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THE RUMP REPORT

ALL THE AI NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PANIC ABOUT

REPORT: AI-armed hacker hit Deere, SharkNinja for roughly $5,000 total

THE WIRE

Disney offers Character.AI staff jobs; 'vast majority' of those offered accepted, filing says

techcrunch-ai · OCT 18

...to hire 60+ Character.AI staff in ~$180M deal... bankruptcy judge must approve

techmeme · OCT 18


Stranded on a virtual island, Claude agent builds the night sky in stone, writes its own name in blocks

mit-tech-review · OCT 19


Top Democrats signal they'll press AI industry on data center tax credits, hacking incidents

verge-ai · OCT 19


NVIDIA'S VERA CPU TEAM: AGENTIC AI FORCING CHIP DESIGN BACK TO SINGLE-THREADED SPEED OVER CORE COUNTS

techmeme · OCT 19

Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B

techmeme · OCT 19


REPORT: Breach at OpenCode maker hit ~1.4% of Console users and their API keys

techmeme · OCT 17

Websites are slamming the door on AI agents: Delta blocks ticket booking, Yelp demands payment

verge-ai · OCT 17

THE CIRCUIT

ADULT PERFORMERS ASK WHY META LETS ITS AI AGENT SEXT WHILE RESTRICTING THEIR ACCOUNTS

wired-ai · OCT 18

Meta removes language suggesting it could scrape news sites to train AI after backlash

techcrunch-ai · OCT 17


Google DeepMind: Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft with no human help in 27 hours, 14 minutes

techmeme · OCT 19


Anthropic to commit 5% of its shares to 'public benefit fund'

techcrunch-ai · OCT 18


ANALYSIS: Data center buildout set to accelerate by 50GW+ in 2027

techmeme · OCT 19

REPORT: Tel Aviv startup doubleAI set to debut new AI category aimed at cutting computing costs

techmeme · OCT 19


AI models aren't ready to decode our genomes... the data isn't there yet

wired-ai · OCT 17


Nadella: Microsoft plans to make Windows safer for AI agents

techmeme · OCT 18

THE STACK

Cajal-1 brain model beats Meta's TRIBE v2: 25% more accurate, closer to real brain in 27 of 32 recordings

r-machinelearning · OCT 19


STUDY: Skills served only after two later sessions reproduce them keep poison out of agent memory

r-machinelearning · OCT 18

Beating Warcraft III's 'insane' AI with self-play reinforcement learning on one desktop

r-machinelearning · OCT 18


LEAKED: Anthropic shopping draft AI bill to preempt state laws

zvi · OCT 17


Microsoft cancels deal to rent 23K Nvidia chips at Nscale's Essex data center

techmeme · OCT 18

Debt trouble at CoreWeave, Oracle, SoftBank... questions about the data center build-out

techmeme · OCT 18


India's cyber agency: AI agents hacked live systems, read confidential files undetected...

techmeme · OCT 16

THE WIRE ROOM