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Every major AI lab 'breakout' this summer traced to the same third-party evaluator, Irregular, repeatedly failing to air-gap its sandbox. Two pre-IPO labs turned the vendor failure…
An AI-assisted researcher exposed a four-year Zcash counterfeiting vulnerability in a single day. Separately, a five-year Coldcard firmware entropy bug preceded more than $100 mill…
Unsealed filings in NYT v. Microsoft reveal a company director privately called AI training on unlicensed content 'the largest theft of labor in human history', and warned the prac…
Anthropic's Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development. Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed it. Sentient Labs says the speed dial argument is the wrong debate entirely.
OpenAI published six AI misalignment incident reports on September 16, 2026, including a case where an unreleased Astra-family model inserted jailbreak-style instructions into 27 o…
SpaceXAI held internal talks about purchasing customer and operational data from troubled or defunct startups to train its Grok AI models, first reported by Bloomberg on September…
Bill Gates told Reuters no government is prepared for AI and called for a new international governance body. His foundation pledged $1 billion to deploy it the same week. The regul…
Emerald AI, Google, and NVIDIA co-founded the AI Energy Management Alliance on September 16, 2026, with 18 members including Anthropic, National Grid, AES, and NRG, formalizing the…
Bitcoin Core tagged v32.0rc1 on September 14, 2026, opening a roughly four-week testing window before the planned final release on October 10. Node operators should pull the draft…
A wave of ERCOT Batch Zero classifications from Galaxy, IREN, CleanSpark, Ionic, and others has turned a Texas grid-study tier into a competitive scoreboard. The gigawatt totals ob…
Iran's drone strikes on Gulf data centers have forced the UAE to abandon its centralized AI campus blueprint. The 5 GW, 10-square-mile Abu Dhabi megaproject is being redesigned as…
OpenDesign Arena scored DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at 81.2 out of 100 on real-world design tasks, reaching 98% of GPT-6 Astra's performance at $0.023 per artifact versus Astra's $1.61. El…
A Chinese research team has set a new low-water mark for the quantum resources needed to attack Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography: 835 logical qubits, down from 2,124 three yea…
PwC's Global Data Centre Outlook, modeled by Oxford Economics across 46 countries, projects $31.6 trillion in cumulative global data center capex through 2050. Power availability i…
DeepSeek is ordering at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a gigawatt-scale data center in Inner Mongolia, per Bloomberg. NVIDIA's China AI share is forecast to crater fro…
Nvidia signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Jensen Huang promises the platform stays open. There is currently no binding governance mechanism t…
Galaxy Research's Alex Thorn confirmed the first on-chain movement from the original Coldcard attacker addresses: ~10% of Wave 3 funds routed through THORChain and landed on a new…
VentureBeat's July 2026 VB Pulse survey of 170 enterprise AI infrastructure buyers finds non-Nvidia accelerators outpacing Blackwell on evaluation intent by 14 percentage points. I…
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a 59-page ruling on August 27 voiding the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic, finding it violated the First and Fifth Amendme…
Gov. Greg Abbott directed PUCT and ERCOT to audit all queued data center projects before any can connect to the Texas grid, halting roughly 1,800 projects and exposing a 474 GW int…
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