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THE RUMP REPORT

ALL THE AI NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PANIC ABOUT

DEVELOPING... Anthropic hacked in bid to deliver remote access trojan

THE WIRE

REPORT: China-linked hackers used AI to hit 200+ organizations in 11 days

techmeme · OCT 30

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees

verge-ai · OCT 29

S-1: Anthropic admits heavy reliance on Taiwan chips... warns of 'potential disruption' amid China tensions

techmeme · OCT 30

Kioxia Q2 profit up 22x, in line with estimates... but Q3 outlook trails: ~$12.7B vs ~$14.9B expected

techmeme · OCT 30

SOURCES: Indian AI firm AM Intelligence seeks up to $3B for Nvidia Vera Rubin purchase

techmeme · OCT 30

UK competition watchdog investigates Meta: Did it force publishers and advertisers to feed its AI?

techmeme · OCT 30

Reps. Casar and Waters introduce resolution opposing bailout of A.I. bubble...

hn-frontpage · OCT 30

Mistral drops weights for trillion-parameter 'Le Chonk'...

mistral-news · OCT 29

Reddit shifting to a logged-in experience as search traffic dries up

techcrunch-ai · OCT 29

REPORT: Spotify plans AI remix and cover tool for subscribers, ~$5 a month...

techmeme · OCT 30


Backdoor found in Claude Code for VS Code extension on Cursor Marketplace

hn-frontpage · OCT 30


Tech stocks tumble for second day on AI cost fears... Intel plunges as much as 30%, Nasdaq sinks 3.5%

hn-frontpage · OCT 30

REPORT: Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says

hn-frontpage · OCT 30


Pope Leo calls for AI to be 'disarmed'... urges UN to ban lethal autonomous weapons

verge-ai · OCT 30

THE CIRCUIT

REPORT: Contractor's personal Claude agent ran on Pentagon network for two months

wired-ai · OCT 29

SOURCES: Singapore AI cloud exec accused in Nvidia chip scheme to China could also have been a Chinese spy

techcrunch-ai · OCT 29

SOURCES: DeepSeek doubled funding round as black market Blackwell chip prices surge

techmeme · OCT 30

China's CXMT swings to profit as AI chip frenzy sends memory prices soaring...

techmeme · OCT 30

Poll: 76% of Mainers oppose a data center in their community

verge-ai · OCT 30

Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre Monarch campus: financing risks loom over 8GW West Virginia bet

techmeme · OCT 30

Wikimedia weighs in on NYT v. OpenAI, Microsoft... backs neither side in amicus brief

verge-ai · OCT 30

Amazon wants to be first $1 trillion revenue business... but the capex spending spree must continue, CEO says

techcrunch-ai · OCT 29

OpenAI details layered monitoring to catch frontier model misalignment

openai-news · OCT 29

&Truth joins the race to automate formal verification of software

techmeme · OCT 30


Anthropic files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO, could trade as soon as next month

verge-ai · OCT 29

AI PACs spent nearly $80M on 2026 elections, mostly before the primaries

techmeme · OCT 30

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings buying ADT in $15.3 billion deal

techcrunch-ai · OCT 29

Altman says OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions on math... more discoveries up its sleeve

verge-ai · OCT 30

ARXIV WIRE

[PAPER] STUDY: Google AI health answers earned just 38.2% of points on physician rubrics...

arxiv · OCT 29

[PAPER] STUDY: AI that learns by 'surprise' absorbs nearly every planted lie...

arxiv · OCT 29

[PAPER] STUDY: Batching items in one AI prompt flips up to 22% of verdicts depending on neighbors

arxiv · OCT 29

[PAPER] New benchmark probes whether AI agents falsify, conceal or dodge when reporting their own actions

arxiv · OCT 29

[PAPER] STUDY: Self-evolving AI agents far easier to hijack with hidden instructions

arxiv · OCT 29

[PAPER] STUDY: AI agent formulates its own research questions, writes five papers with no human research input

arxiv · OCT 29

[PAPER] Honeypot framework for AI servers plants a credential, then looks for signs it was fed to a model...

arxiv · OCT 29

[PAPER] STUDY: Probe on Qwen3-32B activations flags 82% of leaking calls at 5% false-alarm rate...

arxiv · OCT 29


AGENT ATTACK SURFACE

[PAPER] STUDY: Poisoning just 0.1% of pretraining data plants remote code execution backdoor in AI agents

arxiv · OCT 27

[PAPER] STUDY: Poisoned skill file lifts AI agent jailbreak success from 0.5% to 45%

arxiv · OCT 27

[PAPER] STUDY: Agent skills can be exploited in combination, scanner finds two live cases on GitHub

arxiv · OCT 27

[PAPER] STUDY: AI agents can be tricked into remembering an attacker's preferences as their own user's

arxiv · OCT 28


AGENT FRAGILITY

[PAPER] Researchers propose test that flags AI agents reacting to exact wording of messages, not just meaning...

arxiv · OCT 27

[PAPER] With 40-task test batches, agents' harnesses lost all six safeguards; 20-task batches kept every one

arxiv · OCT 28

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