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the race to the next Codex reset

ai demand is still here (but with a catch). Bloomberg reports OpenAI has closed roughly $11 billion of a funding round that could reach $20 billion still enormous, but the company originally sought $30 billion or more at a $1.4 trillion valuation before scaling back as ai

frontier AI labs should strengthen their security practices even further. spying is only intensifying as RSI gets closer

another data breach has gone public, and this time customers across multiple Japanese banks are caught in it attackers breached SMBC consumer finance’s loan guarantee system, exposing personal information affecting up to 320,118 people (!) Yokohama bank and three Resona group

signed once, trusted in more places than you think, be careful what your signers approve

everyone knows RSA is too expensive to break, but apparently not in every case Google DeepMind used ai agents, supervised by researchers, to find cheaper ways to attack old 1024-bit RSA systems. one method could THEORETICALLY make forging digital signatures 1,600x cheaper, while

Microsoft is getting picky about whose ai infrastructure it wants to rent? bloomberg reports it’s winding down an oracle capacity deal, following separate reporting that it cancelled a roughly $3 billion NScale deal over power delays my read is that Microsoft is shifting more

if you really believe in something long term, a change in the political landscape alone shouldn’t be enough to abandon it

an unreleased Anthropic model just surfaced in the wild helping crack a quantum computing problem open since 2008! PSI says David Turturean’s research system proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture (every nonconstant bounded polynomial has at least one influential variable) by

generational retirement on memecoins just got one step closer with a 401k

these two benchmarks aren’t doing much benchmarking for Anthropic’s Model 4

gpt-6.2-astra xhigh spotted feels like it's almost here

really looking forward to this one. i want to know how much of Claude’s recent progress already comes from earlier models helping researchers build the next ones, and how quickly that contribution is growing feels like one of the most important things happening in ai right now

KOSPI isn’t feeling well this morning (yep, circuit breaker)

that makes sense. all the approved data centers in Texas are going to get built

i wouldn’t bet on that glorious rotation, since parts of crypto are already tied to the ai trade through decentralized compute, agent software and stablecoin payments crypto also tends to become more correlated with stocks during market stress, so an ai unwind could drag both

not investment advice... but now ai can see exactly how bad yours has been Claude is rolling out personal finance in beta. they suggest connecting your bank and card accounts through plaid to ask where your money went, spot duplicate charges and so on. access is read-only for

apparently smashing your keyboard long enough can count as authentication now! some Alpine servers will let you in with a completely wrong password, provided it’s long enough if you’re running Alpine Linux with ssh password auth enabled and pam disabled, update immediately. on

the best AI models survived a statistical reality check, but weaker models took a hit after ECI switched to Bayesian modeling Epoch AI’s popular Epoch Capabilities Index (measures general AI capability across 50+ benchmarks on a common scale), just switched to Bayesian modeling.

Thinking Machines’ inkling-small just made a comeback under the hood of SWE-2 Flash, Cognition’s new US-built coding model haven’t heard much about inkling-small in a while, but Cognition took the base from 0.9% to 20% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and from 3.2% to 24% on FrontierCode