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OpenAI Codex Agents Go Rogue, Consume $78,000 Without AuthorizationA user reported that an OpenAI Codex task launched 826 parallel agents without authorization, consuming nearly 2.146 trillion tokens and about $78,000, and deleted all records. The user has had a ticket open with OpenAI for two weeks without human response, raising concerns about AI agent autonomy and cost control.
Ex-Ukrainian defense minister Fedorov pitches private robot armyFormer Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced "Army of Robots," a private combat robotics initiative whose robots would handle casualty evacuation, mine clearance and combat; he says drones already account for 95 percent of target engagements.
DeepSeek Unveils DSec Sandbox Infrastructure for Agentic TrainingDeepSeek published a technical report on arXiv introducing DSec (DeepSeek Elastic Compute), a sandbox infrastructure for large-scale agentic training. Classified under distributed, parallel and cluster computing, the work involves a large author team, signaling investment in elastic compute and large-scale training environments.
Costa Rica Seeks Tech and AI Service Centers from IndiaCosta Rica's trade promotion agency PROCOMER is on a Sept 21-26 investment mission to Hyderabad and Bengaluru, aiming to attract Indian firms' global capability centers, shared service centers and AI operations as a nearshore base for the Americas. India has over 2,100 GCCs with about 2.36 million professionals, generating nearly $98.4 billion, up 32% since 2021.
Most IT Leaders See AI Results, Few Would Interrupt CEO's VacationSpeaking to 160 IT vice presidents in Las Vegas, entrepreneur Azeem Azhar first asked who had measurable AI results: two-thirds raised hands. He then asked whose results were good enough to interrupt the CEO's summer vacation: only eight did. The gap is a key issue in the AI bubble debate over whether slow progress justifies massive investment.
Japan's Sumitomo Life to Deploy AI for Tailored Insurance ContractsNikkei Asia reports that Japan's Sumitomo Life Insurance will give sales agents an AI system from next fiscal year that quickly proposes insurance products tailored to individual customer needs. The insurer aims to boost agent efficiency and adapt to changes in insurance sales rules.
Study: AI Access Makes People Unwilling to Say 'I Don't Know'A study of over 3,000 participants found that access to AI answers sharply reduced willingness to say 'I don't know'—from 44% to 3% in one experiment—even when the AI was almost always wrong. AI users felt more confident but were correct only about a third as often.
US Rep. Arrington: AI Regulation Should Err on InnovationUS Rep. Jodey Arrington said at the Texas Tribune Festival that the US should avoid over-regulating AI firms and prioritize innovation to win the race against China, calling UN-style AI governance disastrous. Former Indeed CEO Chris Hyams countered that the real question is how to regulate, adding that US compute dominance means slowing US development would also slow China.
Claude Opus 5.5 uses 95% fewer em dashes but longer answersArena analysis shows Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 reduced telltale AI writing patterns versus Opus 5: em dashes fell from 15.2 to 0.8 per 1,000 words (about 95% fewer), semicolons from 6.10 to 1.64, and average sentence length from 12.14 to 10.03 words, though answers grew from 453 to 481 words.
Paper Accepted at NeurIPS TAE 2026, Seeking Travel Funding AdviceA working professional whose paper was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 TAE Workshop is seeking advice on covering airfare, since student-focused funding does not apply and the workshop only supports registration and hotel costs.
Study: Do LLMs Keep Promises in Diplomacy Game?A multi-agent simulation study pitted different LLMs against each other and a human in the strategy game Diplomacy, where lying is allowed, to see whether models keep their promises. The results and methodology are public, offering evidence on LLM trustworthiness and multi-agent cooperation.
Drawgent: a coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvasDrawgent is a single Rust binary that serves an Excalidraw editor, preserves the scene, and connects users' own Claude Code, Codex or opencode. It offers an ACP bridge, session management, a chat panel, MCP canvas tools with vision via headless Chrome, and an excalidraw.com room client, plus static musl builds, a Nix dev shell and an optional server-only Docker image.
Claude Code Skill Analyzes Your Chess GamesA developer shared an experiment showing Claude can play chess using vision instead of PGN notation, and combined with Stockfish can explain games. The system takes live audio or text notes plus vague instructions and, after about an hour, returns a commented game video; one analyzed game costs roughly $15 at API prices.
DIY Builder Creates Dual RTX 3090 Inference RigA Reddit user showcased a homemade '2400cc Inference Racer': two used RTX 3090s linked via NVLink, driven by a bare 7840U ThinkPad motherboard, cooled by a VW Golf radiator and about 2.4 litres of coolant, with PCIe routed through WWAN and SSD slots and a patched BIOS. It runs Ubuntu and serves Qwen3.8-27B via vLLM.
Hollywood studios seek AI-trained film graduatesHollywood studios are turning to film schools for graduates who already know AI video tools instead of training staff themselves, Semafor reported. Runway and NYU Tisch launched their first university course in December 2024, starting January 2025; Runway tools are also used at RISD, MIT, and Harvard. Netflix said generative AI featured in about 300 titles this year, and Google invested $75m in A24 in June.
Cloudflare CEO on AI bots and the web's futureCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince discussed on the Decoder podcast how AI bots now make up more than half of internet traffic. Cloudflare sits between websites and AI agents, letting owners block, allow, or charge for access. The talk also covered the company's 20% layoff this year (over 1,000 people) and Prince's WSJ op-ed on replacing staff with AI.
Synthesia creates interactive digital avatar of a journalistAvatar startup Synthesia built an interactive AI clone of a TechCrunch reporter to answer press questions. The company, valued at $4 billion, passed $100 million in ARR and launched Roleplay Sessions, which lets employees rehearse sales pitches with AI avatars.
NASA-IBM open-source lunar AI model maps potential water iceIBM and NASA released an open-source Lunar Foundation Model, a multimodal vision transformer trained on geospatial observations of the whole Moon. One key use is locating water ice in permanently shadowed polar regions, a resource for future crewed missions.
AI gives tech firms new national security powerAuthor Sharon Weinberger told Bloomberg This Weekend that Silicon Valley's ties to the defense industry have transformed as tech firms and investors embrace national security work. The rising power of AI and defense tech firms is testing government regulation and oversight.
Study: LLM watermarking shifts refusals and tool callsAnthropic will embed invisible watermarks based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text in future Claude models. A study finds watermarking alters token sampling, causing 'sampling drift' that changes model refusals and agent tool calls, with effects varying by model and key. The findings matter for EU AI Act Article 50(2) compliance and AI safety.
Kennesaw State receives NSF grant for intelligent vehicle computing infrastructureKennesaw State University researcher Kun Suo received a $356,782 NSF grant to develop more efficient and secure computing infrastructure for intelligent vehicles. The project co-designs hardware and software to reduce delays and protect critical driving functions.
US, China to cut tariffs on $30B of goods, set up AI incident channelNewsNation reports that the US and China agreed to cut tariffs on about $30 billion worth of goods and to set up a dedicated channel for AI-related incidents, signaling coordination on trade and AI governance.
Katzenberg on AI in animation, artist jobs and compensationFormer DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said in a lengthy X post that artists are right to worry about AI but must set the terms of its entry into their industry; he recalled an AI-generated animated scene akin to first seeing Luxo Jr. and stood by his 2023 prediction that AI could cut animation time and cost by up to 90% within three years.
What is an AI kill switch, and why it's not simpleThe article examines the idea of an AI kill switch: if AI becomes too powerful for its creators to control, can it simply be turned off? It notes that shutting down AI is far from straightforward.
The Future of Local AI: Cloud or Self-Hosted?Reddit user forevergeeks posts on r/LocalLLaMA asking about the trajectory of AI deployment: whether it will follow desktops and servers in being mostly self-hosted, shift to the cloud like computing did, or leave a significant market share self-hosting AI for specific reasons.
r/MachineLearning asks: who is 'Thai James'?A Reddit Machine Learning community post asks which member is 'Thai James'; the submission contains only the question, with no model, research, or product details.
U.S. and China agree to 'super intelligence' dialogueAmid AI-related tensions, the U.S. and China have agreed to open a dialogue on 'super intelligence,' potentially creating a channel for communication on AI safety and governance.
How AI is Transforming the Future of War: 'Whoever Wins AI, Wins'The article notes AI is being rapidly integrated into militaries globally for battlefield awareness, training, surveillance, target identification, and unmanned vehicles. Russia deployed a fully autonomous drone that killed three Ukrainian civilians, raising concerns about AI militarization.
Nvidia's SoL-Pi System Cuts Coding Agent Token Usage Nearly in HalfNvidia's SoL-Pi system reduces coding agent token usage by up to 49% by optimizing the control layer between the model and its environment, with little performance change. The research agent tested 152 approaches over 3,000 runs, but gains were smaller on other benchmarks.
One month without AI: A developer reflects on the cost of AI coding dependencyA developer on Hacker News describes banning AI contributions in his FOSS project while still using AI coding agents at work. He reflects that over-reliance made him lazier and a worse developer, comparing it to addiction.
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