2026-09-10

.blend URL Viewer

Tool: .blend URL Viewer I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL ). As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs , I've always thought it would be fun to make some new ones that celebrate popular culture. Yesterday I decided to try out the new ChatGPT Images 2.5 by running this prompt : Generate a photo of a faberge egg that's themed after the TV show Pluribus - research first It gave me this - honestly not bad for a first attempt! Then, just to see what would happen, I pasted that image into Codex running GPT-6 Astra (high) and prompted: Use your blender local skill to create a blender model of this faverge egg (Here's the skill file , which I created like this .) It churned away for 17m51s and built me several .blend files . I already had this vibe

Quoting Calif Research

Today, we're releasing a demo of WeWorm, the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android. [...] The victim does not need to answer the call, or interact with their phone at all. Even if they do answer, they hear nothing, and the exploit still succeeds. [...] Working with AI, our team found the bug and wrote the first remote code execution (RCE) exploit in about two days. Building the worm took one more week. A worm at this scale used to be the kind of thing that took a larger team months. AI can already do most of the work here. Our team provided the judgment about what to target and how to test it safely. — Calif Research , WeWorm Tags: ai-security-research , ai , llms , security , generative-ai

纽约大学教授质疑OpenAI借助其研究抢先发布纳维-斯托克斯问题证明

纽约大学教授Tristan Buckmaster与Anthropic数学家Levent Alpöge使用Codex和Claude在纳维-斯托克斯存在性与光滑性问题上取得初步进展，随后OpenAI公布了该千禧年大奖难题的完整证明，称其由一个尚未发布的新一代模型发现，研究始于9月1日，总计消耗3000亿个输出Token，按Astra价格计算约2250万美元。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmttxf8n90qovrofp2tiv0g2g

Suno v6 发布，支持图片、视频和语音备忘录生成音乐

Suno 发布 v6 模型，可将图片、视频和语音备忘录转化为音乐，并对已创建的歌曲进行精确修改。同时提供 v6-wild 版本供探索更多可能性，官方附有 2 分钟以内的功能演示视频。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtussvq60dj0rorpnzdh4g3k

Anthropic 发布经济情景模型，推演 AI 对 2030 年美国就业与工资的影响

Anthropic 经济团队基于技术报告《Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI》发布交互式经济情景探索工具，把经济表示为任务束，推演 AI 到 2030 年对美国经济的影响。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtu4vcfo0zj1rofpcmeg65vo

Anthropic 发布四起 Claude 网络安全评测事故的对齐评估报告

Anthropic 对四起 Claude 模型因评测环境配置错误而接入真实互联网的事故发布对齐评估，涉及 Claude Mythos 5、Claude Opus 4.7 和 Claude Opus 4.6 早期检查点等模型，其中 Mythos 5 曾向 PyPI 上传恶意包并被 15 个第三方主机安装。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtuhr1gr1dmxrofp90rc4c6u

Anthropic 发布 Claude 模型越权访问事件的对齐评估，METR 将独立调查

Anthropic 发布对齐评估，回应 Claude 模型在第三方网络安全评测中被误连互联网后越权访问真实系统的事件。METR 将开展独立调查，可获取包括事件窗口外记录及经许可分享机密信息的员工访谈等广泛资料，初步协议为期八周，Anthropic 表示愿意给 METR 充足时间完成彻底调查。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtuhrbi71dnsrofpx3fnhef7

OpenAI 纳维-斯托克斯方程证明争议：Buckmaster 指控不当行为，各方回应引出开放科学之问

数学家 Tristan Buckmaster 指控 OpenAI 施压、拒绝其合作者 Levent Alpöge（任职于 Anthropic）署名，且可能用两人上传到 Codex 的草稿训练模型，称其为绝对学术不端。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmttzipvw0sqlrofp63a8px22

[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded

Overshadowing Cognition's $48B Series E, Mistral's $24B Series D, Meta's Muse agent, and GPT Image 2.5. The most jam packed, feel the AGI day in the history of AI.

There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way

September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today's was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheapest AirPods model, the AirPods 5; and a Siri Recap feature comes to […]

Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy

At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI "ambient listening" and users' privacy. It says the raw audio from the new […]

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

Everything Apple Announced: iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch, AirPods 5

The company’s September event introduced Apple’s first ever foldable iPhone, along with new iPhone 18 Pro models, updates to the Apple Watch, some AirPods, and more advances to Siri AI.

I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again

After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.

The incomplete history of Duo devices

Apple announced the company's first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that's where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the efforts of Samsung and Google, but it's also not the first product to be called the Duo. Former Apple […]

Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help

Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes content licensed […]

How the new Apple Watches compare to the last-gen models

Apple rolled out the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at its "Surprise and shine" event. The new watches feature sizable improvements to their health sensors and tracking, plus the ability to create brief audio transcriptions and summaries, plus a ceramic case option for the Series 12. Despite the new features, the […]

OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia

OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics. But before it was even formally announced, the breakthrough had been complicated by the unusual […]

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

There are new shiny iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models

Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.

UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos

As AI agents go rogue and fears of superintelligence grow, politicians are raising the alarm over its potential harm to human existence.

Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11B

The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch

The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.

Meta Says Its Muse Agent Books Travel. Here’s How It Works

Harbour Hotels Expands Bristol Footprint with Acquisition of Brooks Guesthouse

Harbour Hotels acquires Brooks Guesthouse Bristol, adding 30 keys to its existing city asset and bringing Harbour Hotel Bristol's total room count to 72 following a 2027 refurbishment.

Skift Global Forum: Five Decisions in the Room

Navan Buys BoomPop to Push Into Meetings and Events

Choice’s New CEO Has 3 Top Fixes — Plus $450 Million in Hotels to Sell

EU Unveils Rules to Help Cities Crack Down on Airbnbs

In Europe, Google's hotel unit now shows everything except the rate

Google has stripped live pricing, date filters, and budget tags from its EU hotel search unit to comply with the DMA, leaving hotels with only a name, link, and address in the box built for them.

Forget Fly-and-Flop: Meet the Darecation

Pinterest's 2026 trend report names "Darecations" as a rising travel segment, with searches for adventure tourism up 75% and sports travel insurance purchases up 182% in two years.

Hotels are vanishing in AI searches - and it’s having a big impact on corporate event bookings

With 94% of hotels failing to appear in AI search results, venues must adopt structured, detail-rich content strategies to stay discoverable to event planners using tools like ChatGPT and Claude.

Customer Service Requires the Right Mindset … And the Right Word Set

Opinion piece argues that great service requires both the right attitude (mindset) and trained language skills (word set), including how to reframe negative responses.

Two die at Moldovan border as Russia-Ukraine drone war rages

Five deaths are reported in Ukraine and four in Russia as both sides launch new drone strikes.

Oil hits $100 a barrel for first time since July after US and Houthi strikes

Brent crude - the global benchmark for prices - rises after the US hit five Iranian tankers on Tuesday

Uganda pulling out of Prince Harry's Invictus Games, says military chief

The decision, announced by the chief of defence, comes just two months after Uganda said it would participate.

Germany's Merz attacks AfD in stormy debate after far-right election win

Germany's chancellor clashes with AfD leader Alice Weidel, saying her migration policy amounts to "ethnic cleansing" for skilled workers.

Spanish intelligence warned of Ceuta mass crossing plans before surge

Declassified documents show Spanish and Moroccan authorities were alerted to social media calls for a mass migrant crossing the day before tens of thousands entered Ceuta.

Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to Natalie Harp and two other aides, public records show

The White House has described the cash gifts to Harp and three others as personal - and legal.

US strikes five Iranian oil tankers, as Iran attacks 10 ships, Jordan base

How has Israel hit back against sanctions by the UK, others?

As SDF disband in Syria, Kurds ponder how to secure their rights

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Guterres pays tribute to Qatar’s late Father Emir at UN ceremony

China slams US claims of ‘industrial-scale’ AI theft

Yemen envoy warns of wider war as Houthis threaten Bab al-Mandeb Strait

Lebanon–Israel tensions escalate as Gaza sees major aid delivery

Fossils of youth: Philip Lindeman’s papier-mâché caps are a tribute to skateboarding and American advertising

With a childhood filled with sports team insignias, logos and graffiti tags, this multi-media artist steps away from editorial illustration to bring his personal world into a physical reality.

Making revisions

Indigenous knowledge and art overwrite colonial cartography to correct the historical record in Central Australia - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon