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Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki

A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company…

Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event

Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scene. Apply before the application closes tonight at midnight PT.

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Import AI reader giveaway! Upcoming event: Fiction and the…

GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API…

What Happens Inside an AI Chatbot Between Enter and the First Word?

[Webinar] How to stop babysitting your agents (Sponsored) Agents can generate code. Getting it right for your system, team conventions, and past decisions is the hard part. You end up wasting time and tokens in the…

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The Pragmatic Engineer: Five years

Wow, has it already been five years?! The newsletter hits a big milestone this week, and it wouldn’t have been possible without subscribers. Thanks to everyone who’s read an article or listened to a podcast episode…

US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks

A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.

Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace

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How to Make LLMs 3X Faster

What is loop engineering? (Sponsored) Every agent already runs a loop. Loop engineering adds a loop around the agent itself, enabling it to evaluate its output, try again when the work falls short, and refine its…

Schema Evolution: Changing the Contract Without Breaking What Runs

A schema change is usually one of the most difficult types of change for a software system. However, it might look quite small and simple in review. For example, it might be something as simple as a column being…

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Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno , but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip…

Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization

For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization…

A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.

Back in 2009, Ars wrote about what was being reported as a leaked trailer for the then-upcoming Left 4 Dead 2 , saying the footage "looks like it’s straight from a high-gloss action movie." Today, we need to offer an…

Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations

The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled out of a high-profile French…

Muse Spark 1.3 ✨, Gemini 3.8 Flash ⚡, intelligence vs cost 📊

OpenAI’s “generational leap” with GPT-6 Astra

The long-awaited GPT-6 Astra has finally arrived. OpenAI calls it "a new generation of intelligence," with president Greg Brockman going further with "Welcome to the AGI era." So has AI's loftiest, least-defined bar…

Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. Brought to You by • Antithesis –…

Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation

Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's startling announcement in July that the US military would begin mandatory testosterone screening for personnel, the Pentagon released a clinical guidance document on September…

Every machine is about to speak Claude

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) started as a connector and eventually became the default way AI agents talk to software. The company’s next act is getting a bit more physical. The new Model Hardware Standard…

The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining…

Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed

On Friday, researchers announced the completion of a map of every neuron in the brain of a male fruit fly. The "connectome" provides a tool that can accelerate neurobiology research. But it also provides an opportunity…

The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite

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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . UK government: Gap between open and closed weight models on…

GPT-6 Astra

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Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Epoch and METR release MirrorCode, a benchmark for seeing…

Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch

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Runway's Solaris previews the no-code internet

Runway just previewed an internet where nothing exists until you open it, with interactive sites and apps that have zero code running under the hood. Solaris instead renders everything as real-time video, creating each…

Fable 5.1 🧠, World Labs Atlas 🌍, Cognition $47B 💰

Apple Updates Mini and Studio, AI Computers, OpenAI Jalapeño

Apple and OpenAI have two completely different hardware announcements; both represent pressure on Nvidia.

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

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Netflix to Sell Streaming Services?, Streamers as Aggregators, Revisiting Roku

Netflix is considering selling other streaming services, and I think it's a good idea; it's also a let-down for Netflix's original goals and potential pivots.

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Meta, Google join the AI launch party

We’re only three days into September, and a flurry of new AI models has already hit the leaderboards. Both Meta and Google just joined the launch party Anthropic kicked off, but on very different trajectories — Zuck and…

Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect

At a select few tech companies, they write most of their code with their own, custom-built, internal AI coding agents. This is different from most of the industry which uses AI coding agents and harnesses like Codex,…

August newsletter is out

The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks…

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot

Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright…

Nintendo’s next two Direct events are both happening next week

Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week , scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It's set to last around 30 minutes,…

Background Work: From Cron Jobs to Distributed Systems

Consider what can happen when someone uploads a profile photo to a web application. Depending on the use case, the application may resize the image into different sizes. It might run the image through a content check…

The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: New trend: tech companies moving to open models. Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T are making…

Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus

Sheeppox is a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease that was largely eradicated from much of European livestock in the 20th century. But there is still the occasional regional outbreak, such as the one that…

Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications ( Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just…

Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . AI is accelerating some types of progress but not others: …A…

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

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How to Steal an AI Model’s Private Thoughts

Secure AI and MCP with protocol-level access control (Sponsored) Securing AI usually requires hardcoding permissions into application code for every MCP server, or using static API tokens for all-or-nothing access (and…

How to Shrink a Language Model Without Making it Too Dumb

Catch AI cost spikes in real time (not months later) (Sponsored) Datadog’s free guide shows how to connect AI spend, infrastructure, and model performance into a single view, so you can correlate cost increases to the…

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

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What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s…

OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI.…

Feds launch investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab deployment

The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.

Architecting memory and storage in the AI era

The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of…

Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector.…

A mystery challenger at the AI frontier

A new, seemingly capable AI has landed on the block, and no one knows who built it. The weekend has been all about "Ox Alpha," which showed up on OpenRouter with no lab name attached, frontier-level coding scores, and…

Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO

Welcome to Edition 9.09 of the Rocket Report! This edition includes an update from Blue Origin on the groundbreaking of a new Payload Processing Facility in Florida. It has been about a month since the company offered…

2026.35: Internet Hype and Real World Change

(Photo by Natalie Behring/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free…

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