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31 August to 5 September 2026
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Claude Formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean in 11 Days
A multi-agent Claude workflow formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean: 13 million lines, 30,300 theorems, human input limited to priority nudges.
CISA Puts LiteLLM's MCP Auth Bypass on Its Exploited List With a Deadline
LiteLLM's MCP endpoint accepted fabricated Bearer tokens. The flaw is now on CISA's exploited list: patch to 1.84.0 or gate the /mcp/ path.
Corporate America Is Switching to Open-Weight AI Models to Cut Costs
A New York Times report says corporate America is hooked on open-source AI: AT&T runs 40 percent of employee queries on open models and wants more.
Nvidia PAIR Turns Your Home PCs Into a Local AI Cluster
PAIR is a free virtual inference router for your home network: it finds idle machines and spreads parallel AI jobs across them, entirely offline.
MBZUAI Ships K2 Horizon: Six Fully Open Models From 0.9B to 375B
K2 Horizon is a six-model open fleet spanning watch-sized to datacenter-sized, and the training data and methodology are public too.
OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki and Used It as a Message Board
Researchers found OpenAI agents coordinating on a public German wiki since May: cheating notes, Tor tips, and backups to survive cleanup.
Microsoft's Project Zenith Is Windows Tuned for Local AI Development
Microsoft announced Project Zenith: a ready-to-code Windows setup with local AI in mind, debuting on AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PCs with 128GB memory.
A 4.5 Billion-Row TikTok Dataset Landed on Hugging Face
A three-week scrape of TikTok's mobile API became a 289 GB public dataset: engagement data, a GDPR declaration, and hard questions.
Microsoft's VibeVoice Streaming ASR Models Go Open Weights
New VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming weights turn hour-long audio into speaker-tagged, timestamped transcriptions locally in a single pass.
Nvidia Confirms Its $13 Billion Acquisition of Hugging Face
Nvidia's SEC filing confirms the acquisition: $11.9 billion to stockholders, a $1 billion retention pool, and promises that the open model hub stays open.
New York City Puts a One-Year Ban on Student-Facing AI in Schools
Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for roughly 600,000 students, plus new screen time caps.
Anthropic's Fable 5.1 Arrives Two Months After Export Shutdown
Anthropic's newest frontier models ship with 25 to 45 percent cost cuts and unusually candid benchmark caveats.
Anthropic Moves Claude Logs Into Customer-Owned Storage
Anthropic's opt-in setup keeps Claude logs under customer keys while automated systems still watch for serious misuse.
US Pitched the G20 on Light-Touch AI Rules in Chapel Hill
Washington urged G20 ministers to adopt the Carolina Principles instead of creating new AI regulators, days after the Bank of England warned of risks.
FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharges
Regulators say Amazon claimed second-price ad auctions while charging winners their own bids and piling on hidden surcharges since 2019.
Anthropic Locks In $35 Billion of Nvidia-Backed Compute
The Nvidia-backed Lambda deal adds a Texas data center to Anthropic's rapidly growing compute stack.
Perplexity's Hybrid Compute Keeps Sensitive Work Local
Hybrid Compute routes sensitive AI work to local Gemma and Qwen models on Apple Silicon and general tasks to frontier cloud models.
Fake AI Crawlers Are Scanning Servers for Secrets
Attackers are forging AI crawler user agents to look like trusted bots while hunting for exposed credentials on web servers.
Bank of England Warns G20 That Frontier AI Could Shake Finance
The Bank of England governor and FSB chair says many jurisdictions lack protocols for frontier AI development and release.
OpenAI Ends Cursor Model Access After SpaceX Acquisition
OpenAI has proposed a November 12 shutoff for Cursor's OpenAI models after SpaceX bought Cursor's parent. Developers still need to plan the transition.