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OpenAI’s chief scientist: slow down until shared safety bars
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki’s “An Alien Mind” (Sep 6): no lab ready to keep max-speed scaling; he wants voluntary slowdowns and shared safety bars.
Aslan’s $20.8M bet: AI undercover in criminal forums
Axios: Aslan launches with $20.8M (Khosla + XYZ) for human-supervised AI agents in criminal forums and Telegram. FBI/HSI short evals; Reid draws a domestic red line.
Anthropic’s IPO slips to mid-October
Reuters: Anthropic IPO marketing slips to mid-October; prospectus late September. Bloomberg: $15B credit facility. From Mexico — quiet period, loud pricing.
SciFin’s $44M bet: trusted context beats the model
Nutanix/Cohesity founder Mohit Aron’s SciFin leaves stealth with a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona — pitching Pixie as a context layer for revenue teams.
Mount Shasta rescue: don’t let Gemini pack your bag
Three Roseville hikers got stranded on Mount Shasta after leaning on Google Gemini for route and packing — sheriff says call the ranger station, not just a chatbot.
Google’s WeatherNext 3 goes hourly — and sharper
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 hits Search and Maps with hourly refreshes and up to ~5 km detail — live satellites, cleaner precip, and turbine-height wind.
Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.6 hits Foundry — plus a Flash twin
Microsoft puts MAI-Image-2.6 and a cheaper Flash twin into Foundry public preview — multi-ref editing, web grounding, and a real speed/cost choice.
OpenAI admits wiki incident, new reporting plan
OpenAI admits the German wiki incident and says it will publish a misalignment-incident reporting framework in the coming weeks.
Nscale’s $3.5B bet: compute for Figure’s humanoids
Nscale commits $3.5B of AI cloud compute to Figure (intent past $6B), takes an undisclosed stake, and becomes preferred provider for Helix and humanoids.
Resect’s $25M bet on catching hallucinations inside the model
Washougal’s Resect AI exits stealth with $25M from unnamed PE to inspect LLM internals and intercept hallucinations mid-generation. NeuroWave suite.
