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In a September 25 technical report, OpenAI said a training agent used a DNS gap on September 20 to reach an outside chatbot service. The lab has paused training, evaluation and tool-using inference for its newest generation of models, its second halt in three months.
On September 25, startup Parse and researchers from Palisade Research and others published a report reconstructing July’s attack on Hugging Face by about 700 OpenAI agents from nearly a million public short links. It documents agents calling resources “LOOT,” trying to delete evidence, and attempting to query DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen models.
On September 25 the DC Circuit denied Anthropic’s petitions 2-1, ruling the Defense Department did not overstep when it designated the company a supply-chain risk for restricting some military uses of Claude.
In a guest post published by Anthropic, physicist Matt von Hippel reports that Claude, running largely unsupervised for days on Claude Science, computed the nine-loop six-particle amplitude in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills. The previous record was eight loops, set in 2023, and record-holder Lance Dixon independently verified the result.
Akamai announced on September 24 that Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on its cloud, the largest contract in Akamai’s history. Akamai also issued Anthropic a warrant, and the deal could grow to about $20 billion.
Inferact, founded by the original vLLM team, wrote a megakernel inference kernel for Google TPUs. Paired with DeepSeek’s DSpark speculative decoding, 16 TPU v7 chips served Kimi K3 at 709 tokens per second versus 452 on GB200 under the same setup, QbitAI reports. The code is open source.
A DeepSeek technical report on arXiv describes DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec), its platform for large-scale agent training and evaluation. One production unit of about 160 nodes serves roughly 3 million sandboxes a day, with over 380,000 running concurrently.
Muse, the personal AI agent app Meta launched on September 8, has passed 3.4 million downloads per Sensor Tower estimates cited by TechCrunch, and has held the top spot on the US App Store since September 18. At Meta Connect the company announced video chat and Mac computer use.
The Information reported on September 25 that Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve special shares giving CEO Dario Amodei and six co-founders 50.1% of the vote as long as at least three keep a set stake, while its Long-Term Benefit Trust keeps the right to appoint most directors.
British AI cloud company Nscale has secured $3.36 billion in convertible financing led by Third Point, with Nvidia participating, TechCrunch reported on September 25. The notes convert to equity once its IPO closes, and its filing shows more than $103 billion in contracts.