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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a CBS interview there is a '0% chance' AI will destroy humanity by 2030, dismissing fears raised by Anthropic's former alignment lead Evan Hubinger, who put the odds above 10% within a decade. Huang argued such warnings serve political or attention-seeking motives rather than genuine risk assessment, and said AI developers can manage safety without added government regulation.
Following OpenAI's announced solution to a Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize variant, thousands of mathematicians signed declarations like the Leiden Declaration and Math and AI letters seeking to protect research norms, while others opposed events such as the Caltech Mathathon. Economists and technologists pushed back, arguing mathematicians should adapt rather than resist AI's growing role. Po-Shen Loh's essay examines these objections and questions whether human mathematicians remain necessary.
DailyObjects has released the Node, a modular wireless charging system that lets users rearrange and detach individual charging pucks rather than being locked into one fixed hub layout for phone, earbuds, and smartwatch. Reviewer Dhruv Bhutani tested it for over a month, noting its pieces can be carried separately, unlike most all-in-one charging stations on the market.
A Kremlin-released clip of Vladimir Putin casting an online ballot in Russia's State Duma elections shows an 'Activate Windows' watermark on his screen, indicating unlicensed software running on what appears to be a Dell computer. The footage has spread widely online, with observers noting both the software issue and Putin's apparent unfamiliarity with the mouse. State media confirmed the vote covered the 9th State Duma, including newly annexed Ukrainian territories.
Conservative activists like Molly McCann Sanders of the Eagle Forum are publicly rejecting Trump's pro-data-center stance, citing pollution and land-use fears. Polling from the New York Times shows over 60% of Americans, including nearly half of Republicans, oppose new data center construction, and GOP strategists have warned in internal memos that supporting AI infrastructure could hurt candidates in the midterms.
A WIRED reviewer tested Meta's newly launched Muse app, an AI agent that connects to email, bank accounts and other personal data to handle tasks like bookings and errands. Though Muse downloaded over 900,000 times in its first week and browses the web more smoothly than earlier agents, the reviewer found it seemed more focused on gathering personal information than completing requested tasks.
Microsoft has submitted a patent application, US 2026/0260258 A1, outlining a system that inserts ads into PC and console games at points the game itself flags as natural breaks—like after a boss fight, at the end of a cutscene, or during a loading screen—rather than on a fixed timer. Players would first get an ad-free window, either time-based or tied to progress, and watching an ad afterward would earn a 'credit' extending uninterrupted play.
Checkmarx researchers uncovered a malicious npm package called 'indexed-btree,' which mimics the legitimate 'sorted-btree' library and has racked up 2 million weekly downloads. Rather than embedding malicious code in install scripts—now restricted by npm's June 2026 security measures—the attackers hid a malware loader inside the package's commonly used BTree.prototype.set() method, which activates only when called with a specific key. Once triggered, the malware gathers system data such as hostname, CPU, memory, and uptime, and sends it to attackers who reportedly control a wallet holding 109 ETH, though its link to this campaign is unconfirmed.
OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs are promoting costly independent safety evaluations and a slower pace of frontier model releases. Some investors and analysts argue this push, while addressing genuine safety concerns, could function as a barrier that only well-funded labs can afford to clear.
PS Audio and Naim have both discontinued flagship CD-playing products, the PMG Super Audio CD Transport and Uniti Star, after their optical drive suppliers stopped making key mechanisms. The trouble traces back to D&M Holdings, owner of Denon and Marantz, which in mid-2024 announced it would stop taking orders for its SACD/CD mechanism, prompting a scramble among audio brands that doubled component prices before supply ran out entirely.
A screenshot circulated online showing the US Federal Register's search interface offering Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3:0.6B language model as a search option alongside the default semantic search. About a day after the screenshot spread, the Qwen options disappeared from the site, though an archived snapshot from September 16 confirms they existed.
A tip circulating on Reddit shows that installing Duolingo's website as a web app rather than using the native mobile app brings back the classic hearts-based mistake system and removes advertisements entirely, according to Android Authority. The report says the workaround works for both free and Super Duolingo subscribers, cutting down on gamified prompts and extra taps between lessons.