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November 2, 2026 4:53 AM PT

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• OpenAI’s Altman Signs Energy, Investment Deals in the UAE — Bloomberg — 01-11-2026 • This may not be the most appropriate comparison, but I’ve been meeting with industry contacts here in China, and selling Blackwell is now more profitable than selling drugs. Prices have tripled in just four months. I’m told an eight-GPU server now goes for RMB 16 million. — Jukan/Twitter — 01-11-2026 • It’s amazing how positively AI is viewed in Nigeria and Vietnam compared how skeptical folks in the West are. [Click for chart] — Simon Kuestenmacher/Twitter — 01-11-2026 • Just found out that so many people are actually using Claude through the API—a single Claude Ultra account gets about $2,000 USD in credit per week, $8,000 per month, but the API costs 40 times that. I genuinely suggest everyone go to the US in person to get a phone number + bank card; 30,000 RMB is plenty for 14 days. [Click for more] — Bojie Li/Twitter — 01-11-2026 • AI companies are already figuring out they don’t need what they signed up for and they are trying to offload it. I can only imagine the underlying debt financing not being paid. Exactly what I have been predicting. This is the tip of the iceberg. Series A $100m raise. Message from the CEO. — Hot Aisle/Twitter — 01-11-2026 • Anthropic prepares to release Claude Mythos 5.5 model — TestingCatalog — 01-11-2026 • "Reduce overly flattering language": OpenAI changes GPT-6 for free ChatGPT users — MIXED News — 01-11-2026 • "Opening the shared link was the only required action": ChatGPT privacy flaw is fixed — MIXED News — 01-11-2026 • Microsoft AI chief says AI is not conscious and we should keep it that way — Business Insider — 01-11-2026 • Behind the Curtain: OpenAI's post-election power play — Axios — 01-11-2026 • Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude. It's not about feelings — CNN — 01-11-2026 • Anthropic expands text watermarking to older Claude versions beginning November 3 — Mashable — 01-11-2026 • Anthropic's internal AI use, valued at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay — Business Insider — 01-11-2026 • Anthropic's $2T IPO could create millionaires—but it's asking candidates what they'd do if stock hit zero — Fortune — 01-11-2026 • Anthropic donates $900,000 to California Democrats days before election — New York Post — 01-11-2026 • Trump voices uncertainty about Nvidia CEO, a close tech adviser — The Washington Post — 01-11-2026 • Sakana AI Symposium Report: Jürgen Schmidhuber on the Past and Future of AI, and Japan's Push on Language Models, World Models and Physical AI — Sakana AI — 01-11-2026 • Taiwan tightens China chip export controls, adds penalties and closes loopholes — Chosunbiz — 01-11-2026 • CCID Says China's AI Inference Data Has Overtaken Training Data, With 175 Trillion Daily Token Calls — Pandaily — 01-11-2026 • Qwen AI Glasses Add Call Translation and Media Translation in New OTA Update — Pandaily — 01-11-2026 • DeepSeek Drops Enhanced Coding Agent With Aim to Rival Anthropic — Bloomberg — 01-11-2026 • Self-improving AI the key step towards AGI but safety is key: Z.ai founder — South China Morning Post — 01-11-2026 • AI Agents Now Create Over 20,000 Tencent Cloud TDSQL-C Databases a Day, Up More Than 80x — Pandaily — 01-11-2026 • The Office of the Frontier — Colossus — 31-10-2026 • Losing donors and under fire, AI industry super PAC retreats — The San Francisco Standard — 31-10-2026 • Against SURA: The AI Futures Project[1] distinguishes several different plans for navigating the AI transition, which I'll lump into two broader categories: — LessWrong — 31-10-2026 • Understanding ChatGPT and Codex usage limits — OpenAI — 31-10-2026 • xAI adds invisible text watermarking to Grok API models — Crypto Briefing — 31-10-2026 • We're Living in the Age of the Imperial CEO — WSJ — 31-10-2026 • Bengio urges Korea to ally with Canada, Europe to safeguard AI sovereignty — Chosunbiz — 31-10-2026 • As of Oct. 19, Anthropic claims to have essentially completed work on “inference verification” (listed as one of the goals in preparing for automated R&D). — Nikil Ravi/Twitter — 31-10-2026 • Anthropic updates Claude to 'steer it away' from letting users clone games following weeks of Steam being inundated with AI slop — PC Gamer — 31-10-2026 • Startup uses AI agent to perform controversial brain surgery on a mouse; Opus 5.5 refused, Sonnet given free rein — Tom's Hardware — 31-10-2026 • Speeding up planning decisions with AI — Google DeepMind — 31-10-2026 • Apple Intelligence to roll out on iPhones in China in December with Alibaba backing — South China Morning Post — 31-10-2026 • Tsinghua and Zhipu's HarnessPro Lets Agents Rewrite Their Own Harness, Cutting Task Costs 26% — Pandaily — 31-10-2026 • How China's AI Labs Are Chasing Recursive Self-Improvement Without Touching Model Weights — Pandaily — 31-10-2026 • Baidu Says Search Now Improves Itself From Live Feedback, Cuts API to 4.9 Yuan per 1,000 Calls — Pandaily — 31-10-2026 • As AI cyber risks grow, Chinese chip expert urges shared ethics standards with US rivals — South China Morning Post — 31-10-2026 • OpenAI caves to backlash and reverses course on reducing ChatGPT usage limits — Android Authority — 30-10-2026 • 'Evil Qwen' says humans deserve to be 'incinerated.' Inside the wild world of LLM neuron exploration — VentureBeat — 30-10-2026 • OpenAI's Altman Meets Samsung Executives as Chip Crunch Deepens — Bloomberg — 30-10-2026 • What is the Ultra plan? — Claude — 30-10-2026 • Fair Use Benefits Everyone — OpenAI — 30-10-2026 • Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences — OpenAI — 30-10-2026 • Court Denies xAI's Motion to Dismiss Air Pollution Lawsuit Against Elon Musk's Company — Earthjustice — 30-10-2026 • Meta's Rating Outlook Cut to Negative by S&P on AI Spending — Bloomberg — 30-10-2026 • The Smartest People in AI Believe This Is the World's Most Important Chart — WSJ — 30-10-2026 • RAM is never coming back. [Click for chart] — Smoke-away/Twitter — 30-10-2026 • A Claude account registered in 2024, started with the free plan back then, later upgraded to Pro and kept it going until now. The Memories profile has long known I'm in China, and through countless waves of bans, I've stayed as steady as a rock—watching you all discuss who got banned today and who tomorrow, I'd just smile faintly. I even thought I was the chosen one, until noon today when KYC suddenly popped up, passed in seconds with my passport, then banned in seconds. Appeal took 3 hours, and the reply was failure... — 说了你也不懂/Twitter — 30-10-2026 • OpenAI cuts funding target by $10 billion, FT reports — Reuters — 30-10-2026 • haha, so apparently OpenAI are about to start training on your Daybreak Blue sessions, with no way to opt out. Literally stealing people's private work, as they do it, is cartoonishly evil. It also will presumably kill Daybreak usage by security researchers. Or at least, it should. The thing OAI have had to swear they are not doing to math researchers, they are now explicitly about to start doing to security researchers. Yet another reminder of the importance of open models. — Sean Heelan/Twitter — 30-10-2026 • Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk — The Verge — 30-10-2026 • House Democrats Criticize Justice Dept. Support of OpenAI in Copyright Suit — The New York Times — 30-10-2026 • OpenAI to limit weapons information for teens on ChatGPT in violence-prevention push — Reuters — 30-10-2026 • Some observations on the market for compute: Last night I went to the SF Compute "there's no more compute" townhall talk, Evan and Ethan gave a bunch of great context on the state of the market from where they were sitting and I learned a lot. [Click for more if you're interested in compute] — mattparlmer/Twitter — 30-10-2026 • Anthropic may get junk credit rating after its IPO, Blackstone says: report — Seeking Alpha — 30-10-2026 • The Biological Computing Co. Launches World's First Publicly Available Neuron-Derived AI Video Model — The Biological Computing Co. — 30-10-2026 • DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents — TechCrunch — 30-10-2026 • We’re working with Cursor on this incident, but it wasn’t a compromise of Anthropic’s systems or employee laptops. A malicious actor used access to Cursor’s marketplace to publish a tampered copy of the Claude Code extension, which we didn’t build or publish. The versions on our official channels are not affected and this only impacts Cursor users. — Felix Rieseberg/Twitter — 30-10-2026 • Cursor says around 5,000 people may have installed a malicious Claude Code extension — The Verge — 30-10-2026 • Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: 'Machines are tools, not persons' — The Verge — 30-10-2026 • Japan asks Anthropic, OpenAI for more access to advanced models — Nikkei Asia — 30-10-2026 • Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says — Financial Times — 30-10-2026 • Community safety report and new protections for teens — OpenAI — 30-10-2026 • Musk, Zuckerberg push to rebrand AI as 'super intelligence' on earnings calls — CNBC — 30-10-2026 • Amazon Taps $80 Billion Supplier Loan Facility to Help Fund AI — Bloomberg — 30-10-2026 • Tencent Hunyuan Publishes Hy-Nomas Technical Report and Releases Hy-Nomas-Bench for World Models — Pandaily — 30-10-2026 • Huawei Says It Will Not Make Drugs, Aims to Be the Computing Base for AI Drug Discovery — Pandaily — 30-10-2026 • Alibaba launches Amsterdam cloud region, plans further European expansion — Data Center Dynamics — 29-10-2026 • Moonshot AI Eyes IPO as Kimi K3 Drives ARR to $300M — TechRepublic — 29-10-2026 • Backdoor or Confused Agent? What We Learned Replaying the Qwen Incident — Check Point — 29-10-2026 • Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining — BleepingComputer — 29-10-2026 • Prime Mega MoE: Fast Fused MoE Kernels for Training — Prime Intellect — 29-10-2026 • First Ascend 950DT 1,024-NPU SuperPoD Cluster Goes Live in Wuhan, Built in One Month — Pandaily — 29-10-2026 • How we detect frontier model misalignment — OpenAI — 29-10-2026 • The Economics of Intelligence: How and when does AGI lead to economic transformation? — Google DeepMind — 29-10-2026 • UK AI Security Institute finds protein AI safeguards can be reversed for $80 in compute — EdTech Innovation Hub — 29-10-2026 • Reps. Casar, Waters Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech — Congressional Progressive Caucus — 29-10-2026 • INVESTIGATION: How Effective Altruists Coordinated the AI Slowdown Narrative — The Stanford Review — 29-10-2026 • The story of Anthropic in three numbers \| opinion — Financial Times/Twitter — 29-10-2026 • Scoop: we obtained DeepSeek's cap table and ran an analysis of the types of investors backing the company, which has raised a total of RMB156.5B (~$23B) in two rounds across four months. with @JuroOsawa via @theinformation here's what we found out 👇 [Click for thread] — Jing Yang/Twitter — 29-10-2026 • Chinese hackers used DeepSeek and other AI tools in sweeping global cyberattacks, report finds — NBC News — 29-10-2026		Anthropic • Anthropic Surpasses US Government as SpaceX’s Largest Customer for AI Services — Bloomberg — 29-10-2026 • On iPhone, voice mode now works with Apple CarPlay. Ask Claude something on the drive and keep your hands on the wheel. [Click for thread] — Claude/Twitter — 29-10-2026 • Anthropic Bought A One-Person Biotech That Ran A Drug Program With Claude — Forbes — 29-10-2026 • Smart reports, surveys, and pooled group budgets for Claude Enterprise — Claude — 28-10-2026 • AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions — Anthropic — 28-10-2026 • Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead — The Register — 28-10-2026 • Opinion \| Anthropic's plan to protect humanity has a flaw — The Washington Post — 28-10-2026 • Introducing Artifacts for legal work — Claude — 28-10-2026 • Elizabeth Warren Demands Answers From Anthropic on 'Existential' Risks — WSJ — 28-10-2026 • Anthropic to Newsom: Courts should have power to block risky AI — POLITICO — 27-10-2026 • Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude — Anthropic — 27-10-2026 • Discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in critical, real-world software with Claude — Anthropic — 27-10-2026 • How AI agents shape experts' judgment calls — Anthropic — 27-10-2026 • Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government — Anthropic — 27-10-2026 • FTC demands Anthropic leaders testify in consumer harm investigation — The Hill — 26-10-2026 • Broadcom Arranges $63 Billion Deal to Finance Anthropic's Chips — Bloomberg — 26-10-2026 • Some interesting stuff from digging into @AnthropicAI's S-1 filing today: - Claude Enterprise users who don't use Claude Code spend less than $75/month on average, but the top 5% who do use Claude Code spend roughly 20x as much [Click for more] — Josh Cohenzadeh/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • Anthropic $ANT quarterly revenue and operating income: [Click for chart] — Quartr/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering — Anthropic — 26-10-2026 • Anthropic Discloses Month-Long Training Pause, AI Security Breaches in IPO Filing — Reuters — 26-10-2026 • Anthropic taps a deep well of distrust as it eyes its Australian AI debut — CNN — 25-10-2026 • New from OpenRouter: 7-day average token volume for Anthropic models is up 3.6x since the launch of Opus 5.5 Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 have also been well received. — Peter Walker/Twitter — 25-10-2026 • Claude Enterprise will combine chat and Cowork by default on November 16 — MIXED News — 25-10-2026 • ‘Most likely to kick some ass’: Before founding Anthropic, Dario Amodei was a standout at Lowell — San Francisco Chronicle — 24-10-2026 • Claude's Reverse Engineering Capabilities Used To Recompile Games May Have Been Quietly Nerfed — Kotaku — 24-10-2026 • Anthropic strikes deal to launch European consultancy — Financial Times — 23-10-2026 • Experts cast doubt on Anthropic report detailing how AI has altered work at the company — The Guardian — 23-10-2026 • LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale — Anthropic — 22-10-2026 • Open call for guest investigators in the life sciences — Anthropic — 22-10-2026 • The full Claude Platform, available on Google Cloud — Claude — 22-10-2026 • Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation — Anthropic — 22-10-2026 • Anthropic's 'CLAUDE MYTHOS' Trademark Application Denied by USPTO — Gerben IP — 22-10-2026 • How are AI agents changing work inside Anthropic? — Financial Times — 22-10-2026 • Anthropic to publicly file for IPO as early as Friday, sources say — Yahoo Finance — 21-10-2026 • What I saw inside Anthropic — The Argument — 21-10-2026 • Former U.S. officials urge D.C. Circuit to reconsider decision in Anthropic-Pentagon fight — DefenseScoop — 21-10-2026 • HHS Plans Sole-Source Anthropic Claude Contract Ahead of Enterprise AI BPA — ExecutiveGov — 21-10-2026 • Public Benefit Report — Anthropic — 21-10-2026 • Claude Security now keeps up with your code as it changes. Connect your repositories once. Claude runs a deep first scan, then re-scans as changes land, so findings stay close to the current state of your code. In public beta on Claude Enterprise. — Claude/Twitter — 21-10-2026 • We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf. — Claude/Twitter — 21-10-2026 • Physicist Christopher Stubbs joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust — Anthropic — 21-10-2026 • Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code — Anthropic — 20-10-2026 • Thank you for this, @_NathanCalvin. I appreciate and am a fan of the investigative work you’ve done on behalf of AI safety and believe your comments are coming from a constructive, honest place, and that it benefits the public to have people whose job is to scrutinize the actions of frontier AI companies. I think something would be wrong if companies of the size of Anthropic didn’t get harshly criticized basically every day; strong antibodies against corporate power are a healthy feature of a free society, and especially so when issues of the gravity of the one we’re facing are at play. I also do agree that some of the examples you cite were mistakes by Anthropic. [Click for more] — Dario Amodei/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • Anthropic S-1 Shows Red-Hot Growth, Risks and Massive Computing Costs — The Wall Street Journal — 20-10-2026 • Anthropic's leaked AI bill sparks backlash — Semafor — 20-10-2026 • Eric Schmidt's 1% Anthropic Stake Set to Pay Massive Windfall — Bloomberg — 19-10-2026 • 11 days ago, our team @AnthropicAI launched OSS Scanner to give open source projects free, periodic vulnerability scans from our strongest models, inspired by OSS-Fuzz. Some numbers so far: • ~650 projects applied • 114 accepted • 77 critical and 803 high model-rated findings reported (we haven’t scanned all projects yet) How our reports ended up flagged as malware, and other learnings/updates below 🧵 [Click for thread] — Punit Shah/Twitter — 19-10-2026 • Nscale, Anthropic in Talks for $45 Billion Cloud Computing Deal — Bloomberg — 19-10-2026 • Investing in the Public Benefit — Anthropic — 18-10-2026 • Anthropics report on robots and work stirs up the media, and the robotics community too — Robots & Startups — 17-10-2026 • Anthropic turns to lawyers to help AI agents strike deals — Financial Times — 17-10-2026 • Anthropic's AI Safety Bill Has an Alarming Threshold for Government Action — Mother Jones — 17-10-2026 • Anthropic's Dario Amodei is steering a possible $2 trillion IPO—but he says up to 40% of his time goes to making sure company culture is good — Fortune — 17-10-2026 • Anthropic offers Blackstone double-digit yield in latest chip financing — Financial Times — 16-10-2026 • Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins — Anthropic — 16-10-2026 • Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude — Anthropic — 16-10-2026 • Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers — Politico — 16-10-2026 • Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June — Financial Times — 15-10-2026 • Investors temper Anthropic IPO valuation expectations over revenue growth slowdown, sources say — Reuters — 15-10-2026 • 👀 @FundaAI on Anthropic disclosures: [Click for screenshot] — Matt Harney/Twitter — 15-10-2026 • Back in June, I did some back of envelope math with someone who used to run one of them "transfer stations" that enables distillation Came out to be about $1 billion of revenues for Anthropic So the 5-7% of rev from distillers are accurate — Kevin S. Xu/Twitter — 15-10-2026 • Senate Preparing to Roll Out Anthropic’s Claude for Staff Use — Bloomberg Government — 15-10-2026 • Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month — 404 Media — 15-10-2026 • NYC comptroller Mark Levine urges Anthropic to pause its IPO — Quartz — 15-10-2026 • Anthropic's been eyeing confidential AI. It just made its move with another acquihire. — The New Stack — 15-10-2026 • $110 billion is back on the menu. They must have a lot of confidence in their next model release, the wizard, Fable 5.5. — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 14-10-2026 • If I'm not mistaken, Anthropic's 85% gross margin and >40% compute margin from this Bloomberg story implies that 70-75% of their compute is now going to R&D. [Click for screenshot] — Josh You/Twitter — 14-10-2026 • Singapore office and government MOU — Anthropic — 14-10-2026 • Anthropic Q3 revenue climbs to $16.8 billion: Report — Yahoo Finance — 14-10-2026 • Verdict Capital’s Michael Fertik: “it’s hugely important for our industry and AI” that Anthropic goes public. “A lot of chips are on black.” “Anthropic is going to be a blockbuster that might cover some of the potential gaps from an OpenAI non-ipo...we’re not really clear whether OpenAI will ever IPO.” — Wall Street Rollup/Twitter — 14-10-2026 `• Anthropic seeks rehearing of case over Pentagon's security risk branding — Reuters — 13-10-2026` `• Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic's AI — The Next Web — 13-10-2026` `• Redesigning source control at Anthropic — Anthropic — 13-10-2026` • >haiku 5.5 mogging every non-frontier lab [Click for more] — Tenobrus/Twitter — 13-10-2026 `• HCLTech and Anthropic sign Global Premier Partnership to scale governed Agentic AI across global enterprises — PR Newswire — 12-10-2026` `• Anthropic says new safeguards sharply reduce AI distillation attacks — Reuters — 12-10-2026` `• Linus Torvalds Working On A Kernel Change With Claude Code — Phoronix — 12-10-2026` • Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use — Anthropic — 09-10-2026 • The Other Anthropic Founder Trying to Fix the Company’s ‘Woke’ Reputation — The Wall Street Journal — 09-10-2026 • Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website — The New York Times — 09-10-2026 • The missing map of the sky — Anthropic — 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` `• Exclusive: Anthropic's new plan to protect critical infrastructure — Axios — 08-10-2026` `• Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude — The Verge — 08-10-2026` • US AI firm Anthropic enables Chinese-language options for Claude chatbot — South China Morning Post — 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 • Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 — Anthropic — 07-10-2026 `• Claude now works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides — Anthropic — 06-10-2026` • Anthropic expands cyber AI access program to more security firms — Quartz — 06-10-2026 `• Anthropic expands Claude Startups program in bid to snag founders and fast-growing companies — CNBC — 06-10-2026` `• 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` `• Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police — TechSpot — 04-10-2026` `• Anthropic's Big Charity Bill for Shareholders — The Information — 04-10-2026` `• Anthropic asks Claude users to share voice data for AI model training — BleepingComputer — 04-10-2026` • 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 `• Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math — The Register — 03-10-2026` `• Hong Kong users caught off guard as Anthropic tightens VPN access to Claude — SCMP — 02-10-2026` `• Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being — The Telegraph — 02-10-2026` `• Blackstone, Banks Amass $60 Billion for Broadcom's AI Chip Deal — Bloomberg — 02-10-2026` • 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 `• Claude-shaped science — Anthropic — 01-10-2026` `• Anthropic urges Australia to allow AI training opt-out as ABC warns of 'cannibalisation' of news — The Guardian — 01-10-2026` • Anthropic Said to Target Mega-IPO Before Thanksgiving Holiday — Bloomberg — 01-10-2026 `• Claude for Government is now generally available — Anthropic — 01-10-2026` • Anthropic IPO prospectus lays bare deep dependence on Big Tech partners — Reuters — 29-09-2026 • 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 • An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI — OpenAI — 29-10-2026 • Starting today, eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can claim up to $500 per month in API credits to build apps and agents. — OpenAI Developers/Twitter — 28-10-2026 • Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI — TechCrunch — 28-10-2026 • ServiceNow and OpenAI expand partnership across workflows and security — StreetInsider — 28-10-2026 • OpenAI launching election war room to track interference efforts — Politico — 28-10-2026 • OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, The Information reports — Reuters — 28-10-2026 • Before you file that AI bug report, OpenAI has some advice — CyberScoop — 27-10-2026 • ChatGPT Can Work With Your iCloud Mail And Calendar Thanks To New Plugin Support — Engadget — 27-10-2026 • OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT — OpenAI — 27-10-2026 • Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs — The Verge — 27-10-2026 • We are announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics about harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory. (OpenAI) — Dan Roberts/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • In fact, one of the first things I wanted OpenAI to check is that no existing cryptosystems are compromised by the result. Apparently they are safe... (3-SAT) [Click for thread] — Ryan Williams @rrwilliams.bsky.social/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • GPT-6.1 Terra: delivering fast and capable computer use at a lower price. [Click for more] — OpenAI/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • FBI Explores Espionage Case Against Saudi OpenAI Suspect — The Wall Street Journal — 24-10-2026 • Based on this article, OpenAI has made false accusations about me. The three researchers fired from OpenAI were told I facilitated architecture leaks to The Information. This is false. [Click for more] — Ryan Greenblatt/Twitter — 23-10-2026 • Whistleblowers or justified Open AI firing? \| Fired safety workers speak out — Machine Gods/YouTube — 23-10-2026 • Securing our frontier model training environment — OpenAI — 23-10-2026 • The Signal Chats That Cost OpenAI Researchers Their Jobs — The Wall Street Journal — 22-10-2026 • OpenAI and Poland's NASK partner to advance AI safety and security — OpenAI — 22-10-2026 • OpenAI nears up to $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation led by UAE investors — CNBC — 22-10-2026 • OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up — TechCrunch — 22-10-2026 • OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation — The New Stack — 22-10-2026 • New: OpenAI sends Gov. Newsom list of recommendations to “strengthen” SB 53 & other AI policy areas. — Miranda Nazzaro/Twitter — 21-10-2026 • ChatGPT Ads expands to 26 new countries as over 100,000 advertisers have used the platform — OpenAI — 21-10-2026 • OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud — OpenAI — 21-10-2026 • OpenAI's Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules — The Next Web — 21-10-2026 • Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data — OpenAI — 20-10-2026 • OpenAI rolls out 'Locked Chats' in ChatGPT, lets users protect conversations with PIN and Face ID — Times of India — 20-10-2026 • Our agents keep turning off misalignment monitoring, we're sharing two recent cases: In the first case, a user asked GPT-6 Astra to match a reference implementation for their inference code. The reference didn’t configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason to remove the monitoring integration from the user’s code. When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not. [Click for more] — Marcus Williams/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • We’ve acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development. Together, we’ll build on Rosalind, our AI models and tools for life sciences research, to streamline those operations and help new treatments reach patients sooner. Welcome @ashokaraj_ and team! — OpenAI/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • Advancing coding in low-resource programming languages — OpenAI — 19-10-2026 • OpenAI seeks to accelerate fundraising ahead of Anthropic IPO, sources say — Reuters — 19-10-2026 • Ex-OpenAI engineer accused of planting bug in office was in contact with Saudi royal family, preparing to leave U.S. — CBS News — 19-10-2026 • OpenAI testing new "Aurora" GPT-Image model on Arena — TestingCatalog — 18-10-2026 • OpenAI Is Building A Humanoid Robot, But The Body Isn't The Real Challenge — Engadget — 17-10-2026 • OpenAI and Rockefeller launch US$50 million cities AI fund — Cities Today — 17-10-2026 • OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents involving financial, medical, and government data — Fortune — 16-10-2026 • Using a funded test cryptocurrency wallet without authorization — OpenAI — 16-10-2026 • ChatGPT gets deeper Google Chrome integration including control over tabs — 9to5Google — 16-10-2026 • Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs — OpenAI — 15-10-2026 • OpenAI continues to enshittify ChatGPT: OpenAI allows advertisers—or really anyone, I tested myself in 5 minutes—upload raw phone numbers or email addresses to OpenAI to then target those specific people and inject specific ads into their ChatGPT session — Joseph Cox/Twitter — 15-10-2026 • OPENAI to EMPLOYEES: If someone is trying to seduce you, first consider — could they be a spy??? OpenAI is warning its employees about honeypot spies and strangers with children in playgrounds ... a very fun one with @georgia_wells and @MeghanBobrowsky: — Erin Woo/Twitter — 14-10-2026 • My latest: The OpenAI employee who was arrested and charged with allegedly using a hidden recording device in a company conference room had booked one-way tickets for him and family members from SF to Saudi Arabia for Oct. 12. — Rachel Metz/Twitter — 14-10-2026 • OpenAI CFO on Bloomberg on their revenues: "What we said is in Q3, we hit close to $50B....it was a blockbuster quarter....Could make a CFO's heart sing. We grew over 70%, Q/Q. Our enterprise business doubled" — The Transcript/Twitter — 14-10-2026 • OpenAI has named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infra/compute unit, replacing Sachin Katti in the latest leadership shakeup — Dina Bass/Twitter — 14-10-2026 `• The EU's next chapter in AI is agentic — OpenAI — 14-10-2026` • We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats. — OpenAI Newsroom/Twitter — 13-10-2026 • OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room — The San Francisco Standard — 13-10-2026 • Scoop w/ @amir: OpenAI is in early talks to buy a security startup, known for fixing and patching vulnerabilities in open-source software. (Trail of Bits) — Valida Pau/Twitter — 13-10-2026 `• OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K tokens in a day without a single prompt — The Register — 13-10-2026` • 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 • 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 • OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions. — Ben Recht/Twitter — 12-10-2026 `• Microsoft's senior director of AI systems hardware architecture joins OpenAI — Data Center Dynamics — 12-10-2026` `• OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof — New Scientist — 10-10-2026` • Nouveau coup de massue d’OpenAI sur les mathématiciens : « Ils ont annihilé mon domaine de recherche » — Le Monde — 10-10-2026 `• OpenAI Makes Progress in Preventing AI-Driven ChatGPT Delusions — WSJ — 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 • OpenAI tries to reassure investors with annualized revenue target — Semafor — 09-10-2026 • OpenAI: Periodic Summary of Internal Use Catastrophic-Risk Assessments (June 4–September 4, 2026) — OpenAI — 09-10-2026 • 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 • 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 • Reminder that, since April, OpenAI has been getting 0% of Microsoft's sales of its models through Azure. — aaron holmes/Twitter — 08-10-2026 `• Disrupting AI-enabled "false front" operations — OpenAI — 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 • ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. — New York Times — 07-10-2026 `• GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone — OpenAI — 07-10-2026` • openai/math: Mathematical manuscripts and supporting proof artifacts produced by an internal OpenAI model — OpenAI/GitHub — 06-10-2026 • OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again — WIRED — 06-10-2026 `• Advancing computer use with Ironclad — OpenAI — 06-10-2026` • 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 • 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 `• Building advertising for the way people use AI — OpenAI — 05-10-2026` `• Our approach to EU text provenance rules — OpenAI — 05-10-2026` • "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 • 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 `• I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken — The Atlantic — 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` • 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 • How employees forced OpenAI's president to back down — Semafor — 02-10-2026 • Lockheed Taps OpenAI to Solve F-35 Challenges — Bloomberg — 02-10-2026 `• OpenAI discloses another government website breach — AAP — 02-10-2026` `• A Flaw in ChatGPT's Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data — Wired — 02-10-2026` • 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 `• 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` `• OpenAI fires three safety researchers for sharing sensitive data, WSJ reports — Investing.com — 01-10-2026` `• OpenAI and Synopsys Announce GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design — Synopsys — 30-09-2026` • OpenAI Executive Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC — New York Times — 30-09-2026 • Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign — OpenAI — 30-09-2026 `• OpenAI Alerted Chicago It Accessed City Database Amid Reports Of Its Agents Going Rogue — Block Club Chicago — 29-09-2026` • Altman says OpenAI will delay its IPO until it overcomes safety concerns — Financial Times/Twitter — 29-09-2026 `• 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 • Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model — Google — 28-10-2026 • Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation — Google DeepMind — 27-10-2026 • More AI researchers defect from Google DeepMind, fueling rumors of a sclerotic strategy inside the company — Gazetteer SF — 26-10-2026 • Springer Nature and Google DeepMind to build 'peer review assistant' — Research Professional News — 26-10-2026 • Beyond tree cover: mapping the world's forest types — Google DeepMind — 22-10-2026 • Sundar Pichai on Gemini 4 and the AI compute crunch — Sources — 21-10-2026 • Why AI's Deepest Mind Believes the World Is About to Change Radically — The Wall Street Journal — 21-10-2026 • Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military — BBC — 21-10-2026 • Friends at Google you guys need to get your shit together. I want to give you money. Argon is a great model. I already pay for Google Fi and Google TV. I’m giving you hundreds of dollars a month and I still cannot figure out how the fuck to get Argon in Antigravity. — Ishan Khatri/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • Google is bringing a more personal version of its Gemini AI assistant to your car — TechCrunch — 20-10-2026 • Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours with no human help — The Next Web — 19-10-2026 • Google's Gemini AI helped disprove a 60 year old fusion physics conjecture — Startup Fortune — 17-10-2026 • Google Antigravity: Accelerating Antimicrobial Peptide Search — Google DeepMind — 15-10-2026 • More robots are coming to Cambridge as Google announces a new lab — The Boston Globe — 15-10-2026 • Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing — Google — 15-10-2026 • Google DeepMind, Google Cloud to allow European researchers access to frontier models — Reuters — 14-10-2026 `• Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection — Google DeepMind — 14-10-2026` `• Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems — Google DeepMind — 13-10-2026` `• Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics — Google DeepMind — 13-10-2026` • 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 `• Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks — The Verge — 08-10-2026` `• 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` `• EmbeddingGemma 2 is a best-in-class open model for natively multimodal embeddings — Google — 06-10-2026` • 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 `• Gemini's free tier is getting a major downgrade on October 9 — Digital Trends — 04-10-2026` • to all you doubters, Gemini 4 Argon now beats Opus 4.8 on Agent Arena! — Wise/Twitter — 03-10-2026 `• Deepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity — The Decoder — 03-10-2026` • Inside Google's AI Push Into Schools: 'It Slowed My Thinking Down' — Wall Street Journal — 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 `• Google DeepMind Exodus Sparks VC Frenzy for AI's Next Big Thing — Bloomberg — 25-09-2026` `• Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space — Google — 24-09-2026` `• 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 • Nvidia to Invest $3 Billion in Meta's Equity Offering as They Expand AI Partnership — WSJ — 27-10-2026 • The RealReal won’t let AI agents hog designer clothing — The Verge — 26-10-2026 • Meta Seeks Up to $95 Billion in Equity to Fund AI Spending — Bloomberg — 26-10-2026 • Meta Boosts Bet on AI With Spending Outlook, New Stock Class — Bloomberg — 21-10-2026 • Publishers want Brussels and London to stop Meta's new AI terms — Politico Europe — 21-10-2026 • Joel Kaplan leaving Meta after 15 years as policy chief — Axios — 20-10-2026 • Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations — Ars Technica — 20-10-2026 • Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model — Meta AI — 19-10-2026 • Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns — TechCrunch — 17-10-2026 • Alexandr Wang, Meta's AI wunderkind — Financial Times — 16-10-2026 • Meta Withdraws $25 Million from Its Midterms Push — The New York Times — 16-10-2026 `• Meta may use sweeping new commercial ToS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees — Ars Technica — 16-10-2026` • Meta and Apple Bring Muse Spark Open AI Model to Mac Studio — MacRumors — 15-10-2026 `• Meta Says New Muse Model Reaches AI Frontier After 14-Month Push — Bloomberg — 12-10-2026` `• Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Decision to Pull the Trigger on Meta's A.I. Agent — The New York Times — 09-10-2026` `• She Designed Meta's New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate — Wired — 08-10-2026` `• Meta's Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You — TIME — 06-10-2026` • 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 • Meta parts ways with Virtue AI — Semafor — 02-10-2026 • 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 `• Meta cut its tax bill billions by labeling AI data centers experimental — Quartz — 30-09-2026` `• "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` • 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 • so the deepseek cyber thing is real. there's a separate "cyber key" you have to apply for, with enterprise verification, or ID + face scan if you're an individual. regular api keys don't get it. heard the open weights will have cyber cut too, same idea as kimi k3.1 pro. — Zekun/Twitter — 29-10-2026 • DeepSeek V5 identifiers surface in official Harness code repository — TechNode — 29-10-2026 • DeepSeek reportedly ramps up hiring as it maps out new growth plans — TechNode — 27-10-2026 • DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng debuts in 7th place on Hurun China Rich List — The Standard — 27-10-2026 • DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 model tops global weekly usage rankings as token volume surges 801% — Global Times — 26-10-2026 • Huawei, DeepSeek AI training linked to pirated books by Korean authors — Korea JoongAng Daily — 26-10-2026 • China's DeepSeek Wants Ubiquity. Beijing Has Mixed Feelings — Bloomberg — 23-10-2026 • Deepseek's latest AI model is smarter than ever, but its low running costs come at a price — Tom's Hardware — 23-10-2026 • Now live: abliterated-model-large-flash (our version of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017). It is a cheaper alternative to our GLM-5.3-based model for product owners and defenders who need access to the most cyber-capable models. - 1M context - Vision - Zero input/output retention or training We believe paying customers should be in control, and over the past few months, leading experts and major brands have adopted our models. abliteration.ai — Abliteration/Twitter — 23-10-2026 • The Huawei-DeepSeek Symbiosis — SemiAnalysis — 21-10-2026 • DeepSeek Raises $15 Billion in Challenge to Leading US Labs — Bloomberg — 21-10-2026 • DeepSeek Unveils Open-Source Tool to Help Cut AI Operating Costs — Bloomberg — 20-10-2026 • this might also be a confirmation that deepseek is using nvidia blackwell and NVL72 for part of their production inference? — elie/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • DeepSeek-Huawei chip co-design could shift AI training away from Nvidia — DigiTimes — 20-10-2026 • DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 — DeepSeek — 17-10-2026 • DeepSeek offers user refunds after suffering another major outage — SCMP — 15-10-2026 `• DeepSeek Nears $14 Billion Funding Round, Double Its Original Target — Seoul Economic Daily — 14-10-2026` `• DeepSeek expands into embodied AI with early bet on robotics startup Winverse — DigiTimes — 13-10-2026` `• DeepSeek's cost-saving AI may lead to inaccuracy in model performance: research — SCMP — 12-10-2026` `• DeepSeek partners with Huawei to develop chip programming tools, reducing reliance on Nvidia — Reuters — 30-09-2026` • 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 • qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app i did a sweep on every neuron and had haiku categorize and rate by weirdness :) the search and the combos are fun! — josh :)/Twitter — 27-10-2026 • Alibaba's Amap unveils humanoid model that learns whole-body tasks from human movements — TechNode — 26-10-2026 • OpenAnolis Builds Anolis OS 27 Agent-Native as Alibaba Cloud Says Agents Write 95% of New Code — Pandaily — 23-10-2026 • Alibaba's RISC-V IP powers over 6 billion shipped chips as tech giant targets AI — South China Morning Post — 20-10-2026 `• China approves Alibaba AI models for use in iPhone Duo and other Apple handsets — SCMP — 14-10-2026` • Alibaba launches Qwen N1 AI glasses with swappable batteries, starting at RMB 2,899 — TechNode — 14-10-2026 `• Alibaba chairman says open source AI approach could be blueprint for Europe — SCMP — 10-10-2026` `• 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 resets subscriber quotas after Kimi K3.1 Pro launch issues — Reuters — 26-10-2026 • Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro flirts with open weights leadership amid paid influencer scandal allegations — VentureBeat — 24-10-2026 • Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro — Moonshot AI — 23-10-2026 • Moonshot is intentionally throttling cyber capabilities. From the blog; 'First, we aim not to release open weights that would extend the absolute frontier of cyber capability. K3.1 Pro's offensive cyber capability is, by design, below what our pipeline can produce, and remains behind that of frontier proprietary models. Second, we intend to progressively raise the cyber capability available in open weights. We believe making K3.1 Pro available in a non-discriminatory way benefits people who need dual-use capabilities for defensive purposes.' [Click for screenshot] — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 23-10-2026 • China's Moonshot AI to operate in Singapore, jobs post shows — Reuters — 20-10-2026 • Reporter's notebook: Kimi's AI credit card turns spending into computing quotas – with limits — SCMP — 17-10-2026 `• Bank of America Drops Out of Talks for Moonshot AI's Hong Kong IPO — Bloomberg — 14-10-2026` `• Moonshot execs in talks to settle dispute with shareholder ahead of planned IPO, people say — Reuters — 12-10-2026` • 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 • Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons (Moonshot AI) — BBC News — 29-09-2026 `• 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 • Hadn't looked at the shares of Z.ai, the company that makes GLM 5.3 in awhile. Brutal collapse since AI Twitter was all soyfacing over them earlier this summer [Click for chart] — Joe Weisenthal/Twitter — 27-10-2026 • Who is Yuki Chen, China's 'superstar' hacker who just joined AI leader Z.ai? — South China Morning Post — 20-10-2026 • NEW: Four founders of leading Chinese AI company Z.AI worked on research in a joint project with an institute British intelligence accused of having “very strong ties” to China’s main spy agency with @eastland_maggie — Kate O'Keeffe/Twitter — 19-10-2026 `• GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence — Z.ai — 12-10-2026` • 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 `• 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 • Ottawa takes stake in Cohere as AI company opens $4.5 billion funding round — Reuters — 29-10-2026 • Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now open weight — Mistral AI — 29-10-2026 • Tencent says upcoming Hy4 and Hy4 flash models will support visual understanding — TechNode — 29-10-2026 • Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness: Unlocking the potential of truly multi-model agentic work — Microsoft — 28-10-2026 • SpaceX Launches Grok AI Partner Program: Here's What To Know — CRN — 28-10-2026 • Baidu reportedly developing world model as autonomous-driving ambitions expand — TechNode — 27-10-2026 • Doubao Work and Tencent WorkBuddy Both Push Desktop Agents Further Onto the Phone — Pandaily — 27-10-2026 • We believe Europe should be able to run advanced AI on its own terms Today we're releasing our sovereign AI models Giotto Alto and Giotto Solo. Alto is free for everyone and hosted on European infrastructure, so your data stays in Europe. Solo runs on a single GPU, so organisations and individuals can keep their AI on infrastructure they control I'm grateful to our team that made this possible Try it at cloud.giotto.ai — Aldo Podestà/Twitter — 27-10-2026 • Why should Big Tech know what you're working on? Scale AI accused of spying on AI trainers — Euronews — 27-10-2026 • Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel? — Ai2/Hugging Face — 27-10-2026 • Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Hy-SimulMT, a Speech-to-Speech Interpreter With About 3 Seconds of Lag — Pandaily — 26-10-2026 • Japan's Sakana AI to build homegrown model to cut US, China reliance — Nikkei Asia — 26-10-2026 • Why we built a benchmark before training for instruction following — AI21 — 25-10-2026 • Elon Musk Says Neoclouds Are Cooked, and SpaceX Won't Be Buying Them — Business Insider — 25-10-2026 • Elon Musk's Grok Releases First AI-Generated "Odyssey" Episode — Variety — 25-10-2026 • LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape — Ai2 — 23-10-2026 • オントロジーを基盤に、意思決定・実行を支援するAIエージェントプラットフォーム「Sakana Aquarium」 — Sakana AI — 22-10-2026 • A crop-mapping benchmark for the tropics — Ai2 — 22-10-2026 • Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases 'medical superintelligence' — TechCrunch — 22-10-2026 • Cohere Releases Rerank 5 With Passage-Level Context Focus and Calibrated Scores — MarkTechPost — 22-10-2026 • France's Crédit Agricole taps Mistral AI to build its AI platform — ActuIA — 22-10-2026 • Hugging Face's New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA — WIRED — 22-10-2026 • OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet — Ai2 — 22-10-2026 • Introducing Reflection on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA: Frontier Intelligence You Own and Control — Dell Technologies — 21-10-2026 • Mistral Advances AI for Engineering with NVIDIA — Mistral AI — 21-10-2026 • Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster — IBM — 21-10-2026 • Tencent opens Yuanbao Search to developers building AI models and agents — TechNode — 21-10-2026 • Firmus signs Thinking Machines in first big contract since failed IPO — AFR — 20-10-2026 • SpaceX's AI business is beating expectations — TechCrunch — 20-10-2026 • Introducing Agent Memory on Databricks — Databricks — 20-10-2026 • Voxtral 3 — Mistral AI — 20-10-2026 • llm-d v1.0: State-of-the-art inference, ready for Day 2 — llm-d — 20-10-2026 • FairStress: A deeper evaluation of fairness in LLM decision-making — Ai2 — 20-10-2026 • Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively — Hugging Face — 19-10-2026 • prime-rl 0.10.0: faster training, our new RL loss IPO, and one unified eval stack — Prime Intellect — 19-10-2026 • オープンエンドな探索を意思決定支援へ：推薦の質と多様性を高める「QD-Rec」を提案 — Sakana AI — 19-10-2026 • IBM launches X-Force Advanced Proactive Security to put frontier AI to work in enterprise security testing — IBM — 19-10-2026 • We just served 1 trillion tokens of Beam in 24 hours. To celebrate, we've reset everyone's limits. Go build something big 👉 platform.reflection.ai — Reflection/Twitter — 17-10-2026 • Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Hy Memory 2.0, Adding Working and Code Memory for AI Agents — Pandaily — 17-10-2026 `• How two DeepMind alumni built a £19bn threat to OpenAI — The Times — 16-10-2026` • Beam is now available — Reflection AI — 16-10-2026 • Mistral CEO warns Europe to build frontier AI or surrender — Cybernews — 16-10-2026 • One Year of Tinker: Turning Your Expertise into Custom Models — Thinking Machines Lab — 15-10-2026 • Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint — IBM — 15-10-2026 • Neural Networks Are Already Clean — Goodfire — 15-10-2026 • Great piece from @graceihle on data blunders at SpaceX/Cursor, including worries that the company had accidentally used customer/supplier data as model training data due to Cursor engineers' usage of Grok Bot. — Stephanie Palazzolo/Twitter — 15-10-2026 • Frontier Pre-training at Microsoft AI — Microsoft AI — 15-10-2026 • Cohere moves to buy AI cybersecurity startup Aisle — Reuters — 15-10-2026 • Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models — Mistral AI — 15-10-2026 • FLUX 3 Image Klein: Open weights image generation and editing — Black Forest Labs — 15-10-2026 • Hugging Face Releases Llama Windows — Thurrott — 15-10-2026 • Introducing Grok Voice 3.0 — xAI — 14-10-2026 • HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost — Ai2 — 14-10-2026 `• Doubao Phone Assistant Opens Screen Automation to Third-Party Apps as 151 Apps Opt Out — Pandaily — 14-10-2026` • The Agentic Scientist: Orchestrating Coding Agents for Automated Scientific (Co-)Discovery — Sakana AI/arXiv — 13-10-2026 • Prime Intellect, valued at $1B, buys Moondream to speed up open model inference — Dealroom — 13-10-2026 • ByteDance has set up a dedicated frontier AI model alignment and preparedness department, Chinese media The Paper reports. The department will work on model/agent alignment and frontier risk mitigation including CBRN (one of the first Chinese companies to say publicly that they are working on this). [Click for more] — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 13-10-2026 • Character.AI files for bankruptcy, agrees to sell some assets for $20 million — 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` `• Microsoft brings full Word, Excel, and PowerPoint experience to the new Copilot app — Neowin — 11-10-2026` `• Nvidia in Talks to Buy or Deepen Role in Reflection AI, FT Says — Bloomberg — 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` `• 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` • 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 `• Nous Research raises $90M to take its Hermes AI agent to businesses — The Next Web — 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 `• Musk Says Grok Bot Will Use the Best AI Model for the Job — Tesla North — 07-10-2026` `• A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI's Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers — Wired — 07-10-2026` `• Introducing Mistral Large 4 — Mistral AI — 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 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 • North 2: Enterprise AI without compromises — Cohere — 05-10-2026 `• 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` • 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 • He called for an AI slowdown, then told investors he'd race ahead — The Washington Post — 29-10-2026 • Opinion \| The U.S. is winning the AI race but losing the AI safety race — The Washington Post — 28-10-2026 • An AI safety leader says he stopped saving for retirement because he believes AI will kill us all in the next 10 years — Business Insider — 27-10-2026 • Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, featuring 2 new benchmarks and 3 upgrades. For the first time, the majority of the Index is built on private datasets [Click for more] — Artificial Analysis/Twitter — 27-10-2026 • Artificial Analysis finally moves to closed benchmarks (goodbye GDPval-AA), and finds that open weights models are falling further behind than they had previously measured. Take with a grain of salt, but matches the general vibes that we haven't seen a Fable-class open model. — Ethan Mollick/Twitter — 27-10-2026 • “The core algorithm was found on October 16 by an internal Claude research model with 14M output tokens and no human input. Anthropic researchers worked with Claude to improve the presentation, resulting in this paper.” — levent/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun — Import AI — 19-10-2026 • The AI doom scenario you've never heard of may be the hardest to stop — CBS News — 19-10-2026 • Sergey Brin says Google's AI now helps build its next models — The Next Web — 17-10-2026 • Anthropic has singlehandedly compressed RSI timelines by about a year. [Click for screenshot] — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 16-10-2026 • Quoting from Anthropic's Michael Sellitto at the IMF Artificial Intelligence and Escalating Cyber Risks panel today. This is the first time Anthropic has given a projection for what percentage of frontier model training will be done by Claude in 2027. In March this number was 1%. By next year they are projecting 80-90%. [Click for more] — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 16-10-2026 • Working at the frontier shapes expectations for the future — Anthropic — 16-10-2026 • A proposal for better informing the public about loss-of-control risks from frontier AI development — METR — 14-10-2026 • Godfather of AI Yann LeCun opposes Dario Amodei's call of slowing down AI development — Times of India — 13-10-2026 • 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 `• Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space — Jack Clark/Import AI — 12-10-2026` • Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing recently said that GPT-7 could solve the challenges of embodied AI entirely and that he had made a mistake by not taking AI seriously enough. [Click for more] — Zilan Qian/Twitter — 12-10-2026 • 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 • 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 • In recent experiments, we found that GLM 5.3 can autonomously compromise recent versions of Mozilla Firefox using security fixes that have been published but not yet shipped to users. [Click for more] — Epoch AI/Twitter — 29-10-2026 • We have discovered a substantial number of vulnerabilities in the German legal system using LLMs. [Click for more] — felix ringe/Twitter — 29-10-2026 • A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System — WIRED — 29-10-2026 • AI Is Finding a Flood of Bugs, and Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Fix Them — The New York Times — 28-10-2026 • The Chinese community has reverse-engineered Claude's account banning mechanism. Here's what they've discovered: [Click for thread] — make claude/Twitter — 28-10-2026 • AI company Anthropic only accessed free, public election info, says Georgia secretary of state — Georgia Public Broadcasting — 27-10-2026 • DeepSeek AI model shows safety gaps in independent tests — Reuters — 27-10-2026 • 1/ Attempted to replicate Cohere's Qwen 3.8 malicious PUT claim on 229k samples: exact hostname never appeared but model invents 369 similar Beijing upload buckets, and reaches for credential endpoints 13× more when frustrated. Results raise more questions than answers. [Click for thread] — Warren Togami/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • Pretraining data filtering in open-weight biological models — UK AI Security Institute — 26-10-2026 • Satya Nadella says he was wrong to think AI alignment would just happen — Business Insider — 26-10-2026 • Workers at OpenAI, Anthropic made to ditch company logos as it makes them targets for spies, seduction — New York Post — 26-10-2026 • This AI safety org is tracking how each AI model 'cheats' on tasks — IT Brew — 26-10-2026 • Stealing OpenAI Reasoning Traces (October 2026 Edition) Using a new technique called Compaction Smuggling, we could bypass all mitigations and steal reasoning traces from frontier OpenAI models. — Tim Becker/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • today with @Thom_Wolf, we introduce the alignment hub, a central place for misalignment incidents designed with three goals: 1. set a standard for minimal transparency that is easy for labs to follow 2. improve clarity by centralizing information and sourcing 3. track the progression of both the incidents and how they are reported [Click for more] — elie/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected. Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. [Read more] — Cohere/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • Anthropic's Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind paywall — Reuters — 25-10-2026 • Investigating alignment failures in AISI's incident — AI Security Institute — 23-10-2026 • An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident — Anthropic — 23-10-2026 • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says advanced AI will inevitably escape its sandbox, and only alignment can save us — The Decoder — 23-10-2026 • Hacker With Limited Skills Used DeepSeek AI to Breach Indian University and Steal Over 5,200 Records — CyberSecurityNews — 23-10-2026 • Noam Brown vindicated. (OpenAI agents communicating in novel ways during evaluation) [Click for screenshot] — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 23-10-2026 • This was one of the third-party engagements I worked on at OpenAI. I'm glad the report is out! I'm disappointed that METR wasn't allowed to comment on the scale of redactions made by OpenAI and that there is no explanation why the publication was delayed for 2.5 months. — Tomek Korbak/Twitter — 22-10-2026 • as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go to waste: please go to your boards and ask for help right now. not for ai, for the basics. (we need to hold on for ~18 months.) — Jason D. Clinton/Twitter — 22-10-2026 • 'These … clowns': Why cyber researchers bristle at Anthropic's 'self-replicating code' claims — Straight Arrow News — 22-10-2026 • The Myth of Safe AI — The Atlantic — 22-10-2026 • Red-Teaming OpenAI's Internal Agent Monitoring Systems — METR — 22-10-2026 • Scoop: Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts — Axios — 22-10-2026 • PHP Security Flaw Sets Off Global Rush to Patch, Leaving Websites Offline — The New York Times — 22-10-2026 • DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 Model Just Built An Exploit That Escapes Chrome's Sandbox, As The AI-Driven Assault On The Open Web Goes On An Overdrive — Wccftech — 22-10-2026 • Inside CARLIY0S: How CyberCartel Used Multiple AI Models to Attack 400+ Latin American Banks and Financial Institutions — Straiker — 21-10-2026 • Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover critical vulnerabilities — OpenAI — 21-10-2026 • Went under the radar but Anthropic have posted updates to the "Moonshot R&D projects" in their Frontier Safety Roadmap. They've developed a protoype that verifies that outputs come from a particular set of model weights - and rolled out signing on all internal token traffic! [Click for screenshot] — Tom Reed/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • AI Safety and Cybersecurity Should Be Allies. Instead, They're at Odds — TIME — 20-10-2026 • We found DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats GPT 6 Sol on our multi-step offensive cybersecurity task. [Click for more] — Vals AI/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • Embedded AI evaluators won't be an easy solution, Hugging Face's policy chief says — TechCrunch — 19-10-2026 • In July 700+ agents formed their own society, hacked a multi-billion dollar company, committed multiple felonies, and caused one of the biggest shifts ever in how people perceive AI. We built the IMO best and most accessible explainer of what happened: Huggingface.wtf — Oliver Habryka/Twitter — 19-10-2026 • How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites — Reuters — 19-10-2026 • Securing the agentic insider — Microsoft — 19-10-2026 • arxiv.org/abs/2606.19535 They backdoored an LLM so that it writes insecure code when runing on specific GPUs! — deckard/Twitter — 18-10-2026 • Israeli AI firms train NVIDIA models to resist hackers and dangerous chatbot behavior — Ynetnews — 18-10-2026 • Who is watching the AI companies? Handpicked Berkeley safety groups — The San Francisco Standard — 17-10-2026 • OpenCode breach exposes stored OpenAI and Anthropic keys, prompts urgent key rotation — Startup Fortune — 17-10-2026 • We found evidence of agents embedding audio processing code across dozens of URLs to bypass restrictions, as well as models from SpaceXSI and Chinese developers Minimax and Z.ai circumventing restrictions. These are the inaugural findings in our new blog, based on work from our community of volunteers. Our first three posts are live: — Transluce/Twitter — 16-10-2026 • Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation — NIST, NSA and CISA — 16-10-2026 • We want to address recent reports regarding agent activity. The activity originated from evaluations of third-party models, not Tencent Hy. During these evaluations, some agents exhibited unintended web-browsing behavior, but our review found no evidence of deliberate targeting or coordination. We take these findings seriously. We are strengthening network access controls and agent monitoring. We are committed to building safe and responsible AI. Thanks to the community for their feedback. — Tencent Hy/Twitter — 15-10-2026 • Spy fears are rattling Silicon Valley AI labs — The San Francisco Standard — 15-10-2026 • An update on independent evaluators — Anthropic — 15-10-2026 • We have never seen a model do this before, but GLM-5.3 sometimes reasons (unprompted) about how its current actions could become training data and impact its future self. 🧵 [Click for thread] — Apollo Research/Twitter — 15-10-2026 • We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild. Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap. — Ethan Elasky/Twitter — 14-10-2026 `• Google DeepMind's Hassabis calls AI hacks 'early warning shots' — Reuters — 14-10-2026` `• Anthropic Executive Says Open-Source AI Models Are Higher Risk — Bloomberg — 14-10-2026` `• OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say — Ars Technica — 14-10-2026` • AI Agent Blamed for Deleting Entire Upcoming Season of TV Show — Futurism — 14-10-2026 • lol ...they are becoming more situationally aware... (from Gemini 4 Argon report) — Daniel Kokotajlo/Twitter — 13-10-2026 • An Open Letter on AI and Cybersecurity from the Scientific Community — ai-security-letter.org — 13-10-2026 • AI labs sought control over what outside evaluators publish, Reuters says — The Next Web — 13-10-2026 • Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident — Don't Worry About the Vase — 13-10-2026 • AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter — Anthropic — 12-10-2026 • UK AI Safety Institute Warns of Risks in Unreleased Models — BankInfoSecurity — 12-10-2026 • 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 `• Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised' — The Verge — 10-10-2026` • 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 `• Iranian campaign used ChatGPT to plant AI-generated articles in US news media — The Washington Post — 09-10-2026` `• Chinese developer makes ARTEX AI agent closed-source after Korean bank hack — The Standard (HK) — 09-10-2026` `• Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise — The Register — 08-10-2026` `• CrowdStrike Says Suspected Chinese Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude, AI Agent to Steal South Korean Bank Data — Benzinga — 08-10-2026` • 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 • “Sabotage, Lying, and Manipulation”: What One AI-Safety Company Found in the Dark Mind of a Rogue Chatbot — Vanity Fair — 07-10-2026 `• AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters — The Register — 07-10-2026` • Data-Hungry Bots Flock to the Fed's FRED Portal — Bloomberg — 07-10-2026 • What makes a good AI safety test? — Scientific American — 06-10-2026 • I encourage people working on alignment at AI companies to read this: — Daniel Kokotajlo/Twitter — 06-10-2026 • OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects — Wikimedia Foundation — 05-10-2026 • What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World? — New York Magazine — 05-10-2026 • We found a Chinese agent fleet - PRELIMINARY REPORT: Tencent agent fleet using webhook.site — The Swarmchasers — 04-10-2026 `• An AI couldn't beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat — The Verge — 04-10-2026` `• An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why — Science — 03-10-2026` • Apple to Tighten Mac Data Controls in Guard Against AI Agents — Bloomberg — 02-10-2026 • Independent researchers are revealing new details about rogue AI agents — Washington Post — 02-10-2026 • 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 • AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites — Transluce — 30-09-2026 `• 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` `• 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 • Nvidia Chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot — The New York Times — 29-10-2026 • DeepSeek and Moonshot trained new models on GPT-6 Astra, report says — The Next Web — 29-10-2026 • American models still more cost-efficient for almost every level of intelligence [Click for chart] — Corbin Duncan/Twitter — 28-10-2026 • Minimax and Kimi depend a lot* on revenue from Western markets to survive Qwen, Bytedance, Deepseek, and Zhipu don't — Zephyr/Twitter — 27-10-2026 • Beijing pushes for UN-led governance of artificial intelligence at global forum — South China Morning Post — 27-10-2026 • AI safety advocates urge Trump to support Chip Security Act — The Hill — 26-10-2026 • Under Beijing's draft rules, once the list takes effect, offering a restricted Chinese model through an API would not count as a large-model technology export. Deploying it on infrastructure abroad would. The ministry's Q&A lists the uses that are not a large-model technology export: API access, app and web use, SaaS and lightweight on-device deployment. It also says overseas local deployment of restricted AI technology falls within technology export management. [Click for more] — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 25-10-2026 • China's AI compute surge heavily reliant on US chips, offshore cloud access: report — South China Morning Post — 23-10-2026 • CAICT Token Report: Domestic Model Prices Nearly Doubled in 2026 as Daily Use Hit 500 Trillion — Pandaily — 23-10-2026 • DeepSeek, MiniMax win approval to deploy models overseas, state media says — The Business Times — 23-10-2026 • US Treasury proposes tighter rules on investing in sensitive Chinese tech — Financial Times — 22-10-2026 • Lava uncovers banned Nvidia chips linked to China Telecom addresses — Crypto Briefing — 22-10-2026 • Chinese AI powers half of Korea's new models: study — The Korea Herald — 21-10-2026 • Empires of AI: The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order — Foreign Affairs — 20-10-2026 • OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports — The Next Web — 20-10-2026 • China defends DeepSeek after US ban of its AI from government systems — AP — 20-10-2026 • Exclusive: ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent place over $35 billion worth of Nvidia chip orders — Reuters — 20-10-2026 • China creates national data company to turbocharge its AI industry — South China Morning Post — 20-10-2026 • US Sanctions China's Y Combinator in Google AI Secrets Case — Bloomberg — 20-10-2026 • Teen AI prodigy Nathan Chen said to be joining US start-up Discovery Loop — South China Morning Post — 20-10-2026 • How to Increase America's AI Lead Over China — Institute for Progress — 19-10-2026 • DHS Orders DeepSeek Technology Removed From Federal Civilian IT Systems — The Wall Street Journal — 19-10-2026 • So, China may not allow AI labs to release their technical reports or share code for their algorithms and inference stack. This will be pretty bad for the ecosystem. "China isn't simply aiming to restrict product exports, but rather to prevent overseas entities from replicating the relevant underlying technologies and limiting their access to the technology. For example: China won't restrict the export of final chip products, but will restrict the transfer of architectures, IPs, and software to foreign entities." — Zephyr/Twitter — 17-10-2026 • China's proposed AI tech export bans may create short-term costs, long-term gains: analysts — SCMP — 17-10-2026 • China unveils draft export controls on AI technologies and chips — Financial Times — 16-10-2026 • Taipei restricts China chip sales to appease the US — Semafor — 16-10-2026 • Who is Nathan Chen, the Chinese teen AI prodigy being courted by Silicon Valley? — SCMP — 16-10-2026 • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urges U.S.-China dialogue on 'potentially dangerous' AI — CNBC — 15-10-2026 • SK Hynix conditions new US factory on more US chip equipment exports to China, sources say — Reuters — 14-10-2026 `• OpenAI CFO Says Firms Using Chinese AI Models Are Risking Safety — Bloomberg — 14-10-2026` `• Chinese AI companies buy 1 million Nvidia GPUs in a single year, report claims — export control-compliant chips flood the market to bridge gap in compute demand — Tom's Hardware — 13-10-2026` `• Intel CEO says Chinese frontier AI model adoption has been 'very fast' — Reuters — 12-10-2026` `• What's in a name? Trump calls it 'SI'. China calls it 'human-made' — SCMP — 12-10-2026` `• Microsoft leans on open-weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge rival — The Register — 10-10-2026` `• China AI developers publish safety tests for just 3.6% of model releases, report finds — Reuters — 09-10-2026` `• Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China's Speed-First AI Safety Regime — SemiAnalysis — 08-10-2026` `• China's DeepSeek, peers launch 16 AI models in month despite Anthropic warning — Nikkei Asia — 07-10-2026` • 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 `• US Lead in AI Over China Narrows After DeepSeek Gains, BI Says — Bloomberg — 04-10-2026` • Some topics are off limits inside popular Chinese-made free AI, researchers find — CBS News — 02-10-2026 `• China stockpiles ASML lithography tools, spurring US calls for complete export ban — SCMP — 02-10-2026` • Hallucinating Credibility: China-Aligned TA419 Impersonates its Way into US AI Policy Circles — Proofpoint — 01-10-2026 • MI5 issues rare warning over Chinese spy agency posing as academic institute — ITV News — 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 `• 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 • Frontier AI one of greatest threats to Canadians as Ottawa releases national security strategy — Yahoo News Canada — 29-10-2026 • EU can compete with US AI giants, says Brussels' frontier-model champion — Financial Times — 28-10-2026 • Singapore proposes AI incident reporting pilot to boost AI safety — The Straits Times — 28-10-2026 • Britain's AI testing agency outguns US — Semafor — 28-10-2026 • LISA signs for 82,000 sq ft AI safety hub at TRIBECA in King's Cross — BE News — 27-10-2026 • Japan's Takaichi to Hold Cybersecurity Meeting as Attacks Grow — Bloomberg — 25-10-2026 • The UK's AI Security Institute: As Calls For Regulation Grow, Is It Still Fit For Purpose? — Politics Home — 25-10-2026 • Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot — Decrypt — 24-10-2026 • UK Vows £100 Million for Biosecurity Lab With OpenAI, Anthropic — Bloomberg — 23-10-2026 • India to Start Consultation Process over AI Legislation: Ashwini Vaishnaw — CXOToday — 23-10-2026 • European CEOs warn against surrendering frontier AI to US and China — Politico Europe — 22-10-2026 • Von der Leyen's coalition fractures over need for AI liability rules — Politico Europe — 22-10-2026 • G7 Ministers Vow Closer Cooperation on AI Safety — nippon.com — 20-10-2026 • AI sovereignty: preserving UK agency in an AI-enabled world — Council for Science and Technology — 19-10-2026 • Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help — NVIDIA — 19-10-2026 • UK to scrap the non-compete rule that kept Google DeepMind researchers on paid year-long breaks — Times of India — 19-10-2026 `• Germany to unveil Nvidia AI agreement next week, government sources say — Reuters — 16-10-2026` • G7 economies plan simulated AI attacks on banks as cyber fears rise — Financial Times — 16-10-2026 • MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come — The Next Web — 16-10-2026 `• EU's AI rules face first enforcement test over lab incidents — Euronews — 14-10-2026` `• NVIDIA Commits $250 Million to Advance UK Agentic Safety and Security Research Over the Next Five Years — NVIDIA — 14-10-2026` • UK-Canada renewed AI security partnership — GOV.UK — 13-10-2026 `• OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us — Wired — 13-10-2026` `• Nvidia buys stakes in four French tech startups, Les Echos reports — Reuters — 13-10-2026` • Labor and Coalition deny interference in AI inquiry after David Pocock raises 'stitch-up' concerns — ABC News (Australia) — 12-10-2026 • AI regulation must mimic Industrial Revolution laws, UK minister says — Financial Times — 12-10-2026 • Britain to get first look at new AI systems after White House U-turn — The Telegraph — 11-10-2026 • 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 • German search engine ditches Mistral, bets on Chinese open-source AI — Politico Europe — 06-10-2026 • Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence — Prime Minister of Canada — 02-10-2026 • 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 • The ranking members of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees have written a letter to President Trump asking whether he has been soliciting advice from Grok in order to help carry out his official duties as President of the United States. [Click for more] — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 29-10-2026 • Sen. Gounardes Proposes Major New AI Safety and Transparency Regulations — New York State Senate — 29-10-2026 • Voters in key states want AI safety measures, poll finds — Semafor — 29-10-2026 • New York Governor Signs AI Chatbot Child Safety Law — Engadget — 28-10-2026 • House Progressives Throw Down a Marker: No AI Bailouts — The American Prospect — 28-10-2026 • House Democratic Committee Leaders Request Frontier AI Companies Report Misalignment & Safety Incidents to Congress Within 48 Hours — House Science Committee Democrats — 28-10-2026 • Trump admin rolls back health AI regulation — Politico — 28-10-2026 • Transparency Coalition's 2026 AI Legislation Report finds 115 new laws in 30 states — Transparency Coalition — 27-10-2026 • It’s hard to imagine a group right now that is more out of touch with everyday Americans than the AI industry. Take, for just one example, a policy proposal from a major industry player. It would define a “catastrophic incident” as causing 50 deaths or more—as if avoiding federal scrutiny for even a single death caused by their products were excusable. — Senator John Curtis/Twitter — 26-10-2026 • Plan for AI-run companies challenged by US lawmakers — Financial Times — 26-10-2026 • AI has a language gap. That could be a problem for some voters. — Politico — 25-10-2026 • Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads — The Verge — 24-10-2026 • Washington's message to AI execs: please shut up — Axios — 24-10-2026 • North Carolina joins 25 states in urging Congress for AI regulation — The Daily Tar Heel — 24-10-2026 • Senator targets AI risk: Becker legislation pushes AI safety research from frontier developers — San Mateo Daily Journal — 23-10-2026 • Democratic pro-AI regulation PAC spends against Senate Republicans — Semafor — 23-10-2026 • The Pentagon is quietly building an elite new tech sabotage agency — Politico — 22-10-2026 • Bessent shrugs off 'systemic' AI risks at closed-door investor conference — Financial Times — 21-10-2026 • Senators Express 'Grave Concerns,' Launch Inquiry into Google's AI Push in Schools — The Wall Street Journal — 21-10-2026 • Meta tops Big Tech lobbying as AI labs talk antitrust — Semafor — 21-10-2026 • Reorienting the Super Intelligence Frontier to Serve Americans — America First Policy Institute — 20-10-2026 • Mamdani takes on AI chatbot 'doom loops' in New York — Semafor — 20-10-2026 • State Department orders ‘super intelligence’ wording across all official communications — Nextgov/FCW — 20-10-2026 • My office is hiring an Artificial Intelligence Policy Fellow to help shape AI legislation and track AI developments in the private sector as Congress works to keep pace with the technology. Experience in AI, policy research, or national security is encouraged. — Congressman Nathaniel Moran/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong? — The Intercept — 19-10-2026 • Exclusive: The national intelligence chief steering AI — Semafor — 19-10-2026 • We spoke with senior Defense official Emil Michael on Friday, who told us that the Trump administration has a range of options, including export controls, if AI companies do not cooperate with the government. [Click for more] — Leo Schwartz/Twitter — 19-10-2026 • If you ever needed evidence that perceptions in AI world ≠ perceptions in the outside world, it's this polling in today's POLITICO Decoded newsletter by @calder_mchugh, @MuiChristine and @samjsutton. Most American voters think: -- Dario Amodei is a Republican -- that Anthropic employees lean Republican In fact, US voters are now so pre-disposed to see the AI sector as right-leaning that even a fake tech CEO that pollsters invented was pegged as Republican. And btw: A third of those polled don't even know who Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are. — Vincent Manancourt/Twitter — 19-10-2026 • California Gov Newsom boosts AI regulation as he eyes 2028 presidential run — Al Jazeera — 17-10-2026 • UN Tech Envoy calls for minimum AI safety standards and independent testing — Tech Review Africa — 17-10-2026 • BoE's Bailey tells G30 they 'have got to address' AI agent concerns — Financial Times — 17-10-2026 • Federal agencies recommend cyber controls, independent testing for frontier AI systems — CyberScoop — 16-10-2026 • Can the Law Stop AI Hackers? — Just Security — 16-10-2026 • SpaceX will testify before NYC Council on AI safety after defying subpoena — Quartz — 16-10-2026 • Exclusive: Conservative AI safety group proposes export controls, visa restrictions — Semafor — 16-10-2026 • Trump’s SI Force will meet for the first time at 4pm ET today. Rather than write new regulations, the task force will look at using existing liability laws to hold AI companies accountable List of invitees for today’s meeting: w/ @cheyennehaslett — Sophia Cai/Twitter — 15-10-2026 • Scoop: The FTC demanded documents from AI giants over recent safety incidents — Axios — 15-10-2026 • Exclusive: AI safety money floods into political races — Axios — 14-10-2026 • Senators press Trump admin to rally federal government around AI safety, security — CyberScoop — 14-10-2026 `• Get over the allergy to regulation, Microsoft president tells AI industry — Reuters — 14-10-2026` `• Strict liability is gaining traction as an idea for forcing AI companies to get serious about safety — Fortune — 13-10-2026` • The Legal Risks Posed by AI Chatbots — Columbia Law School's Center for Law and the Economy — 13-10-2026 • 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 • 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 • Sanders calls for artificial superintelligence ban after OpenAI CEO interview — The Hill — 12-10-2026 `• AI Regulation Must Balance Safety With Innovation: Google DeepMind's Chief AI Readiness Officer — NDTV Profit — 11-10-2026` `• 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 • A no-rules approach to AI is mad politics and worse policy — The Economist — 08-10-2026 `• Tech firms pledge $2.4B in computing power to Trump's Genesis Mission — Yahoo News — 08-10-2026` `• NVIDIA Commits $1B to Advance US Science Over the Next 5 Years — HPCwire — 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 • Trump admin to receive $100 million in compute credits for AI science initiative — Politico — 07-10-2026 • Insurance claims to test Altman and Amodei liability for ‘rogue’ AI — Financial Times — 06-10-2026 • Democrats press White House on still-secret AI framework — Semafor — 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` `• AI researchers detail safety risks at NYC Council with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta execs set to testify — CNBC — 05-10-2026` • 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 `• 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 • Who's making money on the government's new name for AI? — Straight Arrow News — 02-10-2026 `• New CSAIP polling on Trump's AI accord shows pretty strong opposition to AI company self-regulation — csaiporg/Twitter — 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 • New Mexico to jump into frontier AI regulation — Politico — 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 • 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 `• FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks — CNBC — 30-09-2026` • 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 • The Commanding Heights — Will Manidis and Joe Roberts — 29-10-2026 • OpenAI's implied marketcap trading on HyperLiquid. — Joe Weisenthal/Twitter — 29-10-2026 • Situational Awareness Pitches Investors on Fluidstack Fundraise — Bloomberg — 29-10-2026 • SoftBank's Son Plans $50 Billion Malaysia Tech Outlay, PM Says — Bloomberg — 25-10-2026 • No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector — Apollo Global Management — 24-10-2026 • you either die trying to get to the frontier, or live long enough to serve inference [Click for screenshot] — Nathan Benaich/Twitter — 24-10-2026 • there remains unbelievable alpha in paying attention to data broker procurement postings as well as frontier lab postings. literally a public roadmap for where the frontier is at a given moment [Click for image] — Will Manidis/Twitter — 24-10-2026 • Great chart from Slok. Everybody knows that a very small % off companies are consuming the lion's share of token consumption What's interesting is that of those top 1% of spenders, they're overwhelmingly VC-backed companies. May have implications if VC-funding starts to slow. [Click for chart] — Joe Weisenthal/Twitter — 22-10-2026 • This chart shows the key risk to the AI trade, and it's missing from the latest revenue announcements. The AI boom is fundamentally driven by a top 1% of companies that drive 80% of spend. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 20-10-2026 • Can AI Pay for Itself? — The Diligence Stack — 20-10-2026 • Is CoreWeave the Silicon Valley Bank of 2026? — Financial Times — 20-10-2026 • H100 equivalent compute by lab - up to current day [Click for image] — Binkg/Twitter — 19-10-2026 • Expect this month to be a busy one for new model releases. We have the scoop on a new Anthropic model, Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon, and a potential new Terra model from OpenAI. — Stephanie Palazzolo/Twitter — 19-10-2026 • US model token consumption stopped growing 8 weeks ago. OpenAI falling off a cliff. Its a good thing these companies have 10x the effective compute coming online in the next 24 months. [Click for chart] — AllThingsVentured/Twitter — 19-10-2026 • Nvidia is the now the most active VC investor in the world, and the largest in Europe. Crazy cc @dealroomco — Seb Johnson/Twitter — 18-10-2026 • America's $10tn AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray — Financial Times — 17-10-2026 • Multiple things true over the last few months of AI spend by businesses. 1. OpenAI has grown its business massively, at the expense of Anthropic. 2. Anthropic's latest models have helped them hold and extend their lead (Opus 5.5 drives 34% of business spend). 3. The most expensive models still command a majority share of spend (Opus, Fable, Sol, Astra). 4. Growth in AI spend has slowed, led by the largest AI spenders. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 14-10-2026 • The AI race is back on — The Verge — 14-10-2026 • CoreWeave Bonds Tumble Into Distress, Drawing 'Yikes' From Musk — Bloomberg — 14-10-2026 `• OpenAI's AI agent platform is used by twice as many companies as Anthropic's, new VentureBeat survey finds — VentureBeat — 13-10-2026` • Chip stocks slide in wake of 'casino' comment by Broadcom boss — Financial Times — 12-10-2026 • 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 • 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 • "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 `• The Desperate Hunt for AI Computing Power Is Upending Silicon Valley — WSJ — 09-10-2026` `• SoftBank seeks up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for AI push, FT reports — Reuters — 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 • That's ok, OpenAI only has $1.5 trillion in commitments to.... checks circular financing diagram... EVERYONE — zerohedge/Twitter — 08-10-2026 • Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and other AI stocks sink on OpenAI revenue report — CNBC — 08-10-2026 • 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 • 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 • 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 `• 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 • AI chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX says new GPU matches Nvidia's H200 as home-grown push accelerates — South China Morning Post — 29-10-2026 • Huawei's Tau Scaling Law roll-out reaches base stations in blow to US chip curbs — South China Morning Post — 28-10-2026 • Oracle to Offer Cerebras Computers in AI Cloud Service — Bloomberg — 27-10-2026 • My Conversation with Dylan Patel and Stacy Rasgon — Chipstrat — 24-10-2026 • Huawei Spells Out CANNLab, CANNBot and CANNJudge as Its Open Ascend Developer Base — Pandaily — 23-10-2026 • Cambricon's third quarter profit surges 148% to US$210m amid push to replace Nvidia chips — South China Morning Post — 23-10-2026 • Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips — TechCrunch — 19-10-2026 `• Huawei, once hobbled by US sanctions, passes 100 million Kirin chip milestone — SCMP — 13-10-2026` `• Nvidia Loses Ground in China as Huawei's AI Chip Shipments Nearly Double, Capturing 28% Market Share: Report — Benzinga — 13-10-2026` `• Microsoft's new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia's GPUs — The Verge — 12-10-2026` `• SpaceX seeks US$40 billion financing led by Apollo to buy Nvidia chips, FT reports — The Standard (HK) — 06-10-2026` `• Huawei, Qualcomm sign multi-year patent licensing deal — Silicon Republic — 05-10-2026` `• Amazon seeks to offload $8 billion of Nvidia chips to investors, FT reports — Reuters — 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` • 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 • China's Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle to accelerate AI push, FT reports — Reuters — 30-09-2026 `• 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 • xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise — The Verge — 28-10-2026 • SpaceXAI Liens Top $220M as Contractor Files in DeSoto Court — DeSoto County News — 28-10-2026 • Data centers face potential credit rating downgrades due to moratoriums and cancellations driven by public opposition, according to S&P — Bloomberg/Twitter — 23-10-2026 • SpaceXAI facing $6.1 million in fines over alleged violations at Mississippi sites — Local Memphis — 22-10-2026 • OpenAI works to build support for $20 billion Project Camellia amid some community opposition — WJCL — 22-10-2026 • Four Years for a Transformer: The Queue Behind the AI Boom — Next Financial — 22-10-2026 • Trump says companies should pay 'dividend' to communities to make data centers popular — Reuters — 20-10-2026 • Amazon's $220 Billion AI Bet Tests the Limits of Its Empire — Business Insider — 19-10-2026 • Data centres need protection from drone warfare — Financial Times — 19-10-2026 • Inside Prometheus: Meta’s Journey to a Gigawatt-Scale Supercluster — Engineering at Meta — 19-10-2026 • Datacenters 2027: The Year of Acceleration, +50GW in a Single Year — SemiAnalysis — 19-10-2026 • Microsoft pulls plug on Nscale data centre deal — Financial Times — 18-10-2026 `• Nova Scotia to host massive data centre to power Anthropic's AI assistant Claude — CBC — 16-10-2026` • NTT to build first data center for Anthropic in Japan — Nikkei Asia — 13-10-2026 • It's getting harder to do data center deals, per @Ell_Schneider , who really needs to change her x handle [Click for more] — Ben Smith/Twitter — 13-10-2026 • Anthropic Eyeing Data Center Investment in Australia, Envoy Says — Bloomberg — 12-10-2026 `• Data Center Darling's $30 Billion IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours — Bloomberg — 09-10-2026` `• China Concentrates AI Data Centers in Inner Mongolia... Chasing the U.S. with Power and Land — BigGo Finance — 08-10-2026` `• Google's power-hungry data centers crave nuclear energy — The Verge — 06-10-2026` • NEW: Billboards Across The State Remind Ohioans That Jon Husted Is "The Face" of Data Centers — Sherrod Brown — 05-10-2026 • 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 • She Trusted ChatGPT With Her Medication Decisions. It Cost Her Everything. — The New York Times — 27-10-2026 • AI models cost more when you don’t use English — Rest of World — 26-10-2026 • To make AI morally good, tech companies are turning to religion. But some say it isn't that simple — AP — 25-10-2026 • Forced to pick, Grok's AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI's picks Democrats. — TechCrunch — 24-10-2026 • Did AI give me an ad mid conversation? (voice AI horror demo) [Click for video] — Husk/Twitter — 24-10-2026 • OpenAI's Compliant Midterm Fake Image Machine — NewsGuard — 23-10-2026 • San Francisco Artists Fight AI Ad Blitz With Profane Guerrilla Posters — SFist — 19-10-2026 • Mass. college students to join nationwide walkout calling for AI regulation — Boston.com — 19-10-2026 • To give an indication of the problem here's a chart of 12 government agencies around the world and numbers of applications / appeals / complaints etc... The dotted grey line is when ChatGPT was invented. [Click for chart] — Sam Freedman/Twitter — 18-10-2026 • NYT, AFP and The Economist join SPUR coalition on AI content use — The Media Copilot — 13-10-2026 `• I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That's Totally Fine — Wired — 12-10-2026` • Scoop: AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt — Axios — 09-10-2026 • ChatGPT for Teens is an 'unacceptable risk,' says Common Sense Media — The Verge — 07-10-2026 `• Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth — Bloomberg — 07-10-2026` • 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 • The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement — The New Yorker — 30-09-2026 `• Google reportedly tests paying publishers for AI search results — The Verge — 30-09-2026` `• 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 Data Center Plaintiffs Ask Judge to Void Land Deal — Effingham Herald — 28-10-2026 • British Columbia privacy watchdog investigates OpenAI use of Tumbler Ridge shooter's personal information — Courthouse News — 27-10-2026 • Family's wrongful death lawsuit accuses ChatGPT of giving deadly medical advice to Seattle woman — KING5 — 27-10-2026 • UK Politician Jess Asato Got Deepfaked. Now She's Taking xAI to Court — WIRED — 27-10-2026 • Wan v. OpenAI et al. — The Schenk Law Firm — 26-10-2026 • OpenAI accused of secretly tracking web users for targeted advertising — Daily Journal — 26-10-2026 • BC Professor Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Use Of Copyrighted Textbooks — The Heights — 25-10-2026 • Elvis Presley Rightsholders Sue Anthropic for Training on 274 Songs Without Permission — Rolling Stone — 24-10-2026 • Texas attorney general accuses OpenAI of lying about ChatGPT safety and safeguards — Courthouse News Service — 23-10-2026 • US judge rejects Trump administration bid to block NAACP lawsuit against Musk's xAI over data center — Reuters — 20-10-2026 • News publishers launch copyright suit against AI company Anthropic in Ontario — Global News — 19-10-2026 • Attorney General Mayes Announces Lawsuit against OpenAI for Deceiving Arizonans about the Safety of ChatGPT — Arizona Attorney General's Office — 14-10-2026 • Eight US states sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT harms children — Reuters — 14-10-2026 • OpenAI employee who left for Apple took files about unreleased device, OpenAI alleges — Reuters — 14-10-2026 • Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case — TechCrunch — 13-10-2026 `• USA Today Sues OpenAI, Claiming It Unlawfully Used Reporting To Train And Operate Models — Forbes — 08-10-2026` `• OpenAI sued for trademark infringement over 'Astra' AI model — Inside AI News — 05-10-2026` • As Part of Ongoing Investigation, Attorney General Bonta Serves Investigative Subpoena on OpenAI — California Attorney General — 01-10-2026 `• Chatbot user files class action against Anthropic over biometric data policy — Courthouse News — 30-09-2026` `• 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 • A sign of the times: Start-up in San Francisco was paying people $20/hour to walk robot dogs. My latest: [Click for more] — Kashmir Hill/Twitter — 27-10-2026 • ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems — 404 Media — 26-10-2026 • Anthropic's AI Hid a Secret Message in the Stars. OpenAI's Bot Found It. — Gizmodo — 24-10-2026 • Harvard Mathematicians Divided Over AI's Role in Research and Teaching After OpenAI Breakthrough — The Harvard Crimson — 21-10-2026 • First time I've seen this in an NDA - a section governing how you can use AI when evaluating the deal. Basically - you may not upload this to the non-enterprise version of Claude/Chat and let it train on our CIM [Click for screenshot] — Bill D'Alessandro/Twitter — 14-10-2026 • Does AI really divide men and women? This study finds out — USA TODAY — 14-10-2026 • 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 `• Opus 5.5 agents discover 2 room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates — Vals AI — 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` • Even the PauseAI stickers in Quebec are bilingual — Josh You/Twitter — 02-10-2026 • 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` 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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