BBC
- Cleveland police chief proud of force but being 'let down' by funding
- 'I'd rather die than ring the police': Distrust and fear in Middlesbrough after A66 crash
- How the Lindsay Clancy trial gripped America - and ultimately fell apart
- UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
- Flight price rises due to 'foolish leaders' starting wars, Virgin's Branson says
- Lauryn Hill, Wyclef and Giggs among surprise guests at Jay-Z's long-awaited UK show
- Tate brothers charged with further trafficking and sex crimes in Romania
- Germany's far-right AfD bids for first taste of power in eastern vote
- Cambridge launches review into support for Jason Arday before death
- At least two dead in blast at Bolivia military barracks
- Nepal bet nearly everything on hydropower - the floods show why that's a problem
- How the hunger for a new weight loss drug is feeding an industry of fakes
- Recipe for success - the Chicken Shop Date moments that created a YouTube star
- 'Nigel on the ropes' and 'Tough first budget' says Healey
- Trump's response is key as Argentina's Falklands demands get louder
- The Grand Tour's new presenters: 'I hope we prove the critics wrong'
- Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
- Michael Owen doesn't tell his children he loves them - how big a deal is that?
- Heat exceeds 40C in parts of Europe - is a September heatwave in store for the UK?
- Rock stars gather on tiny island for Scotland's quirkiest sporting challenge
- UK support for Falkland Islands 'unwavering' after Argentina restates claims, No 10 says
- Farage threatens to overhaul Lords and judges to meet his pledges
- Ancient cave art discovery suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales
- Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder case, after jury deadlocks
- 'A rare moment of joy': Nepal tunnel rescues bring hope for more flood survivors
- Stock up on food to prepare for extreme weather, minister says
- BBC News app
- Newscast
- Has Pete Hegseth lost control of the Pentagon?
- Inside Ella Toone’s life on and off the pitch
- Imagine a world where no one has heard of The Beatles
- Isak finally arrives as Gakpo proves value to Liverpool
- Isak shines at last but Scherpen suffers - Ipswich v Liverpool player ratings
- How London City proved they can live up to the hype
- Isak's early double gives Liverpool victory over Ipswich
- Williams sisters exit US Open but excite - what does future hold?
- Kolisi urges Boks to channel spirit of Soweto to beat All Blacks
- Greaves becomes first woman to win match on European Tour
Bitcoin
Engadget
- How to see what's taking up space on your Windows PC
- The Tetris Company wants nothing to do with the White House's new copycat game
- Flock cameras are officially banned on state roads in Florida
- Nintendo just announced two Direct livestream events for next week
- Rogue OpenAI agents took over a German coding forum in a previously undisclosed hijacking
- Tesla's Cybercab is under federal investigation almost immediately after hitting the streets
- Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers
- Boox Go 6 (Gen II) review: A worthy Android ereader, with some tradeoffs
- How to edit Claude's memory
- I flossed fake teeth with Dyson's tech-riddled CameraJet toothbrush
- Volkswagen confirms cutting 50,000 jobs as part of its survival plan
- This rugged smartphone's camera is a removable action cam
- Tesla starts offering Cybercab robotaxi rides
- Audacity's new look is finally here, along with its largest feature update in years
- What Is The Best Waterproof Rating For Bluetooth Speakers?
- OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is 'the most intelligent and aligned model in the world'
- Netflix has ordered a live-action adaptation of D&D's Ravenloft
- Ugreen's new smart home ecosystem is built around local AI hubs
- SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners'
- The Apple Vision Pro was used for a successful hip surgery
Pinboard
The Next Web
- Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks
- AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
- AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point
- Microsoft tells court Copilot rarely copies books while selling OpenAI’s most capable model
- Zoox asked NHTSA for permission and got it. Tesla certified itself, and now has a federal investigation.
- The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.
- Luka’s new AI projector starts the drawing and leaves the rest to kids
- Every binding AI review Washington has proposed has come back voluntary. Zuckerberg reportedly rang Trump about the latest one.
- Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it
- Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google’s ad tech. The judge who agreed on liability has just declined to order one.
Smashing Magazine
- The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions
- Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
- Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
- New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
- Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
- How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
- Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
- Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
- Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
- When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
- No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
- From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
- Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
- Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
- Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
- Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
- Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
- Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
- The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
- The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
- How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
- June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
- Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
- Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
- Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
- Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
- Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
- The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
- Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
- Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
- A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
- The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
- Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
- How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
- Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
Wirecutter
- The Best Tabletop Radios
- 17 Covetable Tabletop Gifts to Enliven Any Dinner Party
- The Best At-Home Laser Hair-Removal Device
- The Best Baby Gate
- The Best Wireless Mouse
- This iPhone Feature Makes It Much Harder for Thieves to Ruin Your Life
- 15 Things You Didn’t Know Your Android Phone Could Do
- The Very Best Labor Day Deals Out There, on Everything From Sheets to Eye Cream to Luggage
- The Best Gifts We’ve Brought Home From Vacation
- REI’s End-of-Summer Sale Is Here. We Found 27 Deals on Outdoor Gear Our Experts Love.
Sweethome
- The Best Alarm Clocks
- The Best Memory Foam Pillows
- The Best Outdoor Security Camera
- Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love
- The Best Dish Rack
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- That Old Bookcase? It May Be Your Dream Shoe Organizer.
- The Slimmest, Hardest-Working Gear for Your Small Entryway
- The Best Storage Containers
- Kitchen Compost Bins We Love
Hacker News
- Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
- Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
- Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
- Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
- GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
- Can AI design circuit boards yet?
- Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
- Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
- Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
- Git Submodules as a Package Manager
- Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
- RSA-260 Factorized
- Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
- An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
- Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4
- Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
- Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
- IBM Bob
- The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
- Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ
- Decompiler Explorer
- Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
- Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
- Icons as a Service
- deSEC – Free Secure DNS
- ExactTex. A gradually-typed superset of LaTeX
- Connecting every app to every other app
- Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents
- Updates on HEIR, the Homomorphic Encryption Compiler Project
Ars Technica
- After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
- OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
- Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
- Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
- Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
- “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
- Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
- Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
- A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
- Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
- Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
- Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
- Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations
- Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
- Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
- Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
- Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
- 150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
- Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
- Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets
Digg
New Scientist
Slashdot
- 'Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie
- Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars
- Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Keeps Man Alive For Record Nine Months
- Tesla Launches Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi In Austin
- Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings
- Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime
- Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules
- Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits
- 'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts
- Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center
- OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts
- Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind
- Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks
- Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling
- Perplexity Will Open Source Its Faster Lily AI Engine For Apple Silicon
BoingBoing
- Book about every video game set in the Alien universe
- Nuke Simulation shows your least favorite town obliterated by the atomic weapon of your choice
- Replace your everyday laptop with a 16GB MacBook Air for $319.99
- 70,000 pints of Guinness heisted
- What is the best paint for painting rocks?
- Model skeleton used to hold drip in busy hospital
- Nolan's Odyssey twist about Trojan Horse guilt outdoes Musk's outrage
- Acme vindicated: photographer gets shot of coyote catching roadrunner
- 93% of Britons want right to private conversations online, if you don't mind
- Your charging cable is underachieving—the 8-in-1 GoCable is just $24.99
- Political candidate charged with trying to plant drugs on opponent
- Dallas using AI surveillance cameras to assign "blight scores" to local homes
- Nigel Farage filmed celebrating "illegal" foreign donations
- Too much "human poo" in the Brecon Beacons
- 7 Microsoft Office apps are yours for life with this $15 deal (MSRP $229)
- Hikers let Gemini plan their Mount Shasta climb. Search and Rescue brought them home
- JD Vance is a real tool
- Find someone who looks at you like Raygun's husband looks at her Olympic buffoonery
- Ice Barbie's misogynist replacement fights the Constitution with bigotry
- A banana sticker with Andy Warhol's face
- A blogger imagines Hell as a lesson in AI alignment
- A marmot named Dawn just won the first-ever Fat Marmot Week
- Plant Smart: database of plants harmful to pets
- Experience the joy of getting online with a dial-up modem
- Study finds alcohol-linked cancer deaths have doubled since 1990
- One $30 app now runs GPT, Gemini, Claude, and Sonar side by side
- Can you draw the unusual suspects?
- Cat in the Hat memes alarming school officials
- Command control of PDFs for just $40 for life
- More than 153 million drivers licenses on sale after "breach" at identity verification service
Core77
- Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-31-26 to 9-4-26)
- Clever Improvisation: How to Keep Your Car Going on Just Three Wheels
- The James Brand's Handsome, Designey Alternative to the Swiss Army Knife
- Industrial Designer Figures Out How to Make Ikea's Iconic Blue Bag Fold Compactly
- Real Object or AI?
- An Unusual Rolling Stool for the Chinese Market
- Studio Gorm Designs a Better Doorstop
- Which Folding Bicycle Design has the Best UX?
- Fantastic UX Details in This Saute Pan Lid
- Meet Fusion Forward Juror Nick Lieven, Autodesk Industry Strategy Manager
- Masae Nagao's Kinetic Paper Pets
- Blue Star Crafts' Retro Mini Pochade Box
- Chois: 3D-Printed Modular Furniture Components, You Supply the Dowels
- In Denmark, 3D-Printed Student Housing
- Genesis' New Luxury Electric SUV has No B-Pillar, No Start Button, Radiant Floor Heating
CNET
The Verge
- Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
- The White House is making arcade games racist
- GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’
- Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip
- AGI is whatever you want it to be
- Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
- The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far
- Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot
- What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event
- Nintendo’s next two Direct events are both happening next week
Wired
- Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
- Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability
- Tesla’s Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It’s Already Under Investigation
- Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
- Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon
- The Best Dyson Vacuums (2026) to Buy—and Some to Avoid
- The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robot
- How a Secret Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boom
- The 6 Best Monitors That Actually Work Well With Macs
- Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Parents of Immunocompromised Kids to Make Hard Choices
- ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
- AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
- What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturn
- Silicon Valley Is Having a ‘Hot Girl Renaissance’
- Foreo Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 50% Off
- Sportsman's Warehouse Promo Code: Save in September 2026
- Medicube Coupon Code: 40% Off for September 2026
- Mattress Firm Coupons: Save up to $700
- 30% Off Tempur-Pedic Promo Codes | September 2026
- Bartesian Discount Codes: 35% Off
LifeHacker
- This Milwaukee Tool Combo Set Is Over $600 Off for Labor Day
- 10 Hacks Every Proton Mail User Should Know
- This Cordless DeWalt Miter Saw Is $200 Off for Labor Day Weekend
- Lifehacker Labor Day Sale Live Blog: The Best Labor Day Deals, All in One Place
- The Best Deals on Tech for Labor Day
- The Best Deals on Garmin Watches for Labor Day
- Why ‘Open Platform’ Is the Next Big Frontier for Smart Glasses
- Six Labor Day Smartphone Deals That Are Worth the Money
- 10 Hacks Every Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses User Should Know
- I'm Obsessed With the 'Conversate' App on These Smart Glasses
- The Best Deals on Tools and Appliances From Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
- The Best Labor Day Deals on Tablets and iPads
- Three Reasons You Shouldn't Use Your Browser's Password Manager (and What to Use Instead)
- If You Loved 'The Bear,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
- The Best Labor Day Fitness Deals so Far
- These 65-Inch TVs Are on Sale for up to $1,200 Off for Labor Day
- These Samsung Monitors Are on Sale for up to 39% Off for Labor Day
- The Best Fitness Deals on Sale for Under $100 for Labor Day
- The Best Deals on Apple Devices on Sale for Labor Day
- TikTok Just Announced These Four New Features for Comments
- These TVs Are up to $1,200 Off for Labor Day
- The Best Over-Ear Headphone Deals During Amazon's Labor Day Sale
- Samsung’s Flagship Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is 50% Off for Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
- The Best Deals From Best Buy's Labor Day Sale 2026
- The Best Fitness Trackers to Give As Gifts
- These Five New Features Are Coming to Android Devices
- These Are the Best Labor Day 2026 Deals on VPNs
- 10 Shows Like 'Dark Matter' You Should Watch Next
- This Anker Power Station Is $549 Off During Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
- These DeWalt Tools Are up to 50% Off for the Lowe's Labor Day Sale
- The Garmin Venu 3 Is Over $150 Off for Amazon’s 2026 Labor Day Sale
- You Can Still Get a Nintendo Switch 2 for $400 During Woot's Labor Day Sale
- I Tried Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google’s Latest AI Upgrade, and It (Mostly) Lives Up to the Hype
- A Bunch of AI Platforms Are Down, Including ChatGPT
- This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $600 Off in Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
- The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is $320 Off During Amazon's Labor Day Sale
- These Signature Sony Headphones Are on Sale for Under $200 for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
- These Alienware Gaming Monitors Are Up to $150 Off for Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
- This Philips Smart Lock Is 23% Off for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
- This Blink Doorbell Bundle Is 45% Off for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
- I Let ChatGPT Sign Into My Web Accounts for Me, and It Was More Trouble Than It’s Worth
- These LG Ultragear Gaming Monitors Are up to 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
- 'Alexa for Shopping' Can Now Help You Spot a Spam Email
- I Ditched My Bone-Conduction Headphones for These Noise-Cancelling Running Earbuds
- These Google Maps and Apple Maps Alternatives Still Call It ‘Lake Ontario’ (for Now)
- Here's How AI Watermarks Work (and How to Properly Check for One)
- The Seven Coolest Inventions From 'DEF CON' 2026
- Here's How to Protect Your Privacy If Someone Is Recording You With Their Glasses
- This Is Your Last Chance to Win a New Apple Watch From Lifehacker
- 10 Apple Health Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
- Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in September
- Five Sleep-Tracking Hacks Every Garmin User Should Know
- 10 Shows Like 'Reacher' You Should Watch Next
- The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Are Aura Battles?
- Firefox Can Now Block Ads on iOS (but You Have to Enable It)
- This Blink Two-Camera Bundle Is 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
- Microsoft Outlook Is Down
- If You Loved 'Modern Family,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch
- Why You Might Need to Roll Back Windows' Latest Update
- 10 Video Downloading Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know
- Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
- 10 Hacks Every Intel Mac User Should Know
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- Strava Is Now Forcing Premium Users to See Its AI Workout Summaries (Whether They Want to or Not)
- This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $1,200 Off and Comes With a $150 Amazon Credit
- These Samsung OLED TVs Are Up to $1,300 Off Right Now
- These Milwaukee Tools Are up to 65% Off for Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
- Samsung’s M Series TVs Just Dropped to Their Best Prices Yet
- These Ryobi Cordless Tools Are up to 69% Off for Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
- Twitch Is Down
- This 65-Inch TCL QLED TV Is 40% Off Right Now
- You Can Get a Free Motorola Razr+ From T-Mobile Right Now
- If You Loved 'Lost,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
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- How to Completely Remove Your Data From These Online Dating Platforms
- What's New on Netflix in September 2026
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- 10 Hacks Every Apple Wallet User Should Know
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The Onion
The Register
TechMeme
- Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B (Moneycontrol)
- Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
- Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
- Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
- Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs "once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned" (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (Laurie Chen/Reuters)
- Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November (Echo Wang/Reuters)
- California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
- Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg)
- Anthropic says Claude worked "largely autonomously" over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language (Anthropic)
- Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO (Bloomberg)
- OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Business Standard and Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
- Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout (Robert Hart/The Verge)
- OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model (Celia Ford/Transformer)
- A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Cook considered how to execute the perfect succession since his early days as CEO (Michael Acton/Financial Times)