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The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People - for the First Time In History (slashdot.org)
2026-9-6

Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously” (abcnews.com)
2026-9-6 Trump

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (www.geekwire.com)
2026-9-6 Microsoft AI Seattle

Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-6 Switzerland

Cancer Deaths Attributable to Alcohol Rose 58% Over the Last 33 Years (science.slashdot.org)
2026-9-6

Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-6 Germany

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-6 AI

Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-6 Blockchain

Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-5

Handle PDFs on your Mac like an expert with this $80 deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-5

Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles (restofworld.org)
2026-9-5 China AI Credit Card

OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-5 AI

OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox (slashdot.org)
2026-9-5 Germany

In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment (x.com)
2026-9-5

Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-5 China AI

Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-5

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (arstechnica.com)
2026-9-5 Microsoft AI

The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia (therecord.media)
2026-9-5 Asia Southeast Asia

Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity (www.mobihealthnews.com)
2026-9-5 AI Equity

Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B (www.moneycontrol.com)
2026-9-5 India Fintech Credit Card

'Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-9-5

Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-5 Nvidia

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-5 Microsoft

Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs “once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned” (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-5 Nvidia

Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-5 China AI

Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-5 IPO

California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (www.politico.com)
2026-9-5 California

Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-5 Google Startup AI

Anthropic says Claude worked “largely autonomously” over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language (www.anthropic.com)
2026-9-5 programming

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-5 IPO Startup AI Nvidia London

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