Thursday 1 October · 547 items from 63 sources
Australia and Queensland
The scarce layer. Thin is accurate, not a defect.
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TPB to flex new powers to protect consumers
New penalties cover criminal breaches of tax agent services and allow the TPB to freeze somebody’s ability to practice as a tax agent. The post TPB to flex new powers to protect consumers appeared…
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How think tanks can actually influence strategic policy
OPINION | Australia is changing fast. To shape policy, move beyond content creation and focus on communicating ideas that challenge stagnant thinking. The post How think tanks can actually influence…
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APS lowball pay offer collides with inflation hike to 4%
Rising CPI and the cash rate leave Finance Minister Katy Gallagher balancing wage restraint with a fair pay deal for federal public servants. The post APS lowball pay offer collides with inflation…
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Queensland backs six recommendations to strengthen corruption watchdog
The recommendations of a periodic parliamentary review of Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Committee have been endorsed in response to report No.113. The post Queensland backs six recommendations…
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NSW election: October marks start of donation disclosures period
Changes to the Electoral Funding Act 2018 mean donation disclosure requirements ahead of the March 2027 election begin this month. The post NSW election: October marks start of donation disclosures…
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Evidence in age of enshittification: Cathy Foley’s survival guide
Former chief scientist Cathy Foley has six questions for policymakers struggling to make sense of the evidence around them. The post Evidence in age of enshittification: Cathy Foley’s survival guide…
The writers
What it means, and whether the claim survives contact with reality.
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Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week
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He Built This City
I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model , the 50 x27 feet model of the city built over a 21 year period from balsa wood and…
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The polity that is Singapore
Police in Singapore have charged a man who is accused of posting an AI-generated image of a saltwater crocodile in a popular reservoir. Ye Lin was charged with communicating a false message and…
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Wednesday assorted links
1. It seems there is no evidence for the concept of a fertility rebound. 2. We will tell children nasty stories, but mostly only show them positive images. 3. Deregulation in Idaho. 4. Weather risk…
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The Agentic Data Science Playbook
The following article originally appeared on Vanishing Gradients and is being republished here with the authors’ permission When an AI agent can explore a dataset, choose a modeling approach, run…
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Last Week in AI #345 - 5 new models, 9 misalignment incidents, some Dots
Anthropic and OpenAI race to release smarter and cheaper models, OpenAI discloses nine misalignment incidents, and more!
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Trump Administration Limits Predatory Lending in Education
The New Republic writes “President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans.” Yes, but do note that no student is banned from any…
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I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior
AI systems are regularly completing tasks in ways that their prompters don’t want or intend. Some of them are disturbing, and some of them are dangerous. This is something I’ve been calling “ genie…
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Evaluating AI-Generated Frontend Code: What Should We Actually Test?
AI can now generate a surprising amount of frontend code from a short description. A developer can ask for a form, a table, a modal, a settings page, or a dashboard view and get something that looks…
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OpenAI Dev Day, Dot and OpenAI’s Product Transition, Sign In With ChatGPT
Frontier
What actually shipped.
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Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
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NVIDIA Opens Applications for 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowships With Awards Up to $60,000
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such…
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Forecasting space weather risks on power grids
Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations. A new machine learning system can predict where damage is likely to occur 30-60…
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Introducing SynthID Bio
Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.
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From Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI
Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple…
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Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.
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Helping small businesses put AI to work
OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.
Governance
Regulators, standards, security.
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Targeted consultation to support a better copyright environment for creativity and innovation
Targeted consultation to support a better copyright environment for creativity and innovation Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/29/2026 - 10:15 Opening: 29 September 2026 Closing: 03 November 2026…
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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.
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NIST Finalizes Guidelines on Protecting Online Identity and Access Tokens From Misuse
The finalized publication is designed to help organizations take effective steps to avoid exposing tokens to attackers.
Adoption
What organisations are doing, with money attached.
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Uber Eats but make it fashion: Target joins on-demand delivery platform
Target shoppers will be able to order new outfits, school uniforms, shoes and more via Uber Eats. The post Uber Eats but make it fashion: Target joins on-demand delivery platform appeared first on…
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Today’s the day: Card surcharges are officially over
Australia's ban on card surcharges kicks in today. Here's everything you need to know. The post Today’s the day: Card surcharges are officially over appeared first on SmartCompany .
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ATO ends credit card payments from November 30 in response to surcharge ban
Taxpayers that rely on credit cards to pay the ATO will need to find a new payment method. The post ATO ends credit card payments from November 30 in response to surcharge ban appeared first on…
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Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah, recruitment: Lady Gaga joins Japan’s hunt for workers
From sold-out arenas to understaffed convenience stores, FamilyMart is calling in Lady Gaga as Japan grapples with a labour shortage. The post Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah, recruitment: Lady Gaga joins Japan’s…
Research
Titles only, for scanning.
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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
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This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
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OpenAI-HuggingFace: A Reproduction & Lessons for Alignment Testing
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Neurosymbolic Routing for Reliable Reasoning on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices
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Is Human-Readable Text Necessary for Effective LLM Fine-Tuning?
Build
For the making side.
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The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites
Article URL: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915082 Points: 66 # Comments: 8
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Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
See also: Gemini 4 Argon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914236 Points: 66 # Comments: 28
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Gitea 28.0
Article URL: https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913975 Points: 58 # Comments: 23
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Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch
Article URL: https://www.neuroai.science/p/functional-ultrasound-imaging-from Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913604 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
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Gemini 4 Argon
See also: Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914236 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571 Points: 795…
Press
Last, deliberately. It reports what the layers above have usually already explained.
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The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the…
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Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
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Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition
VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.
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Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative…
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.
Open
The sources that refuse ingestion, one tap away.