01Meta Built a Humanoid Prototype in Three Months With a Chinese Partner [AI Models & Research]The Information reports Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese startup Fourier in about three months and is already working on a second; Reuters could not immediately verify it. Codenamed Max, it runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip — and Meta says it has no plans to sell it. → source
02A New Test Rates Whether AI Can Name Its Sources [AI Models & Research]Researchers at MIT have published a benchmark that trains AI models on invented facts with a guaranteed source, so the tools tracing an answer back to its training texts can finally be graded honestly. That evidence underpins the copyright suits now moving through court. → source
03A ChatGPT Share Link Could Run Code in Your Session [AI Tools & Ecosystem]Security firm Parameter Labs found a chain of small flaws that let a malicious ChatGPT share link run code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, Simon Willison notes. OpenAI patched the hole and paid $5,000 — which Willison calls 'a bit cheap' for the severity. → source
04Altman Says Your PC's Idle RAM Should Feed His Data Centers [AI Tools & Ecosystem]On the Cheeky Pint podcast, Sam Altman called it 'quite terrible' for the world's limited DRAM supply to sit in home computers used 5% of the time, arguing cloud data centers use it far more efficiently. Memory-hungry data centers are already pushing PC prices up. → source
05AI Inference Startup Baseten Doubles Its Valuation in Four Months [AI Tools & Ecosystem]Baseten, which builds the infrastructure companies use to serve AI models, is raising about $2 billion across two tranches valuing it at $26 billion and $30 billion, Bloomberg reports. That is double the $13 billion it reached in June; investors are still paying up to keep models running. → source
06Publishers' AI Detectors Are Falsely Flagging Their Writers [AI Tools & Ecosystem]A veteran ghostwriter told NPR that multiple AI-detection tools flagged her entirely human writing sample, a screening clients rarely mention. Some writers now deliberately mistype and drop their em dashes to seem more human. The flags are quietly reshaping how professionals write. → source
07OpenAI Cuts Its $30 Billion Round Target to $20 Billion as Investors Balk [AI Applications & Industry]OpenAI has cut the target for its latest mega-round to $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $30 billion, as large investors balked amid the AI stock sell-off, the Financial Times reports. The Wall Street Journal says about $11 billion is committed so far. → source
08S&P Flags Meta's AI Spending as a Credit Risk [AI Applications & Industry]S&P cut its outlook on Meta from stable to negative over runaway AI spending and negative free cash flow, keeping the rating at AA-. It expects $71 billion of cash burned in 2027, capital spending topping $225 billion, and doubts Meta can monetize AI as well as its rivals. → source
09Bond Markets Are Shutting the Door on AI Data-Center Lenders [AI Applications & Industry]CoreWeave, Nebius and Nscale have effectively been shut out of the bond market in recent weeks as lenders demand tougher terms, the Wall Street Journal reports. For an AI build-out increasingly financed with debt, the cost of money is becoming the binding constraint. → source
10Foxconn Lines Up a Bigger AI Deal With OpenAI [AI Applications & Industry]At its annual tech day, iPhone assembler Foxconn said it is working on a fresh tie-up with OpenAI, building on last year's agreement to co-design data-center racks, and chairman Young Liu said there is no AI bubble. Its AI-server business already generates more than half of revenue. → source
11Apple's New CEO: No AI for AI's Sake [AI Applications & Industry]In a 30-minute Wired interview, Apple's new CEO John Ternus said the company doesn't 'want to ship AI for AI's sake' and that he likes where the company stands after years of being called behind. His test for any feature: whether people love the product, not that it was AI. → source
12Court Clears NAACP's Pollution Suit Over xAI's Memphis Turbines [AI Applications & Industry]A federal judge on Friday let the NAACP's Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's Memphis-area data center proceed, ruling its gas turbines are not exempt 'mobile sources' and rejecting the argument that citizen suits are unconstitutional. The filing says xAI has run at least 35 turbines without the required permits. → source
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