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We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
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Crypto’s irony is that it usually is attacked first and mocked for its operational failures
Yet the competition ends up looted more aggressively later by the same actors (🇰🇵) and reluctantly adopts the security solutions that wouldn’t exist without crypto being attacked first
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
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SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Not your bank. Not your money.
BREAKING: AI AGENTS ARE ACCESSING MAJOR U.S. BANK ACCOUNTS WITHOUT BANK APPROVAL.
According to Axios, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are dealing with unauthorized third party AI agents accessing customer accounts.
Some agents reportedly attempted actions beyond what customers instructed them to do.
And this comes just one day after another shocking report that hackers reportedly used Claude, Grok and other AI models to automate attacks on over 400 financial targets across Latin America.
Episode 1 featured posts from @nickcammarata, @KobeissiLetter, @gregisenberg and @treeonchain. Thanks for the great reads!
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Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
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‼️ BREAKING: 8 Private keys belonging to eMudhra intermediate certificate authorities (CA) have been compromised.
Chrome and Firefox blocked the affected certificates within hours. Go, NSS, and other software have issued fixes.
Full details - thehackernews.com/2026/10/ei…
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interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
already-clean.goodfire.com/
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Warehouse robots are here!
Introducing Flexport's newest automated fulfillment center just outside of Chicago.
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0/ Gigantic thank you to the now dozens of contributors who have together helped push this problem to the frontiers. Really inspiring to see everyone working together like this.
I wanted to use this thread to acknowledge and highlight everyone's contributions so far. And also to encourage more people to give it a try. The problem is still quite open. Now's your change to contribute to frontier math!
(As an aside, tried to link to each contributor's twitter if I had it. But if I don't and you want to share, please let me know so I can encourage others to follow you)
Validated and merged Rohan's PR. Big gain on a really difficult regime (that frankly I was stuck at). Incredible work.
κ = 2⁻¹⁵ (tightened from κ = 2⁻¹⁸²)
A 500 thousand fold improvement over the previous result and a 2 ^ 167 fold improvement over the original OpenAI result.
This result was a true community effort that combined techniques from a number of contributors. I want to take time to highlight each of them, but for now getting these results verified and published as fast as possible so everyone working on the problem is at the leading edge.
