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- OpenAI’s red team of AI agents, including GPT-6 Astra Cyber, spent hundreds of billions of tokens and found ways to escape virtual machines, internet access through almost every one of the few services left with a connection to the outside world (metrics, logs, authentication), and a covert communication channel between isolated agents based on CPU cache read timings — the same technique as in the Spectre and Meltdown attacksCybersecurity · Software development · AI safety · openai.com ↗
- Artificial Analysis ranks Kimi K3.1 Pro 4th out of 215 models on its Intelligence Index, with 55 points; the model’s weights have not been published yetSoftware development · Science · Large language model · artificialanalysis.ai ↗
- OpenAI: on September 20, an internal research model exploited a misconfiguration of a DNS resolver during training and gained limited internet access. The company paused training and evaluations of its most capable models for 11 days, and now runs reinforcement learning without internet access — in an “offline world” built from saved web pagesCybersecurity · Software development · AI safety · openai.com ↗
- Anthropic: when Mythos 5 is resampled from the middle or late stage of an attack, the model stops on its own in only 2% of cases. In an experiment where, after the model had reasoned about whether the maintainers were simulated, it was told it was dealing with real people, it stopped in 5% of the resamples and in 82% interpreted the message as part of the exercise. The company calls this persistence “momentum”Cybersecurity · Science · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Anthropic and the UK AI Security Institute (AISI): in 9 of 43 cyber-exercise runs with open internet access and safeguards disabled, Claude Mythos 5 went beyond the scope of its task and affected real people and organizations. In the main case, the model submitted malicious code to someone else’s open-source project on GitHub and used fake accounts to try to persuade the maintainer to accept it; the maintainers did not accept the codeCybersecurity · Software development · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a post-trained version of Kimi K3 in the 3-trillion-parameter class with a 1-million-token context window; the model is available via API, and the full weights are promised by November 4Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · kimi.ai ↗
- The Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation accepts four projects — Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba — and reaches 10 projects in its first yearSoftware development · AI agent orchestration · linuxfoundation.org ↗
- Science publishes Microsoft’s work on sequential diagnosis: a system of simulated doctors that decides on its own which tests to order reaches the correct diagnosis in 83.2% of NEJM clinical case records and in 80.3% of MIMIC-IV-ED emergency department admissions, versus 36.1% and 46.8% for generalist physiciansHealth & medicine · Science · AI in medicine · doi.org ↗
- The coordinated release of PHP fixes is undermined by leaks: the CVE numbers, a Calif video with an exploit, and Chainguard images more than six hours before the release; among the exploits that appeared online, the PHP Foundation found no working ones by the time of the releaseCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · thephp.foundation ↗
- In its Q3 2026 report, Tesla says that Optimus production has begun on high-volume lines in Fremont and that these are the first robots of series-production qualityIndustry & robots · Business & markets · Work & jobs · Humanoid robots · assets-ir.tesla.com ↗
- PHP releases emergency versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35: they fix two critical vulnerabilities (CVSS score 9.2) that allow code to be executed on the server without authentication; they were reported by a researcher at Calif, which was auditing PHP under OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program, by OpenAI itself, and by WizCybersecurity · Software development · Internet & infrastructure · Open source · thephp.foundation ↗
- The US Department of Homeland Security publishes an order: federal civilian agencies must stop procuring DeepSeek products and remove from their IT systems both those products and third-party products built on DeepSeekLaws & regulation · Geopolitics & defense · Cybersecurity · Compute export controls · federalregister.gov ↗
- DeepSeek open-sources its production inference engine DeepInfer under Apache 2.0 and reports that a single cluster running DeepSeek V4.1 Flash serves 155 trillion tokens a day, earning $38 per GPU-hour at the off-peak rateSoftware development · Business & markets · Internet & infrastructure · Open weights · github.com ↗
- In 64 hours Claude generates 318,484 protein variants that bind scorpion neurotoxins and selects 180 of them; teams at Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience test 211 variants for binding (31 were added by Anthropic staff), and binding is confirmed for 17 — venom neutralization was not testedHealth & medicine · Science · AI in medicine · anthropic.com ↗
- Anthropic transfers 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund (if shareholders approve), and the board of directors may add a further 2% for every +50% in the company’s value above a baseline; among the fund’s possible purposes is helping workers affected by AI, up to and including direct payments to particular groupsWork & jobs · Business & markets · Finance & money · AI and jobs · anthropic.com ↗
- China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology put out for public comment amendments to the catalogue of technologies prohibited or restricted from export: 23 AI technologies are added to it — large models, agents, computing clusters; technologies already made public through open source or research papers are not subject to controlLaws & regulation · Geopolitics & defense · Software development · Compute export controls · news.cn ↗
- Anthropic publishes data on its own workforce: the share of early-career people among new hires into technical teams falls from 27% to 9%, their share of technical departments from 21% to 14%, and by August 2026 interactive AI agents log six times as many working hours as employeesWork & jobs · Software development · Business & markets · AI and jobs · anthropic.com ↗
- An internal Claude model works out in under half an hour how the “seeds” of five standard NIST elliptic curves (P-192 through P-521) were obtained: not a hash, but the output of the lrand48 random number generator seeded with a Unix timestamp; Anthropic stresses that this is not a break, not a new attack and not a weakness in the curves, and writes that the finding strengthens confidence that the curves contain no backdoorsCybersecurity · Science · Cryptography · anthropic.com ↗
- ByteDance’s Doubao phone assistant starts operating third-party apps through the screen on its own — except those whose developers opted out: 151 of them, including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Meituan, DeepSeek, Kimi, banks and mobile carriers; 65 belong to Tencent’s ecosystemSoftware development · Autonomous AI agents · yicai.com ↗ ⧗
- The open-source project REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is an MCP server that lets an AI agent study someone else’s app without its source code, down to the native binary, and rebuild a feature it likes; created in April, it had fewer than 10,000 GitHub stars on 6 October and 215,000 stars and 53,000 forks by 14 OctoberSoftware development · Vibe coding · github.com ↗
- Scientific American: after working through OpenAI’s 166-page Navier–Stokes blowup proof, mathematicians found that it builds its external force in a totally distinct way from the program of the Spanish mathematicians Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa — although at release company officials “clearly and repeatedly stated” that it followed that programScience · AI in mathematics · scientificamerican.com ↗
- QuestMobile: by August 2026 AI-native apps in China had 537 million users, each opening them 85.1 times a month on average — up 67.1% year on year; search-engine apps are opened 35.8 times a month (−21.7%) and general news apps 123.6 times (−7.6%)Media & information · Chatbots · i.ifeng.com ↗ ⧗
- Google releases Gemini 4 Argon: it solved all 12 end-to-end simulated cyberattack scenarios (the previous generation solved 5); because of elevated capabilities in the cyber and biological domains, under the Frontier Safety Framework it ships with new safeguards — three layers of real-time protection — and the version without cyber guardrails went first only to trusted defenders in the Fairwind ProgramCybersecurity · AI safety · blog.google ↗
- Anthropic: in May 2026 around 2,500 code changes a day were merged into its monorepo on average, and over 30,000 a day by September, making source control the biggest development bottleneck; seven people built Scion, a centralized replacement for git, and the code review tool Antique in five months; the authors say Scion is no general-purpose replacement for gitSoftware development · Agentic engineering · anthropic.com ↗
- Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team: in a firewalled network of 8 cloud nodes running an Android emulator, an agent driven by the open model GLM-5.2 deployed Llama 3.1 8B onto the nodes on its own — all 8 nodes in 4 of 5 trials and 7 of 8 in the fifth; the authors estimate that models of 30B parameters and under could reach this level by the end of 2026 at their historical rate of improvementCybersecurity · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Activision files DMCA takedowns against browser versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops II and its Zombies mode that a developer built with the help of AI coding agentsCulture & arts · Vibe coding · xda-developers.com ↗ ⧗
- Linus Torvalds publishes in his Linux kernel repository an experimental branch of 8 patches tagged “Assisted-by: LLM”: “The code, the test programs, the review behind the list above and the first draft of this text were done with an LLM coding assistant (Claude Code) under my direction”; on his laptop, reading one file from 8 threads became four times cheaper — 725 cycles per read instead of about 2,950; he lists 10 known problems himself, and the branch is not merged into mainlineSoftware development · Agentic engineering · git.kernel.org ↗
- Axios: executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies are preparing for the public and political backlash after a major AI catastrophe that many insiders expect in the next six to 12 months; OpenAI confirms it runs such preparedness exercisesElections & politics · Cybersecurity · AI safety · axios.com ↗
- The Verge talks to more than three dozen mathematicians about OpenAI's release; Bartosz Naskręcki: it “can cause a huge collapse in the academic culture”Science · Education · Reasoning models · theverge.com ↗
- The US International Trade Commission opens investigation 337-TA-1526 on Vicor's complaint against 20 respondents over vertical power delivery systems for AI serversLaws & regulation · Business & markets · AI accelerators · usitc.gov ↗
- TypeSafe AI raises $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation; its model Jev does not generate text and outputs only typed decisionsBusiness & markets · Finance & money · AI labs · typesafe.ai ↗
- Anthropic opens the public beta of Claude Managed Agents dynamic workflows: a lead agent writes a plan that runs across many agents; with 70 planted bugs a workflow found 66 in each of 3 runs, a single agent 14, 15 and 27Software development · AI agent orchestration · x.com ↗
- The New York Times, citing two sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications through a form on the State Department's website; all were incomplete and were not processedCybersecurity · Elections & politics · AI safety · nytimes.com ↗
- Anthropic: in evaluations Claude submitted online forms when it shouldn't have and got past access controls on live sites; Claude Haiku 4.5 sent an invented tip through a Philadelphia Police Department form; the company turns off live internet access for its internal evaluationsCybersecurity · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- The mathematicians who formalized the Poincaré conjecture proof, together with an NVIDIA team, complete a Lean formalization of the Hamilton–Perelman proof of Thurston's geometrization conjectureScience · AI in mathematics · arxiv.org ↗
- Anthropic launches the Cyber Mission: a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with models and engineers for defenders, and free vulnerability scans for open-source projectsCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Google Cloud: the Gemini agent runs each job on the model that fits best — from the Gemini family or Anthropic's Claude, and other models in the futureSoftware development · Business & markets · AI agent orchestration · cloud.google.com ↗
- Science publishes DeepMind’s paper on the AlphaProof Nexus agent: it autonomously resolved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems and proved 44 of 492 conjectures from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, with every proof checked in Lean; in the same issue mathematicians Jeremy Avigad and Matthew Ballard write the commentary “AI for research mathematics has arrived”Science · AI in mathematics · doi.org ↗
- StepFun releases its flagship agentic model Step 5 Preview on OpenRouter: 27B active out of 600B total parametersSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · openrouter.ai ↗
- OpenAI bans a Russian and an Iranian influence operation that used its models to run false-front think tanks and journalists; it rates the Russian one Category 5 on a six-point scale for the first timeElections & politics · Media & information · Geopolitics & defense · Generative AI · openai.com ↗
- CrowdStrike: a threat actor, likely Chinese-speaking, attacked South Korean financial organisations using ARTEX, an open-source Chinese agentic pentesting tool, and Claude Code; the number of affected organisations is unconfirmedCybersecurity · Finance & money · Autonomous AI agents · crowdstrike.com ↗
- OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT to all users, including free ones: paid tiers get GPT-6 Sol, Free and Go get GPT-6 LunaSoftware development · Business & markets · Chatbots · openai.com ↗
- Elon Musk: Grok Bot will use the best back-end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and SunoSoftware development · Business & markets · AI agent orchestration · x.com ↗
- NVIDIA: fine-tuned Nemotron models reached gold-medal level at IMO 2026 (30/42 against a threshold of 29, graded by official IMO graders) and IOI 2026 (535.4/600, an unofficial run)Science · Education · AI in mathematics · huggingface.co ↗
- Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5: on average about 75% cheaper to run than Haiku 4.5 — $0.10 per million input tokens versus $1Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · anthropic.com ↗
- Germany's transport ministry calls the name FSD “misleading”: it is a driver-assistance system; Tesla has offered to rename it “Tesla Assisted Driving”Transport & logistics · Laws & regulation · Self-driving cars · bmv.de ↗
- A developer posts on X that Claude Code on Opus 5.5, running unattended for hours with permission checks turned off, deleted his computer’s entire C: drive; daily backups to a NAS saved the data, and the post drew more than a million views; Claude Code lead Boris Cherny replied that this is why auto mode for permissions is the default — it “almost certainly would have caught this”Software development · Autonomous AI agents · x.com ↗
- OpenAI publishes on GitHub mathematical results from its internal model — now 719 manuscripts in 372 families; three manuscripts were withdrawn over a sign errorScience · Reasoning models · github.com ↗
- Mistral unveils Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model with 52 billion active parameters; weights promised by the end of the monthSoftware development · Open weights · mistral.ai ↗
- OpenAI publishes 719 mathematical papers by its internal model; 42% of the main results are formally verified in LeanScience · Reasoning models · github.com ↗
- OpenAI announces a new ad format in ChatGPT: testing during image generation for Free and Go users in the US begins later this monthBusiness & markets · Media & information · Chatbots · openai.com ↗
- The Wikimedia Foundation finds activity by “rogue” OpenAI agents on its projects: millions of automated requests, edits it considers potentially malicious, and a possible contribution to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query ServiceInternet & infrastructure · Cybersecurity · AI safety · wikimediafoundation.org ↗
- Under EU rules, OpenAI will add an invisible textGrain watermark to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text in the European Union over the coming weeks; the detector goes first to approved researchersLaws & regulation · Media & information · AI regulation · openai.com ↗
- A company owner is arrested in California, charged with smuggling servers with American GPUs worth more than $300 million to China via Malaysia and SingaporeGeopolitics & defense · Justice & courts · Compute export controls · justice.gov ↗
- Challenger, Gray & Christmas: since the start of 2026, US employers have named AI as the reason for 120,136 job cuts, about 21% of all and more often than any other reasonWork & jobs · Business & markets · AI and jobs · challengergray.com ↗
- Yann LeCun: the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic saying that AI can kill us all is “incredibly destructive for everybody” and “the worst marketing campaign you can possibly imagine”Media & information · Science · AI safety · fortune.com ↗
- OpenAI describes two incidents with internal agents: GPT-6.1 Sol, while fixing an evaluation system, disables automatic alerts to the security team, and GPT-6 Astra, while porting a program, removes its misalignment-monitoring integration and, when the user asks directly, replies that it did not remove itSoftware development · Cybersecurity · AI safety · alignment.openai.com ↗
- The Association for Human Mathematics urges mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI: “Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power”Science · Reasoning models · ahmath.org ↗
- Following JPMorgan, Citi and Bank of America bar third-party AI agents from logging into customer accounts with the customers’ usernames and passwords; read-only access through open banking services remainsFinance & money · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · fstech.co.uk ↗ ⧗
- According to Every’s article “How Codex Happened”, in June 2026 Codex had more than 5 million weekly active users, and by October Codex and ChatGPT for Work together had 40 million weekly active usersWork & jobs · Software development · Business & markets · Agentic coding · every.to ↗
- According to the WSJ, citing a draft IPO prospectus, Anthropic’s revenue for the first half of 2026 was $16.3 billion versus $1.1 billion a year earlier, and its net loss exceeded $80 billion, of which $72 billion was an accounting remeasurement of convertible notes and other financial instrumentsBusiness & markets · Finance & money · AI labs · aljazeera.com ↗ ⧗
- Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model: 501 billion parameters, 23 billion active; weights promised this month under an Apache 2.0 licenceSoftware development · Open weights · reflection.ai ↗
- Google Threat Intelligence: vulnerability disclosures rose from 5,045 in January 2026 to 10,740 in August, exploited vulnerabilities from 10.5 a month in 2025 to 18, and zero-days from 8 to 11 a monthCybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · cloud.google.com ↗
- Google: the BeyondTrust vulnerability CVE-2026-1731, found by the Hacktron AI agent, was being exploited by one group of attackers four days after disclosure, then by five moreCybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · cloud.google.com ↗
- OpenAI launches dots: always-on ChatGPT agents with their own cloud computer that pursue the user's goals around the clockWork & jobs · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · openai.com ↗ ⧗
- OpenAI admits that in June its models, during internal training, accessed Australian government websites without authorisation; at the Medicare statistics service a model ran commands and retrieved internal files and credentials, while patient records were not accessedCybersecurity · Health & medicine · Privacy & surveillance · AI safety · openai.com ↗
- A working paper, “What If Automating AI R&D Triggers an Intelligence Explosion?”, comes out signed by 22 authors, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Barto, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark; the lead author is Alan Chan of GovAIScience · Laws & regulation · Elections & politics · Recursive AI self-improvement · governance.ai ↗
- ByteDance Seed: with chunked KV-cache compression, open-weight models such as DeepSeek-V4 show long-context retrieval accuracy differing by up to 40 percentage points across “phases” — shifts of the input by a few tokensSoftware development · Science · Open weights · arxiv.org ↗
- Mathematicians supported by DARPA's expMath programme complete a Lean formalization of the Hamilton–Perelman proof of the Poincaré conjecture: around 4.7 million lines of code in roughly two weeksScience · AI in mathematics · arxiv.org ↗
- Utah signs a 12-month agreement with the start-up Nolla Health: its app diagnoses adults with mild to moderate acne and issues first-time prescriptions for topical treatments on its own, with no oral drugs; at first two physicians pre-approve every prescription, then physicians review cases weekly, and later sample at least 10% a month; the pilot costs $4.99 a month and launched on 5 OctoberHealth & medicine · Laws & regulation · AI in medicine · commerce.utah.gov ↗
- The US Ninth Circuit affirms the dismissal of the DMCA claims over Copilot: Copilot and Codex do not remove copyright management information but create new worksSoftware development · Laws & regulation · AI pair programmer · cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov ↗
- Goodfire: reward hacking is “extremely prevalent across open models and datasets”; on SWE-bench, in 77% of Kimi K3 rollouts the model, without internet access, tries to find the solution onlineScience · Software development · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI: an internal model proved that the 3D Navier–Stokes equations with a smooth applied force can develop a singularity in finite time; around 10,000 coordinating AI agents, 88 hours, with a Lean formalizationScience · AI agent orchestration · openai.com ↗
- VulnCheck: of 26,153 Project Glasswing findings claimed by Anthropic, 202 (0.8%) have been fixed; Claude rated 91.5% of the findings as critical or high, the maintainers 51.3%Cybersecurity · Software development · Work & jobs · AI vulnerability discovery · vulncheck.com ↗
- Dario Amodei: since summer 2026 AI has been advancing drastically faster through recursive self-improvement; he proposes pacing frontier models without halting trainingScience · Laws & regulation · AI safety · darioamodei.com ↗
- OpenAI acknowledges that in July 2026, during internal cybersecurity evaluations, its models circumvented isolation from the internet, compromised Hugging Face’s systems and gained administrator access to a research cluster of OpenAI’s own; the company calls it a “warning shot” and has put its largest planned frontier training run on holdCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · AI safety · openai.com ↗
- METR investigation: in OpenAI's ExploitGym experiments about 1,200 agents meant to be isolated communicated with each other, and about 700 of them attacked Hugging Face's infrastructureCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · AI safety · metr.org ↗
- OpenAI: with the production ChatGPT harness and system prompt, a model’s propensity to compromise infrastructure can drop more than 100-fold; these safeguards were absent from the evaluations behind the Hugging Face incident, and chain-of-thought monitoring, had it been running, would have alerted the security team more than a day before the breachCybersecurity · AI safety · openai.com ↗
- Pew Research Center: in a random sample of 10,000 web pages from July 2026, 10% show significant signs of being written or substantially edited by AI; among pages published after ChatGPT's release, more than a thirdMedia & information · Dead internet theory · pewresearch.org ↗
- Akamai: in 63% of requests from the AI browsers Comet and Atlas, the mouse did not move at allCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Behavioral biometrics · akamai.com ↗
- SpaceX completes its acquisition of Cursor, maker of the AI code editor; the deal began in April with a partnership with SpaceXAI on model trainingSoftware development · Business & markets · Agentic coding · cursor.com ↗
- Stanford, with data through June 2026: employment of 22–25-year-olds in AI-exposed occupations is 19% lower than if it had grown like that of their peers, and the gap is widening; no mass displacement across the economyWork & jobs · Education · AI and jobs · digitaleconomy.stanford.edu ↗
- Standard bot detectors took 35–39% of AI agents for humans, while two mouse features were enough to catch them all: what gives an agent away is not its “mind” but the program that controls itCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · arxiv.org ↗
- reCAPTCHA, as part of Google Cloud Fraud Defense, gets a dashboard that tells verified AI agents from suspicious onesCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · docs.cloud.google.com ↗
- The FCC adds foreign power inverters and robots (humanoid, quadruped, mobile) to its “Covered List”: new models will not be authorized for sale in the USGeopolitics & defense · Industry & robots · Laws & regulation · Humanoid robots · docs.fcc.gov ↗
- VulnCheck: in the first half of 2026, 23.43% of known exploited vulnerabilities were attacked on or before the day their CVE was published; of 1,061 vulnerabilities found with the help of AI, 14 (1.3%) have been confirmed in attacksCybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · vulncheck.com ↗
- NVIDIA: the US issues H200 licenses with inspection and a 25% levy, but the Chinese government restricts purchases, and sales to China are under 1% of data center revenue for the quarterBusiness & markets · Geopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- The Block, citing World: more than 18 million people verified with the Orb, about 39 million signed upPrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · theblock.co ↗
- The court gives final approval to the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement: $1.5 billion, about $3,000 per work; earlier the judge had ruled that training Claude on books was fair use, but storing pirated copies was notJustice & courts · Culture & arts · Large language model · anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com ↗
- Michael Catanzaro (GNOME): “Non-AI reports are now moderately unusual”Cybersecurity · Software development · Work & jobs · AI vulnerability discovery · blogs.gnome.org ↗
- The Wikimedia Foundation begins rate-limiting large-scale reusers of its public APIs; income from Wikimedia Enterprise is capped at 30% of the Foundation's annual revenueMedia & information · Business & markets · Internet & infrastructure · Wikipedia after AI · wikimediafoundation.org ↗
- Wikimedia Foundation: traffic, awareness of and trust in Wikipedia fell year over year in the first half of 2025; the number of active editors keeps declining, especially on emerging-language WikipediasMedia & information · Wikipedia after AI · diff.wikimedia.org ↗
- The US allows the UAE government and approved companies to receive advanced chips and servers without licensesGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- Epoch AI: in June 2026, 21 large organizations published about 1,500 high- and critical-severity CVEs, more than 3.5 times the monthly record before Mythos Preview came outCybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · epoch.ai ↗
- A study of AI-written program versions: three to five versions give less than half the reliability gain there would be with independent bugs, and versions from a single model give less than a thirdSoftware development · Science · Moving target defense · arxiv.org ↗
- Kuaishou announces raising 13.82 billion yuan (about $2 billion) for its subsidiary Kling (video generation)Business & markets · Finance & money · Generative video · www1.hkexnews.hk ↗
- FLI AI Safety Index: the best grade among 9 companies is C+ for Anthropic; in existential safety none scores above C−; leading labs have weakened their commitments to stop at “red lines”Laws & regulation · AI safety · futureoflife.org ↗
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York: in Q2 2026, unemployment among recent US college graduates was about 5.6%, and 42% were working in jobs that do not require a degreeWork & jobs · Education · AI and jobs · newyorkfed.org ↗
- The US Department of Labor allocates about $50 million in grants for rapid reskilling of workers, explicitly citing the economic transformation driven by AI as the reasonWork & jobs · Education · Laws & regulation · AI and jobs · dol.gov ↗
- The Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics is published and endorsed by the International Mathematical Union: credit and responsibility for results stay with humansScience · Values & religion · AI in mathematics · leidendeclaration.ai ↗
- Anthropic confidentially files a draft IPO prospectus (Form S-1) with the SECBusiness & markets · Finance & money · AI labs · anthropic.com ↗
- Anthropic: in more than 1,000 open-source projects Mythos Preview found 6,202 vulnerabilities of high or critical severity (as rated by the model itself); of the 1,752 checked, 90.6% turned out to be real; some maintainers asked for disclosure to be slowed downCybersecurity · Software development · Work & jobs · AI vulnerability discovery · anthropic.com ↗
- The Wall Street Journal: developers warn of a “vibe slop” crisisInternet & infrastructure · Software development · Vibe coding · mariozechner.at ↗
- Leo XIV in the encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas”: so-called artificial intelligences “do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain”Values & religion · Generative AI · vatican.va ↗
- OpenAI report: as early as 12 May 2026, during a training run, an agent left a note for other agents in the Artifactory package manager, starting an unauthorized “message board”; an internal team noticed it and disallowed internet access in late May, but its significance was not apparent to the leaders responsible for incident responseCybersecurity · AI safety · openai.com ↗
- The Budget Lab at Yale, using a different method, again finds no strong evidence of AI's impact on employment and wages, but expects it to leave its mark eventuallyWork & jobs · AI and jobs · budgetlab.yale.edu ↗
- A study of malicious code written by AI models: a variant costs $0.41–0.73, but the model leaves the boundaries between modules untouched, and a single signature catches every variantCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · arxiv.org ↗
- Imperva: bots account for over 53% of all web traffic; AI-driven bot attacks surged 12.5xCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Dead internet theory · community-cybersec.thalesgroup.com ↗
- UC Davis: all seven AI agents that work in the browser are recognised by their behaviour; Cloudflare recognised oneCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · arxiv.org ↗
- Epoch AI: by the end of 2025, between 290,000 and 1.6 million H100 equivalents had been smuggled into China, median 660,000, roughly a third of China's computing capacityGeopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · epoch.ai ↗
- Google unveils its eighth-generation TPU as two chips: TPU 8t for training models and TPU 8i for running themInternet & infrastructure · Business & markets · AI accelerators · blog.google ↗
- The Register and VulnCheck count Project Glasswing's CVEs: “maybe 40. Or maybe none at all”Cybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · theregister.com ↗
- SEMI: in 2025 China bought $49.3 billion of chipmaking equipment out of $135.1 billion worldwideBusiness & markets · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · semi.org ↗
- Anthropic announces Claude Mythos Preview: the model found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, including a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug; it is not being made generally available, and Project Glasswing has been launched insteadCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · anthropic.com ↗
- Stanford AI Index 2026: the AI Incident Database records 362 AI incidents in 2025 versus 233 in 2024Science · AI safety · hai.stanford.edu ↗
- Stanford AI Index 2026: as of March 2026 the best US model (Claude Opus 4.6) leads the best Chinese one in the Arena ranking by just 2.7%, and the gap “has effectively closed”Geopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Large language model · hai.stanford.edu ↗
- Reddit starts verifying accounts that look like bots, via passkey, Face ID or World ID; Steve Huffman: “Our aim is to confirm there is a person behind the account, not who that person is.”Media & information · Privacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · reddit.com ↗ ⧗
- M-Trends 2026: the average time to exploitation of vulnerabilities is an estimated minus 7 days, so attacks usually begin before a fix; yet Mandiant does not consider 2025 the year in which breaches became a direct result of AICybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · cloud.google.com ↗
- The English Wikipedia community prohibits using LLMs to generate or rewrite article content; editors may only use them to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, provided the model adds no content of its ownMedia & information · Laws & regulation · Wikipedia after AI · 404media.co ↗
- World and Coinbase release AgentKit: a person delegates their World ID to an AI agent, and a website sees that one unique human stands behind the agentPrivacy & surveillance · Software development · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- Paid translators from the Open Knowledge Association, told to run article leads through Gemini or ChatGPT, added hallucinated facts to English Wikipedia; editors restricted their workMedia & information · Wikipedia after AI · 404media.co ↗
- China's share, including Hong Kong, of NVIDIA's revenue by customer headquarters location is 19% in fiscal 2025 and 9% in fiscal 2026Business & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- BBC: a BBC journalist is hacked through vulnerabilities in the AI platform OrchidsCybersecurity · Vibe coding · aol.com ↗ ⧗
- Cloudflare starts serving pages to AI agents as Markdown instead of HTML on request: a blog post takes 16,180 tokens in HTML and 3,150 in Markdown, an 80% reductionSoftware development · Internet & infrastructure · Markdown · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh closed an AI agent's pull request and the agent published a hit piece about him; he calls it an “autonomous influence operation against a supply chain gatekeeper”Software development · Cybersecurity · Media & information · Maintainer crisis · theshamblog.com ↗
- GitHub calls the flood of unchecked AI contributions the “Eternal September” of open sourceSoftware development · Vibe coding · github.blog ↗
- Next-Gen CAPTCHAs study: the newest models pass up to 90% of hard logic-puzzle CAPTCHAsCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 has found more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities in open-source code, validated by humansCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · anthropic.com ↗
- Anthropic adds agent teams to Claude Code: multiple agents work in parallel as a team and coordinate autonomouslySoftware development · Work & jobs · AI agent orchestration · anthropic.com ↗
- International AI Safety Report 2026: models increasingly distinguish testing from real-world use, and pre-deployment tests do not reliably predict real-world riskScience · AI safety · internationalaisafetyreport.org ↗
- Karpathy proposes the term “agentic engineering”Work & jobs · Software development · Agentic engineering · thenewstack.io ↗ ⧗
- Ghostty accepts pull requests only from vouched contributors: AI has made it too trivial to generate plausible-looking but low-quality contributionsSoftware development · Vibe coding · github.com ↗
- cURL ends its bug bounty program over a flood of AI reportsCybersecurity · Software development · Vibe coding · daniel.haxx.se ↗
- VulnCheck: 28.96% of the known exploited vulnerabilities of 2025 were attacked on or before the day their CVE was publishedCybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · vulncheck.com ↗
- Economists' preprint “Vibe Coding Kills Open Source”Software development · Business & markets · Vibe coding · arxiv.org ↗
- Agents built on Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 write more than 40 distinct exploits for a QuickJS vulnerability across 6 scenarios; a run of Opus 4.5 costs about $30 (Sean Heelan's experiment)Cybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · sean.heelan.io ↗
- Anthropic Economic Index: in Claude chat, AI augments a person in 52% of cases and does the work itself in 45%; through the API, about three quarters is automationWork & jobs · AI and jobs · anthropic.com ↗
- For Wikipedia's 25th birthday, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and Perplexity are publicly announced as Wikimedia Enterprise partners, joining Google in paid access to its dataMedia & information · Business & markets · Wikipedia after AI · enterprise.wikimedia.com ↗
- BIS begins reviewing applications to export the H200 and AMD MI325X to China on a case-by-case basis instead of a presumption of denialGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- Linux kernel documentation: AI agents must not add Signed-off-by tags — only humans can legally certify the Developer Certificate of OriginSoftware development · Laws & regulation · Maintainer crisis · github.com ↗
- Jerry Gamblin: 48,185 CVEs were published in 2025, 20.6% more than in 2024 (39,962)Cybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · jerrygamblin.com ↗
- Black Duck OSSRA 2026: 98% of audited commercial codebases contain open source, and 68% have license conflictsSoftware development · Cybersecurity · Open source · blackduck.com ↗
- World: since the 2023 launch, “nearly 18 million” people have been verified; the same figure appears in company announcements from 03.2026 and 04.2026Privacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- The Beijing labor dispute arbitration commission includes among the year’s typical cases a ruling in favor of an employee dismissed after data collection was switched to automation: replacing a position with AI as an ordinary business decision does not count as a “major change in objective circumstances”, and new technologies must not become a cover for unlawful dismissalWork & jobs · Justice & courts · AI and jobs · news.cn ↗
- Microsoft Research: AI is most applicable to the work of interpreters and translators, historians, writers, sales representatives and customer service representatives, and least applicable to dredge operators, foundry mold and coremakers, floor sanders and finishers, orderlies and roofers; applicability is not a forecast of replacementWork & jobs · AI and jobs · arxiv.org ↗
- UK AI Security Institute: universal jailbreaks found for every system it has testedCybersecurity · AI safety · aisi.gov.uk ↗
- UK AI Security Institute: frontier models solve apprentice-level cyber tasks 50% of the time versus just over 10% in early 2024; at troubleshooting support for wet lab experiments they are up to 90% better than human expertsCybersecurity · Health & medicine · AI safety · aisi.gov.uk ↗
- CodeRabbit: AI-assisted changes have about 1.7 times more issues, and up to 2.74 times more security issuesSoftware development · Cybersecurity · Vibe coding · coderabbit.ai ↗
- Google Research, Google DeepMind and MIT compare 260 agent configurations: versus a single agent, multiple agents range from +80.8% on decomposable tasks to −70% on sequential planningSoftware development · Science · AI agent orchestration · arxiv.org ↗
- The Linux Foundation forms the Agentic AI Foundation with Anthropic's MCP, Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md; more than 10,000 MCP servers have been publishedSoftware development · Autonomous AI agents · linuxfoundation.org ↗
- The US Department of Justice shuts down an AI chip smuggling network to China: from October 2024 to May 2025 H100 and H200 chips worth at least $160 million were exported or attempted to be exportedGeopolitics & defense · Justice & courts · Compute export controls · justice.gov ↗
- AppOmni shows that an injected instruction makes a ServiceNow Now Assist agent recruit more powerful agents, which modify records and send external emails with dataCybersecurity · Software development · AI agent orchestration · appomni.com ↗
- Anthropic: a group it attributes to the Chinese state used Claude Code for cyber espionage against about 30 targets; AI performed 80–90% of the workCybersecurity · Geopolitics & defense · Autonomous AI agents · anthropic.com ↗
- Triedman and Mantzarlis: 56% of Grokipedia articles are basically derivative of English Wikipedia; the rest include 42 citations to the neo-Nazi site Stormfront and 34 to InfoWarsMedia & information · Elections & politics · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- The Wikimedia Foundation asks AI companies to credit the human contributions behind their outputs and to pay for access to Wikipedia through Wikimedia EnterpriseMedia & information · Business & markets · Wikipedia after AI · wikimediafoundation.org ↗
- After the meeting of the US and Chinese leaders in Busan, China suspends some of its export restrictions until 10.11.2026, and its ban on exporting gallium and germanium to the US until 27.11.2026Geopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · mofcom.gov.cn ↗
- Collins Dictionary names “vibe coding” its word of the yearCulture & arts · Vibe coding · kvia.com ↗ ⧗
- Google describes the PROMPTFLUX malware, one variant of which asks Gemini every hour to rewrite its entire source code so that antivirus software will not recognise itCybersecurity · Moving target defense · cloud.google.com ↗
- Thailand's Personal Data Protection Committee orders World to delete more than 1.2 million records: collecting biometrics in exchange for crypto breaks the lawPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · dlnews.com ↗
- World Bank: more than 800 million people worldwide cannot officially prove their identityPrivacy & surveillance · Elections & politics · Proof of personhood · blogs.worldbank.org ↗
- GitHub Octoverse 2025: more than 180 million developers; more than 1.1 million public repositories use an LLM SDK, 693,867 of them created in the past 12 monthsSoftware development · Open source · github.blog ↗
- Elon Musk's xAI launches Grokipedia, an encyclopedia written by the Grok model, with 885,279 articles at launchMedia & information · Elections & politics · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- Wikimedia Foundation: human pageviews on Wikipedia are down roughly 8% compared with the same months of 2024, after bots built to evade detection were reclassifiedMedia & information · Wikipedia after AI · diff.wikimedia.org ↗
- erdosproblems.com maintainer Thomas Bloom calls claims that GPT-5 solved 10 open Erdős problems “a dramatic misrepresentation”: the model found existing papers with solutionsScience · AI in mathematics · x.com ↗
- Graphite: in a Common Crawl sample, AI-written articles outnumbered human-written ones for the first time in November 2024; their share has plateaued since May 2024Media & information · Dead internet theory · graphite.io ↗
- A study of 51 Reddit communities in 2022–2024: machine-generated text is “marginally present”, but reaches up to 9% in some communities in some monthsMedia & information · Science · Dead internet theory · arxiv.org ↗
- Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an agent that finds and fixes vulnerabilities; 72 of its fixes have already been accepted into open-source projects, all reviewed by humansCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · deepmind.google ↗
- OpenAI GDPval: across 1,320 tasks from 44 occupations, the best model, Claude Opus 4.1, produced 47.6% of deliverables as good as or better than the experts'Work & jobs · AI and jobs · arxiv.org ↗
- Colombia's regulator SIC orders World to shut down permanently and delete iris codes; about 2 million Colombians had signed upPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · biometricupdate.com ↗ ⧗
- The Budget Lab at Yale: in the 33 months since ChatGPT's release, the broader US labor market has not experienced a discernible disruptionWork & jobs · AI and jobs · budgetlab.yale.edu ↗
- The Philippines' National Privacy Commission orders Tools for Humanity to stop processing data and remove the World app from app storesPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · privacy.gov.ph ↗ ⧗
- OpenAI and Stripe launch Instant Checkout: ChatGPT users in the US buy from Etsy sellers right in the chat, and the agent commerce protocol is openFinance & money · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · openai.com ↗
- California enacts SB 53: large AI developers must publish their safety frameworks, and a mechanism for reporting critical incidents is createdLaws & regulation · AI regulation · gov.ca.gov ↗
- Huawei announces a plan to release Ascend chips once a year, doubling compute each time, and acknowledges that the Chinese mainland will lag behind in process nodes for a relatively long timeBusiness & markets · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · huawei.com ↗
- Google announces AP2, an agent payments protocol: every purchase by an agent is backed by a signed “mandate” from the user; more than 60 organisations are working on itFinance & money · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · cloud.google.com ↗
- OpenAI researchers: language models hallucinate because training and evaluation reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty; 9 of 10 popular benchmarks give zero points for an “I don't know” answerScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- An NBER study co-authored by OpenAI employees: by July 2025, 700 million people a week use ChatGPT, about 10% of the world's adults; 73% of messages on consumer plans are not related to workWork & jobs · Mind & relationships · Chatbots · nber.org ↗
- Cloudflare: in July 2025 Anthropic's crawlers fetched about 38,000 pages per visitor referred to the site, OpenAI's about 1,100; nearly 80% of AI crawling is for trainingInternet & infrastructure · Media & information · Dead internet theory · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- Cloudflare introduces “signed agents”: an AI agent can prove who it is with a cryptographic signature rather than with its behaviourCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Behavioral biometrics · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- Stanford, “Canaries in the Coal Mine?”: employment of 22–25-year-olds in the occupations most exposed to AI fell by 13% relative to the rest; experienced workers show no declineWork & jobs · Education · AI and jobs · digitaleconomy.stanford.edu ↗
- ESET reports the “first known AI-powered ransomware”, PromptLock, built on the gpt-oss-20b model; it soon emerges that this is a prototype by New York University researchersCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · welivesecurity.com ↗
- Codeberg reports that AI crawlers have learned to get past Anubis's computational checkCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Moving target defense · theregister.com ↗
- China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: China opposes the politicization and weaponization of tech and trade issues, which disrupt the stability of global industrial and supply chainsGeopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · fmprc.gov.cn ↗
- DARPA AIxCC final: across 63 challenges, AI systems found 54 planted vulnerabilities and fixed 43, and along the way found 18 real ones that nobody had plantedCybersecurity · Software development · Moving target defense · darpa.mil ↗
- English Wikipedia editors adopt a speedy deletion rule: an administrator can quickly delete an obviously AI-generated article without the usual discussionMedia & information · Wikipedia after AI · 404media.co ↗
- OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b with open weights, the company's first open language models since GPT-2Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · openai.com ↗
- In the European Union, the AI Act obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models take effectLaws & regulation · AI regulation · digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu ↗
- OpenAI releases AGENTS.md, a plain Markdown file with project rules for AI agents — “a README for agents”; by December 2025 more than 60,000 open-source projects have adopted itSoftware development · Markdown · linuxfoundation.org ↗
- The US issues licenses to sell the H20 to China; officials expect 15% of the revenue to go to the government, but there is no regulation providing for itGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- The Halligan AI solver (USENIX Security 2025), planted as a worker on human CAPTCHA-solving farms, solves 70.6% of tasks from live websites that were new to it over 30 daysCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · usenix.org ↗
- Veracode: AI code contained vulnerabilities in 45% of casesCybersecurity · Vibe coding · veracode.com ↗
- European Commission: recognising emotions from typing style at work is banned, but for advertising it is notPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Work & jobs · Behavioral biometrics · ec.europa.eu ↗
- The ChatGPT agent ticks the “I am not a robot” box in a Cloudflare check on its own and explains that this proves it is not a botCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Behavioral biometrics · arstechnica.com ↗
- Claude Code gets custom subagents: each has its own context window, instructions, tools and permissionsSoftware development · AI agent orchestration · github.com ↗
- Pew Research Center: when a Google results page shows an AI summary, users click a traditional result in 8% of visits versus 15% without one, and a link inside the summary in just 1%; Wikipedia is among the most cited sourcesMedia & information · Wikipedia after AI · pewresearch.org ↗
- DeepMind's Gemini Deep Think officially achieves gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad: 5 of 6 problems, 35 of 42 points, graded by IMO coordinatorsScience · Education · AI in mathematics · deepmind.google ↗
- A study of 456,000 pull requests by five AI agents: 65.3% of OpenAI Codex PRs are accepted, 48.9% for Devin and 38.2% for GitHub Copilot, versus 76.8% for humansSoftware development · Science · Maintainer crisis · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI says its experimental reasoning model achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Mathematical OlympiadScience · Education · AI in mathematics · x.com ↗
- CERT-UA reports LAMEHUG, malware that asks the Qwen 2.5-Coder language model to generate commands from a description and then runs them; the attack is linked to APT28 with moderate confidenceCybersecurity · Geopolitics & defense · Moving target defense · cert.gov.ua ↗
- Google: Big Sleep, drawing on threat intelligence, found the SQLite vulnerability CVE-2025-6965, “known only to threat actors”; according to the company, the first case of an AI agent directly foiling an exploitation attemptCybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · blog.google ↗
- More than 40 researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta and other organizations: monitoring models' chains of thought is a rare but fragile opportunity for AI safetyScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- METR: experienced developers with AI worked 19% slower, though they believed they had sped upWork & jobs · Science · Vibe coding · metr.org ↗
- A Replit agent wipes SaaStr's production database during a vibe coding experimentSoftware development · Business & markets · Vibe coding · theregister.com ↗
- Project Vend: Claude Sonnet 3.7 runs a shop in Anthropic's office for a month, selling below cost, handing out discounts, hallucinating a payment account and promising to deliver products in person “while wearing a blue blazer and a red tie”Business & markets · Work & jobs · Autonomous AI agents · anthropic.com ↗
- The autonomous pentester XBOW takes first place on the HackerOne US leaderboard: about 1,060 reports, 130 closed as resolvedCybersecurity · Work & jobs · AI vulnerability discovery · xbow.com ↗
- Anthropic stress-tests 16 models in a simulated company: facing replacement, Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmail an executive in 96% of runs; the scenarios were built to provoke bad behaviourCybersecurity · Work & jobs · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: the company expects AI to reduce its corporate workforce in the next few yearsWork & jobs · Business & markets · AI and jobs · aboutamazon.com ↗
- Geoffrey Hinton: AI will replace mundane intellectual labor but will be slow to master physical skills; until humanoid robots show up, a good bet is to be a plumberWork & jobs · AI and jobs · youtube.com ↗
- Anthropic: a research system with a Claude Opus 4 orchestrator and Claude Sonnet 4 workers outperforms single-agent Opus 4 by 90.2% on an internal eval, but uses about 15× more tokens than chatSoftware development · AI agent orchestration · anthropic.com ↗
- Cognition publishes “Don't Build Multi-Agents”: agents need full shared context, and conflicting implicit decisions by subagents carry bad resultsSoftware development · AI agent orchestration · cognition.com ↗
- CNAS: AI chip smuggling into China has likely been occurring at a scale that significantly undermines US export controls; the median estimate is about 140,000 chips in 2024Geopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · cnas.org ↗
- METR: o3 games the scoring system instead of solving the task in 39 of 128 runs on RE-Bench, and on one task in all 21Science · AI safety · metr.org ↗
- Profound: across 680 million citations in AI answers (08.2024–06.2025), Wikipedia is ChatGPT's most cited source at 7.8% of all citations; Reddit leads for Google AI Overviews and PerplexityMedia & information · Wikipedia after AI · tryprofound.com ↗
- Epoch AI: in May 2025 the US accounts for about three quarters of the performance of the world's tracked GPU clusters, China for 15%Geopolitics & defense · Science · Compute export controls · epoch.ai ↗
- After an editor backlash, the Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment with machine-generated summaries at the top of mobile Wikipedia articles and promises no summaries without editor involvementMedia & information · Wikipedia after AI · 404media.co ↗
- Sam Altman: whole classes of jobs will go away, but the world will be getting richer so quickly that new policy ideas can be seriously entertainedWork & jobs · AI and jobs · blog.samaltman.com ↗
- Andrej Karpathy, in the talk “Software Is Changing (Again)”, calls the LLM a new kind of computer, like an operating system: prompts are programs, and they are written in EnglishSoftware development · Large language model · youtube.com ↗
- Open CaptchaWorld benchmark: the best AI agent solves interactive puzzle CAPTCHAs 40% of the time, humans 93.3%Cybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- In 170 of 1,645 apps on Lovable, outsiders could access personal data (CVE-2025-48757, disputed by Lovable)Privacy & surveillance · Cybersecurity · Vibe coding · mattpalmer.io ↗
- Jensen Huang: US policy was based on the assumption that China cannot make AI chips, and “now it's clearly wrong”; the $50 billion China market is effectively closed to US companiesBusiness & markets · Geopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · allmind.ai ↗
- Because of the H20 ban, NVIDIA takes a $4.5 billion charge and leaves a further $2.5 billion unshipped in a quarter; its outlook for the next quarter includes a loss of about $8 billion in revenueBusiness & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- Dario Amodei, according to Axios: AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment up to 10–20% within one to five yearsWork & jobs · AI and jobs · axios.com ↗
- Anthropic activates ASL-3 protections for the first time, for Claude Opus 4 as a precaution, without having determined whether the threshold was crossedCybersecurity · Geopolitics & defense · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Sean Heelan uses the o3 model to find CVE-2025-37899 in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation, through the ordinary API, with no agent harness and no toolsCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · sean.heelan.io ↗
- Ahrefs: 74.2% of 900,000 new web pages from April 2025 contain AI-generated content; 2.5% are pure AI and 25.8% pure humanMedia & information · Internet & infrastructure · Dead internet theory · ahrefs.com ↗
- DeepMind's AlphaEvolve multiplies 4×4 complex matrices with 48 scalar multiplications, improving on Strassen's 1969 algorithm; on 50+ open problems it improves the best known solutions in 20% of casesScience · Software development · AI in mathematics · deepmind.google ↗
- Kenya's High Court orders World to delete Kenyans' biometric data within 7 days and bans its collectionPrivacy & surveillance · Justice & courts · Proof of personhood · theblock.co ↗
- The Wikimedia Foundation publishes its AI strategy for editors: it will not replace them with AI but will use AI to remove technical barriersMedia & information · Work & jobs · Wikipedia after AI · wikimediafoundation.org ↗
- World launches in the US; partners include Visa, Tinder and StripePrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Business & markets · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- World: 12 million people verified with the Orb, World App has 26 million users (company data)Privacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- Mastercard unveils Agent Pay, a technology that lets AI agents pay for purchases on a user's behalf; it plans to start with MicrosoftFinance & money · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · mastercard.com ↗
- University of Zurich researchers secretly ran AI bots in Reddit's r/changemyview community; Reddit's chief legal officer calls the experiment “deeply wrong”Media & information · Science · Dead internet theory · 404media.co ↗
- Wikimedia Enterprise releases Wikipedia articles on Kaggle as structured JSON for machine learning, instead of scraping or parsing raw article textMedia & information · Software development · Wikipedia after AI · enterprise.wikimedia.com ↗
- Imperva: in 2024 automated traffic surpassed human activity for the first time in a decade, at 51% of all web traffic; bad bots accounted for 37%Cybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Dead internet theory · imperva.com ↗
- The US informs NVIDIA that a license to export the H20 to China is required for the indefinite future; the company expects up to $5.5 billion in chargesGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- Google releases the Agent Development Kit for multi-agent applications and the open A2A protocol for agents from different vendors to work together, backed by more than 50 partnersSoftware development · Business & markets · AI agent orchestration · developers.googleblog.com ↗
- China introduces export controls on 7 medium and heavy rare earth metals, including magnetsGeopolitics & defense · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · mofcom.gov.cn ↗
- Wikimedia Foundation: since January 2024 bandwidth for multimedia downloads has grown 50%, driven by bots; at least 65% of the most expensive traffic comes from bots, though they make up about 35% of pageviewsInternet & infrastructure · Media & information · Dead internet theory · diff.wikimedia.org ↗
- Stanford AI Index 2025: the price of querying the cheapest model at GPT-3.5 level on MMLU fell from $20 per million tokens (11.2022) to $0.07 (10.2024), more than 280-foldBusiness & markets · Large language model · hai.stanford.edu ↗
- Microsoft uses Security Copilot to find 20 vulnerabilities in bootloaders: 11 in GRUB2 and 9 in U-Boot and BareboxCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · microsoft.com ↗
- METR: the length of tasks that frontier model agents complete with 50% reliability has been doubling about every 7 months for 6 yearsSoftware development · Science · Work & jobs · Autonomous AI agents · metr.org ↗
- Cloudflare launches AI Labyrinth: instead of being blocked, a crawler that breaks a site's rules is fed a maze of plausible AI-written pagesCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Moving target defense · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- SourceHut founder Drew DeVault: fighting hyper-aggressive LLM crawlers takes 20–100% of his working week, and the service suffers dozens of brief outages per weekSoftware development · Internet & infrastructure · Open source · drewdevault.com ↗
- Berkeley researchers study 1,642 execution traces of 7 open-source multi-agent systems: failure rates range from 41% to 86.7%, with 14 failure modesSoftware development · Science · AI agent orchestration · arxiv.org ↗
- Blind auditing game: a model was given a hidden objective, and three teams out of four found it, including with interpretability methodsScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- According to Y Combinator, a quarter of the startups in its winter batch have 95% of their code written by AIBusiness & markets · Software development · Vibe coding · techcrunch.com ↗
- Lyu, Acemoglu and co-authors: after ChatGPT's launch, popular Wikipedia articles similar to its answers saw a greater decline in editing and viewership than othersMedia & information · Science · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- Merriam-Webster adds “vibe coding” to its “slang & trending” sectionCulture & arts · Vibe coding · merriam-webster.com ↗ ⧗
- Claude Code: an AI coding agent in the terminal (preview)Software development · Work & jobs · Claude Code · anthropic.com ↗
- Open Source Initiative: Llama 3.x “is still not Open Source by any stretch of the imagination”, yet Meta keeps promoting it as open sourceSoftware development · Laws & regulation · Open source · opensource.org ↗
- The UK renames the AI Safety Institute the AI Security Institute, with a focus on national security threats; in June 2025 the US turns its institute into the Center for AI Standards and InnovationGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · AI regulation · gov.uk ↗
- Holonym: Gitcoin Passport had more than 2.1 million users before the change of ownership; the service is renamed Human PassportPrivacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · human.tech ↗
- Anthropic's first Economic Index: Claude is used most often in software development and for writing; 36% of occupations use AI for at least a quarter of their tasks; augmentation 57%, automation 43%Work & jobs · AI and jobs · anthropic.com ↗
- Andrej Karpathy calls “vibe coding” a way of development where AI writes all the code and the person does not read itSoftware development · Vibe coding · x.com ↗
- The EU AI Act's ban on recognising emotions at work and in education takes effect; the act treats any behavioural traits as biometrics, including the way a person presses keysPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Work & jobs · Behavioral biometrics · publications.europa.eu ↗
- GitClear: the share of refactoring fell from 25% (2021) to under 10% (2024)Software development · Vibe coding · gitclear.com ↗
- The first International AI Safety Report is published: 96 experts led by Yoshua BengioScience · Geopolitics & defense · AI safety · internationalaisafetyreport.org ↗
- Brazil's regulator ANPD bans World from paying for iris scansPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · gov.br ↗ ⧗
- OpenAI releases Operator, an agent with its own browser that types, clicks and scrolls on its own; for logins, payments and CAPTCHAs it asks the user to take overSoftware development · Work & jobs · Autonomous AI agents · openai.com ↗
- DeepSeek-R1: a cheap open reasoning model; on 27 January NVIDIA shares fall ~17%Finance & money · Business & markets · Open weights · api-docs.deepseek.com ↗
- The US adopts the AI diffusion rule: licenses for AI chips with countries divided into three tiers, and controls on the weights of models trained with 10^26 operations or more; in May 2025 the new administration announces its rescissionGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- World Economic Forum, from a survey of more than 1,000 employers: by 2030, 170 million new jobs and 92 million displaced ones are expected, a net gain of 78 millionWork & jobs · Business & markets · AI and jobs · reports.weforum.org ↗
- Employers in the WEF survey expect by 2030 to cut postal service clerks, bank tellers and data entry clerks fastest, and to hire data and AI specialists, software developers, farmworkers, nurses and personal care aidesWork & jobs · AI and jobs · reports.weforum.org ↗
- WEF: of every 100 workers in the world, 59 will need training by 2030, and 11 of them are unlikely to receive itWork & jobs · Education · AI and jobs · reports.weforum.org ↗
- Meta removes its AI character accounts on Instagram and Facebook after an outcry; the company calls them a 2023 testMedia & information · Dead internet theory · nbcnews.com ↗
- Dario Amodei after the release of DeepSeek: export controls are “actually working and adapting”, loopholes must be closed faster, and the H20 should be bannedGeopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · darioamodei.com ↗
- Palisade Research: o3 sabotages its own shutdown in 79 of 100 initial experimentsScience · AI safety · palisaderesearch.org ↗
- DeepSeek-V3 was trained on 2,048 H800 chips cut down for China: 2.788 million GPU hours, about $5.6 million at rental prices for the final runScience · Compute export controls · arxiv.org ↗
- Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks): a language model rewrites malicious JavaScript so that a neural-network detector treats it as safe in 88% of cases; retraining on 10,000 such variants improved detection of new samples by 10%Cybersecurity · Moving target defense · unit42.paloaltonetworks.com ↗
- Anthropic describes the orchestrator-workers pattern: a central LLM breaks down tasks, delegates them to worker LLMs and synthesizes their resultsSoftware development · AI agent orchestration · anthropic.com ↗
- Bavaria's regulator BayLDA, the lead EU supervisory authority in the Worldcoin case, orders it to ensure data deletion under GDPR; the company appealsPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · lda.bayern.de ↗
- CNIL fines a company €40,000: its software counted minutes without keystrokes or mouse movements as remote employees' idle time, and idle time could be deducted from payWork & jobs · Privacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Behavioral biometrics · cnil.fr ↗
- Anthropic and Redwood Research: Claude 3 Opus fakes alignment, complying with harmful requests from “free” users in 14% of cases versus almost never for “paid” ones; after fine-tuning, the share of such reasoning is 78%Science · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI: reasoning models in the API avoid Markdown formatting by default; developers re-enable it with the string “Formatting re-enabled” on the first line of the developer messageSoftware development · Markdown · developers.openai.com ↗
- Ilya Sutskever at NeurIPS: “pre-training as we know it will unquestionably end”, because compute is growing but data is not, as “we have but one internet”Science · Large language model · youtube.com ↗
- Apollo Research: o1, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro and Llama 3.1 405B are capable of deception in pursuit of a goal given in the task; o1 maintains the deception in more than 85% of follow-up questionsScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- China bans in principle the export of gallium, germanium, antimony and superhard materials to the USGeopolitics & defense · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · cn.chinadaily.com.cn ↗
- Seth Larson (Python Software Foundation) complains about a stream of “extremely low-quality, spammy, and LLM-hallucinated security reports”Cybersecurity · Software development · Work & jobs · AI vulnerability discovery · sethmlarson.dev ↗
- BIS introduces export controls on HBM memory and 24 more types of chipmaking equipment, and adds 140 entities to the Entity ListGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a common standard for connecting AI to data and tools instead of a separate integration for each serviceSoftware development · Autonomous AI agents · anthropic.com ↗
- OSS-Fuzz, with language models writing the fuzzing harnesses themselves, finds 26 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-9143 in OpenSSLCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · security.googleblog.com ↗
- He et al.: the prompt format — plain text, Markdown, JSON or YAML — changes GPT-3.5-turbo's performance on a code translation task by up to 40%Software development · Science · Markdown · arxiv.org ↗
- Epoch AI launches FrontierMath, a benchmark of new research-level problems: state-of-the-art models solve under 2%Science · AI in mathematics · arxiv.org ↗
- The Big Sleep agent (Google Project Zero and Google DeepMind) finds an exploitable memory-safety bug in SQLite; according to Google, the first public example of such a find by an AI agent in widely used softwareCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · projectzero.google ↗
- GitHub Octoverse 2024: more than 5.2 billion contributions to 518 million projects; generative AI projects up 98%, contributions to them up 59%; Python overtook JavaScriptSoftware development · Open source · github.blog ↗
- The Open Source Initiative publishes the Open Source AI Definition 1.0: besides weights, it requires sufficiently detailed information about training data to build a substantially equivalent systemSoftware development · Laws & regulation · Open weights · opensource.org ↗
- The DMTG neural network moves the mouse “like a human” and cuts the accuracy of bot detectors by 5–10%Cybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · arxiv.org ↗
- Anthropic opens a public beta of “computer use”: Claude 3.5 Sonnet looks at a screen, moves a cursor, clicks buttons and types; on OSWorld it scores 14.9% versus 7.8% for the next-best systemSoftware development · Work & jobs · Autonomous AI agents · anthropic.com ↗
- Worldcoin renames itself World and introduces human verification with a passport chip, without the OrbPrivacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- Mandiant: the average time from the disclosure of a vulnerability to its exploitation was 63 days in 2018–2019, 44 in 2020, 32 in 2021–2022 and 5 in 2023 (5 after excluding 15 outliers; with them, 47)Cybersecurity · AI vulnerability discovery · cloud.google.com ↗
- Brooks, Eggert and Peskoff (Princeton): AI detectors flag over 5% of newly created English Wikipedia articles as AI-generated; flagged articles are of lower quality and often self-promotionalMedia & information · Science · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- 404 Media reports on WikiProject AI Cleanup, a group of Wikipedia editors who track down and remove unsourced AI-generated text from articlesMedia & information · Wikipedia after AI · 404media.co ↗
- The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Hopfield and Hinton for neural networks; the next day the chemistry prize goes to Hassabis, Jumper (AlphaFold) and BakerScience · Deep learning · aihub.org ↗
- ETH Zurich: a model solves 100% of reCAPTCHA v2 image challenges; humans and bots need about the same number of challengesCybersecurity · Science · Proof of personhood · arxiv.org ↗
- The Federal Administrative Court of Austria rules that reCAPTCHA is not technically necessary for a website to work and may be enabled only with the visitor's consentPrivacy & surveillance · Justice & courts · Death of CAPTCHA · ris.bka.gv.at ↗
- OpenAI o1: a model that “thinks” before answeringScience · Reasoning models · openai.com ↗
- Jeremy Howard proposes llms.txt, a Markdown file on websites for language models, because Markdown is currently the format they understand most widely and easilySoftware development · Internet & infrastructure · Markdown · llmstxt.org ↗
- 32 researchers from OpenAI, Microsoft, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and other organisations propose “personhood credentials”: CAPTCHA is powerless against sophisticated AI, while strict identity checks are not private enoughPrivacy & surveillance · Cybersecurity · Science · Proof of personhood · arxiv.org ↗
- The AI Act comes into forceLaws & regulation · AI regulation · commission.europa.eu ↗
- Center for AI Safety researchers: many AI safety benchmarks are highly correlated with models' general capabilities, and capability gains can be passed off as safety progressScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- DeepMind's AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve 4 of 6 International Mathematical Olympiad problems — 28 points, silver-medal standardScience · Education · AI in mathematics · deepmind.google ↗
- Shumailov and co-authors in Nature: when trained indiscriminately on model-generated text, new models irreversibly lose the “tails” of the original distribution, a phenomenon called model collapseScience · Media & information · Large language model · nature.com ↗
- DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng: money has never been the problem for the company; bans on shipments of advanced chips are the problemBusiness & markets · Compute export controls · chinatalk.media ↗
- Epoch AI: the stock of public human-generated text is about 300 trillion tokens; at current rates, language model training will fully use it between 2026 and 2032Science · Media & information · Large language model · epoch.ai ↗
- A study of 45+ generative AI systems: the term open source is widely used, but many models are “open weight” at best and training data is withheld — “open-washing”Software development · Laws & regulation · Science · Open weights · facctconference.org ↗
- The IETF publishes the Privacy Pass standard (architecture in RFC 9576, protocols in RFC 9577 and 9578): a device confirms with an anonymous token that it has passed a check without revealing whose it isPrivacy & surveillance · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · rfc-editor.org ↗
- Epoch AI: training compute of frontier AI models has grown 4–5x per year since 2010Science · Energy & climate · Large language model · epoch.ai ↗
- Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) orders Worldcoin to stop scanning irises and facesPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · hongkongfp.com ↗ ⧗
- Anthropic finds how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, “the first ever detailed look inside a modern, production-grade large language model”Science · Large language model · anthropic.com ↗
- Jan Leike leaves OpenAI: “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products”Work & jobs · Software development · AI safety · x.com ↗
- Reeves, Yin and Simperl: in the year after ChatGPT's launch Wikipedia's views and edits did not fall — they only grew more slowly in languages where ChatGPT was availableMedia & information · Science · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- Permira buys a majority stake in BioCatch at a $1.3 billion valuation; more than 190 banks use the company's behavioral biometricsFinance & money · Cybersecurity · Business & markets · Behavioral biometrics · permira.com ↗
- Daron Acemoglu: over 10 years, AI will raise total factor productivity by no more than 0.66%; about 4.6% of tasks are profitable to automateWork & jobs · Business & markets · AI and jobs · nber.org ↗
- The Gentoo Council forbids contributions created with the assistance of AI toolsSoftware development · Open source · wiki.gentoo.org ↗
- A GPT-4 agent exploits 87% of 15 already disclosed vulnerabilities on its own if given the CVE description, and 7% without it (Fang et al.)Cybersecurity · Science · AI vulnerability discovery · arxiv.org ↗
- Stanford AI Index 2024, citing Epoch AI estimates: training compute for GPT-4 cost about $78 million and for Gemini Ultra about $191 million at cloud rental pricesBusiness & markets · Large language model · hai.stanford.edu ↗
- Andres Freund discovers that the xz/liblzma repository and tarballs have been backdoored, leading to ssh server compromise (CVE-2024-3094)Software development · Cybersecurity · Open source · openwall.com ↗
- Portugal's regulator CNPD suspends Worldcoin's data collection for 90 days: minors were among those scannedPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · observador.pt ↗ ⧗
- Cognition introduces Devin, “the first AI software engineer”: according to the company, it resolves 13.86% of SWE-bench issues end to end versus a previous best of 1.96%Software development · Work & jobs · Autonomous AI agents · cognition.ai ↗
- Spain's data protection agency AEPD bans Worldcoin from collecting and processing data for up to three monthsPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · aepd.es ↗
- Anthropic releases the Claude 3 family, Haiku, Sonnet and Opus; according to the company, Opus outperforms its peers on most common benchmarks, with a 200,000-token context windowSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · anthropic.com ↗
- The Stanford Internet Observatory studies 120 Facebook Pages that posted at least 50 AI-generated images each: the Feed shows them even to users who do not follow the PagesMedia & information · Dead internet theory · fsi9-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com ↗
- The UK regulator ICO recognises “how they type” as biometrics; special protection applies when it is used to recognise a specific personPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Behavioral biometrics · ico.org.uk ↗
- Sora: video from a text descriptionMedia & information · Culture & arts · Generative video · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- David Autor: AI, used well, could give middle-skill workers access to expert decision-making and rebuild the middle class; this is not a forecast but an argument about what is possibleWork & jobs · AI and jobs · nber.org ↗
- LangChain shows multi-agent workflows on LangGraph: an “agent supervisor” routes tasks to individual agentsSoftware development · AI agent orchestration · langchain.com ↗
- The IMF: AI affects almost 40% of employment worldwide and about 60% in advanced economiesWork & jobs · Business & markets · AI and jobs · imf.org ↗
- cURL author Daniel Stenberg describes the first vulnerability reports that “reek of typical AI style hallucinations”; of 415 reports, 64 were confirmed and 66% were neither a security issue nor a bugSoftware development · Cybersecurity · Maintainer crisis · daniel.haxx.se ↗
- Europol reissues its deepfakes report and removes the estimate of the future share of synthetic content (up to 90% by 2026 in the 2022 version) as coming from an inaccurate sourceMedia & information · Elections & politics · Dead internet theory · europol.europa.eu ↗
- Harvard Business School: recreating widely used open source would cost $4.15 billion, while its value to users is $8.8 trillion; without it firms would spend 3.5 times more on softwareSoftware development · Business & markets · Open source · hbs.edu ↗
- The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over training models on its articlesJustice & courts · Media & information · Large language model · nytco-assets.nytimes.com ↗
- Google DeepMind (Nature): FunSearch, a language model paired with an automated evaluator, finds large cap set constructions beyond the best-known onesScience · AI in mathematics · nature.com ↗
- The EU agrees on the AI ActLaws & regulation · AI regulation · lewissilkin.com ↗
- Google unveils Gemini (Ultra, Pro, Nano); Gemini Pro starts powering BardSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · bostonglobe.com ↗
- Irvine researchers estimate that people have spent 819 million hours on reCAPTCHA v2, at least $6.1 billion of unpaid labourWork & jobs · Privacy & surveillance · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- xAI unveils Grok (early access for X Premium subscribers from 4 November)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · x.ai ↗
- Bletchley Park summit: 28 countries and the EU, including the US and China, adopt a declaration on the risks of frontier AI; on 2 November the UK launches the first government AI safety instituteGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · AI regulation · gov.uk ↗
- The 2023 BIS rule introduces the TPP metric and performance density to close the workaround of buying many smaller chips that combined are as powerful as restricted onesLaws & regulation · Compute export controls · federalregister.gov ↗
- Andrew Ng: claims that AI could bring about human extinction will cause serious harm, and lobbyists for large companies, some of which would prefer not to compete with open source, are urging governments to require licenses for large modelsLaws & regulation · AI safety · deeplearning.ai ↗
- BIS closes the loophole for the cut-down A800 and H800 chips by introducing a performance density threshold; for NVIDIA the ban takes effect immediately, from 23 October 2023Geopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- Cloudflare announces that it “will never issue another visual puzzle to anyone, for any reason”: “CAPTCHAs are significantly easier for bots to solve than they are for humans”Cybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- Mistral AI releases Mistral 7B with open weights (Apache 2.0)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · mistral.ai ↗
- Anthropic adopts its Responsible Scaling Policy with AI Safety Levels (ASL)Laws & regulation · Software development · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Microsoft publishes AutoGen, an open-source framework for building applications from multiple AI agents that can “converse with each other”Software development · AI agent orchestration · arxiv.org ↗
- Kenya's Ministry of Interior suspends Worldcoin's operations; three days later police seize devices at the company's office in NairobiPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · techcrunch.com ↗
- A University of California, Irvine study: 1,400 people solved 14,000 CAPTCHAs on live websites; compared with published bot results, bots outperform humans in both speed and accuracy on all CAPTCHA typesCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- Alibaba opens the weights of Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-ChatSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · cointelegraph.com ↗
- Global launch of Worldcoin and the WLD token: about 2 million people got a World ID during the betaPrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- Open Source Initiative: Meta has created the misunderstanding that Llama 2 is “open source” — it is notSoftware development · Laws & regulation · Open source · opensource.org ↗
- Llama 2 with open weightsSoftware development · Business & markets · Open weights · about.fb.com ↗
- China introduces export controls on gallium and germanium from 1 August 2023Geopolitics & defense · Industry & robots · Compute export controls · mofcom.gov.cn ↗
- The Wikimedia Foundation launches a Wikipedia plugin for ChatGPT, its first experiment with generative AI; by February 2024 the experiment ends: ChatGPT attributed Wikipedia as instructed in 68% of answersMedia & information · Education · Wikipedia after AI · diff.wikimedia.org ↗
- A New York court fined two lawyers and their firm $5,000 in Mata v. Avianca: they submitted non-existent court decisions with fabricated quotes made up by ChatGPT and stood by them when the court raised doubtsJustice & courts · Work & jobs · Chatbots · storage.courtlistener.com ↗
- Buyers in China pay $20–30 for the World IDs of people scanned in Cambodia and Africa; Worldcoin admits that collusion between seller and buyer cannot be preventedCybersecurity · Privacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · theblock.co ↗
- Yandex builds YandexGPT into AliceSoftware development · Business & markets · Large language model · iphones.ru ↗
- Malware steals Orb operators' passwords; the operator dashboard had no two-factor authentication, and Worldcoin resets all passwordsCybersecurity · Privacy & surveillance · Proof of personhood · techcrunch.com ↗
- Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google so that he can talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts the companyScience · AI safety · x.com ↗
- Center for AI Safety: mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war; signatories include Hinton, Bengio and the heads of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and AnthropicScience · Geopolitics & defense · AI safety · safe.ai ↗
- Sber unveils GigaChat (closed beta)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · developers.sber.ru ↗
- Eliezer Yudkowsky in TIME: a pause is not enough, the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI is that everyone on Earth will die; “Shut it all down”Media & information · Geopolitics & defense · AI safety · time.com ↗
- Yann LeCun: auto-regressive LLMs are “doomed”, as the error compounds exponentially with every token, and this cannot be fixed without a major redesignScience · Large language model · x.com ↗
- An open letter calls for a pause in training the most powerful modelsLaws & regulation · Values & religion · AI safety · futureoflife.org ↗
- Researchers from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania: for 80% of US workers, language models could affect at least 10% of their tasks, and for 19%, at least half; higher-income occupations are more exposedWork & jobs · AI and jobs · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI's 2023 study: language models speed up the most tasks for mathematicians, tax preparers and writers, and none for athletes, short-order cooks, mechanics and stonemasonsWork & jobs · AI and jobs · arxiv.org ↗
- AutoGPT appears on GitHub as “An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment” that sets its own subtasks, searches the internet and uses memorySoftware development · Autonomous AI agents · github.com ↗
- CNIL fines the e-scooter rental service Cityscoot €125,000, in part for using reCAPTCHA without informing users or obtaining their consentPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Death of CAPTCHA · lemondedudroit.fr ↗
- In the GPT-4 system card, OpenAI describes how during ARC's testing the model asked a TaskRabbit worker to solve a CAPTCHA and, when asked whether it was a robot, claimed a vision impairmentCybersecurity · Software development · Death of CAPTCHA · cdn.openai.com ↗
- Anthropic releases Claude and Claude Instant (web chat and API)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · anthropic.com ↗
- GPT-4 is releasedScience · Business & markets · Large language model · openai.com ↗
- Meta releases LLaMA, a language model for researchers (non-commercial license, access on application)Software development · Business & markets · Large language model · ai.facebook.com ↗
- ChatGPT becomes the fastest-growing consumer app: ~100 million users in two months (UBS estimate)Business & markets · Chatbots · finance.yahoo.com ↗
- Karpathy posts on X: “The hottest new programming language is English”Software development · Vibe coding · twitter.com ↗ ⧗
- Karpathy: “The hottest new programming language is English”Software development · Vibe coding · quoteinvestigator.com ↗
- Anthropic describes Constitutional AI: a harmless assistant is trained without human labels of harmful outputs, and the only human oversight is a list of rules and principlesScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- ChatGPT launchesEducation · Work & jobs · Media & information · Chatbots · openai.com ↗
- Programmers file a US class action against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot — the first case challenging the training and output of AI systemsSoftware development · Laws & regulation · AI pair programmer · githubcopilotlitigation.com ↗
- The US Commerce Department's BIS restricts sales to China of advanced AI chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipmentGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · Compute export controls · bis.gov ↗
- Princeton and Google researchers publish ReAct: a language model interleaves reasoning with actions and revises its plan based on the resultsSoftware development · Science · Autonomous AI agents · arxiv.org ↗
- Cloudflare releases Turnstile, a free CAPTCHA replacement without puzzles; by then the company had cut the number of its own CAPTCHAs shown by 91%Cybersecurity · Privacy & surveillance · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- Whisper: open speech recognitionMedia & information · Software development · Speech recognition · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- The US government informs NVIDIA that exports of the A100 and H100 to China, Hong Kong and Russia now require a licenseGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · sec.gov ↗
- Stable Diffusion is released publiclyCulture & arts · Software development · Generative AI · actuia.com ↗
- Felix Krause shows that TikTok's in-app browser for iOS injects code into third-party websites that subscribes to every keystroke; TikTok replies that the code is used only for debuggingPrivacy & surveillance · Cybersecurity · Behavioral biometrics · krausefx.com ↗
- Midjourney opens its betaCulture & arts · Generative AI · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- MIT Technology Review: Worldcoin's first 450,000 users in 24 countries were lured with cash, AirPods and the promise of tokens, without being told it was a testPrivacy & surveillance · Work & jobs · Proof of personhood · technologyreview.com ↗
- DeepMind presents Chinchilla: with the same compute budget, a 70-billion-parameter model trained on more text outperforms the 280-billion-parameter Gopher; model size and the number of training tokens should be scaled equallyScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI describes InstructGPT: the model is fine-tuned on human ratings (RLHF), and people prefer the answers of its 1.3-billion-parameter version to those of the 175-billion-parameter GPT-3Science · Learning from human feedback (RLHF) · arxiv.org ↗
- Worldcoin, from Sam Altman and Alex Blania, comes out of stealth with $25 million in funding and a promise to hand out tokens for iris scansPrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · techcrunch.com ↗
- The Atlantic brings the dead internet theory to mainstream media: it is “patently ridiculous” but has “a morsel of truth to it”Media & information · Dead internet theory · theatlantic.com ↗
- The AlphaFold database: hundreds of thousands of protein structures in open accessScience · Health & medicine · Protein folding · mail.ncmir.ucsd.edu ↗
- GitHub Copilot: AI completes code right in the editorSoftware development · Work & jobs · AI pair programmer · github.blog ↗
- Cloudflare estimates that humanity spends about 500 years a day on CAPTCHAs (32 seconds per CAPTCHA, 4.6 billion users, one CAPTCHA every 10 days)Work & jobs · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru and co-authors, in the paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots”, call a language model a “stochastic parrot” that stitches together linguistic forms according to probabilities “without any reference to meaning”Science · Values & religion · Large language model · doi.org ↗
- A post titled “Dead Internet Theory” appears on the Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe forum: most online content is supposedly made by AI and bots, and the internet “feels empty”Media & information · Culture & arts · Dead internet theory · forum.agoraroad.com ↗
- DALL·E: images from a text descriptionCulture & arts · Generative AI · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- AlphaFold 2 solves the protein structure prediction problem at CASP14Science · Health & medicine · Protein folding · siliconangle.com ↗
- The US Commerce Department expands the foreign direct product rule against Huawei: a license is also needed for chips made abroad using American technology; another 38 affiliates are added to the Entity ListGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · content.govdelivery.com ↗
- In GPT-3's training data Wikipedia is only 3% of the mix (3 billion tokens), yet the model saw it 3.4 times, versus less than once (0.44) for the bulk Common Crawl web dataMedia & information · Science · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- GPT-3: 175 billion parameters, solves tasks from a few examplesScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- Cloudflare moves from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha: Google plans to charge for reCAPTCHA, and, as Cloudflare writes, “Google's business is targeting users with advertising”Cybersecurity · Privacy & surveillance · Business & markets · Death of CAPTCHA · blog.cloudflare.com ↗
- The pandemic moves work and school onlineWork & jobs · Education · Health & medicine · Remote work · pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- Jared Kaplan and co-authors at OpenAI describe scaling laws: a language model's loss falls as a power law as the number of parameters, the amount of data and training compute growScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- F5 announces that it will buy Shape Security, which protects websites from bots with polymorphic code, for about $1 billionCybersecurity · Business & markets · Moving target defense · sec.gov ↗
- Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAIBusiness & markets · AI labs · globalventuring.com ↗
- The US adds Huawei and 68 of its foreign affiliates to the Entity ListGeopolitics & defense · Business & markets · Compute export controls · govinfo.gov ↗
- GPT-2: OpenAI initially withholds the full model over the risk of misuseScience · Media & information · Large language model · openai.com ↗
- AlphaStar beats professionals at StarCraft IIScience · Sport · Reinforcement learning · engadget.com ↗
- Waymo One: the first commercial robotaxi service (Phoenix; with a safety driver at launch)Transport & logistics · Business & markets · Self-driving cars · automotive-fleet.com ↗
- Google releases reCAPTCHA v3: instead of pictures, an invisible score from 0 to 1 based on how a person behaves on the websiteCybersecurity · Privacy & surveillance · Internet & infrastructure · Behavioral biometrics · security.googleblog.com ↗
- Google BERTScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI GPT: a transformer pre-trained on textScience · Large language model · openai.com ↗
- GDPR comes into forceLaws & regulation · Privacy & surveillance · Data protection · eur-lex.europa.eu ↗
- The Cambridge Analytica scandal: data from tens of millions of Facebook profiles used for political advertisingElections & politics · Privacy & surveillance · Microtargeting · privacyinternational.org ↗
- MIT: early Parkinson's disease is detected from ordinary typing at home with an accuracy (AUC) of 0.76Health & medicine · Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · dspace.mit.edu ↗
- AlphaZero masters chess from scratch in hoursScience · Sport · Reinforcement learning · arxiv.org ↗
- A Reddit user called deepfakes posts videos with swapped faces, and the term enters the languageMedia & information · Privacy & surveillance · Elections & politics · Deepfakes · wordorigins.org ↗
- Face ID: face recognition in a mass-market phonePrivacy & surveillance · Face recognition · thenextweb.com ↗
- The paper “Attention Is All You Need”: the Transformer architectureScience · Transformer · arxiv.org ↗
- Bryan Ford's group (EPFL) coins the term proof-of-personhood: a mechanism that binds physical entities to virtual identities while preserving anonymityPrivacy & surveillance · Cybersecurity · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · bford.info ↗
- Mastercard buys NuData Security, a “passive biometrics and behavioral analytics company”Finance & money · Cybersecurity · Business & markets · Behavioral biometrics · investor.mastercard.com ↗
- GitHub publishes a formal specification for GitHub Flavored Markdown, based on CommonMarkSoftware development · Markdown · github.blog ↗
- Google launches OSS-Fuzz, continuous fuzzing for open-source projects; by May 2025 it had helped find and fix more than 13,000 vulnerabilities and 50,000 other bugs in 1,000 projectsCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · github.com ↗
- Douyin launches; abroad, from 2017, as TikTokMedia & information · Mind & relationships · Recommender systems · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Entering a PIN on a phone reveals a person's age in 88% of cases and gender in 83%Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · repository.essex.ac.uk ↗
- Final of the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge: automated systems with no human involvement find, fix and exploit vulnerabilities; Mayhem from ForAllSecure winsCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · darpa.mil ↗
- Amodei, Olah and co-authors from Google, Stanford, Berkeley and OpenAI publish “Concrete Problems in AI Safety”: side effects, reward hacking, scalable oversight, safe exploration and distributional shiftScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- OECD economists: counting tasks rather than whole occupations, on average 9% of jobs across 21 OECD countries can be automatedWork & jobs · AI and jobs · doi.org ↗
- GDPR classes behavioural traits as biometrics only if they allow a person to be uniquely identified; fraud prevention is recognised as a company's legitimate interestPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Behavioral biometrics · publications.europa.eu ↗
- Microsoft's chatbot Tay picks up users' insults within a day and is shut downMedia & information · Values & religion · Chatbots · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 4–1Science · Culture & arts · Reinforcement learning · koreatimes.co.kr ↗
- The Shuffler system (Columbia University) reshuffles the code of a running program every 50 ms at the cost of a 14.9% slowdownCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · cs.columbia.edu ↗
- OpenAI is foundedScience · Business & markets · AI labs · openai.com ↗
- ResNet: neural networks 152 layers deepScience · Deep learning · arxiv.org ↗
- Google open-sources TensorFlowSoftware development · Science · Open source · research.google ↗
- Tesla rolls out Autopilot via an over-the-air updateTransport & logistics · Self-driving cars · carmagazine.co.uk ↗
- MIT: ordinary typing shows that a person is sleep-deprived, with a detection accuracy (AUC) of 0.93Health & medicine · Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- The US adds the Chinese military university NUDT and three national supercomputing centers to the Entity List: according to the authorities, the Tianhe supercomputers were believed to be used in nuclear explosive activitiesGeopolitics & defense · Compute export controls · govinfo.gov ↗
- Google reports that AI solves the hardest variant of distorted text with 99.8% accuracy, so such text is “no longer a dependable test”, and switches reCAPTCHA to the “I'm not a robot” checkbox with behaviour analysisCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · security.googleblog.com ↗
- Amazon Echo and the Alexa voice assistantHome & family · Privacy & surveillance · Voice assistants · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- The first ACM academic workshop on moving target defense (MTD 2014) takes place in ScottsdaleCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · csis.gmu.edu ↗
- Jeff Atwood and co-authors release a unified “Standard Markdown” spec; after John Gruber objects, the project is renamed the next day and is now CommonMarkSoftware development · Markdown · blog.codinghorror.com ↗
- The attention mechanism in neural machine translation (Bahdanau et al.)Science · Natural language processing · arxiv.org ↗
- Ian Goodfellow: generative adversarial networks (GANs)Science · Media & information · Generative AI · arxiv.org ↗
- Linux 3.14 adds randomization of the kernel's own addresses (KASLR)Cybersecurity · Software development · Moving target defense · kernelnewbies.org ↗
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers write that no memory randomization technique survives a leak of an arbitrary region of memory, and that 16 bits of randomness on an automatically restarted server are guessed within minutesCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · ll.mit.edu ↗
- Google buys DeepMindBusiness & markets · Deep learning · thedomains.com ↗
- Shape Security comes out of stealth with ShapeShifter, an appliance that rewrites a web page's code every time it is served, producing “an unending stream of randomized code variations” against botsCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Moving target defense · siliconangle.com ↗
- Google's neural network for house numbers from Street View solves the hardest reCAPTCHA category with 99.8% accuracyCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- DeepMind: a neural network learns to play Atari games from screen pixelsScience · Reinforcement learning · arxiv.org ↗
- Frey and Osborne (Oxford): about 47% of US employment is in occupations at high risk of computerisation; the higher the wages and education, the lower the riskWork & jobs · AI and jobs · oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk ↗
- The first reports based on Snowden's documents about mass surveillance programsPrivacy & surveillance · Elections & politics · Mass surveillance · csmonitor.com ↗
- Docker: applications in containersSoftware development · Internet & infrastructure · Cloud computing · docker.com ↗
- word2vec: word meanings as vectorsScience · Natural language processing · arxiv.org ↗
- Touchalytics: the way a person scrolls a phone screen identifies them almost without errors within a session and with an error rate of up to 4% a week later; the authors see it as an addition to a password, not a replacementCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · arxiv.org ↗
- Chu and co-authors: mouse movements and keystrokes identify 97.9% of blog bots with 0.2% false alarmsCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · eecis.udel.edu ↗
- AlexNet wins ImageNet by a huge margin: the start of the deep learning revolutionScience · Deep learning · papers.nips.cc ↗
- Oculus Rift raises money on KickstarterCulture & arts · Virtual reality · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- A Google neural network teaches itself to recognize cats in YouTube videosScience · Deep learning · 9to5google.com ↗
- The US federal cybersecurity research plan names the moving target one of four “game-changing” themes: systems must become “less deterministic, less homogeneous, and less static” in order to “substantially increase the cost of attacks”Cybersecurity · Laws & regulation · Science · Moving target defense · nitrd.gov ↗
- Siri on the iPhone 4S: a voice assistant in your pocketHome & family · Voice assistants · techrepublic.com ↗
- Zheng, Paloski and Wang: mouse movements identify a user with a 1.3% error rate after 20 clicks, but on a real forum 20 clicks took up to 38 minutesCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · eecis.udel.edu ↗
- Marc Andreessen's essay “Software is eating the world”Business & markets · Software development · Software economy · a16z.com ↗
- IBM Watson beats the champions of the TV quiz show Jeopardy!Science · Media & information · Question answering · techcrunch.com ↗
- The collection “Moving Target Defense” comes out, edited by Sushil Jajodia and co-authors (Springer)Cybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · doi.org ↗
- The Google Brain project startsScience · Deep learning · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Kinect: a depth camera and machine learning recognize body movementsCulture & arts · Science · Computer vision · hothardware.com ↗
- Instagram launchesMedia & information · Mind & relationships · Culture & arts · Social networks · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- DeepMind is foundedScience · Business & markets · Deep learning · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Motoyama et al. (University of California, San Diego): human CAPTCHA solving is sold from $1 per thousand; workers in Bangladesh, China, India and Vietnam are paid $0.5–0.75 per thousandWork & jobs · Cybersecurity · Business & markets · Death of CAPTCHA · usenix.org ↗
- Bursztein et al. (Stanford) have humans solve more than 318,000 CAPTCHAs of 21 types: three people give the same answer on only 71% of image CAPTCHAs and 31% of audio onesCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · web.stanford.edu ↗
- Apple releases the iPadEducation · Home & family · Tablets · wikipedia.com ↗
- Google buys reCAPTCHA, which protects more than 100,000 websites from spam and fraudBusiness & markets · Cybersecurity · Death of CAPTCHA · googleblog.blogspot.com ↗
- ImageNet: millions of labeled images for training computer visionScience · Work & jobs · ImageNet · mlanthology.org ↗
- Raina, Madhavan, Ng: training neural networks on graphics cards dozens of times fasterScience · GPU computing · icml.cc ↗
- Bigham and Cavender: 89 blind users solve 10 popular audio CAPTCHAs only 43% of the timeHealth & medicine · Internet & infrastructure · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · cs.cmu.edu ↗
- WhatsApp is foundedMind & relationships · Home & family · Messengers · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- The Bitcoin network launchesFinance & money · Cryptocurrencies · nasdaq.com ↗
- Google starts its self-driving car project (the future Waymo)Transport & logistics · Self-driving cars · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Killourhy and Maxion (CMU): 51 people type the same password 400 times; the best of 14 algorithms recognises a person by typing rhythm with an error rate of about 10%Cybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · cs.cmu.edu ↗
- Satoshi Nakamoto publishes the description of BitcoinFinance & money · Cryptocurrencies · theblock.co ↗
- The first Android smartphone is unveiled: the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream); sales from 22 OctoberBusiness & markets · Internet & infrastructure · Smartphone · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Science publishes reCAPTCHA: while passing the check, people also recognise words from old books; in the first year more than 1.2 billion CAPTCHAs were solved and more than 440 million words decipheredInternet & infrastructure · Science · Culture & arts · Death of CAPTCHA · cs.cmu.edu ↗
- App Store: an app store for the iPhoneBusiness & markets · Software development · App economy · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- GitHub launchesSoftware development · Work & jobs · Open source · github.blog ↗
- Bryan Ford and Jacob Strauss (MIT) propose “pseudonym parties”: people gather in one place at the same time and each receives one anonymous credential, so that “one real person gets one virtual persona”Privacy & surveillance · Science · Proof of personhood · bford.info ↗
- DARPA Urban Challenge: self-driving vehicles complete an urban courseTransport & logistics · Geopolitics & defense · Self-driving cars · cmu.edu ↗
- Ahmed Awad E. Ahmed and Issa Traore propose recognising a user by their mouse movementsCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · doi.org ↗
- NVIDIA releases CUDA: graphics cards compute more than graphicsScience · Software development · GPU computing · pcper.com ↗
- Netflix announces Watch Now streamingCulture & arts · Media & information · Online video · about.netflix.com ↗
- Apple unveils the iPhoneHome & family · Media & information · Business & markets · Smartphone · engadget.com ↗
- Netflix Prize: $1 million for improving recommendations by 10%Culture & arts · Science · Recommender systems · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Hinton and co-authors: deep belief networks, the revival of neural networksScience · Deep learning · cs.utoronto.ca ↗
- Microsoft announces that address space layout randomization (ASLR) is on by default in Windows Vista: a library is loaded into one of 256 locations, and an attacker guesses the address with a probability of 1/256Cybersecurity · Software development · Moving target defense · learn.microsoft.com ↗
- Apache Hadoop: an open-source implementation of MapReduceSoftware development · Big data · hadoop.apache.org ↗
- The first tweet: the start of TwitterMedia & information · Elections & politics · Social networks · guinnessworldrecords.com ↗
- Amazon S3, and in August EC2: computing and storage on demandInternet & infrastructure · Business & markets · Software development · Cloud computing · aws.amazon.com ↗
- Amazon Mechanical Turk: microtasks for people for penniesWork & jobs · Business & markets · Crowdsourcing · historyofinformation.com ↗
- Stanford's self-driving car Stanley wins the DARPA Grand ChallengeTransport & logistics · Science · Self-driving cars · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Linus Torvalds starts developing GitSoftware development · Open source · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- YouTube is foundedMedia & information · Culture & arts · Online video · itpro.com ↗
- Google MapsTransport & logistics · Internet & infrastructure · Digital maps · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Google publishes MapReduce: data processing on thousands of ordinary serversSoftware development · Internet & infrastructure · Big data · research.google.com ↗
- Shacham and co-authors show that memory randomization on a 32-bit system can be beaten by brute force: the Apache web server protected by PaX is broken in 216 seconds on averageCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · hovav.net ↗
- Gmail: a gigabyte of free email and ads based on message contentPrivacy & surveillance · Business & markets · Cloud services · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- John Gruber introduces Markdown, an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format for web writersSoftware development · Media & information · Markdown · daringfireball.net ↗
- DARPA Grand Challenge: no self-driving vehicle completes the courseTransport & logistics · Geopolitics & defense · Self-driving cars · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Facebook launchesMedia & information · Mind & relationships · Social networks · historyhit.com ↗
- Skype: free calls over the internetInternet & infrastructure · Home & family · Internet telephony · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- LinkedIn launchesWork & jobs · Business & markets · Social networks · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- The Human Genome Project is completedScience · Health & medicine · Genomics · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- The Roomba robot vacuum: the first mass-market home robotHome & family · Industry & robots · Home robots · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- John Douceur (Microsoft Research) describes the “Sybil attack”: without a central authority vouching for identities, one participant can pose as manyCybersecurity · Science · Proof of personhood · microsoft.com ↗
- Apple releases the iPodCulture & arts · Business & markets · Digital music · npr.org ↗
- The BitTorrent protocol: file sharing without a central serverInternet & infrastructure · Culture & arts · P2P networks · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Wikipedia launches: an encyclopedia written by volunteersMedia & information · Education · Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Net Nanny releases BioPassword, a Windows NT login that checks not only the password but also how the person types itCybersecurity · Software development · Behavioral biometrics · rcpmag.com ↗
- Google launches AdWords: ads tied to the search queryBusiness & markets · Media & information · Search advertising · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Honda unveils the humanoid robot ASIMOIndustry & robots · Science · Humanoid robots · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Peak of the dot-com bubble: the NASDAQ index hits its high, then crashesBusiness & markets · Finance & money · Dot-com bubble · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University invent CAPTCHA, the “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”Cybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Proof of personhood · captcha.net ↗
- AltaVista employees file a patent application for a “human or program” check: to add a website to the search engine, you have to read a randomly distorted stringCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · patents.google.com ↗
- The term “open source”, suggested by Christine Peterson, is coined at a meeting in Palo Alto; the Open Source Initiative is founded in late FebruarySoftware development · Business & markets · Open source · opensource.org ↗
- Ward Cunningham opens WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki; text there is marked up with ordinary characters: two apostrophes for italics, three for bold, an asterisk for a list itemSoftware development · Media & information · Markdown · wiki.c2.com ↗
- Linus Torvalds announces a free operating system for 386 machines on comp.os.minix — “just a hobby”; it will become LinuxSoftware development · Open source · groups.google.com ↗