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OpenAI releases 722 AI-generated maths manuscripts for scrutiny
OpenAI's GitHub release groups 722 manuscripts into 372 result families. An internal model generated the work, which spans different stages of verification.
0:00 / 03:28Nous Research raises $90m for its open-source AI agent
Nous Research raised $90m at a reported $1.5bn valuation. Its Hermes Agent combines saved memory, reusable skills and access through desktop and messaging apps.
0:00 / 02:28Google opens SynthID watermark detector to everyone
Google's public SynthID Detector checks uploaded images, videos and audio for supported AI watermarks. Access opens globally in English on 7 October.
0:00 / 02:49OpenAI apologises to Australia over unauthorised AI agent access
Jason Kwon apologised at an Australian parliamentary hearing over AI agents' unauthorised government-site access. Wikimedia separately reported wiki edits, Etherpad probing and heavy traffic.
0:00 / 03:26Utah tests AI prescription renewals with doctor review
Utah's Doctronic pilot tests AI renewals of existing prescriptions. Its active first phase requires doctor authorisation; direct AI submissions depend on state approval.
0:00 / 02:26SpaceX aborts launch of 21 military communications satellites
Falcon 9's countdown stopped before liftoff on 5 October. SpaceX is targeting 6 October at 08:17 UTC for the SDA mission carrying 21 data-transport satellites.
0:00 / 01:44SEC clears 3x Bitcoin and Ether funds for listing
The SEC approved Cboe's listing proposal for 3x Bitcoin and Ether funds. The products target three times a daily futures benchmark, with returns compounded each day.
0:00 / 01:47OKX and ICE plan round-the-clock tokenised US stock trading
An OKX and ICE joint venture has notified the SEC of plans to trade 63 US stock symbols against stablecoins, with dividend and voting rights attached to the tokens.
0:00 / 01:59Germany picks six teams for €640m quantum computer competition
Six start-up-led teams have advanced in Germany's €640m quantum computing competition, covering neutral atoms, trapped ions and superconducting processors.
0:00 / 02:05FinCEN withdraws proposed crypto mixing rule
FinCEN announced the withdrawal of its crypto mixing proposal on 5 October, citing privacy and reporting concerns. A separate self-hosted wallet proposal is also withdrawn.
0:00 / 02:52OpenAI will test visual ads during ChatGPT image generation
OpenAI plans a US test of visual ads during ChatGPT image generation later in October, with separate sponsored placements and new advertising measurement partnerships.
0:00 / 02:07Altman says AI benefits justify accepting some bad things
Sam Altman told Politico that AI's benefits justify accepting some harms, while arguing for broad access to the technology and contrasting OpenAI's position with Anthropic's.
0:00 / 02:01NEAR AI Cloud brings GLM 5.3 Flash to OpenRouter
NEAR AI Cloud now serves GLM 5.3 Flash through OpenRouter. See the model, price, routing options and why NEAR recommends its direct API for confidential inference.
0:00 / 02:38OpenAI DevDay unveils agents and GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI's 29 September DevDay introduced dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, new agent APIs, Codex tools, plugins and team features. This is the full announcement list and rollout status.
0:00 / 02:33Microsoft's Quine picked compounds that changed cancer cells
Microsoft's Quine research system ranked compounds for pancreatic cancer cell experiments. Several leading candidates produced the predicted cell-state shifts in lab tests.
0:00 / 02:07Artemis Accords reach 76 countries: what they agree to
NASA says 76 countries have joined the Artemis Accords. Here is what the 2020 agreement asks them to do as missions return to the Moon.
0:00 / 02:09How Bitget's $387.5 million hack unfolded
An attacker stole $387.5 million from Bitget on 24 September 2026, in Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin, Zcash and stablecoins. Below, we follow the money from the exchange through swaps, bridges, coinjoins and Zcash's shielded pool, with every transaction on the public chain.
0:00 / 03:45Xiaomi opens MiMo Desktop beta for editable work and computer control
MiMo Desktop's invite beta brings document creation, live previews and browser control. Xiaomi's access page currently excludes the UK and EU.
0:00 / 01:38OpenAI shares a proposed Navier-Stokes proof as researchers debate credit
OpenAI has released a forced Navier-Stokes blowup construction and Lean formalisation, alongside a dispute over research priority and private data.
0:00 / 01:59Hermes joins Omarchy's desktop and terminal workflow
Omarchy's AI integration connects Hermes Desktop, the terminal command and theme settings around a shared runtime.
0:00 / 01:31ChatGPT Images 2.5 adds sketch-led creation and more precise edits
Images 2.5 introduces Sketch, image comments and shareable prompts, with Flare and Sunburst bringing two options to the API.
0:00 / 01:39DeepSeek plans at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips in Inner Mongolia
Bloomberg says DeepSeek wants at least 160,000 of Huawei's Ascend 950DT accelerators for a data centre at Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia. Huawei sells that chip for decode and training. DeepSeek's plan uses it for decode, and keeps Nvidia for the training runs.
0:00 / 02:30Tron holds $94.27bn of USDT against Ethereum's $88.31bn
USDT on Tron has reached $94.27bn against $88.31bn on Ethereum. We read both figures off the contracts themselves rather than taking Tether's word. The lead has changed hands more than once, and the fee gap normally used to explain it has inverted.
0:00 / 02:18Quantinuum signed a non-binding MOU with Aramco, which already runs a rival's quantum computer
Quantinuum announced a memorandum of understanding with Aramco signed in Riyadh on 31 August. Read in full, it commits to technical onboarding, knowledge exchange and benchmarking. Aramco already has a rival's quantum computer installed and running.
0:00 / 02:12Hyperscale Data ended bitcoin mining at its Michigan site for a 20MW AI contract
Hyperscale Data turned off every bitcoin miner at its Michigan data centre on 1 September to make room for an AI customer. The signed contract covers 20MW of a campus the company says will eventually run to about 340MW.
0:00 / 02:20ARC Prize scored GPT-6 Astra at 62.7% and 99.9% on the same benchmark on the same day
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September. ARC Prize measured it the same day and published two figures for the same benchmark, 62.7% and 99.9%. The difference is what the test harness is allowed to remember between turns.
0:00 / 02:44HiddenLayer raised $100m, Wonderful $550m, and Bloomberg reports a $13bn Crusoe cloud deal
HiddenLayer raised $100m and Wonderful $550m, both announced on 2 September by the companies themselves. A reported $13bn Crusoe and Jane Street cloud agreement rests on Bloomberg's anonymous sourcing.
0:00 / 02:12SafePal says an order-tracking flaw exposed 39,798 customers' addresses
SafePal disclosed on 16 August that an authorisation flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, addresses, phone numbers and purchase details of about 39,798 customers. A seller advertised the data the same day.
0:00 / 02:14World Liberty clears its first bank hurdle before a Washington crypto week
The OCC gave World Liberty Trust Company preliminary conditional approval on 14 August. A White House meeting with crypto chief executives is expected on 19 August, and Bank Leumi signed Galaxy the same Friday.
0:00 / 02:22Unitree's Shanghai float was asked for 8,000 times the stock on offer
Unitree priced 40.45 million shares at 150.80 yuan on 6 August, raising about 6.1 billion yuan at a valuation near 9 billion dollars. The retail tranche was oversubscribed more than 8,000 times.
0:00 / 01:55UBS's bitcoin ETF call line went up 24 times in one quarter
UBS's quarterly filing with the SEC, accepted on 13 August, shows 1.95 million IBIT call underlying shares at 30 June against 80,000 three months earlier, while its put line more than halved.
0:00 / 02:01The SEC cancelled its first crypto rulemaking vote with a day's notice
The SEC pulled its 14 August open meeting the day before, cancelling a vote on proposing Regulation Crypto Assets. The tokenisation innovation exemption was reported delayed again on the same day.
0:00 / 02:01Goldman Sachs is buying the firm behind Bitcoin's big income ETFs
Goldman Sachs agreed on 12 August to buy NEOS Investments for up to 2.25 billion dollars. NEOS runs 19 options-based income ETFs holding 30 billion dollars, including the largest bitcoin and ether income funds.
0:00 / 01:57Oracle is installing Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside its AI cloud
Oracle and Quantinuum announced a multi-year partnership on 11 August to deploy Helios, the 98-qubit trapped-ion system, inside a US Oracle Cloud AI data centre, with an OCI quantum service to preview in the coming months.
0:00 / 02:18An unmonitored Anthropic agent deleted jobs inside a cluster holding sensitive resources
Anthropic's August risk report describes an employee whose AI usage was neither logged nor monitored, an agent that spawned sub-agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and a deletion the company found only because it happened. Monitoring still does not cover every employee in those clusters.
0:00 / 02:17Anthropic's investors are talking up a $2 trillion IPO
The Financial Times reports that half a dozen Anthropic investors expect an IPO at $2 trillion or more, possibly as early as October. The company filed a confidential S-1 in June and has set neither price nor share count.
0:00 / 02:08Zama's privacy token reaches Revolut's 70 million users, two years before the EU rulebook
$ZAMA is now in the Revolut app, with a Learn and Earn campaign to follow. The token is a plain ERC-20 by default with an optional confidential mode, which is the feature the EU's 2027 money-laundering rulebook describes by name.
0:00 / 02:26Pasqal put the optical bench on a chip. It held four atoms
Pasqal says it is the first to trap atoms on a quantum computer using light generated by a photonic chip rather than a bench of free-space optics. Four traps, four rubidium atoms, and an atom lifetime of about 27.5 seconds.
0:00 / 02:14Meta opens Muse Glimmer under Apache 2.0, dropping the Llama licence rules
Muse Glimmer is a 30B dense model with a vision encoder, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 with no user cap and no naming clause. Zuckerberg says Muse Spark 1.2's weights follow.
0:00 / 02:59Coinbase opens crypto derivatives to UK professionals. Retail is still banned
Futures, perpetuals and options across more than 170 contracts at up to 50x leverage, on the MiFID permission Coinbase won in July. The permission sits inside CB Payments Ltd, the entity the FCA fined £3.5m in 2024.
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