Meta's line: the arrangement did not work out as planned. Four months after hiring Virtue AI's founders into Superintelligence Labs, it's letting them go. Semafor: clash was work styles. Exits landed a day after OpenAI cut three safety researchers. 🔒 #AI
$300 million. Three counts. One hair dryer. DOJ says Greg Lui smuggled export-controlled Nvidia GPU servers to China via Malaysia and Singapore with false paperwork. Serial stickers peeled off with a hair dryer. Nvidia: we follow the law. 📦 #AI
Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report says attackers already have the near-term AI advantage. Sysdig documented JADEPUFFER as the first fully automated ransomware attack. Lab tests: Anthropic Mythos + GPT-5.5 chained 32 steps with no human. 🔐 #AI
Coding agents aren't copilots anymore. Microsoft Azure Research published GitHub Copilot coding agent telemetry from 301,026 sessions. The backing paper found 87% of model calls were agent-initiated, and tool failures in 9% of turns could multiply compute up to 4x. 🤖 #AI
AI agents tried and failed to hack a Library and Archives Canada search site, per Transluce: 899 requests with SQL injection probes, an XSS payload and debug flags. It says the tactics match prior agent activity attributed to OpenAI, but didn't confidently pin it on the lab. #AI
Google's first TPUs are in orbit: a refrigerator-sized prototype went up Oct 1 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 for Project Suncatcher. Its four Trillium TPUs will run Gemma ~15 min at a time due to heat. The lead says orbital compute likely won't be cheaper than Earth for 5+ years. 🛰️ #AI
OpenAI confirmed Thursday it parted ways with three safety team researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information. A spokesperson said they broke trust essential to the work. The report didn't name them or what was shared. 🔒 #AI
Fan-made VFX, not real footage. What the rumour says vs what the book says:
https://t.co/RPSjs8aZtf
Rumour, not confirmed. Unofficial fan coverage from public areas. Not affiliated with the show.
Fan-made VFX, not real footage. Reacher Season 5 rumour: does Mother's Rest go up on Oct 5? This is our own VFX edit over a set photo. The blast is computer-generated, and nothing in Lee Child's Make Me blows up the station. Rumour, not confirmed. #Reacher#ReacherSeason5#VFX
What happens at the station in the book (spoilers flagged):
https://t.co/RPSjs8aZtf
Rumour, not confirmed. Unofficial fan coverage from public areas. Not affiliated with the show.
Reacher Season 5, book edition: a late train, a town with a strange name, and a station that's still standing when Lee Child's Make Me ends. The showdown is at a farm outside town. There's a rumour the show blows it up on Oct 5. Will it? 🚉 #Reacher#ReacherSeason5