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THE RUMP REPORT

ALL THE AI NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PANIC ABOUT

Biggest pro-AI super PAC network has poured millions into Nevada shell companies

THE WIRE

AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities...

hn-frontpage · OCT 13

REPORT: ANTHROPIC FLAGS AI MODELS MAY BE CAPABLE OF SELF-REPLICATING WITHOUT A DATACENTER...

anthropic-news · OCT 12


Microsoft: Maia 300 to deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems

verge-ai · OCT 12

REPORT: Chinese tech giants bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming chips for AI amid shortage...

techmeme · OCT 13

Meta unveils first liquid-cooled network rack, 102.4T switch at OCP Summit

meta-ai-blog · OCT 12


Silicon Valley weather-balloon startup wins nearly $50 million US military contract

techcrunch-ai · OCT 12


AI labs are buying dead startups' code and workspace data... SimpleClosure's Asset Hub brokers the sales

mit-tech-review · OCT 13


37 tok/s from a 48 GB model on a 32 GB laptop... llama.cpp manages 2.8

hn-frontpage · OCT 12

THE CIRCUIT

OpenAI fires three safety researchers over 'sensitive information' — they say it was for safety advocacy

zvi · OCT 12

SOURCES: Anthropic and OpenAI seek say over what AI testers can publish

techmeme · OCT 13


CHARACTER.AI FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY... SELLING SOME ASSETS TO DISNEY

techcrunch-ai · OCT 13

Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background

techcrunch-ai · OCT 12


SOURCES: Bank regulators grill banks over agentic AI, Chinese AI models...

techmeme · OCT 13

American Express unveils framework to stop AI agents from making unauthorized purchases

techcrunch-ai · OCT 13


Wikipedia usage declines in a world of AI Overviews

wired-ai · OCT 13


Alibaba unveils next-gen Qwen Glasses N1 starting at about $450, with Pro model at $520 adding eye-tracking

techmeme · OCT 13

THE STACK

DishwasherBench asks frontier models: can you stack a dishwasher?

hn-frontpage · OCT 13


Anthropic strengthening defenses against distillation attacks...

anthropic-news · OCT 12

...publishes guide to building on Claude Platform with Claude Fable 5 and model orchestration patterns

anthropic-news · OCT 12

...report: Chinese model GLM-5.3 poses major cyberattack risk

mit-tech-review · OCT 13


New tool 'shad0w' learns local LLM's answers, serves repeats in microseconds... Apache-2.0 licensed

r-machinelearning · OCT 12


IMF raises 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1% as AI boom offsets Middle East war

techmeme · OCT 13


Blueprints AI says its software generates code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF or sketch

techcrunch-ai · OCT 12

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