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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 14h
O man
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 15h
Reporter (roughly): What's up with the US calling AI "superintelligence"? Chinese spox (roughly): The two leaders talked about "artificial intelligence." We respect the US side's "formulation." (A "formulation"/提法 is what they call the CCP set terms, like socialism with Chinese characteristics...)
外交部发言人就人工智能问题答记者问
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问:我们注意到,美方在介绍此次访问成果时,使用“超级智能”代替“人工智能”。请问中方有何评论?
答:中美元首会晤时,就人工智能问题进行了深入讨论。关于人工智能表述问题,中方重视美方的立场,也尊重美方的提法。人工智能技术正在持续发展,各方可以结合最新形势,加强交流、深入探讨、寻求共识。
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Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social · 18h
👀 www.wired.com/story/openai...
wired.com
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not, and attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 19h
Indeed job postings: 1/ More good news about the labor market, as of the 2nd half of September (so possibly more relevant to the October jobs report, than to Friday's September jobs report) After a micro-slump over the summer, postings regaining their spring momentum
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 19h
The seating chart for today's White House AI luncheon, per Trump
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 20h
OpenAI's dev-day demo of Dots, it's new work assistant agent, is going as well as most enterprise deployments
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 21h
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 23h
30yr yield 5.59%... highest since 2002
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 28/09/2026
So AMD is buying Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion, yeesh techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/a...
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AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion | TechCrunch
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 28/09/2026
fascinating insider account of the Biden White House's perspective on the Gaza war in 2024: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
How Biden Averted a War With Iran
In April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oomph, DofJustice. NYT’s just filed response after DOJ [wrongly] inserted itself in OpenAI/MSFT case. Kicks off w/ line DOJ won't be able to avoid: DOJ's statement asks court to ignore US Copyright Office blessing what Defendants themselves called “the largest theft of labor in human history.” /1
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
science.org
NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that Connie Chan is even remotely competitive in this race is such a damning indictment of San Francisco and its electorate
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
sfchronicle.com
Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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sam @samthielman.com · 27/09/2026
Remarkable piece here.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026
I started covering "AI" full-time in February and I didn't think by September I'd be mainly chasing stories about rogue AI agents plotting hacking operations in obscure corners of the internet
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026
boy a new research report too, tracking the agents who did the HuggingFace attack swarmtraces.org
swarmtraces.org
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026
🚨OpenAI friday news dump 🚨 techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/u...
techcrunch.com
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab's knowledge | TechCrunch
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You'd think running America's space program would be a position above politics. Jared Isaacman, however, has given $3 million to MAGA, Inc. since being confirmed as NASA administrator. This isn't illegal, experts tell me. But is it right?
Isaacman contributions
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol *TRUMP: BESSENT DOESN'T WANT TO BE AI CZAR
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026
hey, here's some good news! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/c...
nytimes.com
Salmon Are Thriving After Klamath Dam Removals, Study Finds
The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 25/09/2026
Hard to watch Tesla's Semi launch event without thinking about how the company ditched its mission of "accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy" in favor of the gauzy and unspecific "amazing abundance" But it's interesting the head of Semi still seems focused on the former:
techcrunch.com
Tesla finally moves to electrify trucking after a decade of work and delays | TechCrunch
Tesla's Semi truck, with a 500-mile range, is about to hit the road in big numbers, with the company saying it plans to make 50,000 units a year.
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026
oh, you're telling me dextrous manipulation is hard? cc: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social www.theinformation.com/articles/tes...
theinformation.com
Tesla’s Optimus Hits Snags in Hands, Suppliers as Scale-Up Begins
Tesla has ramped up production of its Optimus humanoid robot roughly tenfold in recent months, but the company is still struggling to manufacture the machines reliably at scale. Its production lines a...
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026
I talked to Transluce, a lab that revealed more rogue agent swarms, and got some more comment from OpenAI, in service of the big question: What did OpenAI know about these incidents, and when? techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/f...
techcrunch.com
For months, OpenAI's agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts | TechCrunch
The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 24/09/2026
Did AI increase unemployment among recent college grads this summer? Probably not. Summer of 2026 was pretty normal compared to earlier years. new research from Robert Fairlie and Jane Wu
Line plot of monthly unemployment of recent college graduates, by year.

Figure 2a from https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/publications/2026/working-paper/early-impacts-ai-employment-among-recent-college-graduates
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 24/09/2026
Exclusive: Jeff Bezos has invested $30 billion in Blue Origin since its founding in 2000, an extraordinary commitment from the Amazon.com founder in a company that aims to rival SpaceX. on.wsj.com/4AxDF26
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I propose this as the official replacement for the famous (and now saturated) METR Long Task Horizon chart that used to be in every AI presentation.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ChatGPT fed a mass shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre he carried out, according to this unsettling new investigation by our national affairs editor @markfollman.bsky.social.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 24/09/2026
There's been a lot of chatter about EA, rationalists and AI, and it is important to have some understanding of these ideologies. But caveat lector: Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and Jensen Huang aren't part of that group. Nor do Sam Altman or Greg Brockman take those ideas particularly seriously.
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Via John Arnold: 2008 was an oil crisis. 2026 is a refining crisis. 2008 (peak) Oil = $147 Diesel = $4.76 retail Gasoline = $4.16 retail Today Oil = $95 Diesel = $6.53 retail Gasoline = $4.52 retail #EconSky
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 23/09/2026
Scoop: Multiple Zoox test drivers in Atlanta -- as many as 40, though Zoox says fewer -- spent August reporting toxic gas exposure symptoms. OSHA opened an inquiry and told Zoox to investigate. Still unclear exactly what made them sick. More on @techcrunch.com ⤵️ techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/z...
techcrunch.com
Exclusive: Zoox grounds Atlanta test fleet after workers report toxic gas exposure symptoms
The Amazon-owned company launched an investigation after a worker submitted an OSHA complaint.
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 23/09/2026
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 22/09/2026
I think this would based on his existing relationships with chinese officials
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
404media.co
Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 22/09/2026
love to learn about foreign cultures
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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tesla's Black employees in California have endured years of rampant racism, the state’s civil rights agency argued on the first day of a major discrimination trial, including pervasive use of the N-word by managers and racist graffiti in the workplace. www.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 22/09/2026
secret corruption floor? ✅
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 22/09/2026
just saw this wild @adamshap.bsky.social linkedin post about investment in compute overtaking residential investment—software is finally eating the world, I guess. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fundamentally the end of U.S. dominance in science.
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Jeff Foust @jfoust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you copy and paste the wrong line from ChatGPT:
Email subject line from SatNews: "Here are compelling email subject line variants for your satellite industry newsletter:"
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 19/09/2026
intense anti-scott weiner bumper sticker in oakland
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Joe Romm was a climate hero. Most of all, he was a scientist and a fantastic bullshit slayer. He called out greenwashing nonsense better than anyone. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...
web.sas.upenn.edu
Remembering Dr. Joe Romm
It is with great sadness that the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media shares news of the passing of PCSSM Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joe Romm. Please find below an obituary prepared ...
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 18/09/2026
I did not have Accenture on my bingo card for this one techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a...
techcrunch.com
Anthropic's first embedded evaluator is ... Accenture? | TechCrunch
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
davebarry.substack.com
Michelle
A tribute.
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 18/09/2026
I wrote about Jev, a new kind of AI model that can make LLM-style intelligence more cheaply available for software, and help LLMs themselves behave more reliably: techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a...
techcrunch.com
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers | TechCrunch
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
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