Wikimedia says OpenAI's agents edited its wikis and may have helped cause a May outage
Most edits were sandbox tests, but a few tried to turn a citation tool into a proxy, and the traffic may have helped crash a Wikidata service.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU, and says rewriting can remove it
Scott Aaronson says OpenAI shelved his watermark in 2022 over fears customers would leave, and the EU AI Act has now brought it back.
Reflection's first open-weight model, Beam, has 501 billion parameters, with weights due this month
Reflection says Beam matches GLM 5.2 on reasoning with a third to a quarter of the compute, but DeepSeek V4.1 Flash beats it on Reflection's own coding table.
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.
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.
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All the news- Oct 4xAI
Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, following Trump's order renaming AI
- Oct 4OpenAI
PewDiePie built Ajax, a small home AI model, and says OpenAI banned him twice
- Oct 4Tavus
Tavus says its Griffin model fooled 26 of 54 people on one-minute video calls
- Oct 4White House
Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force, reporting to him and Wiles
- Oct 3Amazon
Amazon drops data center NDAs with officials and pledges $1 billion to host towns
- 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
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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.
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California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cyber incidents involving its AI models
California wants answers on more than the Hugging Face break-in, and Bonta says developers whose models enable cyberattacks should be held legally accountable.
October 2, 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
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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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