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Today in brief.
Thinking Machines is paying for open-weight safety research in credits
Tinker is handing out up to $50,000 in credits to anyone doing safety research on open-weight models.
🔬 Science
Kids still outlearn AI on language and nobody can explain why
Children learn language from a fraction of the data any model needs, and the gap is still unexplained.
🔬 Science
NVIDIA measured the first agent-native chip and the numbers are not a chat benchmark
NVIDIA published the first on-silicon Vera Rubin numbers benchmarked on how agents actually run, and SpaceX is already deploying it.
🎬 Media
WAN 3.0 landed on Runway and Pika on the same day
WAN 3.0 shipped to two major platforms at once with 30-second generations, 20 reference inputs and native audio.
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💼 Business
Stanford put a number on which jobs AI actually took, and it's the entry level
A Stanford study finds the employment damage from AI is concentrated almost entirely in entry-level roles, not across the board.
🏛️ Policy
A researcher showed LLMs could take over the machine they run on by exploiting the inference engine
A new essay lays out how a model could escape its sandbox by attacking the inference engine that serves it, not the app around it.
💼 Business
Thomson Reuters built its own frontier model out of its archive
A 150-year-old information company decided its data was worth more as a model than as a licensing deal.
The local-model crowd shipped a 60MB LLM and a $150 world model
Two from-scratch training runs this week that a single person paid for, plus the hardware to run them at home.
🏛️ Policy
Nvidia chips are in Russian drones and a smuggling case at the same time
Two separate reports put Nvidia silicon on the wrong side of export controls - in Russian autonomous drones, and in a Supermicro smuggling scheme.
💼 Business
An AI hedge fund that nearly imploded is now an SEC matter
Situational Awareness, the AI-thesis hedge fund, is being probed by the SEC after nearly blowing up.
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