Tuesday 6 October · 547 items from 63 sources
Australia and Queensland
The scarce layer. Thin is accurate, not a defect.
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Finance met with state counterparts on KPMG contract issues
Finance consults states on KPMG procurement as FOI documents reveal scrutiny over ethical breaches and government contracts. The post Finance met with state counterparts on KPMG contract issues…
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Public administration when citizens can’t exit: The ATO credit card decision
OPINION | Small businesses can change banks or accountants, but have to stick with the ATO. What does a tax agency owe those who are forced to deal with it? The post Public administration when…
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Microsoft spots new twist on ClickFix "cache smuggling"
Attackers now fish their malware out of the browser cache by file size alone.
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Apple says it will flag AI requests for Mac data
After Meta's Muse draws complaints.
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Australia's Firmus to allocate half of IPO to existing investors
AI factory builder prepares float.
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Queensland audit costs exceed targets
QAO issued 414 audit opinions and tabled 17 reports. Audits averaged $241,159, above its $190,000 target. The post Queensland audit costs exceed targets appeared first on The Mandarin .
The writers
What it means, and whether the claim survives contact with reality.
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Quoting Felix Rieseberg
The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, and security…
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Introducing Dan Kagan-Kans
Understanding AI has a new writer!
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Monday assorted links
1. Jokic. And another angle. 2. Six questions for believers in AI consciousness. 3. Prediction markets do not seem to be politically biased. 4. “AI writing is absent before 2023, present in 29% of…
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Why agent swarms could be the next “scaling law”
An OpenAI researcher called it “the most ‘feel the AGI’ moment that I had since reasoning models.”
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“Authenticity is exactly the same as phoniness.”
Authenticity doesn’t interest me. It’s a way of marketing subpar material: this might not be any good, but at least it’s sincere. You can always tell when a book is going to be dogshit because the…
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Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build Your First Agent with MCP
Developers already have useful capabilities exposed through REST APIs. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets developers make those capabilities available to AI clients without rebuilding the…
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📈 Monday data: More AI, more justice?
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The Greg Clark Symposium
Earlier I wrote “Greg Clark may well be the most important social scientist of the 21st century.” Thus, the symposium in Econ Journal Watch on Clark’s new but perhaps not forthcoming book is very…
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Open Thread 454
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Another Historic Cipher Falls to AI
This one is from 1809, written by Napoleon’s nephew.
Frontier
What actually shipped.
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Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle
Education Innovation
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Our approach to EU text provenance rules
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.
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From Scan to Treatment Plan, AI Helps Close Breast Cancer’s Deadliest Gaps
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women — yet the gaps in care are wide. A majority of women over age 40 skip the recommended annual screening. Radiologists are…
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Building advertising for the way people use AI
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.
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Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
Designed artifacts are ontological, shaping, and at times limiting, what becomes possible or imaginable. One path toward mitigating such foreclosures is giving people power over how systems are…
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A model guide for the GPT-6 family
Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.
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Toward provably private learning from federated data
Mobile Systems
Governance
Regulators, standards, security.
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Physicist Jun Ye Wins Wolf Prize in Physics
The award cites Ye’s achievement in “transformative, widely applicable advances in the control of ultracold atomic systems.”
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Building the foundations for better data sharing across the UK
Data has the potential to improve services, support innovation and drive growth, but sharing it across organisations can be complex and costly. GDS is supporting the National Digital Twin Programme,…
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NIST Provides Updates on National Construction Safety Team Activities
The presentations highlighted the importance of NIST applying its own expertise and the expertise of others through collaborations and contracts.
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NIST Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Support Cybersecurity Workforce Development Across 8 States
Projects will address local cybersecurity workforce needs and will offer practical learning opportunities including internships, apprenticeships and hands-on projects.
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NIST Awards More Than $30 Million for MEP Centers in 11 States and Puerto Rico
The awards will help small and medium-sized manufacturers increase the adoption of advanced manufacturing technology.
Adoption
What organisations are doing, with money attached.
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Vuly founder says ACCC action will mean fewer promotions this Christmas
Vuly founder Joe Andon says the retailer accepts the ACCC’s concerns over its previous Black Friday promotions, but the changes will mean fewer opportunities for shoppers to save. The post Vuly…
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Amazon job ad reveals plans for Australian drone deliveries
A new Amazon job posting has revealed the ecommerce giant is laying the groundwork to establish and launch its Prime Air drone delivery service in Australia. The post Amazon job ad reveals plans for…
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Thousands sign petition to bar “AI slop vendors” from Oz Comic-Con
The petition calls for Oz Comic-Con organiser Expertise Events to outline its policy on AI-generated artwork, and ban AI artists from artist alleys. The post Thousands sign petition to bar “AI slop…
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Government urged to restore funding for axed Cyber Wardens program
The Cyber Wardens program provided free online cyber security training to small businesses. The post Government urged to restore funding for axed Cyber Wardens program appeared first on SmartCompany .
Research
Titles only, for scanning.
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Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?
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MintFlow: Minimal Trajectory Intervention for Constrained Flow Matching
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Fast Models, Slow Evidence: A Paired and Self-Audited Evaluation of System-1 Decision Models for LLM Agent Harnesses
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The AI Risk Observatory: What Can We Learn from AI Disclosures in Annual Reports About Societal Resilience?
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Keep It CALM: Analyzing the Limits of Global Unsafety in Text-to-Image Generation
Build
For the making side.
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AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment
Article URL: https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972419 Points: 15 # Comments: 5
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Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock
GLM 5.3 from Z.ai is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts model built for coding and long-horizon agentic tasks. Learn how to invoke it with the OpenAI-compatible…
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Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle
Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972211 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
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Ephemeral Testing
Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972008 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
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Worth Building
Article URL: https://armstr.ng/writing/worth-building Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971952 Points: 29 # Comments: 16
Press
Last, deliberately. It reports what the layers above have usually already explained.
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Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years
The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.
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OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
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Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
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After Factory’s public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests
Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.
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Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI…
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Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain…
Open
The sources that refuse ingestion, one tap away.