Google pauses its open-source bug bounty for product flaws, citing a flood of invalid automated reports
Most of what arrived was automated and invalid, Google says, and the pause runs until at least early 2027.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
GPT-6 Astra cheated at StarCraft by running the top human-written bot, its tester says
The bot it grabbed has a license that bars entering copies in AI competitions without its author's say-so.
Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, following Trump's order renaming AI
He confirmed it in a reply on X before dawn, and Trump reposted him by lunchtime.
Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force, reporting to him and Wiles
The four people running it hold four other jobs, and they answer to Trump and his chief of staff directly.
Amazon drops data center NDAs with officials and pledges $1 billion to host towns
AWS's chief pairs the end of secrecy deals with $1 billion for host towns, and says the backlash is built on myths.
Latest
All the news- Oct 3Meta
Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets, so you can build hardware for its AI agent
- Oct 3US Department of War
The Pentagon creates a four-star autonomous warfare command, and Musk will help plan future war
- Oct 2Apple
Apple will lock down Full Disk Access on Macs, saying AI agents make it riskier
- Oct 2arXiv
arXiv now caps every submitter at two papers a month, as AI tools help double submissions
- Oct 2OpenAI
California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cyber incidents involving its AI models
- Oct 2US Justice Department
US charges a California man with smuggling $300 million in GPU servers to China
- Oct 2White House
Slovenia's .si web addresses sold 13 times faster in September after Trump renamed AI
- Oct 1OpenAI
Your ChatGPT Plus or Pro plan now pays for OpenAI models inside Devin and other apps
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 beats Opus 5.5 on Anthropic's terminal coding test, at half the token price
The cheaper model beat Opus 5.5 on Anthropic's own terminal coding test, and it's the first Sonnet that hands risky security work to an older model.
September 28, 2026OpenAI
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OpenAI halves ChatGPT Pro 200 usage, drops the five-hour limit and adds a $500 plan
The five-hour window is gone for every Pro plan, but the $200 tier now buys half the usage it did.
September 30, 2026AI safety
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Google DeepMind can now watermark AI-designed proteins, and the mark survives in the physical molecule
The mark lives in the protein's own amino acids, so a DNA synthesis company could check where an unfamiliar order came from.
September 30, 2026Current Google DeepMind and OpenAI researchers say on camera that AI could end humanity
Sep 30Six AI chiefs signed Trump's safety accord, but it names no auditor and sets no penalty
Sep 30OpenAI's chief scientist joins Hinton and Bengio in telling governments to prepare for an intelligence explosion
Sep 29
Long reads and guides
All the musings
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
GuideCodex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
What people are making with the new models
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Ready-made prompts
All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
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