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Trump pushes rebrand of AI as 'Super Intelligence'Time reports that Trump summoned tech CEOs to the White House to announce that 'artificial intelligence' is out and 'Super Intelligence' is in, with government agencies no longer recognizing the term. The piece questions the move amid growing public anxiety about AI.
Wall Street turns nervous about AI debtJacobin reports investors are pulling back from AI-related debt: bond prices for data-center build-outs and neocloud firms have fallen sharply, with CoreWeave's bonds entering distressed territory. It ties this to long-standing doubts about AI firms' profitability and circular financing.
Anthropic exec warns AI ushers in era of rapid-fire software vulnerabilitiesAn Anthropic executive warned that AI will usher in an era of rapid-fire software vulnerabilities, and cyber disruptions may worsen. This week, governments and companies scrambled to patch two critical software flaws, and the situation will get worse before it gets better.
AI executives wargame catastrophic event response, data center security overlookedExecutives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms are quietly wargaming public and political fallout from a 'catastrophic AI event.' But the physical security of data centers is being neglected, and violent incidents targeting data centers and AI executives have already occurred.
AAAI 2027 phase 2 reviews expected within 24 hoursA community post says AAAI 2027 phase 2 reviews should become visible within 24 hours, inviting authors still in this phase to share their results.
User predicts future belongs to small local specialized modelsA LocalLLaMA user argues frontier LLM subscriptions lose money at scale, while OCR and segmentation are already handled by single-digit-billion-parameter models. The poster predicts a future of specialized small models that are easier to train and need no datacenter-scale compute, with LLMs unable to do everything at once.
Nearly half of Italian wineries still do not use AINearly half of Italian wineries have not yet adopted artificial intelligence, indicating significant room for digital transformation in the traditional wine industry.
BlackRock's Boivin: AI buildout influences rates, long Treasuries attractiveJean Boivin, head of the BlackRock Investment Institute, said the firm has turned positive on US Treasuries, noting that the AI buildout is influencing rates and that long-term Treasuries are "starting to be attractive."
AI writes wiki from 45,000 Enron emails with citationsA team fed 45,047 Enron emails to an AI, which generated 214 pages on the companies, regulators and banks Enron dealt with. Every fact cites its source email and expires when the mail shows it stopped being true, with no human edits and a held-out audit by a second AI.
Maryland school board candidates wary of AI in classroomsMore than 135 Maryland school board candidates face the challenge of implementing and regulating AI. The General Assembly's April AI Ready Schools Act required all 24 districts to adopt K-12 AI integration plans by early October, and candidates voiced concern about students' critical thinking and ed-tech firms profiting from weakly regulated tools.
Deepseek's new model is smarter and cheaper but still hallucinatesTom's Hardware reports Deepseek's latest model is smarter and cheaper to run, using only one-quarter of the HBM and one-eighth of the SSD storage. The trade-off: it still battles hallucinations in agentic workloads.
AI tools speed retro game ports but strain preservation communitiesUsing new AI tools, hobbyists are porting titles like Halo and Wind Waker to browsers, iPhones and mixed reality, with such projects going viral frequently. The piece says this decomp-and-recomp work speeds ports but disrupts tightly knit game-preservation communities.
Dudley sees Fed holding in October, hike in DecemberFormer New York Fed President Bill Dudley expects the central bank to hold steady in October and raise rates in December, discussing the Fed troika's messaging and how the AI buildout affects rates.
Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and ClaudeSwedish government offices are set to ban the use of ChatGPT and Claude, according to a Hacker News discussion.
Anthropic's Claude writes and proves code safe automaticallyAnthropic had Claude generate roughly 180 million lines of proof code showing that existing code in 123 open-source libraries is correct, catching bugs that years of testing missed. The goal is to make AI formal verification as routine as standard testing.
Blackstone's chip bet drove a debt boom reshaping creditBlackstone executives asked CoreWeave's leadership "What is a GPU?" and "Is AI real?" before betting on chips and compute, driving a debt boom that is upending credit markets.
Trade secret case: ex-employee trained AI agent on stolen dataIn a Northern California federal trade secret case, a former marketing agency executive trained an AI agent on stolen material to replicate his employer's business. The court rejected a 'quarantine folder' defense, granting a restraining order and preliminary injunction and calling the competing AI agent an existential threat.
Maxinsights raises $30M seed to collect human-activity data for robotsSanta Clara-based Maxinsights raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV Partners, with Tola Capital and others participating. It pays people to wear cameras during everyday tasks, capturing over 2 million hours of activity, 1.5 million ready for AI training; customers include Genesis AI and Dyna Robotics.
Cambricon revenue misses estimates on output constraintsCambricon's September-quarter revenue rose 105% to 3.53 billion yuan ($529 million), well below estimates of about 6.26 billion yuan, reflecting manufacturing and memory-chip constraints. Net income climbed 148% to 1.4 billion yuan.
DeepSeek open-sources model amid US-China tech curbsDeepSeek has open-sourced an AI model as China and the US restrict each other's technology, highlighting the tension for AI leaders between spreading their models widely and keeping control of them.
China urges agencies to mitigate AI job displacementChina has asked government agencies to take steps to mitigate job losses caused by AI, signaling that policymakers are treating the technology's labor-market impact as a priority.
Anthropic and Hg launch European AI consulting firmAnthropic and investment firm Hg have launched a consulting company in Europe focused on artificial intelligence, aimed at helping enterprise clients put AI into practice.
OpenAI strengthens security for frontier model trainingOpenAI said it has strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming, to improve safety.
Is a job guarantee the answer to mass AI joblessness?The Guardian examines whether a job guarantee could address AI-driven job losses. Bill Gates says humans won't be needed for most things within a decade, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of broad white-collar job losses in law, tech and finance within one to five years. The piece proposes a public employment option to shield workers and mobilize labor for infrastructure, climate adaptation and elder care.
Radiology societies weigh in on FDA push to regulate generative AIRadiology societies have responded to the FDA's push to regulate generative AI. The article does not detail their specific recommendations or any regulatory timeline.
Milei pushes unregulated AI and legal status for nonhuman firmsArgentine President Javier Milei argued in the Financial Times that AI should stay unregulated, part of a push to attract AI firms to Argentina. A week earlier he introduced a bill with three pillars: no AI regulation, a new legal category for nonhuman firms run by AI agents or robots, and low corporate taxes. The Senate has held hearings but not advanced it.
DHS CAIO granted power to waive AI limitsA policy change at the US Department of Homeland Security lets its chief AI officer waive internal restrictions on AI use, giving the agency more latitude in deploying the technology.
Nasdaq futures steady as AI selloff pausesNasdaq futures steadied after an AI-driven selloff, suggesting market sentiment has calmed. The report gives no specific index levels or individual stock data.
ASUS unveils enterprise agentic AI servers in BerlinAt GTC Berlin 2026, ASUS launched an enterprise agentic AI offering combining its AI HUB governance layer, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and servers built on Vera Rubin NVL72, claiming 30x higher throughput per megawatt and 45x lower token cost.
Unitree founder expects humanoid breakthrough as soon as 2028Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing now expects humanoids to complete 80% of assigned factory or home tasks via verbal orders as soon as 2028, which he calls the "aha" moment for practical use. He previously thought mainstream adoption would take up to a decade, turning more bullish after the company's summer IPO.
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