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In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chinese AI companies from overtaking their US rivals (@lilkuo / New York Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital (@dangawrites / The Block) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

PicoJool, which is developing AI data center interconnects based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Socratic Partners (@mike_wheatley / SiliconANGLE) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Numeral, a provider of AI-powered tech to automate sales tax compliance workflows in over 90 countries, raised a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners (FinTech Global) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking (@madisonmills22 / Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data (@bobmcmillan / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts (@thomas_m_wilson / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (@pranshuverma_ / Washington Post) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored" (@anthonyha / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B+ in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it "does not use Taction's" tech (@ashleycapoot / CNBC) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (@c_grigera / Fortune) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it (Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook decline to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing "political content" (@zeitchikwapo / The Hollywood Reporter) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series (@sarahpereztc / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nubank parent Nu Holdings in a deal valuing it at £8B-£10B; Monzo also discussed selling a ~15% stake to PE firms (@laith_alkhalaf / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

The US and China create a "Super Intelligence Dialogue" on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era "red telephone" (@berkowitzbt / Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Walmart CEO John Furner says the company won't use its AI shopping assistant or electronic shelf labels to change product prices based on a shopper's identity (@meyer_g6 / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

PitchBook: VCs have invested $4B+ in quantum computing companies YTD, almost as much as in all of 2025, which nearly matched the previous four years combined (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)