The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
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US holds memorials for the 9/11 attacks, 25 years later
In New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, mourners gathered to remember nearly 3,000 people killed during the hijackings.
Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion
Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is unlikely. AI can speed up research by a factor of ten, he says, but it hits two bottlenecks: coming up with ideas ("research taste") and reliably judging results. Reward hacking and the speed of light add further limits. Vinyals now wants to tackle these bottlenecks with his startup Discovery Loop, co-founded with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le. The article Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion appeared first on The Decoder .
Why did the assisted dying bill fail in the Commons? | Rowena Mason
MPs quietly withdrew support when it became clear it was not a priority of Andy Burnham’s government MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales After two years of impassioned arguments, tearful personal testimonies, noisy protests and ethical dilemmas, the assisted dying bill for England and Wales failed on a knife edge. Campaigners on the pro side largely blame the House of Lords for making it seem an impossible struggle to get the bill through parliament, after blocking it the first time by putting through more than 1,000 amendments so that it ran out of time. Continue reading...
OpenAI’s safety system is already cutting off API responses mid-task
AI companies have spent the last few years competing to build the best models, faster than the other, with each The post OpenAI’s safety system is already cutting off API responses mid-task appeared first on The New Stack .
Quoting Boris Cherny
Production code written by Claude should have a higher bar than if it was written by a human. At Anthropic, we have many guardrails in place to make sure this is happening: lots of lint rules, lots of tests, Claude-driven end to end tests, Claude-powered fuzzers running daily, automated code reviews and security reviews, automated code refactoring, and so on. Without these, you can end up with a mess that is hard to maintain down the line. — Boris Cherny Tags: claude , ai , claude-code , llms , coding-agents , ai-assisted-programming , generative-ai , agentic-engineering , boris-cherny , anthropic
‘A tragic day’: campaigners react as MPs say no to legalising assisted dying
Opponents say proposed law change for England and Wales was ‘unsafe and unworkable’ after bill is narrowly defeated As it became clear that MPs had voted against the assisted dying bill , campaigners who had fought for a change in the law looked broken. Standing outside the Houses of Parliament, many wearing pink caps and T-shirts with slogans such as “Give me choice over my death”, they held on to each other for comfort. Some were in tears, others stood in shocked silence. MP Lauren Edwards, who sponsored the bill that would have allowed terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less to live to seek medical assistance to end their lives, said its failure to pass was disappointing “for the many thousands of terminally ill people and their loved ones who were given hope when the Commons voted for this bill last year”. Continue reading...
A misalignment of AI in mathematics
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a-severe-misalignm... https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/11/... , https://unwall.app/www.economist.com/science-and-technology/... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662371 Points: 568 # Comments: 634
langchain-core==1.6.3
Changes since langchain-core==1.6.2 release(core): 1.6.3 ( #40407 ) feat(core): Allow model name and provider tracing metadata override based on gateway response ( #40406 ) test(core): cover the deprecated .text() access path ( #40243 ) docs(core): remove stale Args/Raises entries from FileCallbackHandler._write and ChatGeneration.set_text ( #40211 )
Top Cybersecurity Frameworks: NIST, DORA & More (2026) - Bitsight
Top Cybersecurity Frameworks: NIST, DORA & More (2026) Bitsight
US declares end of largest recorded cyclosporiasis outbreak
The FDA says contaminated lettuce has been removed from the market after nearly 13,000 linked cases.
UK lawmakers vote against bill to legalise assisted dying
Parliament's lower chamber, the House of Commons, rejected the legislation by 286 votes to 270.
Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing
Analysis of 2.47 million simulated attacks shows why organizations should measure credential leaks and reporting, not just clicks. The post Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Deep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that AI agents could learn to deceive, game rules, and hide bad behavior as they get better at optimizing goals. He calls for independent safety reviews before any further training or deployment. US President Trump disagrees and wants to keep outpacing China in the AI race. The article Deep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous appeared first on The Decoder .
How a Houthi Blockade in the Red Sea Tightens Iran’s Grip on Global Energy Supplies - EnergyNow.com
How a Houthi Blockade in the Red Sea Tightens Iran’s Grip on Global Energy Supplies EnergyNow.com
Matt Mullenweg returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted
Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard confirmed Mullenweg's return to the CEO role in a Friday post on X, which the official WordPress account shared and […]
2026.37: Duo Threats
The best Stratechery content from the week of September 7, 2026, including the arrival of the Duo, AI that benefits humanity, and closing the book on a catastrophe.
Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
From Breaking Tech News to Backing It - dot.LA
From Breaking Tech News to Backing It dot.LA
GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure
GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server under
We unfolded the iPhone Duo
You only get one chance at a first impression, and getting to introduce Apple's first folding phone is certainly a strong way to start things off as Apple's CEO. On The Vergecast today, we're talking all about Apple's launch event: how John Ternus did in his first appearance as CEO, what we make of the […]
The White House calls Truth Social the ‘most powerful and popular’ social media platform
The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, is at odds with the user counts from some of the biggest social media platforms on the web. Data gathered […]
Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model assumes the role of a "teacher" to
Ukraine: Russian strike on Kyiv gas station kills 2
With fighting on the front lines mostly stalled, Russia has been increasingly hitting petrol stations and other civilian targets. Ukraine has also been attacking Russia with drones, killing three people on Friday.