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Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows that rentosertib, a drug developed to treat a chronic lung disease, could slow aging (Cade Metz/New York Times)
A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage (Financial Times)
Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing (Bloomberg)
Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions (Nikkei Asia)
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (Cal Newport/New York Times)
A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)
LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M (Reuters)
An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after "purported white-hat hackers" withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls (Nikkei Asia)
How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners (New York Times)
Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy (Simon Foy/Financial Times)
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI)
Analysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade (Valida Pau/The Information)

Wired

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Tesla’s Make-or-Break Cybercab Had a Quiet Debut
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
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