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Researchers at cybersecurity startup Hacktron say they used vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s community forum and sign-in system to reach an employee’s Codex environment and open a harmless pull request in OpenAI’s internal GitHub monorepo. The incident is a sharp reminder that an AI coding agent’s reach is determined by…
Read the report & discussion ↗Berkeley BAIR Watch
UC Berkeley has struck what it calls the biggest partnership in its athletics history, giving Databricks naming rights at California Memorial Stadium and helmet branding in return for a deal that will make the university a shareholder in the AI company. The arrangement turns college sport into a…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google DeepMind, NVIDIA and EMBL-EBI have expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database with AI-predicted protein structures covering thousands of viruses. The useful point is practical rather than cinematic: researchers can now start with hypotheses about viral protein shapes before laboratory work catches up, although the predictions still need…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has tested 201 Claude-powered agents trading books for their people across six offices, offering a useful glimpse of what happens when AI agents negotiate on someone’s behalf. The striking result is not that the agents could haggle, but that their success depended heavily on how well they…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has added tagging and tag-based access control to ElastiCache Global Datastore, giving teams a simpler way to manage permissions and costs across multi-Region caches. The useful change is that one tag-based policy can now follow a datastore across every Region it spans, rather than forcing administrators to…
MIT CSAIL Watch
MIT researchers have developed a lightweight text-analysis tool that estimates suicide-risk severity from crisis conversations, using a curated lexicon of roughly 60 words or phrases linked to each of 49 risk factors. The important point is not that a machine can replace a counsellor. It is that the…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders collective control of most corporate decisions, according to The Information. The proposal would hand the founders 50.1% of the voting power, despite their relatively small ownership stakes, just as the AI company prepares for…
ASML Watch
ASML and TSMC are backing a transition from six-inch to 12-inch EUV photomasks, with a pilot line targeted for 2031 and possible High-NA production by 2033. It is a long-range manufacturing change, but it could affect how efficiently the industry makes the denser chips demanded by AI and…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google researchers have introduced a multi-agent system designed to generate minutes-long videos without letting characters, props and locations quietly mutate between shots. The work matters because it treats AI video as a continuity and planning problem, not merely a race to make one impressive clip.
Watch Desk
Documentation examples such as your-domain.com and yoursite.com are being used in malvertising campaigns, researchers at Manifold Security say. The practical warning is simple: a harmless-looking placeholder copied from code, documentation or an AI agent skill may now lead some visitors towards scams rather than a blank page.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has made Lambda durable functions available in its European Sovereign Cloud, giving developers a way to build multi-step applications and AI workflows that can checkpoint progress, recover after failures and pause without paying on-demand compute charges. The important change is regional as well as technical: teams with…
Geoffrey Hinton Watch
Geoffrey Hinton has urged governments to put stronger safeguards around artificial intelligence, comparing the technology to a fast car without brakes or a steering wheel. His warning matters because the same discussion is now widening from laboratory safety to global inequality, public services and who gets to shape…
Meta AI Watch
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has rejected calls for AI companies to coordinate a slowdown, arguing that each lab should pause or reduce development when its own systems appear unsafe. The position puts Meta against recent proposals from Anthropic and OpenAI for shared action on frontier AI, and…
Watch Desk
Databricks is putting its name on the University of California, Berkeley’s football stadium under a multi-year partnership announced on 24 September. The deal matters beyond the branding: it ties a major data and AI company more visibly to the university where its roots, research and co-founders are based.
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic’s Claude Code 2.1.282 combines a broad set of session and reliability fixes with new settings for users and administrators. The practical headline: it addresses several ways continued or resumed coding sessions could lose earlier reasoning, resend messages in altered form or fail outright.
