were validated; the key differs entirely from others that day, using wheel order 253 instead of 512.
AFL-CIO president: AI threats to workers need no doomsday warningAFL-CIO President Liz Shuler spoke about AI in the workplace, saying it inflicts very real threats on workers every day and that it shouldn't require doomsday warnings to wake up to them.
Economics of Open-Weight Inference: Older GPUs Retain ValueA paper finds open-weight inference costs about one-fifth of comparable closed models, with self-hosting at $0.12-$0.35 per million output tokens. On gpt-oss-120b, the A100 is cheaper than the H100, and A100 five-year rental prices retain 80% of one-month prices, showing older GPU families keep multi-year earning life.
Dyson's $499 CameraJet toothbrush may have waterproofing problemDyson this month unveiled the $499 CameraJet electric toothbrush with a tiny camera to aim rinsing fluid between teeth. Reports suggest the overengineered gadget may have a waterproofing problem.
OpenAI contractors fired for using AI to train AI404 Media found multiple OpenAI contractors hired to improve its models were fired for using AI to train the AI. The practice could worsen model collapse, and contractors say it is common, with many caught in groups of thousands.
Beware fake sites selling AI assistant subscriptionsMalwarebytes found fake subscription websites impersonating AI products including GPT-6 Astra, DaVinci Resolve and PixAI, charging $10/month up to $2,000/year, with some requesting file uploads. Researchers believe one group runs them all, posing data risks for enterprise shadow IT buyers.
JevBench: a reproducible benchmark for typed decision modelsA developer launched JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models that return bounded choices and probabilities, covering 534 English decisions and scoring accuracy, latency and cost with configurable weights. Jev leads at 74.4, followed by SemIf, djev, Winnow-12B Q8 and reflex 4B.
Sitefire trains classifier to detect AI content by structureYC W26 startup Sitefire ported the StoryScope method to commercial web pages: it collected 2,250 pre-ChatGPT B2B blog posts from 268 company sites, had five models including GPT-5.4 rewrite each, and trained a classifier on 214 structural questions, reaching 98% accuracy separating AI from human posts.
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