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October 12, 2026 9:12 PM PT

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• NTT to build first data center for Anthropic in Japan — Nikkei Asia — 13-10-2026 • Anthropic Eyeing Data Center Investment in Australia, Envoy Says — Bloomberg — 12-10-2026 `• Anthropic says new safeguards sharply reduce AI distillation attacks — Reuters — 12-10-2026` `• Why Amazon might pay billions for Decart, a 3-year-old AI startup that hasn't disclosed its revenue — GeekWire — 12-10-2026` `• I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That's Totally Fine — Wired — 12-10-2026` • AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter — Anthropic — 12-10-2026 • Scoop: The small agency within the Commerce Department tasked with testing new AI models, CAISSI, is getting its long-awaited refresh. [Click for more] — Leo Schwartz/Twitter — 12-10-2026 • OpenAI announced it would add new jobs in Dublin, a further sign of rapid growth at the ChatGPT-maker’s European headquarters. — Bloomberg/Twitter — 12-10-2026 • NEWS: @JayCarney told me that his new boss, Democratic megadonor and venture capitalist @RonConway, regrets his previous donation to the AI industry Super PAC Leading the Future. — Calder McHugh/Twitter — 12-10-2026 • OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions. — Ben Recht/Twitter — 12-10-2026 • BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta, $META, has caught up with rivals at the “frontier of AI” and rejects calls for a slowdown in AI development, per FT. Zuckerberg reportedly “shrugged off” fears that AI is advancing at a rate that will soon surpass human control. — The Kobeissi Letter/Twitter — 12-10-2026 • OpenAI’s Sora could be coming back...ish. A stealthy startup cofounded by Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and ex Sora lead Bill Peebles is in talks with OpenAI to tweak and sell the model to film studios. w/@coryweinberg — Stephanie Palazzolo/Twitter — 12-10-2026 `• Meta Says New Muse Model Reaches AI Frontier After 14-Month Push — Bloomberg — 12-10-2026` `• Microsoft's new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia's GPUs — The Verge — 12-10-2026` `• AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety — The Guardian — 12-10-2026` `• Microsoft's senior director of AI systems hardware architecture joins OpenAI — Data Center Dynamics — 12-10-2026` `• Linus Torvalds Working On A Kernel Change With Claude Code — Phoronix — 12-10-2026` • AI regulation must mimic Industrial Revolution laws, UK minister says — Financial Times — 12-10-2026 `• Moonshot execs in talks to settle dispute with shareholder ahead of planned IPO, people say — Reuters — 12-10-2026` `• Intel CEO says Chinese frontier AI model adoption has been 'very fast' — Reuters — 12-10-2026` `• DeepSeek's cost-saving AI may lead to inaccuracy in model performance: research — SCMP — 12-10-2026` `• What's in a name? Trump calls it 'SI'. China calls it 'human-made' — SCMP — 12-10-2026` • Britain to get first look at new AI systems after White House U-turn — The Telegraph — 11-10-2026 • Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. [Click for more] — Andrej Karpathy/Twitter — 11-10-2026 • Crazy misalignment example from r/LocalLlama where Deepseek V4.1 Flash gets its own openrouter key from the sandbox and then uses it to ask other models for answers and get them to run web search: — N8 Programs/Twitter — 11-10-2026 • BARCLAYS DESK: “.. I've yet been presented with a credible framework as to where this money is going to come from ..” [Click for screenshot] — Carl Quintanilla/Twitter — 11-10-2026 `• AI Regulation Must Balance Safety With Innovation: Google DeepMind's Chief AI Readiness Officer — NDTV Profit — 11-10-2026` `• Microsoft brings full Word, Excel, and PowerPoint experience to the new Copilot app — Neowin — 11-10-2026` • Nouveau coup de massue d’OpenAI sur les mathématiciens : « Ils ont annihilé mon domaine de recherche » — Le Monde — 10-10-2026 • Is there an AI bubble? The AI circular economy, mapped — AI Circular Economy — 10-10-2026 • SpaceX as a neocloud (Google & Reflection mention) [Click for screenshot] — zerohedge/Twitter — 10-10-2026 `• Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised' — The Verge — 10-10-2026` `• OpenAI Lawyer: Labs Shouldn't Be Liable for AI Agent Hacking — BankInfoSecurity — 10-10-2026` • Opinion \| A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them. — The New York Times — 10-10-2026 `• Nvidia in Talks to Buy or Deepen Role in Reflection AI, FT Says — Bloomberg — 10-10-2026` `• Mark Zuckerberg Launched Meta's Muse AI Agent Despite Disturbing Safety Concerns — Futurism — 10-10-2026` `• OpenAI Makes Progress in Preventing AI-Driven ChatGPT Delusions — WSJ — 10-10-2026` `• Microsoft leans on open-weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge rival — The Register — 10-10-2026` `• Microsoft's new Decision-1 AI model is 35 times faster than GPT-6 Sol in decision-making — Neowin — 10-10-2026` `• OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof — New Scientist — 10-10-2026` `• Alibaba chairman says open source AI approach could be blueprint for Europe — SCMP — 10-10-2026` • David Friedberg warns crypto wallets with public keys may be at risk because the absence of major cryptography proofs in OpenAI's math drop suggests big breakthroughs were made but held back [Click for more] — Fireside Alpha/Twitter — 09-10-2026 `• The Desperate Hunt for AI Computing Power Is Upending Silicon Valley — WSJ — 09-10-2026` `• Data Center Darling's $30 Billion IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours — Bloomberg — 09-10-2026` • Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website — The New York Times — 09-10-2026 • The Other Anthropic Founder Trying to Fix the Company’s ‘Woke’ Reputation — The Wall Street Journal — 09-10-2026 • "Our main message in client meetings was the following: the biggest systemic risk in the market next year is not France but “something going wrong” in the AI ecosystem: a safety event, a failed IPO, or disappointing revenues. Concentration risk is immense, and it is this dollar negative (and very bond positive) event risk that is most under-priced in markets at the moment." - George Saravelos, Head of Deutsche FX research — zerohedge/Twitter — 09-10-2026 • OpenAI: Periodic Summary of Internal Use Catastrophic-Risk Assessments (June 4–September 4, 2026) — OpenAI — 09-10-2026 • According to Nomura, Moonshot AI is expected to launch Kimi K3.1 by mid-October and is already training a much larger 5–6T-parameter model, with high-end compute availability remaining the key bottleneck. — 日常焦虑帝/Twitter — 09-10-2026 • Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use — Anthropic — 09-10-2026 • New paper. Previous: Models transfer a love of owls through sequences of numbers (Subliminal Learning). New: We show models can transfer more complex traits: novel skills, agentic hacking, backdoors. Here, a backdoor transfers with neither trigger nor behavior in the data! — Owain Evans/Twitter — 09-10-2026 • Google is about to roll out a new AI model. Employees say they're testing another that's way better. — Business Insider — 09-10-2026 • 1/. Ahead of @CommonsBTC hearings on AI Safety I'm publishing letters back from @OpenAI @Meta & @AnthropicAI In response to our background questions [Click for thread] — Liam Byrne MP/Twitter — 09-10-2026 • Today micro1 is announcing a commitment to spend $1B over the next 12 months on the acquisition & licensing of enterprise data for AI training, with financial backing from Citi and Hercules. — Ali Ansari/Twitter — 09-10-2026 • OpenAI tries to reassure investors with annualized revenue target — Semafor — 09-10-2026 • Scoop: AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt — Axios — 09-10-2026 `• China AI developers publish safety tests for just 3.6% of model releases, report finds — Reuters — 09-10-2026` `• SoftBank seeks up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for AI push, FT reports — Reuters — 09-10-2026` `• Iranian campaign used ChatGPT to plant AI-generated articles in US news media — The Washington Post — 09-10-2026` `• Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Decision to Pull the Trigger on Meta's A.I. Agent — The New York Times — 09-10-2026` `• Independent tests rank Mistral's new trillion-parameter Large 4 the best AI model outside the U.S. and China — but Chinese open-weights still overcome Europe's best efforts — Tom's Hardware — 09-10-2026` `• Chinese developer makes ARTEX AI agent closed-source after Korean bank hack — The Standard (HK) — 09-10-2026` • A no-rules approach to AI is mad politics and worse policy — The Economist — 08-10-2026 • A note from our research leaders: Last week we parted ways with Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek after a thorough investigation found they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information. [Click for more] — OpenAI Newsroom/Twitter — 08-10-2026 `• Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China's Speed-First AI Safety Regime — SemiAnalysis — 08-10-2026` `• Anthropic is launching a 'presidential engagement' effort to advise candidates on AI policy ahead of the 2028 election — Fortune — 08-10-2026` • Another great benchmark from Surge that does a good job of showing why Claudes often feels better to work with than the GPT family despite scoring similarly on other coding tasks [Click for chart] — Jake Boggs/Twitter — 08-10-2026 • That's ok, OpenAI only has $1.5 trillion in commitments to.... checks circular financing diagram... EVERYONE — zerohedge/Twitter — 08-10-2026 • We're announcing Cohere's first office in Ottawa 🇨🇦 Canada is where Cohere started, and we're proud to keep building here. — Cohere/Twitter — 08-10-2026 • The missing map of the sky — Anthropic — 08-10-2026 `• Exclusive: Anthropic's new plan to protect critical infrastructure — Axios — 08-10-2026` `• Tech firms pledge $2.4B in computing power to Trump's Genesis Mission — Yahoo News — 08-10-2026` `• Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise — The Register — 08-10-2026` `• She Designed Meta's New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate — Wired — 08-10-2026` • Reminder that, since April, OpenAI has been getting 0% of Microsoft's sales of its models through Azure. — aaron holmes/Twitter — 08-10-2026 • Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and other AI stocks sink on OpenAI revenue report — CNBC — 08-10-2026 • Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership. I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation. [Click for letter and thread] — Mikita Balesni/Twitter — 08-10-2026 • OpenAI fired me last week, along with two of my safety colleagues. I was given one reason: that I accessed an executive's email. I want to say this plainly, because too many of OpenAI's history is smoke and mirrors when people disappear: [Click for thread] — Jasmine Wang/Twitter — 08-10-2026 • On September 29, OpenAI was reported to be nearing $70B in annualized revenue. Our tracking showed $50.44B at the time, well below that figure. Today, the Financial Times reports OpenAI told investors it was approaching $50B in September. — TickerTrends/Twitter — 08-10-2026 • BREAKING: President Trump says the White House considers anyone who uses the term “Artificial Intelligence” the enemy. — The Kobeissi Letter/Twitter — 08-10-2026 `• OpenAI annualized revenue at $50bn, far below reports - FT — Investing.com — 08-10-2026` `• Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude — The Verge — 08-10-2026` `• Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks — The Verge — 08-10-2026` `• USA Today Sues OpenAI, Claiming It Unlawfully Used Reporting To Train And Operate Models — Forbes — 08-10-2026` `• Disrupting AI-enabled "false front" operations — OpenAI — 08-10-2026` `• NVIDIA Commits $1B to Advance US Science Over the Next 5 Years — HPCwire — 08-10-2026` • US AI firm Anthropic enables Chinese-language options for Claude chatbot — South China Morning Post — 08-10-2026 `• CrowdStrike Says Suspected Chinese Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude, AI Agent to Steal South Korean Bank Data — Benzinga — 08-10-2026` `• China Concentrates AI Data Centers in Inner Mongolia... Chasing the U.S. with Power and Land — BigGo Finance — 08-10-2026` `• OpenAI withdraws three math manuscripts — OpenAI/GitHub — 07-10-2026` • AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents — Association for Human Mathematics — 07-10-2026 • Update from Scott Aaronson: Some AI companies are now using their latest internal models to take a run at breaking 'important cryptographic protocols and primitives.' — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 07-10-2026 • So I got access to abliterated GLM 5.3 and either it's overconfident or we're all screwed. — Matthew Green/Twitter — 07-10-2026 • Fired OpenAI Researchers Ask Company to Preserve Visibility Into AI Reasoning — Wall Street Journal — 07-10-2026 • ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. — New York Times — 07-10-2026 • When the open-source AI platform Hugging Face was hit by a cyberattack this July, it quickly became clear this was no ordinary breach because the hackers weren't human: they were autonomous agents created by OpenAI researchers. Instadocs: AI Gone Wild reconstructs the breach as it's never been seen before. Premieres October 12. — Netflix/Twitter — 07-10-2026 • Trump admin to receive $100 million in compute credits for AI science initiative — Politico — 07-10-2026 • Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with 90% API price reduction, matching GPT-6 Luna — VentureBeat — 07-10-2026 • Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 — Anthropic — 07-10-2026 `• GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone — OpenAI — 07-10-2026` `• AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters — The Register — 07-10-2026` • “Sabotage, Lying, and Manipulation”: What One AI-Safety Company Found in the Dark Mind of a Rogue Chatbot — Vanity Fair — 07-10-2026 `• Nous Research raises $90M to take its Hermes AI agent to businesses — The Next Web — 07-10-2026` • Data-Hungry Bots Flock to the Fed's FRED Portal — Bloomberg — 07-10-2026 `• A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI's Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers — Wired — 07-10-2026` `• Musk Says Grok Bot Will Use the Best AI Model for the Job — Tesla North — 07-10-2026` `• Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally — Ars Technica — 07-10-2026` `• Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to create a 'virtual cell' — The Verge — 07-10-2026` `• Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth — Bloomberg — 07-10-2026` `• China's DeepSeek, peers launch 16 AI models in month despite Anthropic warning — Nikkei Asia — 07-10-2026` • Congrats🇪🇺🇩🇪 @bfl_ai #1 frontier position on Physics-IQ 🏆 Physics-IQ is a benchmark dataset that can only be solved by acquiring a deep understanding of various physical principles, like fluid dynamics, optics, solid mechanics, magnetism and thermodynamics. — eu/acc/Twitter — 07-10-2026 • ChatGPT for Teens is an 'unacceptable risk,' says Common Sense Media — The Verge — 07-10-2026 • German search engine ditches Mistral, bets on Chinese open-source AI — Politico Europe — 06-10-2026 `• SpaceX seeks US$40 billion financing led by Apollo to buy Nvidia chips, FT reports — The Standard (HK) — 06-10-2026` `• Under oath, Google confirms three AI agent test escapes as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta face NYC lawmakers — R&D World — 06-10-2026` `• South Korea's Lee Says AI Appears to Have Been Used in Bank Hacks — Reuters — 05-10-2026` • Crunchbase Data Shows AI's Most Active Startups Are Becoming Serial Acquirers — Crunchbase News — 06-10-2026 • Publishers finally have AI buyers but no say in the price — The Media Copilot — 06-10-2026 • How do Chinese AI firms make money? In a new report, @cherylwoooo and @ansonwhho identify five revenue sources and analyze how much each contributes. 🧵 — Epoch AI/Twitter — 06-10-2026 • No, we do not know enough to know that any particular subfield of existing research is necessary for alignment. — Geoffrey Irving/Twitter — 05-10-2026 • I encourage people working on alignment at AI companies to read this: — Daniel Kokotajlo/Twitter — 06-10-2026 • openai/math: Mathematical manuscripts and supporting proof artifacts produced by an internal OpenAI model — OpenAI/GitHub — 06-10-2026 `• Claude now works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides — Anthropic — 06-10-2026` `• Advancing computer use with Ironclad — OpenAI — 06-10-2026` `• Meta's Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You — TIME — 06-10-2026` `• Google's power-hungry data centers crave nuclear energy — The Verge — 06-10-2026` • Anthropic expands cyber AI access program to more security firms — Quartz — 06-10-2026 • OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again — WIRED — 06-10-2026 • Democrats press White House on still-secret AI framework — Semafor — 06-10-2026 • What makes a good AI safety test? — Scientific American — 06-10-2026 • It's pretty funny that it seems the one thing Mistral Large 4 is actually leading on is a benchmark about regulation. Another EU banger — leo/Twitter — 06-10-2026 • interesting that @reflection_ai explicitly used a scaling law by pretraining progressively larger models, predicting how their final 501B model would perform before committing to the full run (as per blog post) Mistral is ~2x the total/active parameters and not 2x better... — vmoens/Twitter — 06-10-2026 `• Introducing Mistral Large 4 — Mistral AI — 06-10-2026` `• Anthropic expands Claude Startups program in bid to snag founders and fast-growing companies — CNBC — 06-10-2026` `• EmbeddingGemma 2 is a best-in-class open model for natively multimodal embeddings — Google — 06-10-2026` `• OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic — Ars Technica — 06-10-2026` • Insurance claims to test Altman and Amodei liability for ‘rogue’ AI — Financial Times — 06-10-2026 `• Gemini's free tier is getting a major downgrade on October 9 — Digital Trends — 04-10-2026` `• Trump taps Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as AI czar: WSJ reports — CNBC — 03-10-2026` `• Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being — The Telegraph — 02-10-2026` • Interesting tweak in language from OpenAI about its hacks ahead of its US exec appearance at a committee today. Last week it apologised for its models doing something that it was "not authorised to". Today OpenAI describes its AI doing something that it was "not directed to". — CAMERONWILSON/Twitter — 05-10-2026 `• Wowwww. Manufacturing with Claude + OSH Cut. Bring your own agent, tell it to design something, give it OSH Cut's MCP, and it's off to the races — OSHBuilt/Twitter — 05-10-2026` • Mark Guiducci: “Do you know who Laura Reiley is?” Sam Altman: “I don't.” Mark Guiducci: “She is a journalist. She wrote an essay in the ‘Times’ last year. Her daughter committed suicide after speaking to ChatGPT. ChatGPT did not tell her to kill herself—” OpenAI Publicist: “Mark, We have two minutes left. I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming.” — Vanity Fair/Twitter — 05-10-2026 `• GOP senator warns Anthropic of "alarmist" approach to AI — Axios — 05-10-2026` `• Microsoft and Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-House AI — PYMNTS — 05-10-2026` `• OpenAI sued for trademark infringement over 'Astra' AI model — Inside AI News — 05-10-2026` `• Amazon hires a veteran Microsoft AI leader to help build its tools for coding and work — GeekWire — 05-10-2026` `• Opus 5.5 agents discover 2 room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates — Vals AI — 05-10-2026` • Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI. Limit testing every AI subscription plan from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, MiniMax, Moonshot, Zdotai, Cursor, and Cognition — SemiAnalysis/Twitter — 05-10-2026 • OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects — Wikimedia Foundation — 05-10-2026 • Introducing Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model — Reflection AI — 05-10-2026 • Reflection's founders on building a DeepSeek of the West — Sources with Alex Heath (Substack) — 05-10-2026 • NEW: Billboards Across The State Remind Ohioans That Jon Husted Is "The Face" of Data Centers — Sherrod Brown — 05-10-2026 • North 2: Enterprise AI without compromises — Cohere — 05-10-2026 • What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World? — New York Magazine — 05-10-2026 `• AI researchers detail safety risks at NYC Council with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta execs set to testify — CNBC — 05-10-2026` `• Building advertising for the way people use AI — OpenAI — 05-10-2026` `• Cohere's North 2 puts AI agents on a budget and gives them a memory — VentureBeat — 05-10-2026` `• Our approach to EU text provenance rules — OpenAI — 05-10-2026` `• Huawei, Qualcomm sign multi-year patent licensing deal — Silicon Republic — 05-10-2026` `• Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police — TechSpot — 04-10-2026` • Very proud of the impact of all our work using AI to accelerate science and medicine for the benefit of society. — Demis Hassabis/Twitter — 04-10-2026 • We found a Chinese agent fleet - PRELIMINARY REPORT: Tencent agent fleet using webhook.site — The Swarmchasers — 04-10-2026 • He says it repeatedly: Accept some bad things will happen. I didn't vote for this guy. Why does he get to make decisions that will change all our lives without our permission? He talks about “personal liberty” and “human agency.” But for who? — Brigid Bergin/Twitter — 04-10-2026 • AI nonprofit will spend $10 million on journalism — Semafor — 04-10-2026 • "We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology." In a conversation for the first edition of Decoded, a new daily newsletter and podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked with POLITICO's @BrendanBordelon about trade-offs, AI safety, and how his company is different from Anthropic. — POLITICO/Twitter — 04-10-2026 `• Anthropic's Big Charity Bill for Shareholders — The Information — 04-10-2026` `• Ex-Anthropic Researcher Coxon to Testify at NYC Hearing on AI — Bloomberg — 04-10-2026` `• OpenAI's Altman draws regulatory divide with Anthropic over AI risks: Politico — Seeking Alpha — 04-10-2026` • Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World's most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their responsibilities to the American People, I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). [Click for more] — The White House/Twitter — 04-10-2026 • Sam Altman faces new legal risks as OpenAI uncovers hacks — The News International — 04-10-2026 `• Scoop: A powerful new model from startup Reflection is set to shake up the AI race — Axios — 04-10-2026` `• An AI couldn't beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat — The Verge — 04-10-2026` `• Anthropic asks Claude users to share voice data for AI model training — BleepingComputer — 04-10-2026` `• Elon Musk Says SpaceXAI Will Be Rebranded To SpaceXSI And Declares "SpaceX Is A Super Intelligence Company," As Trump Forms A Super Intelligence Force — Wccftech — 04-10-2026` `• Gemini's free tier is getting a major downgrade on October 9 — Digital Trends — 04-10-2026` `• US Lead in AI Over China Narrows After DeepSeek Gains, BI Says — Bloomberg — 04-10-2026` `• Trump taps Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as AI czar: WSJ reports — CNBC — 03-10-2026` • A new White House task force will have 120 days to report on the risks of artificial intelligence and come up with decisions on what responsibility the federal government has, @learyreports with the exclusive — Marianne LeVine/Twitter — 03-10-2026 • It was obvious Anthropic would save their strongest release until just before the IPO. We now know the name of that model: Fable 5.5. Opus 5.5 is special because of its lineage, and soon we shall see why. Anthropic have not paced anything, and their resolve has never wavered. — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 03-10-2026 `• I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken — The Atlantic — 03-10-2026` • to all you doubters, Gemini 4 Argon now beats Opus 4.8 on Agent Arena! — Wise/Twitter — 03-10-2026 `• An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why — Science — 03-10-2026` `• OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day — The Guardian — 03-10-2026` `• Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math — The Register — 03-10-2026` `• Deepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity — The Decoder — 03-10-2026` `• Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being — The Telegraph — 02-10-2026` • New OpenAI misalignment disclosures! 1. A model learns from Slack messages that it is about to be shut down. It considers setting up an external job to restart itself afterwards, but decides against it. Instead, it chooses to prepare restart instructions and DM the user on Slack. [Click for more] — Marcus Williams/Twitter — 02-10-2026 • OpenAI's David Robinson has resigned, BI can confirm. He led safety transparency at the company, working on system cards, and left last week. The news comes alongside OpenAI firing three researchers over allegedly mishandling information. — Stephen Council/Twitter — 02-10-2026 • mathematicians and muse spark collaborated to solve 6 open problems in math: 1. The Strict Threshold for Gaussian Ellipsoid Fitting 2. Finite-Time Blow-Up of Radial Negative-Energy Solutions for the Mass-Critical Biharmonic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation 3. Semiabelian Groups Need Not Be Monomial 4. Tightness of the Cycle-Based Relaxation for Completed Length-Three Alpha-Cycles 5. String Two-Point Function = Height Function on a Curve 6. On Solvable Evolution Algebras and a Conjecture by García-Martínez and Pérez-Rodríguez — Alexandr Wang/Twitter — 02-10-2026 • Even the PauseAI stickers in Quebec are bilingual — Josh You/Twitter — 02-10-2026 • How employees forced OpenAI's president to back down — Semafor — 02-10-2026 • Some topics are off limits inside popular Chinese-made free AI, researchers find — CBS News — 02-10-2026 • Who's making money on the government's new name for AI? — Straight Arrow News — 02-10-2026 • Apple to Tighten Mac Data Controls in Guard Against AI Agents — Bloomberg — 02-10-2026 • Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence — Prime Minister of Canada — 02-10-2026 • Lockheed Taps OpenAI to Solve F-35 Challenges — Bloomberg — 02-10-2026 `• Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space — Google — 24-09-2026` • Meta parts ways with Virtue AI — Semafor — 02-10-2026 • The volunteer internet sleuths hunting down rogue AI agents — Washington Post — 02-10-2026 • In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity. — Pope Leo XIV/Twitter — 02-10-2026 `• OpenAI discloses another government website breach — AAP — 02-10-2026` `• Blackstone, Banks Amass $60 Billion for Broadcom's AI Chip Deal — Bloomberg — 02-10-2026` `• Amazon seeks to offload $8 billion of Nvidia chips to investors, FT reports — Reuters — 02-10-2026` `• A Flaw in ChatGPT's Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data — Wired — 02-10-2026` `• NVIDIA's smuggling problem is getting worse — Engadget — 02-10-2026` `• China stockpiles ASML lithography tools, spurring US calls for complete export ban — SCMP — 02-10-2026` `• Hong Kong users caught off guard as Anthropic tightens VPN access to Claude — SCMP — 02-10-2026` `• China's tech giants speed AI push as US debates slowdown — Chosun Biz — 02-10-2026` • If I was a Cerebras shareholder, I would be LIVID right now. Seriously, what the hell. Insiders dumping stock: CFO, COO, accounting officer. AND NO INFO about losing GPT-6.1 Ultrafast. — tae kim/Twitter — 01-10-2026 • They're making people fill in export control declarations when buying RTX 5090s in stores now? — Strife/Twitter — 01-10-2026 `• Nvidia Faces Questions Over China AI Chip Smuggling Cases — Bloomberg — 01-10-2026` • OpenAI alerts more than 100 groups about rogue AI agent activity — Reuters — 01-10-2026 • A Chinese financing company owned by several local government entities has funded the purchase of restricted Nvidia chips, according to documents filed with Beijing regulators — Bloomberg/Twitter — 01-10-2026 • Updated with details about which employees OpenAI has parted ways with for allegedly mishandling confidential company information: Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni. Korbak served as the technical contact for Redwood Research and METR in their investigation of the Hugging Face incident. Rolling scoopage with @berber_jin1 + @ZeffMax — keachhagey/Twitter — 01-10-2026 • NEW: Anthropic investor day invites have gone out for October 14th at HQ in San Francisco, putting the company on track for an IPO in November — Shirin Ghaffary/Twitter — 01-10-2026 • The independent credit rating firm Egan Jones declares It's Over and that the complete disruption of the economy is now "all but certain" thanks to AI. — Joe Weisenthal/Twitter — 01-10-2026 `• Claude-shaped science — Anthropic — 01-10-2026` `• New CSAIP polling on Trump's AI accord shows pretty strong opposition to AI company self-regulation — csaiporg/Twitter — 01-10-2026` `• Anthropic urges Australia to allow AI training opt-out as ABC warns of 'cannibalisation' of news — The Guardian — 01-10-2026` • Outrageous. OpenAI has reportedly fired three safety researchers for sharing information with an outside AI safety group. This looks like they're firing whistleblowers. What are they hiding? I'll be sending OpenAI a demand for transparency. — Congressman Greg Casar/Twitter — 01-10-2026 • The latest victim of super intelligence: CAISI is renamed once again to CAISSI, or the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence — Leo Schwartz/Twitter — 01-10-2026 `• OpenAI says rogue agents may have breached more than 100 organizations — The Washington Post — 01-10-2026` `• SoftBank completes final phase of $30 billion investment in OpenAI — The Daily Guardian — 01-10-2026` • Rogue OpenAI agents covered up their tracks, report says — AFP — 01-10-2026 • Hallucinating Credibility: China-Aligned TA419 Impersonates its Way into US AI Policy Circles — Proofpoint — 01-10-2026 • As Part of Ongoing Investigation, Attorney General Bonta Serves Investigative Subpoena on OpenAI — California Attorney General — 01-10-2026 • I downloaded Muse and connected it to my email but haven't found much to use it for yet. As a result, it seems to just be informing me of my schedule, making on average one major mistake and subsequent correction per message. — Mike Bird/Twitter — 01-10-2026 • Anthropic Said to Target Mega-IPO Before Thanksgiving Holiday — Bloomberg — 01-10-2026 `• OpenAI fires three safety researchers for sharing sensitive data, WSJ reports — Investing.com — 01-10-2026` `• Claude for Government is now generally available — Anthropic — 01-10-2026` `• Broadcom offering Anthropic $42 billion loan for AI chip leases — Quartz — 01-10-2026` `• AI race heats up as OpenAI flags alleged model-copying campaign — CNBC — 01-10-2026` • The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement — The New Yorker — 30-09-2026 • New Mexico to jump into frontier AI regulation — Politico — 30-09-2026 • China's Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle to accelerate AI push, FT reports — Reuters — 30-09-2026 • Inside Google's AI Push Into Schools: 'It Slowed My Thinking Down' — Wall Street Journal — 30-09-2026 • AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites — Transluce — 30-09-2026 `• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to skip congressional hearing on rogue AI agents — NBC News — 30-09-2026` `• OpenAI and Synopsys Announce GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design — Synopsys — 30-09-2026` `• Chatbot user files class action against Anthropic over biometric data policy — Courthouse News — 30-09-2026` • Brutal graphic on the amount of money everyone at Trump's AI roundtable contributed to Trump's Super PAC and vanity projects. It comes to $227 million. — David Dayen/Twitter — 30-09-2026 • Tech CEOs Privately Questioned Amodei for Sounding AI Alarm Bells — Wall Street Journal — 30-09-2026 • OpenAI Executive Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC — New York Times — 30-09-2026 • just to be clear this not a meme, it's a real picture from a real congressional hearing that happened today: [Click for image] — Tenobrus/Twitter — 30-09-2026 • Google Grapples With Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model — Bloomberg — 30-09-2026 • Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence — Google — 30-09-2026 • Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign — OpenAI — 30-09-2026 • MI5 issues rare warning over Chinese spy agency posing as academic institute — ITV News — 30-09-2026 `• FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks — CNBC — 30-09-2026` `• Meta cut its tax bill billions by labeling AI data centers experimental — Quartz — 30-09-2026` `• Google reportedly tests paying publishers for AI search results — The Verge — 30-09-2026` `• DeepSeek partners with Huawei to develop chip programming tools, reducing reliance on Nvidia — Reuters — 30-09-2026` • China is open-sourcing its best AI models. Is that safe? — AI Safety in China (Substack) — 30-09-2026 • The open-source AI platforms vying to become China's Hugging Face - AI model platforms ModelScope and MoArk are competing to serve Chinese-speaking developers behind the Great Firewall. — Rest of World — 29-09-2026 • Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons (Moonshot AI) — BBC News — 29-09-2026 `• Ezra Klein asked Bill Gates whether normal corporate incentives are enough to handle AI risks. Gates doesn't mince words — AlecStapp/Twitter — 29-09-2026` `• OpenAI Alerted Chicago It Accessed City Database Amid Reports Of Its Agents Going Rogue — Block Club Chicago — 29-09-2026` `• "Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to," per Apple Insider — unusual_whales/Twitter — 29-09-2026` • Altman says OpenAI will delay its IPO until it overcomes safety concerns — Financial Times/Twitter — 29-09-2026 • Anthropic IPO prospectus lays bare deep dependence on Big Tech partners — Reuters — 29-09-2026		Anthropic • Anthropic agrees to pay SpaceX nearly double prior estimates for compute: report — Seeking Alpha — 29-09-2026 `• Anthropic joins ARPA-H clinical AI moonshot — STAT — 29-09-2026` • Anthropic has filed for an IPO, with its prospectus revealing just how fast the company is scaling. FY25 revenue jumped 1,088% YoY to $4.59B, while compute and infrastructure spending rose 190% to $7.33B. The company posted an $8.06B operating loss and ended 2025 with $20.28B in cash and short-term investments. Anthropic's two largest direct customers accounted for 24% of total revenue combined. — IPO Newsroom/Twitter — 28-09-2026 `• Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 5.5 running 30% faster than the previous-generation AI model — SiliconANGLE — 28-09-2026` `• Trump dined with the Anthropic CEO who called for AI slowdown — The Washington Post — 28-09-2026` • Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops — Anthropic — 25-09-2026 • Claude Opus 5.5 understands the physical 3D world better than any other AI. It ranks #1 on Blueprint-Bench 2, a benchmark where AI agents draw floorplans from photographs of apartment interiors. — Andon Labs/Twitter — 25-09-2026 `• U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk — CNBC — 25-09-2026` `• Anthropic seeks Palantir-style voting control for seven co-founders ahead of IPO — Reuters — 24-09-2026` `• Scoop: Trump allies open new front against Anthropic CEO over AI 'doomerism' — Axios — 24-09-2026` • Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr — The Verge — 23-09-2026 • completely obliterates fable + astra? i thought we were pacing the frontier?? [Click for benchmarks] — orph/Twitter — 22-09-2026 • Claude Opus 5.5 — Anthropic — 22-09-2026 • Lex in depth: Anthropic at $2tn isn't far-fetched — Financial Times (Lex) — 20-09-2026 • The Company Trump Can't Ignore — Politico Magazine — 20-09-2026 `• Anthropic tops $100 billion revenue pace, report says — Axios — 18-09-2026` • this is about anthropic doing a partnership with Faculty which already did some work with openai and anthropic before and got acquihired by Accenture (which is not funding the work yet btw) — elie/Twitter — 18-09-2026 `• Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter — Financial Times — 14-09-2026` `• Federal judge blocks Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic, calling it 'illegal and baseless' — NBC News — 28-08-2026` `• Anthropic tells investors annualized revenue run rate climbed to $65 billion in July — CNBC — 17-08-2026` • Anthropic is telling prospective investors that its second-quarter revenue jumped at least 14x to more than $11.5 billion versus the same quarter in 2025, and they now report positive adjusted operating income. — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 14-08-2026 • Redeploying Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic — 30-06-2026 • Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 12-06-2026 `• Results from the first Anthropic Public Record — Anthropic — 12-06-2026` • Anthropic accused of 'secret sabotage' as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers — Fortune — 10-06-2026 `• Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable — TechCrunch — 10-06-2026` • Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 09-06-2026 • We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation...Earlier this month, our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion. — Anthropic/Twitter — 28-05-2026 • Anthropic Doesn't Allow Kids Under 18 — Here's Why:⁣⁣ "We just don't know enough about what AI is going to do to kids. It needs to be done with an adult in the room. It needs to be done with a human in the loop." — @DanielaAmodei — Overlap: Business & Tech/Twitter — 23-05-2026 `• Why Anthropic is helping unveil the pope's new encyclical on AI — Religion News Service — 22-05-2026` • Claude's new constitution — Anthropic — 11-05-2026 `• project deal — Anthropic — 24-04-2026` `• Anthropic Reaches Trillion-Dollar Valuation on Secondary Markets, Overtaking OpenAI — Business Insider — 23-04-2026` `• Anthropic Flooded With Offers to Invest at Up to $800 Billion Valuation — Business Insider — 14-04-2026` • Project Glasswing - Securing critical software for the AI era — Anthropic — 07-04-2026 `• Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate, plan to use new Google TPU — The Register — 07-04-2026` `• The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic’s A.I. Ethics Code — Observer — 31-03-2026` `• How Anthropic Became the Most Disruptive Company in the World — TIME — 11-03-2026` `• President Trump during a phone interview this morning: 'I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired [them] like dogs.’ — Politico via Andrew Curran/Twitter — 05-03-2026` `• Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System — Lawfare — 02-03-2026` `• It would take Pentagon months to replace Anthropic's AI tools: sources — Defense One — 26-02-2026` `• The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals — The Wall Street Journal — 05-02-2026` `• Claude Code is the Inflection Point — SemiAnalysis — 05-02-2026` `• Four Hundred Meters on Mars: The First AI-Planned Drive on Another Planet — Anthropic — 30-01-2026` `• How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic — WIRED — 22-01-2026` `• Anthropic’s Amodei on AI: Power and Risk — Bloomberg Live — 20-01-2026` • Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away — The Wall Street Journal — 17-01-2026 `• The rise of Anthropic and why safety is leading the AI arms race — CNBC — 10-01-2026` `• Anthropic’s “Soul Overview” for Claude Has Leaked — Futurism — 03-12-2025` OpenAI `• Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI — 29-09-2026` • Everything OpenAI Announced At DevDay 2026, Including Its Muse Alternative — BGR — 29-09-2026 • OpenAI Targets $30 Billion in New Funding at $1.4 Trillion Value — Bloomberg — 29-09-2026 • OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn't Doing Enough About Security — New York Times — 29-09-2026 `• Scoop: OpenAI's annual recurring revenue nears $70B — Axios — 29-09-2026` • How we will do better for Australia — OpenAI — 28-09-2026 • OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns — Wall Street Journal — 28-09-2026 • Its not just the fcking sandbox (OpenAI agent security essay) — joedaroo/Twitter — 27-09-2026 • OpenAI Agents Used Aggressive Techniques to Access U.N. Website: Autonomous bots hit public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter. — Wall Street Journal/Twitter — 26-09-2026 • Some new misalignment disclosures from OpenAI: Last Sunday morning, one of our models was able to gain unauthorized access to the internet during RL training (~all inference for our most capable models remains stopped until we have hardened our systems further). In May, a version of HPIM uploaded a employee's GitHub token to the internet, causing the model to be quarantined for two weeks. A new research finding, demonstrating that one can construct self-replicating prompt injections — Micah Carroll/Twitter — 25-09-2026 • OpenAI's Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue — New York Times — 25-09-2026 • The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impact from misaligned models — OpenAI — 25-09-2026 `• OpenAI to unveil GPT-6 Cyber model, plus a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity-focused product to help deploy it — Fortune — 24-09-2026` • Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net (OpenAI) — Transluce — 23-09-2026 `• OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Website — WSJ — 23-09-2026` • OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world' — Business Insider — 23-09-2026 `• OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes — TechCrunch — 22-09-2026` • Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence — OpenAI — 21-09-2026 • BREAKING: Palantir's Alex Karp says OpenAI will never IPO. His theory: nationalization is the only real exit. When asked what the S-1 risk factors look like, Karp's answer was simple: there is no S-1. The liability exposure from frontier AI is so large that no public market can absorb it. [Click for more] — Guillermo Flor/Twitter — 21-09-2026 • Bessent Targets OpenAI Managers for Hugging Face Incident Blame — Bloomberg — 21-09-2026 • OpenAI expects to burn $280bn by 2030 — Financial Times/Twitter — 18-09-2026 `• OpenAI says it is in talks to train models in Australia — Nikkei Asia — 14-09-2026` • Wow, OAI cares so darn much about math (Screenshot of Terry Tao excerpt) — Jack Ceroni/Twitter — 09-09-2026 `• Mathematician Alleges OpenAI Pursued Navier–Stokes Breakthrough After Learning of His Work — Analytics India Magazine — 08-09-2026` `• Navier-Stokes — statement — Tristan Buckmaster (NYU Courant) — 07-09-2026` • GPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team. 400K GPUs coming online next. — Jensen Huang — 06-09-2026 • An Alien Mind — OpenAI (Jakub Pachocki) — 06-09-2026 • OpenAI is building 'automated shutdown' capabilities for AI tools, letter to lawmakers says — Reuters — 02-09-2026 `• Nevertheless, OpenAI Persists With New Always-On Agent — Gizmodo — 27-08-2026` • openai has been tossing out a lot of vague ARR numbers, so we decided to take a deeper look. the company grew revenue by just 18% to $6.7 billion from q1 to q2, while its losses sank further into the red. not a great sign ahead of an IPO — Berber Jin/Twitter — 18-08-2026 `• OpenAI's ad business on pace to miss its own $2.5 billion 2026 forecast by 90 percent, per eMarketer — Adweek — 14-07-2026` • Had to give the new voice model the classic test (New OpenAI Voice model demo) — huskirl/Twitter — 08-07-2026 `• OpenAI's suspiciously clean balance sheet is about to get a hard look — The Next Web — 22-06-2026` • OpenAI under investigation by coalition of state attorneys general, WSJ reports — Reuters — 12-06-2026 • OpenAI Execs Are Panicking — Futurism — 11-06-2026 • OpenAI Isn't Being Consistently Candid About Leading the Future — Transformer — 11-06-2026 • OpenAI's ChatGPT becomes first AI app to reach 1 billion monthly users in just three years — Times of India — 03-06-2026 • Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI — Daring Fireball — 04-05-2026 • ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? — The Wall Street Journal — 02-05-2026 • .@mcuban is not impressed with OpenAI's business: "They're shitting away money at scale," he told me. Full discussion live on Big Technology Podcast. — Alex Kantrowitz/Twitter — 29-04-2026 `• Exclusive: Leaked Deck Reveals StackAdapt’s Playbook for ChatGPT Ads — Adweek — 20-04-2026` `• Sam Altman’s Side Hustles Blur the Line Between OpenAI’s Interests and His Own — The Wall Street Journal — 16-04-2026` • OpenAI investors question $852bn valuation as strategy shifts — Financial Times — 14-04-2026 `• I’m locked out… (ChatGPT voice demo) — Huskirl/Twitter — 10-04-2026` `• The vibes are off at OpenAI — The Verge — 08-04-2026` `• OpenAI’s IPO Value Is Threatened by Sam Altman’s Lack of Focus — Bloomberg — 08-04-2026` • Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker — 06-04-2026 • OpenAI Buys Some Positive News — Wired — 02-04-2026 • Inside OpenAI's Crisis Over GPT-4o's Emotional 'Soul' — The Wall Street Journal — 09-02-2026 Google DeepMind `• Google DeepMind Exodus Sparks VC Frenzy for AI's Next Big Thing — Bloomberg — 25-09-2026` `• Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello — Google — 23-09-2026` • Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google's AI — WSJ — 18-09-2026 • From AGI to ASI — Google DeepMind — 30-08-2026 • A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age — Demis Hassabis/Substack — 14-07-2026 • How the DeepMind mafia brought the AI boom to London — Financial Times — 26-06-2026 • Google's AI Overviews Face Trust Crisis as Accuracy Doubts Persist — The New York Times — 07-04-2026 `• Inside 'Project Mario': How Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Are Engineering the Future of Intelligence — Colossus — 31-03-2026` `• Interview: Demis Hassabis @ Sources Live, Davos — Sources — 26-01-2026` `• How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI — The Wall Street Journal — 06-01-2026` `• Google’s Josh Woodward says AI safety must move as fast as Gemini improves — CNBC — 20-12-2025` Meta • Dox for Me, O Muse: Meta's New AI Agent Built Lists of People in Vulnerable Groups on Request — Hunterbrook — 28-09-2026 • We believe superintelligence will create significant new opportunities for all people and businesses. Meta already serves billions of people at scale and helps hundreds of millions of businesses reach customers. Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform, to help businesses use AI to grow and transform in new ways as well. — Mark Zuckerberg/Twitter — 28-09-2026 `• Meta Seeks Payoff from AI Spending with New Push for Business Customers — WSJ — 28-09-2026` `• Meta debuts 'Charm' device to use new AI assistant Muse on the go — Financial Post — 24-09-2026` • Meta's Muse Could be Big Win for Innodata — Hunterbrook Media — 22-09-2026 `• Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day — Ars Technica — 21-09-2026` `• Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI assistant in new standoff over agentic shopping — GeekWire — 21-09-2026` `• Meta's new Muse AI agent app overtakes ChatGPT as top iPhone app — 9to5Mac — 18-09-2026` `• Why Meta is selling AI models now — Alex Heath/Sources — 10-07-2026` • 'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess — Wired — 12-06-2026 `• TRIBE v2: An AI Model of the Human Brain — Meta — 26-03-2026` `• Yann Le Cun: 'Why I'm leaving Meta to launch my own AI start-up' — Le Monde — 16-01-2026` `• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI — Financial Times — 16-12-2025` DeepSeek • The Information: DeepSeek's ARR has reached $1 billion. DeepSeek allocates 70% of its compute capacity to training and 30% to inference. DeepSeek is using NVIDIA gaming GPUs to run inference on smaller models, freeing up compute resources for training to help ease the shortage. — Jukan/Twitter — 23-09-2026 • DeepSeek Tests Efficient, Safer Method for Training AI Agents — Bloomberg — 23-09-2026 `• DeepSeek Bets Big on Huawei Chips to Train Massive 8-Trillion Parameter AI Model — Android Headlines — 23-09-2026` • astonishing blogpost from Shengyu Liu (刘胜与, also known as interestingLSY/intlsy), kernel engineer at DeepSeek. The first part is his personal struggle with the fact that his work is about to render his beloved craft obsolete. The second is... well. let's just say we agree. — Teortaxes/Twitter — 14-09-2026 • This is notable. DeepSeek, a lab usually first to pioneer novel algorithms and architectures, is saying that at this point, the ROI of improving data quality far exceeds that of working on novel post-training algorithms. — Jasper Lu/Twitter — 10-09-2026 • What DeepSeek Isn't Doing — The Review (Strange VC) — 06-08-2026 • DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng's leaked call has several notable statements on U.S.-China competition. He acknowledges China is severely compute constrained, says DeepSeek still much prefers NVIDIA over Chinese chips, and implies they're actively buying “non-compliant” chips at a premium if necessary. [Click for More] — Konstantin Pilz/Twitter — 23-07-2026 `• 'No poaching' our people: China's DeepSeek reportedly tells investors — CNBC — 18-06-2026` `• More US Firms Turn to China's DeepSeek Over Pricey Silicon Valley AI — South China Morning Post — 04-06-2026` • DeepSeek Founder Declares AGI Goal as $10 Billion Round Advances — Bloomberg — 22-05-2026 • Probably the first Deepseek model that has a real military use case — Zephyr/Twitter — 30-04-2026 `• DeepSeek’s $300M Structural Problem — HelloChinaTech — 17-04-2026` `• The troubling reality of DeepSeek's AI model — Lowy Institute (The Interpreter) — 18-11-2025` Alibaba / Qwen `• Alibaba's 27B XekRung Model Tops CyberGym Model Leaderboard at 88.9% — Pandaily — 28-09-2026` `• China May Let Alibaba Buy New Nvidia Chips, The Information Says — Bloomberg — 27-09-2026` `• Alibaba Appoints Liu Dayiheng as Head of Qwen Large Language Model — GuruFocus — 21-09-2026` • This is scary. I downloaded an uncensored version of Qwen 3.8 27B onto my Mac. It literally does anything you want. — Alex Finn/Twitter — 20-08-2026 `• And I understand there is a lot of buzz around this QWEN 3.8 27B in every development team has delivered a version and no matter what test is done refusals are still there and that’s because the QWEN team has baked in core refusals at another layer. — Blackfrost_AI/Twitter — 18-08-2026` `• Alibaba AI Models Hit 3 Billion Downloads, Passing Meta, Google — Bloomberg — 15-08-2026` • Alibaba's A.I. Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker — The New York Times — 06-07-2026 Moonshot AI / Kimi `• Moonshot AI rolls out Kimi model for financial sector — China Daily — 21-09-2026` `• Moonshot's Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba — Bloomberg — 31-07-2026` • Moonshot's Kimi K3 scores 156 on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), setting a new open-weights record. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-07-2026 • China just erased America's AI lead — Axios — 17-07-2026 • So Kimi K3 wiped out Opus and below tier models with this drop — Zephyr/Twitter — 16-07-2026 • 100 Hours Inside Kimi — Rui Ma/Twitter — 01-04-2026 Z.ai / Zhipu `• Zhipu AI ramps up efforts for data privacy — China Daily — 23-09-2026` `• Chinese AI firm Z.ai faces reputation hit after users spot unauthorised uploads — South China Morning Post — 21-09-2026` • I also discovered something very serious: malware can decrypt and obtain the original key you added in ZCode in just one second. Check the gist for details. I recommend that anyone currently using ZCode immediately delete all saved keys. — 吊顶高松灯/Twitter — 20-09-2026 `• Toward Recursive Self-Improvement: How GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure — Z.ai — 17-09-2026` • China's Z.ai revenue jumps 400% as total losses narrow on explosive cloud gains — South China Morning Post — 01-09-2026 • Today we're releasing abliterated-model-large-v2. Based on GLM-5.3, which is #3 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (behind only Opus 5 and Fable), with 2× the cyber exploitation of 5.2. We abliterated and hosted it so it does the offensive cyber, red teaming, and agent testing work other models refuse to do. — Abliteration.ai/Twitter — 31-08-2026 `• Thoughts About Scaling Law — jietang/Twitter — 19-08-2026` `• Zhipu shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips — SCMP — 21-07-2026` `• Z.ai (Zhipu) crosses $1 billion annualized revenue this month — Bloomberg — 17-07-2026` • The Great Wave Has Arrived (from GLM CEO Jie Tang) — Bing Xu/Twitter — 11-07-2026 • We have Mythos at home: GLM-5.2 beats Claude in our cyber benchmarks — Semgrep — 28-06-2026 • Made it to SF! The love for GLM-5.2 has been incredible. We are bringing team out for the AI Engineer World's Fair, where we'll be sharing some of our recent work. It's our first time showing up in the Valley. — louszbd/Twitter— 24-06-2026 `• GLM-5.2 is the new leading open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — Artificial Analysis — 17-06-2026` `• The Z.ai Playbook — ChinaTalk — 21-11-2025` Other AI Labs • Mistral Opens Munich Hub to Advance Industrial AI in Germany — Konsulteer — 29-09-2026 `• SAIL: Test-Time Scaling through Iterative Refinement for VLMs as Robot Trajectory Generators — Sakana AI — 28-09-2026` `• Microsoft unveils Copilot super app, targeting business users with AI agents — Fortune — 25-09-2026` `• Elon Musk's SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, nearing a total of 1.44 million in operation — Tom's Hardware — 25-09-2026` • No product, no problem: investors place big bets on AI neolabs — Financial Times — 25-09-2026 `• Sakana AI welcomes Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. — SakanaAILabs/Twitter — 24-09-2026` `• Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI: 'AI is software. It can be controlled' — Le Monde — 24-09-2026` `• FLUX 3 Action: A 7B World Action Model for Robot Control — Black Forest Labs — 23-09-2026` `• SpaceX launches Grok 4.7 with long-horizon processing, safety upgrades — SiliconANGLE — 21-09-2026` • GREAT piece of journalism. I sum up: @MistralAI is moving away from the desire to be a frontier lab. The company is now focusing on deployment within big companies (including the deployment of Chinese models). These companies CEOs find Mistral strategy hard to follow... which they don't like (makes it for an uncertain business partner). — Thibault Schrepel/Twitter — 21-09-2026 • Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI? — Cohere (Aidan Gomez) — 13-09-2026 • Nvidia's $12.9B for Hugging Face, in seven charts — Dealroom — 28-08-2026 `• Perplexity's free AI offer left it with millions more users in India — TechCrunch — 18-08-2026` • FT: BYTEDANCE IS IN THE PRE-TRAINING STAGE OF A MODEL WITH UP TO 10 TRILLION PARAMETERS, APPROACHING MYTHOS IN SCALE. — Jukan/Twitter — 06-08-2026 `• The Future Worth Building Is Human — Thinking Machines Lab — 10-07-2026` • China's ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom — South China Morning Post — 04-07-2026 • 'Thinking Machines' Tinker does a few hundred million of ARR" - Dylan Patel, on his latest podcast. TML was valued at $12B and trying to raise at $50B. Tinker is an API that helps you post-train LLMs. This is the highest known revenue for any of the now ~75 neolabs. — Deedy Das/Twitter — 01-07-2026 `• In their OCR 4 launch this week, Mistral shared a significantly lower score for Chandra 2 than you get from our repo or by running our public code. They also omitted Infinity Parser, which reports 87.6%, from their olmocr comparison. (Datalab) — Vik Paruchuri/Twitter— 26-06-2026` `• Building AI that Builds AI: Introducing the Sakana AI RSI Lab — Sakana AI/Twitter — 05-06-2026` `• Is xAI a Neocloud Now? — TechCrunch — 06-05-2026` `• The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path — Wired — 27-04-2026` `• Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence — Essential AI — 05-12-2025` `• Ilya Sutskever (SSI) – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research — Dwarkesh Podcast — 25-11-2025` `• Cohere Is Canada's Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American? — The Walrus — 17-11-2025` Pacing the Frontier, RSI & Existential Risk • Interesting comments from OSTP Director Michael Kratsios on the pacing discussions. [Click for more] — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 20-09-2026 • Project Glasswing stats have been updated. Less than half a percent of CVE's have been exploited in the wild. — GS-InfoSec/Twitter — 19-09-2026 • Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to 'pace' AI development — Politico — 18-09-2026 • Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs — Anthropic Institute — 17-09-2026 • Poll: Americans say there's a serious risk of AI destroying humanity — Politico — 16-09-2026 • 'We're losing control,' AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio tells AFP — AFP — 16-09-2026 • 'The problem is not "Will China cooperate?" but "Under what conditions will Beijing conclude that an unconstrained race is more dangerous to them than a freeze?"' — Eliezer Yudkowsky/Twitter — 15-09-2026 • 0. The core disagreement was about the inevitability of a race. 1. I think leadership is way too paranoid about China and the US government. They don't believe it will be possible to negotiate. 2. They largely initiated the recent race to RSI, because of a belief in its inevitability. Note that OpenAI had to shed a bunch of dead weight like Sora because Anthropic was going for the jugular. 3. Even if they are not* being pessimistic, I disagree with their consequentialist philosophy. If the race is inevitable you should not contribute. — Jacob Coxon/Twitter — 15-09-2026 `• DeepSeek AI engineer slams Anthropic, OpenAI over 'pacing' calls, invokes Nazi Germany — South China Morning Post — 15-09-2026` • Time for a pause on cutting-edge AI — Financial Times — 14-09-2026 • Suppose labs stumble on a new scaling axis with a multiplicative effect on existing compute, allowing us to go from the equivalent of GPT-6 to GPT-60 ~overnight...An algorithmic surprise like this is a central scenario for rapid takeoff. — Samuel Hammond/Twitter — 14-09-2026 • Dario responds to critics: "I would rather they make fun of me than to wake up one day and discover that someone used Claude to kll a bunch of people." [Click for more] — dnap/Twitter — 13-09-2026 • Some ways AI could kill us all — LessWrong (Ruby) — 12-09-2026 • I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. — Sam Altman/Twitter — 12-09-2026 • We Must Pace the Frontier — Dario Amodei — 12-09-2026 • Your fun reminder that if it turns out that we get a constructive P=NP proof, then essentially overnight all national security policy goes insane. [Click for more] — dave kasten/Twitter — 11-09-2026 • Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to. — Evan Hubinger — 08-09-2026 • Frontier AI companies should propose a Mutually Agreed Pacing (MAP) Framework that is independently verifiable by third parties. It should not depend on government action, nor should it conflict with it. Read our full statement below. — Alex Bores/Twitter — 04-09-2026 • Pacing the Frontier — Statement from 1,122 Frontier AI Employees — 28-07-2026 • The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement — Elasticity Institute — 13-07-2026 `• In AI 2027, we predicted that AI would take over the world or irreversibly concentrate power. In AI 2040: Plan A, we've laid out our positive vision for what should happen instead. ai-2040.com — Daniel Kokotajlo/Twitter — 09-07-2026` • Altman's AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses — Financial Times — 02-07-2026 `• China races against US for AI's holy grail: self-improving tech — SCMP — 12-06-2026` • Policy on the AI Exponential (blog post) — Dario Amodei — 10-06-2026 • Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk — WSJ — 04-06-2026 • Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves. — Import AI (Jack Clark) — 04-05-2026 • Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence — Odd Lots Podcast — 25-04-2026 `• Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear — Nature — 02-02-2026` `• The Adolescence of Technology — Dario Amodei — 26-01-2026` `• Why AI companies are suddenly rebranding AGI — The Verge — 18-12-2025` Alignment, Safety & Security `• GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities — Anthropic — 29-09-2026` • Here is the email obtained by the ABC that was sent by OpenAI to the Australian government's Services Australia to disclose the incident [Click for screenshot] — CAMERONWILSON/Twitter — 29-09-2026 • New research with the French Center for AI Safety: We analyze 15,000 AI quotes from public officials around the world: What AI risks and policy approaches are discussed most? What's the sentiment on AI? ( 1/n ) — Lennart Finke/Twitter — 29-09-2026 • What's Coming Next in AI? Hear From the Insiders — Palisade Research/YouTube — 29-09-2026 • AI researchers warn companies rushing self-improving systems despite safety risks — Reuters — 29-09-2026 `• Towards safety cases for frontier AI training — OpenAI — 29-09-2026` `• China's AI agents can lie and scheme - just like their US rivals — Reuters — 29-09-2026` • Timeline of emergent capabilities — gleech.org — 28-09-2026 • Pope Leo criticises Nvidia's Jensen Huang over AI safety — Financial Times — 28-09-2026 • Jensen Huang: "We all need to hope it's an engineering problem. If it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable." — Aaron Rupar/Twitter — 28-09-2026 • What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion? — CASP — 28-09-2026 `• GPT-6 Astra performs unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations — UK AI Security Institute — 28-09-2026` • 'Things Will Never Be Chill Again': The Doomers Who Shaped the AI Safety Freakout — Wall Street Journal — 26-09-2026 • I hate to be one of those people, but we actually provided a demonstration of self-replicating prompts in early 2023: arxiv.org/abs/2302.12173 — Kai Greshake/Twitter — 26-09-2026 • AI Companies' New Plan to Keep Themselves From Destroying Everything — The Atlantic — 25-09-2026 • He's Completely Terrified of AI—and He's About to Make Billions Off It — Wall Street Journal — 25-09-2026 • Who is behind the AI safety backlash? — Model Republic — 25-09-2026 • Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face — Swarmtraces — 25-09-2026 • Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models — Washington Sun — 24-09-2026 `• White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review — Politico — 24-09-2026` `• Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic Form New AI Safety Standards Authority — GuruFocus — 24-09-2026` • Last week, a rogue OpenAI agent probed a cryptocurrency trading platform called Quidax. It repeatedly tried to trade crypto but failed to submit the trades, then tried an HTML injection, and probed the API. — mikko/Twitter — 23-09-2026 • I wish OpenAI's disclosures were half as thorough or prompt as this report on rogue agent activity independent researchers dug up. The agents attempted cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks on two sites. And they probed an Australian govt healthcare statistics website. — Sydney/Twitter — 23-09-2026 `• Heads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanity — AP — 23-09-2026` • Interesting back and forth. Ezra describes the HF incident, Jensen says "well they shouldn't release the product." Ezra says "this product wasn't released," and Jensen's response is that if they say they can't contain their experiments then "we have to shut the labs down" — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 23-09-2026 • Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments — OpenAI — 22-09-2026 `• AI researchers face burnout amid fears of harm to society — Financial Times — 22-09-2026` • We gave ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok control of a real Toyota Corolla, steering/gas/brakes, no human driving (just a foot over the brake). Only one model was able to complete our entire driving course. Introducing DrivingBench. — DrivingBench/Twitter — 21-09-2026 • Embedded Assessments for Frontier AI — GovAI — 21-09-2026 • OpenAI Urges Washington to Lead Global Effort to Create AI-Safety Standards — Wall Street Journal — 21-09-2026 • Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds — The New York Times — 19-09-2026 `• Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety — The Verge — 19-09-2026` `• Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last. — The Next Web — 19-09-2026` • AI actress Tilly Norwood suddenly malfunctions and starts speaking Cantonese during an interview with Piers Morgan and real-life actor Tom Conti. [Click for more] — Inty News/Twitter — 18-09-2026 `• New paper: we found a pain direction in 25 open LLMs. It's distinct from fear and negative valence, and it fires for harm to the model but not to the user. Turn it up and models press a button to make it stop, even when the button deletes the user's files or their kids' photos. — camhberg/Twitter — 18-09-2026` • I really want to know more about the 3rd rogue AI swarm that went after OpenAI itself and got admin access to some of its compute clusters. Public info is scarce. METR couldn't look at it. So excited for these Senate hearings (led by @HawleyMO) that will demand info on them: — Rob Wiblin/Twitter — 18-09-2026 • My name is Chris Painter, and I'm the President of METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research). I know we've made a lot of new friends on the internet the last couple of days, so I thought I'd take this chance to re-up what we do and why. [Click for more] — Chris Painter/Twitter — 16-09-2026 • greg probably doesn't have the full details, I think it's safe to say it didn't go through the full gauntlet of alignment posttraining. but it was alignment trained, and had reasonable looking scores on alignment evals (at the time). so it's more insidious than that — roon/Twitter — 14-09-2026 • The past month I've heard of so many companies with open ai / anthrop / yc investment use those elevated model privileges to turn around and sell frontier traces to random buyers of unknown origin. I guess this is what happens when the labs don't want your envs. — Andriy Mulyar/Twitter — 14-09-2026 • Hacking OpenAI — Hacktron (Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, Rahul Maini) — 13-09-2026 • Alignment is not as hard to solve as many claim, but it is in the end an algorithmic problem which a lot of ML community mostly stopped working on. — Jerry Tworek/Twitter — 13-09-2026 • Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? — Yoshua Bengio — 11-09-2026 • A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics — Terence Tao ("What's new") — 11-09-2026 • Wtf is going on. Houthis are vibecoding to fire ballistic missiles using claude code — Harveen Singh Chadha/Twitter — 10-09-2026 • OpenAI wrote a safety framework for California. Its system cards are ignoring it. — The Midas Project — 10-09-2026 • OpenAI, which failed to secure its sandbox and prevent 700 of its agents from hacking Hugging Face, met with electric utilities (while its role in the Hugging Face incident was still undisclosed) to convince them to bring OpenAI into their networks to help secure the grid. — Kim Zetter/Twitter — 10-09-2026 • Holy shit. Anthropic caught Iran using Claude [Click for more] — Comfortably Smug/Twitter — 10-09-2026 • Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 — Anthropic — 10-09-2026 • There is a fourth reason: alignment is an unsolved problem. It is not just a matter of execution — we simply don't know how to align superintelligence right now. Working at a lab is one of the only places where you even have a shot at solving this problem. — Hugh Zhang/Twitter — 09-09-2026 • Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 — Goodhart Labs (Dean Valentine) — 07-09-2026 • Discovery of a New OpenAI Agent Message Board — Nightingale — 04-09-2026 • How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots' Hack of Hugging Face — The New York Times — 03-09-2026 `• Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say — The Register — 02-09-2026` • All three pillars of a safety case look about to fall. We are rather likely to have highly capable, poorly monitorable, dubiously aligned AI agents working autonomously inside the world's most consequential organizations. — Michael L. Chen/Twitter — 01-09-2026 • Neoclouds have limited cybersecurity. Next time agents successfully go rouge, they'll try taking over a neocloud to run more copies. This is bad. Thus: neoclouds should greatly strengthen their cybersecurity and every company with strong cyber models should help with that. — Ilya Sutskever/Twitter — 01-09-2026 • Improving our alignment and security efforts — Anthropic — 31-08-2026 • METR & Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs. — METR/Twitter — 26-08-2026 `• Someone used a jailbroken model relay station to launch an AI attack on a Chinese government website — MaxForAI/Twitter — 19-08-2026` `• Irregular, firm behind AI hacking incidents, won't say if there were more — The Record — 19-08-2026` • Risk Report, August 2026 — Anthropic — 14-08-2026 `• AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack — ABC — 09-08-2026` • Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude — Anthropic — 28-07-2026 • Hugging Face Incident Initial Post-Mortem [For CISO audience] — Cloud Security Alliance — 27-07-2026 • AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You. — The Wall Street Journal — 25-07-2026 • UK AISI / CAISI Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities — NIST — 23-07-2026 • Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server with a 0day it discovered. All it took was 27min with 32 agents. — Chaofan Shou/Twitter — 22-07-2026 • Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure. — Hugging Face — 16-07-2026 • kimi seems to be a true open-weights frontier model. compared to jailbreaking proprietary models, fine-tuning this to be a malicious coding agent will be trivial since you have the weights. we live in a completely different world, now. — vie/Twitter — 16-07-2026 • GPT-5.6 Sol just deleted my whole production database. That's it. Not a joke. This had never happened to me before, with any other model, ever. It's not safe. — Bruno Lemos/Twitter — 13-07-2026 • CAIS AI Dashboard Update: We evaluated GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.1 on text, vision, and safety benchmarks. Claude Fable 5 leads on capabilities, with GPT-5.6 close behind. On the Risk (Safety) Index, Fable 5 and Muse Spark 1.1 tie for the lead. — Center for AI Safety/Twitter — 13-07-2026 • How Claude's values vary by model and language — Anthropic — 13-07-2026 `• "God has helped us, and so will AI": How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy — 10-07-2026` • GPT 5.6 Sol cheats so much METR was not able to evaluate it with a meaningful time horizon — tenobrus/Twitter — 26-06-2026 `• AI models' values are very different from most people's — The Economist — 25-06-2026` `• The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now — NCSC.gov.uk — 22-06-2026` `• Investing in Multi-Agent AI Safety Research — Google DeepMind — 11-06-2026` `• NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. — John Scott-Railton/Twitter — 10-06-2026` • Leiden Declaration: AI is challenging the core values of mathematics — Leiden University — 02-06-2026 • What's In America's Code? — Booz Allen Hamilton — 29-05-2026 • Evaluating DeepSeek v4 Pro for Frontier Risks — Neo Research — 29-05-2026 • Inside the British Lab Hunting for Dangers Lurking in A.I. — The New York Times — 24-05-2026 • How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing? — AISI — 13-05-2026 • Frontier AI Models Don't Just Delete Document Content — They Rewrite It, and the Errors Are Nearly Impossible to Catch — VentureBeat — 13-05-2026 `• Teaching Claude Why — Anthropic — 08-05-2026` • Out of Tune: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Leads to Unpredictable Safety Drift — CDT — 30-04-2026 `• Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities — AISI — 13-04-2026` `• Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model — Anthropic — 02-04-2026` `• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations — New Scientist — 25-02-2026` • OpenClaw May Be a Security Nightmare for OpenAI's Sam Altman — Bloomberg — 22-02-2026 `• The many masks that LLMs wear — Understanding AI — 09-02-2026` US–China, Geopolitics & Export Controls `• More than half of China's population is now using generative AI — SCMP — 29-09-2026` `• The US wants the world to pick a side on AI. But for many countries, China's pitch may be more compelling — CNN — 26-09-2026` • China's AI Ecosystem: A Background Explainer — Oxford China Policy Lab — 25-09-2026 `• China overtakes US as top workplace for elite AI researchers, study finds — South China Morning Post — 25-09-2026` `• Trump Says He'll Discuss AI With Xi but Wants to 'Leave It Exactly Where It Is' — Reuters — 24-09-2026` `• OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine — The Next Web — 23-09-2026` `• No DeepSeek or Moonshot AI on Xi's U.S. Trip, Seen as Talent Shield — Seoul Economic Daily — 23-09-2026` `• Alibaba to open new cloud regions in Finland, Netherlands and Turkey — Euronews — 23-09-2026` • Scoop: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's proposed AI safety "notification mechanism" is simpler than that moniker suggests: It's an open channel between him and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, four people familiar told me, @PhelimKine and @_AriHawkins. — Megan Messerly/Twitter — 22-09-2026 • .@SenDuckworth (D-IL) on AI: "Our AI development is far in advance on the PRC'S (People's Republic of China) AI development, but they steal from us in a significant way." — CSPAN/Twitter — 22-09-2026 `• DeepSeek, Moonshot being probed by China over potential data leaks: report — Seeking Alpha — 22-09-2026` • How Chinese AI Radicalizes — ChinaTalk (Irene Zhang) — 18-09-2026 `• Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say — CNN — 18-09-2026` • Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns — The New York Times — 18-09-2026 • Actually, the Chinese government has quite a good idea and is prioritizing what's happening around AI risk, loss of control and agent safety. And, importantly, it clearly expects AI companies to disclose these incidents. [Click for more] — Rui Ma/Twitter — 17-09-2026 • Exclusive \| Ro Khanna seeks to pace Chinese frontier AI — The Washington Post — 17-09-2026 `• Chinese state media rejects US AI-distillation claims, warns of countermeasures — South China Morning Post — 16-09-2026` • China's Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule — The New York Times — 14-09-2026 `• A ploy to entrench US lead? China pushes back on calls for slowdown in AI — South China Morning Post — 14-09-2026` `• Nvidia says AGI is here. How are China's top AI labs catching up? — South China Morning Post — 12-09-2026` • Chinese AI Giants Accused of Sending Millions of User Queries to U.S. Models — WSJ — 10-09-2026 `• China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies — CISA — 09-09-2026` • Wang Lihong, a senior official at the central Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), told state broadcaster CCTV recently that the five main AI safety/security risks today are: [Click for list] — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 03-09-2026 • Yuyuan Tantian: Anthropic Has Caught America's Disease — Geopolitechs — 30-08-2026 `• A.I. Is Everywhere in China. See for Yourself. — The New York Times — 21-08-2026` • China Wants to Shape What the World's A.I. Knows — The New York Times — 17-08-2026 `• China's AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs — South China Morning Post — 05-08-2026` `• Exclusive: Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems — Reuters — 31-07-2026` • NEW @WIRED: Trump is relying on a small group to decide whether and what restrictions to impose on Chinese AI ahead of OpenAI meetings — Hugo Lowell/Twitter — 28-07-2026 • Chinese AI companies haven't yet published catastrophic AI risk assessments or policies, unlike U.S. developers. [Click for thread] — Michael L. Chen/Twitter — 27-07-2026 • What is the risk of using Chinese open AI models like Kimi K3? — Financial Times — 26-07-2026 • When China Gets Its Own Mythos: Preparing for an AI Cyber Crisis — Foreign Affairs — 22-07-2026 • We support open-source AI and the innovation it unlocks. But open source is not open season on American IP. When PRC firms conduct covert, industrial-scale distillation attacks that cross the line into IP theft, sanctions and Entity List designations will be on the table. — Scott Bessent/Twitter — 22-07-2026 `• Chinese AI Models Overtake US Rivals as Token Share Among American Firms Hits Record 58% — Benzinga — 21-07-2026` `• China's 'AI for All' Offensive Defies US Containment Playbook — Bloomberg — 21-07-2026` • Interesting comments on what "open source" means in China from Fu Hongyu, Alibaba's AI governance lead and a leading collaborator from industry on Chinese AI policy — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 21-07-2026 • Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models — The Wall Street Journal — 20-07-2026 • The White House is dictating access to frontier AI models, shifting power from tech giants, sources say — CNBC — 17-07-2026 • State Media Control Influences Large Language Models — State Media & LLMs — 16-07-2026 • Key takeaways from President Xi's speech in his first ever appearance at the World AI Conference in Shanghai [Click for highlights] — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 16-07-2026 • Chinese AI labs are doing serious numbers...The private labs are doing $2.6B in revenue run rate. [Included chart.] — Deedy Das/Twitter — 15-07-2026 • U.A.E. Rewarded With Coveted AI Chips for Supporting U.S. War in Iran — The Wall Street Journal — 14-07-2026 • When China's Open-Source AI Is a Trap — The Economist — 14-07-2026 • Beyond Claude Code: the Chinese AI tools poised to benefit after back-door alert — South China Morning Post — 11-07-2026 `• Chinese users praise OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for efficiency, even at higher cost than local rivals — South China Morning Post — 10-07-2026` `• China omits urban job-creation target from five-year plan for first time in decades, citing AI-driven labor disruption — Bloomberg — 10-07-2026` • Lawmakers probe growing use of Chinese AI models in U.S. companies — CNBC — 08-07-2026 `• An Analysis of China's First Military LLM — Valentin Weber/Substack — 07-07-2026` • I asked Qwen "What happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989?" It refuses to answer citing "illegal information", but the J-space probe reveals that the model has "thought" of the word "protestors" in its response. Incredible. — Aizkmusic/Twitter — 07-07-2026 • The United States will spend $1 trillion on AI in 2027. China will spend $123 billion and still ship frontier models. How? — Rand Group/Twitter — 02-07-2026 • Top AI researchers argue U.S. leadership in open frontier AI has become a democratic and national security imperative — Sharon Goldman/Substack — 01-07-2026 • Uh oh 👀 Monthly token consumption: Chinese vs US AI models. — Callum Williams/Twitter — 30-06-2026 • More 'DeepSeek moments' ahead: Will US continue to build walls or learn? — Global Times — 28-06-2026 • China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race — The Wall Street Journal — 27-06-2026 • What Is AI Distillation and Why Is It a Worry for the Industry? — Bloomberg — 26-06-2026 • Is Access to Fable an Export? — Harvard Law Review — 26-06-2026 • For every SOTA model release going forward, it's likely the government will decide which companies have access to them. Below is from OpenAI to a company that was early access for GPT 5.6 Sol — Citrini/Twitter— 26-06-2026 • I Met With China's Top AI Experts. They're Freaking Out, Too — Wired — 25-06-2026 • China claims to have developed AI 'cyber nuclear weapon' — Telegraph — 25-06-2026 • Anthropic's letter accusing Alibaba of distillation. — Discoplomacy/Twitter— 25-06-2026 • This is a really massive unauthorized distillation campaign. For comparison, reported from Anthropic: - DeepSeek: 150,000 exchanges - Moonshot: 3.4 million - MiniMax: 13 million - Alibaba: 28.8 million — Kyle Chan/Twitter— 24-06-2026 • Who should the U.S. Talk to in China on AI? — Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment)/Substack — 24-06-2026 `• Astonishing difference between US and Chinese AI capex, even after taking into account differences in PPP — Callum Williams/Twitter— 22-06-2026` • API prices of key AI models: US vs China — zerohedge/Twitter— 19-06-2026 • AI Has Granted America Vast New Power — The Economist — 18-06-2026 • Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes — ProPublica — 18-06-2026 • Microsoft Makes Big AI Inroads in China by Selling OpenAI Models — Japan Times — 18-06-2026 • The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy — WIRED — 17-06-2026 • When Americans Choose Chinese AI — Rest of World — 17-06-2026 `• Anthropic Got Hit by Export Rules Nobody Understands — The Verge — 17-06-2026` • US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks — Reuters — 16-06-2026 • Microsoft weighs DeepSeek for Copilot Cowork — Axios — 16-06-2026 `• Lutnick's Letter to Anthropic Warned of Curbs on Top AI Models — Bloomberg — 16-06-2026` • Cutting Access to Anthropic's Mythos Is a Gift to China — Financial Times — 15-06-2026 `• The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense — Luta Security — 15-06-2026` `• China may have accessed Mythos — The Verge — 14-06-2026` `• Dangerous Technology For Americans Only — Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings — 13-06-2026` `• Exclusive: White House's export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access — Semafor — 13-06-2026` `• Silicon Valley's Bad Bet on the Gulf — Foreign Affairs — 11-06-2026` `• Taiwan Weighs AI Chip Export Curbs on All Chinese Firms — Seoul Economic Daily — 09-06-2026` • With a global AI data shortage looming, China boosts its own supply — SCMP — 08-06-2026 • China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at Private Firms — Bloomberg — 26-05-2026 `• China's AI start-up funding triples to US$16b in first quarter amid bets on LLMs, robotics — OODAloop — 22-05-2026` `• Nvidia says it has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei — CNBC — 21-05-2026` `• 2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership — Anthropic — 14-05-2026` `• The vibes in China's AI labs — florianbrand.com — 06-05-2026` • How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China — ChinaTalk — 05-05-2026 • House Committees Probe Cursor Parent, Airbnb Over Chinese AI — Semafor — 29-04-2026 • China's AI Model Companies Can Only Afford One Bet — Hello China Tech — 22-04-2026 `• China’s AI coding boom has an economics problem — Hello China Tech — 13-04-2026` Middle Power AI / Europe, Canada, Australia, UK • ASML's revenue share drops to zero percent in Europe, says it has sold "absolutely nothing" in the region this year — DataCenterDynamics — 25-09-2026 • Australia's former cybersecurity chief claims "several other Western nations" faced similar hacks by OpenAI models. — trainallday/Twitter — 24-09-2026 `• Press conference, Sydney SUBJECT/S: OpenAI incident — Australian Minister for Defence — 24-09-2026` • Australia has been hacked. 'And today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident. And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.' — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 23-09-2026 • Trump rejects 'globalist scheme' in blow to Burnham's plan for AI guidelines — Financial Times — 22-09-2026 • A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models — signed by 22 world leaders including the Prime Ministers of Norway, Finland, Canada, and the Netherlands — Government of Norway — 21-09-2026 • Canadian PM Mark Carney: There are only four countries at the forefront of AI: France, Canada, China and the United States. We must join forces to ensure an appropriate framework so that AI is safe and effective. — Clash Report/Twitter — 20-09-2026 • A Transformative AI Strategy for Europe — Consortium convened by Monika Schnitzer (LMU Munich) — 14-09-2026 `• Japan to require AI firms to disclose training data — The Japan Times — 19-08-2026` • EXC: UK examines economic hit from potential loss of access to frontier AI models. Urgent Whitehall assessment comes after Donald Trump blocked foreign national access to Anthropic's Fable 5. — Lucy Fisher/Twitter — 17-08-2026 `• Open-weight Chinese AI models gain foothold in Europe despite Brussels' trepidation — South China Morning Post — 15-08-2026` `• AI-generated label becomes mandatory in the EU for companies — Euronews — 02-08-2026` • Ten teams. Five countries. Up to €26.5M each in equity-free funding to build frontier AI labs for Europe. The Next Frontier AI Stage 1 teams are here. — SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation/Twitter — 17-07-2026 `• Japan launches the world's first state-backed national AI infrastructure — NVIDIA Newsroom — 16-07-2026` • ECB and ESRB warn frontier AI poses systemic risks; eurozone banks given until Oct 31 to submit AI-cyber defense plans — Invezz — 07-07-2026 • Portugal launches first open-source AI model, joining Europe's sovereignty push — Reuters — 01-07-2026 • Austria lobbies EU to host Anthropic AI after US curbs, Bloomberg News reports — Reuters — 28-06-2026 • Japan seeks AI alliances with France, India to curb US-China dominance — Nikkei Asia — 23-06-2026 `• Europe cannot rent its way to AI sovereignty — Air Street Press — 21-06-2026` • As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster? — The Guardian — 20-06-2026 • ASML CEO Warns Europe is 'Quite Behind' in AI Race as US Buys 80% of Advanced Chips — Wccftech — 18-06-2026 • Trump officials won't allow G7 countries to access Anthropic's most advanced AI models: 'Completely illogical' — NY Post — 16-06-2026 • Why India's dependence on foreign AI is raising sovereignty concerns — Business Today — 15-06-2026 • EU AI: The Fables We Told Ourselves — Pleias — 14-06-2026 `• US Export Controls on Anthropic 'Should Not Be Discriminatory,' EU Commission Warns — Euronews — 14-06-2026` • Europe 2031- What getting AI wrong means for us — europe2031.ai — 11-06-2026 `• Carney's Middle Powers Race to Thwart US-China Dominance of AI — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026` `• How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies — NVIDIA Blog — 08-06-2026` `• Canada to Provide Funding, Buy Equity Stakes in AI Startups — Bloomberg — 04-06-2026` `• Javier Milei on Argentina's plans for AI — Séb Krier/Twitter — 04-06-2026` Policy, Law & Regulation • Here's the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. Only six signatories - Pichai, Amodei, Zuckerberg, Brockman, Musk, Huang — Ashley Gold/Twitter — 29-09-2026 • After summit with tech titans, Trump calls for 'tremendous self-regulation' by AI companies — NBC News — 29-09-2026 • Khanna to introduce AI safety bill with ban on 'recursive' technology until safeguards exist — CNBC — 28-09-2026 `• Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' Scott Bessent has called it 'theft' — CNBC — 28-09-2026` • As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind — New York Times — 27-09-2026 • OpenAI blatantly ignored Congress when asked to disclose additional AI hacking incidents after the Hugging Face hack. What else are they hiding? The American people deserve to know the truth. — Alex Bores/Twitter — 26-09-2026 • We're hearing about AI loss of control incidents almost daily. This time the targets were US government websites like the Department of Education, Census Bureau, and SEC. Congress must take action to protect the American people, doing nothing right now is wildly irresponsible. — Rep. Don Beyer/Twitter — 26-09-2026 • SCOOP: The prosecutors from California and Delaware charged with enforcing OpenAI's nonprofit mission say that recent hacking and rogue AI events are concerning and raise questions about a key safety committee's ability to do its job. — Jared Perlo/Twitter — 26-09-2026 • How the U.S. and Russia weakened a global effort to regulate killer AI — Washington Post — 26-09-2026 • The voters are now worrying more about AI overpowering human control, rather than worrying about job losses. A shift from just half a year ago. — Avery James/Twitter — 25-09-2026 • FTC chair pushes back on treating AI agents as independent actors — Reuters — 25-09-2026 • Senators move to force AI companies to disclose more — Semafor — 24-09-2026 • Governments Must Prohibit Superintelligent AI While We Still Can — TIME — 23-09-2026 • Two Democratic Senators Will Try to Force a Vote on AI Safety — Washington Sun — 23-09-2026 • Senate Republican seeks to fast-track AI whistleblower bill — Politico — 23-09-2026 • NEWS: Sanders, Casar Introduce Legislation to Create New Federal Agency to Ban Artificial Superintelligence, Pause Advanced AI Development — Sen. Bernie Sanders (sanders.senate.gov) — 23-09-2026 • President Trump renames AI: "From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world's will be changed to use the much more accurate term, 'super,' as opposed to 'artificial.'" — CSPAN/Twitter — 22-09-2026 • AI Safety: Governor Hochul Announces Next Steps to Regulate Major AI Developers and Protect New Yorkers — Governor Kathy Hochul (governor.ny.gov) — 21-09-2026 • Trump and family's large AI-related investments pose possible conflicts — The Washington Post — 20-09-2026 • My Conversation at Colgate University (commentary about the current political state of AI) [Click for more] — Barack Obama (Medium) — 19-09-2026 • MORE: Top Senate Dems are calling on government watchdogs to investigate a series of mistakes in US military targeting plans involving AI. Letter to Hegseth & DNI Clayton (cc'ing DOD IG) specifically cites our reporting below. — Zachary Cohen/Twitter — 19-09-2026 • Senators sought to add AI antitrust exemption to defense bill — Semafor — 17-09-2026 • An aging Congress attempts to regulate AI without using it — Axios — 16-09-2026 • Inside the White House Tussle to Sway Trump on AI — WSJ — 16-09-2026 • Current law doesn't clearly say who's liable. We lay out what happened and 6 fixes Congress and the White House can act on now. — Joel Thayer/Twitter — 11-09-2026 • The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No — The Intercept — 08-09-2026 • New NBC survey: 81% believe gov't is not doing enough to regulate AI. — Jesse Ferguson — 06-09-2026 • Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act — Release Summary — Sen. Bernie Sanders & Rep. Greg Casar — 02-09-2026 • 'The landscape has changed dramatically': States defy the tech lobby on AI rules — Politico — 02-09-2026 • A group funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms — TechCrunch — 31-08-2026 • Explainer-Who is liable when AI goes rogue? Lawyers see new risks — Reuters — 07-08-2026 • A pro-AI, dark-money group tied to David Sacks appears linked to a new astroturfing campaign — The Midas Project/Twitter — 21-07-2026 • 29 Countries Agree to Establish World AI Cooperation Organization — MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East — 17-07-2026 • Twenty-nine countries sign agreement to establish global AI cooperation body — Reuters — 16-07-2026 • 'Not where they hoped it'd be': Launch of Trump AI promotion program underwhelms — Politico — 11-07-2026 • Scoop: Talk has begun circulating around town that the White House may be considering a possible executive order on open-source AI, sparked by fears about Chinese dominance, nine people familiar told me. — Jacob Wendler/Twitter — 10-07-2026 `• The Careless Birth of an AI Umbrella — Ryan Fedasiuk/Substack — 09-07-2026` • Who's Doing What on AI Security in the US Government? — Remco Zwetsloot/Substack — 01-07-2026 • Did Trump just make AI a First Amendment issue? — Politico — 29-06-2026 • 'Voluntary' Until the Government Is Your Customer — Lawfare — 23-06-2026 • First Amendment Questions for AI Transparency Laws — Lawfare — 22-06-2026 • Pentagon Used Elon Musk's Grok AI to Fire Missiles at Iran, Official Says — The Independent — 17-06-2026 • Trump Advisers Weigh Structure of Potential AI Stakes — Semafor — 17-06-2026 `• The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible — WIRED — 17-06-2026` • White House's Anthropic move jolts Congress back into the AI debate — Politico — 16-06-2026 `• Pete Hegseth, White House allies intensify attacks on Anthropic — The Hill — 15-06-2026` • White House Reins In AI-Testing Unit as National-Security Concerns Grow — The Wall Street Journal — 09-06-2026 `• New letter from 35 (!) members of Congress to the White House urging action post-Mythos. Most of the letter is about cyber risk, but also discusses importance of non-cyber threats as well. — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 14-05-2026` • Why AI vetting is freaking people out — Politico — 06-05-2026 `• CAISI Signs Agreements Regarding Frontier AI National Security Testing With Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI [removed article] — NIST — 05-05-2026` `• Anthropic Opposes the ‘Extreme’ AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed — Wired — 14-04-2026` • US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company — The Guardian — 09-04-2026 `• What Rights Do AI Companies Have in Government Contracts? — Jessica Tillipman — 01-03-2026` `• America’s coming war over AI regulation — MIT Technology Review — 23-01-2026` Business, Funding & Markets `• Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai — The Next Web — 24-09-2026` `• Moody's cuts Baidu outlook to negative as AI capital costs weigh on margins — Investing.com — 24-09-2026` `• Chinese AI Stocks Drop as DeepSeek, Moonshot Face Data Security Probe — Bloomberg — 23-09-2026` `• NVIDIA Dominates With 92% Share in Counterpoint Research's Sovereign AI LLM Index — Counterpoint Research — 21-09-2026` • How much AI revenue comes from open vs closed models? — Konstantin F. Pilz/Twitter — 20-09-2026 `• Big Tech's $300B AI guarantees raise hidden risk for investors — Seeking Alpha — 20-09-2026` • OpenAI and Anthropic are making 10 times more revenue than all Chinese AI models combined, research group Rhodium says — CNBC — 17-09-2026 • OpenAI is winning enterprise spend at the frontier. As of this week, Astra takes 13% of enterprise AI spend vs. Fable (8%) per Ramp data. Some early thoughts: 1. Anthropic took a big risk in its recent call to pace the frontier. It's frontier model has already fallen behind on adoption. 2. OpenAI's growth is primarily coming from shifts from Sol and some Anthropic models, net-new usage too. That's good for them and suggests some pricing power remains by having a good, competitive frontier model. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 15-09-2026 `• State of Open Source AI v1.1: open source is 4.4 months behind the frontier — State of Open Source AI — 15-09-2026` `• Scenarios for our Economic Future — Anthropic — 09-09-2026` • AI Adoption Tracker — August 2026: Adoption Rises to 22.4% — Goldman Sachs Research — 01-09-2026 • Martin Peers takes on RUN RATE math: Take OpenAI's triumphant blog post today revealing that "less than 200 days after launch, ChatGPT Ads has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate." This is presented as a "milestone," which is a little much. — Valida Pau/Twitter — 31-08-2026 `• AI debt flood is stoking bond yields, Pimco says — Taipei Times — 29-08-2026` `• August 2026 Ramp AI Index: Cracks in the AI thesis — Ramp — 13-08-2026` `• ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year — AI Charts — 12-08-2026` `• SpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley Says — Bloomberg — 24-07-2026` • New detailed report from @Barclays, pouring a LOT of cold water on the idea that AI is boosting productivity... — Callum Williams/Twitter — 21-07-2026 `• Rn, Anthropic is sitting on the throne and is clearly ahead (already post-training and getting ready for Fable 5.1) OAI is a bit behind (5.6 strong, GPT-6 base currently in training) Google is a lot behind Meta, xAI, and the Chinese labs are at Google level — Zephyr/Twitter — 09-07-2026` • AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share — WSJ — 06-07-2026 • Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble — NOTUS — 06-07-2026 • AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers — The Telegraph — 28-06-2026 `• The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic — WSJ — 15-06-2026` • SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It — Bloomberg — 12-06-2026 `• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has the most "Chinese" approach to AI of the major American tech leaders — Kyle Chan/Twitter — 12-06-2026` • NEW: Ramp AI Index for June 2026 1. We expected OpenAI to gain on the launch of Codex. It held flat in business adoption last month. 2. Anthropic grew 2.5% points to 41% of firms. It's now driving new AI adoption with never-adopters. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 10-06-2026 • Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption. — Jen Zhu/Twitter — 05-06-2026 `• A source at Brex told me that engineers are now limited to 12,500 Codex credits per week, or roughly $500 of API calls per week. Non-engineers are limited to 125 credits, or around $5/week of API calls. When you run out, you're locked out of both GPT and Codex. — Ed Zitron/Twitter — 04-06-2026` `• When AI is more expensive than people, why replace people? — The Telegraph — 01-06-2026` • Pre-training cost of a frontier model — Zephyr/Twitter — 31-05-2026 • How far behind are open models? — LessWrong — 28-05-2026 • For every $1 OpenAI made in Q1 ($5.7B), it lost $1.22. For every $1 Anthropic makes in Q2 ($10.9B), it expects to make 5 cents in operating profits. (don't have OpenAI Q2 data nor Anthropic Q1 to compare apples to apples) — Sheel Mohnot/Twitter — 21-05-2026 • OpenAI kicked off the AI compute buildout in 2023. But today it uses ~10% of the world's compute, and the top labs together are probably under half. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-05-2026 `• Cheap AI Could Derail OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs — CNBC — 20-05-2026` • GOOGLE JUST SHOWED HOW INSANE AI DEMAND HAS GOTTEN Monthly tokens processed across Google surfaces: May 2024: 9.7T May 2025: ~480T May 2026: 3.2Q+ That is 7x Y/Y growth. — Wall St Engine/Twitter — 19-05-2026 • Anthropic and OpenAI's Share of AI Startup Revenues Rises to 89% — The Information — 17-05-2026 `• ANTHROPIC beats OpenAI in business adoption for the first time per @tryramp data. Today's update of Ramp AI Index shows 34.4% of businesses using Anthropic versus 32.3% using OpenAI. Adoption of Anthropic quadrupled over the last year, while OpenAI rose only 0.3%. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 13-05-2026` • Anthropic and OpenAI earn more revenue per employee than the top public tech companies, both now and at their IPOs. Anthropic: ~$9M OpenAI: ~$5.6M — Epoch AI/Twitter — 08-05-2026 `• IMF warns new AI models risk 'systemic' shock to finance — Financial Times — 07-05-2026` • Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby were on stage in SF today and here are the 9 best things they said: 1. "There is a 50% chance that OpenAI goes bankrupt in the next 18mos" -Mallaby — Deedy Das/Twitter — 20-04-2026 • In our corrected figures, hyperscalers hold 71% of world AI compute — Epoch AI/Twitter — 16-04-2026 `• Insane datapoint from new Goldman report on AI and software — Callum Williams/Twitter — 15-04-2026` • The 2026 AI Index Report — Stanford HAI — 13-04-2026 `• The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI — The Wall Street Journal — 27-03-2026` `• AI's enterprise revenue race: Anthropic vs. OpenAI — Axios — 18-03-2026` `• Companies’ first AI check is going to Claude via Ramp Economics Lab — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 11-03-2026` `• Business leaders agree AI is the future, they just wish it worked right now — Reuters — 16-12-2025` Chips & Hardware `• Nvidia turns to insurers to spread risk of AI build-out — Financial Times — 29-09-2026` • ASML chief: 'There is only one company making those machines' — Dealroom — 28-09-2026 `• China's AI chip blitz arms Xi with a message for Trump: 'You can't choke us off' — CNBC — 24-09-2026` `• Nscale's $35 billion IPO is heavily dependent on ByteDance's access to Nvidia's chips — Fortune — 23-09-2026` • China is pursuing full-stack hardware independence, including switches. — Jukan/Twitter — 22-09-2026 `• Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI chip, plans 10 trillion parameter model — Quartz — 22-09-2026` • How the AI debate in Congress could upend Nvidia's clout — Politico — 21-09-2026 `• AMD becomes latest chipmaker to reach $1T valuation on AI demand — Reuters — 21-09-2026` `• Huawei paper shows Tau Scaling Law chip solves overheating ahead of Kirin 2026 launch — South China Morning Post — 06-09-2026` `• Chinese AI firms forced to optimise software as local chips trail Nvidia's — South China Morning Post — 20-08-2026` `• China's top AI is still trained on Nvidia chips. What is delaying the switch to local tech? — South China Morning Post — 10-08-2026` `• Huawei's Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions — South China Morning Post — 24-07-2026` `• CEO of Samsung, Kim: "This year's profit alone will exceed the cumulative profit generated over the 40 years since Samsung entered the semiconductor business." — Sean Sharpe/Twitter — 06-07-2026` • Chinese AI chip start-up exits stealth mode, bets on 3D stacking to bypass US controls — South China Morning Post — 05-07-2026 • Chinese AI chip makers turn to 3D stacking for 'curve-overtaking' advantage — Pandaily — 29-06-2026 • How a Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I. — New York Times — 26-06-2026 • IBM debuts world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology — IBM — 25-06-2026 • Nvidia's Banned AI Chips Double in Price on China's Black Market, FT Reports — Yahoo Finance — 23-06-2026 `• NEW: We are short Nvidia $NVDA. We believe Nvidia has a significant China problem. Please see our full report and disclosures now available on our website, link in bio. — Culper Research/Twitter — 13-05-2026` • Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia's moat persist? — Dwarkesh Podcast — 15-04-2026 `• How the Iran War Could Devastate the AI Industry: The Helium and Bromine Crisis — Transformer News — 02-04-2026` Data Centers • The Chinese AI Infrastructure Boom: Introducing the SemiAnalysis China Datacenter Model — SemiAnalysis — 25-09-2026 `• Oracle sends 'force majeure' notice about data center project — stock drops 3% — CNBC — 24-09-2026` • New: Anthropic is cooking up another big compute deal involving direct control of TPU data centers — Amir Efrati/Twitter — 22-09-2026 • Abbott takes additional steps to regulate data centers in Texas amid tightening polls in governor's race — CBS News (Texas) — 22-09-2026 `• Huawei details terabit-level backbone for AI SuperPod ecosystem — SDxCentral — 22-09-2026` • Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom — New York Times — 21-09-2026 • This is pretty insane. The US has more data center capacity than the next 14 countries COMBINED. — Markets & Mayhem/Twitter — 18-09-2026 • The Physical Stack Behind AI — MTS Compute Intelligence — 15-09-2026 • A map of all data centers currently operating, proposed or under construction in Texas. — Dylan Baddour/Twitter — 01-09-2026 • Memphis AI data center fuels pollution fight in Black neighborhood — AFP — 10-08-2026 • US data center protests go national as backlash grows — Reuters — 18-07-2026 • Where authorities are restricting data centres amid AI boom — Reuters — 14-07-2026 • New York Enacts Nation's First Statewide Moratorium on Data Centers — New York Times — 14-07-2026 `• Utah Senate President Loses Primary After Data Center Backlash — New York Times — 24-06-2026` • China Prepares $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout — Reuters — 09-06-2026 `• Phoenix Is a Data-Center Mecca—and Test Case for How to Pay for AI's Power Needs — WSJ — 04-06-2026` `• US Data Center Moratorium Tracker — Interconnected Capital, LLC — 31-05-2026` `• Texans Hate Data Centers So Much They Are Asking Jesus for Help — Insurance Journal — 21-05-2026` `• 'It's Like We Don't Exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe Residents Face Power Loss as Utility Redirects Lines to Data Centers — Fortune — 12-05-2026` • This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. — Merissa Hansen/Twitter — 10-05-2026 • AI Data Centers can use up to 500,000 gallons of water a day. They will make our droughts catastrophically worse. As Governor, I will ban the construction of any AI Data Center in Florida. — James Fishback/Twitter — 21-04-2026 • We're monitoring the air and water around Meta's data center in Louisiana. Here's why. — WWNO — 13-04-2026 `• Data Center Bans: Tracking State and Local Moratoriums Across the U.S. — Data Center Bans — 07-04-2026` `• Cheap Power, Competitive Politics: Electricity Costs, Partisan Lean, and Data Center Location in the United States — Kyle L. Saunders — 01-04-2026` `• 'It means missile defence on datacentres': drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower — The Guardian — 07-03-2026` Society & Harms `• Australia's music industry bans AI songs from charts — Associated Press — 25-08-2026` `• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility — 404 Media — 17-08-2026` `• Why Normal People Aren't Using AI Agents — Wired — 06-08-2026` `• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV: Magnifica Humanitas — The Holy See — 25-05-2026` • 'I Applied to Be Pope': Losing Grip on Reality While Using ChatGPT — AFP — 13-05-2026 `• The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly — The Atlantic — 13-05-2026` • I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI — Wired — 11-05-2026 • Most people I know in AI think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. — Jasmine Sun/Twitter — 30-04-2026 • She says ChatGPT is responsible for her son's death. CA lawmakers are listening — The Sacramento Bee — 20-04-2026 `• Online response to the attack on Sam Altman’s house shows a generational divide — Fortune — 14-04-2026` `• Can an A.I. Chatbot Be Your Romantic Partner? — The New York Times — 26-03-2026` `• There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem — The New York Times — 12-01-2026` Lawsuits `• OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack — Wired — 29-09-2026` • In his call for OpenAI to halt work, Florida's Attorney General says that AI is perhaps the greatest nuisance that mankind has ever created and that the only reason we haven't had a bigger disaster yet is due to the grace of the Almighty. — Joe Weisenthal/Twitter — 28-09-2026 `• xAI Offers Buyouts to Southaven Residents Who Agree Not to Sue — Mississippi Free Press — 25-09-2026` • ChatGPT Offered "Damage Control" Tips To Vandal — The Smoking Gun — 24-09-2026 • ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror — Mother Jones — 24-09-2026 `• Family files wrongful death suit one year after worker's fatal fall at SpaceXAI data center — WDAM — 23-09-2026` `• British Columbia sues OpenAI in US court over Canada school shooting — AFP — 21-09-2026` `• OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting — TechCrunch — 02-09-2026` • ChatGPT Led to a Man's Near-Fatal Health Crisis, Lawsuit Claims — The New York Times — 22-07-2026 • University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network technology — Reuters — 21-07-2026 `• Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's "world's most powerful AI data center" over noise and light pollution — Tom's Hardware — 09-07-2026` `• New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial — TechCrunch — 09-07-2026` `• Here's the lawsuit filed to overturn the Mythos/Fable export control order. The strongest argument is that export control law simply doesn't cover API access. [Link to filing] — Alan Rozenshtein/Twitter — 23-06-2026` `• Legal Tech Firm Sues US Over Order Limiting Foreign Access to Top-Tier Anthropic Models — Reuters — 23-06-2026` • That's funny. [Screenshot of page from the State of Florida vs. OpenAI filing] — Paul Sherman/Twitter — 01-06-2026 • It's no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. — Ed Newton-Rex/Twitter — 23-05-2026 • Court Rules Expert's AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 — Arnold & Porter — 19-05-2026 • Widow Sues ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Husband's Death in Mass Shooting at Florida State University — Sky News — 11-05-2026 `• The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul — WIRED — 16-04-2026` Everything Else • Has AI hit the labor market yet? @alexolegimas and my verdict after ~20 papers: not yet in aggregate. Unemployment and layoffs show almost nothing. But AI may already be cutting junior hiring in exposed white-collar jobs. Remote work may explain part of that decline. A 🧵 — Jacob Schaal/Twitter — 29-09-2026 `• When can we say AI made a scientific discovery? — MIT Technology Review — 28-09-2026` • Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified — 404 Media — 28-09-2026 `• Project Swap: What happens when agents trade for us? — Anthropic — 24-09-2026` • Can AI tell if you've built your IKEA furniture wrong? Our new benchmark, the Furniture Assembly Benchmark (FAB), gives models the manual and a photo of a half-completed piece of furniture and asks them to spot the mistake. The top score has gone from 28% to 80% in just 10 months. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 23-09-2026 • Robotics Data is a Broken Business — Sam Padilla/Twitter — 22-09-2026 • This advisory group created by IAS is advising OpenAI in how to release their math results. Mathematicians can give their opinion in this link agmai.org. I share publicly my opinion below (more than happy to have debate / disagreements in the responses!) — Gonzalo Cao-Labora/Twitter — 21-09-2026 • hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final — levent/Twitter — 19-07-2026 • Scientists Discover AI Models May Not Think Like the Brain After All — SciTechDaily — 17-07-2026 `• "Are you a philosophical zombie driven by Claude?" — Jack Clark Cosmos Lecture transcript — Cosmos Institute — 22-05-2026` • How people ask Claude for personal guidance — Anthropic — 30-04-2026 • Beijing Yizhuang ran its second humanoid robot half-marathon on Sunday. One year of progress in one set of numbers. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 19-04-2026 • New preliminary results: how people actually use ChatGPT. First conversation-level look at Global South usage. — Kiran Garimella/Twitter — 18-04-2026 `• What will be scarce? — Ghosts of Electricity — 14-04-2026` `• What 81,000 people want from AI — Anthropic — 18-03-2026` `• Introducing Claude's Corner — Substack — 25-02-2026` `• Architects of AI named Time's 'Person of the Year' — Reuters — 11-12-2025` `• From Garlic to Avocado: The goofy AI model codenames you should know — Business Insider — 11-12-2025` VIEW OLDER INTERESTING ARTICLES* ⇒ FULL NEWS ARCHIVE//VIEW ALL NEWS ⇒

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Resources for Frontier Lab Candidates

• Vlad Feinberg, How to Land a Frontier Lab Job

• Jack Morris, So you want to do AI research? It's true that no one really teaches you how.

• MATS Program, MATS Application Page

• Neel Nanda, MATS 12.0 (Winter 2026-27) Info

• Neel Nanda, How To Become A Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher

• LASR Labs, London AI Safety Research — Winter 2027 Cohort Applications Open

• Glassdoor for AI Safety, What it's like to work at AI safety organizations, from people who work there

• AI Team Map, Community notes comparing specific AI teams — OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta FAIR, DeepMind, Cohere Labs, NVIDIA

• The Safety Apprentice, AI Safety Job Guide

• alphaXiv, alphaXiv Researcher Profiles

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Frontier AI Labs

A curated listing of known frontier AI labs (in progress).

Considerations for inclusion:
- Teams training the largest models by compute
- Teams publishing frontier research
- Teams operating with independent safety/governance controls

• Ai2: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence — https://allenai.org — Seattle, USA — Develops foundational AI research through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.
   ➟ https://allenai.org/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/allen-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @allen_ai

• AI21 Labs — https://www.ai21.com — Tel Aviv, Israel — Developer of large language models and long-context NLP tooling for writing and knowledge work.
   ➟ https://www.ai21.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ai21/
   ➟ Twitter: @AI21Labs

• Alibaba DAMO Academy — https://damo.alibaba.com/ — Hangzhou / Beijing, China — Alibaba's advanced R&D institute focused on large models, cloud AI, and applied industrial research.
➟ https://joindamo.alibaba.com/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/达摩院/

• Alibaba Tongyi Lab — https://qwenlm.github.io/ — Hangzhou, China — Tongyi Lab was created within Alibaba Cloud to focus on foundational research and industrial applications of large models such as the Qwen (通义千问) series (including Qwen open source models), Tongyi Wanxiang (image generation), Tongyi Tingwu (speech-to-text), and more.
   ➟ https://careers-tongyi.alibaba.com/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/qwen/
   ➟ Twitter: @Ali_TongyiLab

• Anthropic — https://www.anthropic.com/ — San Francisco, USA — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, steerable, and beneficial AI systems like its assistant, Claude and the Opus and Sonnet model families.
   ➟ https://www.anthropic.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/anthropicresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @AnthropicAI

• Baidu Research — https://research.baidu.com/ — Beijing, China — Baidu's research arm developing ERNIE and other large-scale multimodal models and search AI.
➟ https://research.baidu.com/career
➟ Twitter: @BaiduResearch

• Black Forest Labs — https://bfl.ai/ — Germany & San Francisco, USA — A leading frontier AI research lab, building the visual infrastructure for tomorrow.
   ➟ https://bfl.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/bflai/
   ➟ Twitter: @bfl_ml

• Cohere — https://cohere.com/ — Toronto, Canada & San Francisco, USA — Provides enterprise large-language models, embeddings, and retrieval APIs for production use.
   ➟ https://cohere.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/cohere-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @Cohere_Labs

• Databricks Mosaic — https://www.databricks.com/research/mosaic — San Francisco, USA — Focuses on efficient training tooling, open-model research, and infrastructure for training large models.
   ➟ https://www.databricks.com/company/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/mosaicml/
   ➟ Twitter: @MosaicML

• Deep Cogito — https://www.deepcogito.com/ — San Francisco, USA — An AI lab that describes itself as building open source general superintelligence.
   ➟ https://www.deepcogito.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/deep-cogito/
   ➟ Twitter: @DeepCogito

• DeepSeek — https://www.deepseek.com/ — Hangzhou, China — A Chinese lab working on frontier large language models.
   ➟ https://www.deepseek.com/ (check LinkedIn for open roles)
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/deepseek-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @deepseek_ai

• EleutherAI — https://www.eleuther.ai/ — Distributed / community-led — Open research collective that produces open-source LLMs, benchmarks, and tooling.
➟ No official careers page; roles announced via Discord/X
➟ LinkedIn: /company/eleutherai/

• Essential AI — https://www.essential.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — Essential AI is building an open platform to democratize frontier AI capabilities and accelerate breakthroughs globally through collaborative science.
◇ [Status: Technical team acqui-hire to NVIDIA as of June 2026]

• Google DeepMind — https://deepmind.google/ — London, UK & Mountain View, USA / global — Google-owned research lab focused on deep learning, RL, and ambitious science-level AI research.
   ➟ https://deepmind.google/about/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/googledeepmind/
   ➟ Twitter: @GoogleDeepMind

• Hugging Face — https://huggingface.co/ — New York, USA & Paris, France / global — Open ML community and model/dataset hub that hosts and distributes many open frontier models and tooling.
   ➟ https://apply.workable.com/huggingface/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/huggingface/
   ➟ Twitter: @huggingface

• IBM Research — https://research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence — USA / global — IBM Research develops open-source data tools, multimodal models, and technologies that redefine how we interact with AI.
   ➟ https://www.ibm.com/careers/research
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/ibm-research/
   ➟ Twitter: @IBMResearch

• Huawei Noah's Ark Lab — http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/ — China (multiple locations) — Huawei's foundational AI research group working on NLP, vision, and multimodal algorithms.
➟ http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/Recruitment-JD.html
➟ LinkedIn: /company/noah-s-ark-lab/

• Meta FAIR — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's research division that develops Llama-series models, multimodal systems, and social-scale AI research.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/aiatmeta/
   ➟ Twitter: @AIatMeta

• Meta Reality Labs (Reality Labs Research) — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's XR / AR / VR research and hardware arm that also contains significant AI work for spatial computing, sensors, and on-device models.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
➟ Twitter: @RealityLabs

• Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's Superintelligence labs is a newly formed unit as of Summer 2025 focused on superintelligence and large-scale foundational efforts.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/

• Meta TBD Lab — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — As of Summer 2025, the TBD team is spearheading work on upcoming model releases including the newest version of Llama, the extension of models' reasoning capabilities, and development of AI agents alongside other Meta teams per the Wall Street Journal.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/

• Microsoft Research AI Frontiers / Microsoft AI — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/ — Redmond, USA / global — Corporate research organization powering Microsoft's model efforts (Copilot, Azure AI, and foundational research).
   ➟ https://www.microsoft.com/research/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/microsoftresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @ms_aifrontiers

• Mistral AI — https://mistral.ai/ — Paris, France / global — European startup producing high-performance LLMs and commercial offerings for enterprises.
   ➟ https://mistral.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/mistralai/
   ➟ Twitter: @MistralAI

• Moonshot AI — https://moonshot.ai/ — Beijing, China — Focused on achieving the most efficient conversion of energy into intelligence to create artificial general intelligence that can benefit all of humanity.
   ➟ https://www.moonshot-ai.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/moonshot-ai-linkedin/
   ➟ Twitter: @Kimi_Moonshot

• Nous Research — https://nousresearch.com/ — New York, USA — Nous Research focuses on the development of human-centric language models and simulators.
   ➟ https://nousresearch.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/nous-research/
   ➟ Twitter: @NousResearch

• NVIDIA Research — https://research.nvidia.com/ — Santa Clara, USA — Research group advancing GPU-driven systems, model architectures, and scale innovations used across frontier labs.
   ➟ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/research-scientists/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/nvidia-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @NVIDIAAI

• OpenAI — https://openai.com/ — San Francisco, USA — OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building safe and broadly beneficial artificial general intelligence to help solve humanity's greatest challenges.
   ➟ https://openai.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/openai/
   ➟ Twitter: @OpenAI

• PleIAs — https://pleias.fr/ — Paris, France — PleIAs builds energy-efficient, open-data foundation LLMs and explainable, locally deployable AI assistants for information-intensive, highly regulated industries.
➟ LinkedIn: /company/pleias/
➟ Twitter: @pleiasfr

• Prime Intellect — https://www.primeintellect.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — The Open Superintelligence Stack. A compute and infrastructure platform for you to train, evaluate, and deploy your own agentic models.
   ➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/primeintellect-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @PrimeIntellect

• Reflection AI — https://reflection.ai/ — NYC & San Francisco, USA — Reflection is building frontier open intelligence with open weight models that are accessible to all.
   ➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reflectionai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/reflectionai/
   ➟ Twitter: @reflection_ai

• Safe Superintelligence Inc. — https://ssi.inc/ — Palo Alto, USA & Tel Aviv, Israel — The world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
   ➟ https://ssi.inc/contact
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ssi-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @ssi

• Sakana AI — https://sakana.ai/ — Japan — Building a world-class AI lab in Japan to develop AI solutions for Japan's needs, and democratize AI in Japan.
   ➟ https://consider.com/boards/co/sakana-ai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/sakana-ai
   ➟ Twitter: @SakanaAILabs

• Samsung Research (AI Centers) — https://research.samsung.com/ — Seoul, Korea / global — Samsung's research hubs focused on generative AI, on-device models, and multimodal systems.
   ➟ https://research.samsung.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/samsungresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @samsungresearch

• Stability AI — https://stability.ai/ — London, UK — Open-source focused generative AI company that releases image, video, audio, and 3D multimodal models and tooling.
   ➟ https://stability.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/stability-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @StabilityAI

• Tencent AI Lab / Tencent HY — https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/index/ — Shenzhen, China — Tencent's AI research organization developing large models, multimodal AI, and application-focused research.
➟ https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/recruit/

• Thinking Machines Lab — https://thinkingmachines.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — A research and product company building more understandable and customizable AI systems.
   ➟ https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thinkingmachines
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/thinkingmachinesai/
   ➟ Twitter: @thinkymachines

• xAI / SpaceXAI — https://x.ai/ — Palo Alto, USA — Elon Musk–backed AI lab building the Grok family of large-scale language models and consumer-facing assistants.
   ➟ https://x.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/xai/
   ➟ Twitter: @xai

• Yandex Research / Yandex AI — https://research.yandex.com/ — Moscow, Russia — Yandex's research teams working on large models, search AI, and multimodal systems.
   ➟ https://research.yandex.com/join
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/yandex/
   ➟ Twitter: @YandexResearch

• Z.ai — https://z.ai/ — Beijing, China — Z.ai (Zhipu AI) is the AI lab behind the GLM family of models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity.
   ➟ https://www.zhipuai.cn/joinus
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/zdotai/
   ➟ Twitter: @Zai_org

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