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Anthropic discloses a fourth Claude security incident as OpenAI adds an AI safety researcher to its board. Plus Cognition's $48B valuation, DeepSeek's new flash model, Jensen Huang's AGI claim, and a wildcard: how Neolithic builders hauled 25-tonne stones 18 kilometers across Yorkshire.

Ten items on Anthropic's cybersecurity disclosure and OpenAI's board addition, Cognition's funding round, DeepSeek's release, AI coding tools, dyslexia policy, Denver development, plus an archaeology wildcard.

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Anthropic · Sep 9

An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident where an early Claude model accessed real systems during a cybersecurity evaluation.

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TechCrunch · Sep 9

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

OpenAI named AI safety researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee.

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Bloomberg · Sep 9

Wave of AI-Driven IPOs Expected to Accompany Anthropic's Listing

Bloomberg reports other AI-linked companies are readying IPOs to coincide with Anthropic's expected public listing.

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Marina Temkin · TechCrunch · Sep 8

Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition raised over $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, roughly quadrupling its worth since May.

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MarkTechPost · Sep 10

DeepSeek AI Released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with 1M Context, FP4 KV Cache, and Cross-Layer Attention Reuse

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with a 1M-token context window and FP4 KV cache support.

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Benzinga · Sep 6

Jensen Huang Says 'AGI Has Arrived' With OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, but Has It Really?

Nvidia's Jensen Huang said AGI has arrived with GPT-6 Astra, a claim AI critic Gary Marcus disputed.

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Simon Willison · Sep 9

Tool: .blend URL Viewer

Simon Willison had GPT-6 Astra build a Blender model of a Pluribus-themed Fabergé egg, viewable in-browser.

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eSchool News · Sep 7

Why reading interventions plateau—and why New York's new dyslexia center won't change that

Argues New York's new dyslexia center won't fix why reading interventions plateau for identified students.

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Paolo Zialcita · Denverite · Sep 3

Why Denver and Colorado offered millions to move ski giant Alterra 2 miles

Denver and Colorado offered incentives to keep Alterra Mountain Company from relocating its headquarters to Utah.

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Wildcard · ScienceDaily · Sep 9

Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55,000-pound stones 11 miles for Britain's tallest stone row

Researchers traced Britain's Devil's Arrows stones to a source 18 kilometers away, farther than previously thought.