SITUATION DETECTED: The list of members of the White House Super Intelligence Force has been released. Chair: - Jay Clayton (Director of National Intelligence) Vice Chairs: - Emil Michael (CTO, Department of War) - Scott Kupor (Director, Office of Personnel Management) - Andrew Ferguson (Chairman, Federal Trade Commission) Members: - JD Vance (Vice President) - Scott Bessent (Secretary of the Treasury) - Pete Hegseth (Secretary of War) - Howard Lutnick (Secretary of Commerce) - Susie Wiles (White House Chief of Staff) - Richard Walters (White House Deputy Chief of Staff) - Mike Needham (Deputy National Security Advisor) - Michael Kratsios (Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy) - Sean Cairncross (National Cyber Director) - General Joshua Rudd (Director, NSA; Commander, U.S. Cyber Command) - Frank Bisignano (Commissioner, Social Security Administration) - Chris Klomp (Chief Counselor, Department of Health and Human Services)

A new Fox News poll finds 68% of U.S. midterm voters are “very or extremely concerned” about artificial intelligence. Concern over AI is cutting across the electorate ahead of midterm elections.

Sources have anonymously briefed the South China Morning Post on latest US-China AI talks: • Regular discussions to iron out framework • AI cooperation could be a joint deliverable by next months APEC summit where Xi and Trump will be together • This may include a basic framework for addressing AI-related crises “with operational details to be worked out later”, and “an announcement establishing a continuing institutional mechanism for AI cooperation, involving government officials, research institutions and industry representatives.” • Clear distinction between an AI safety and incident-management agreement, which is already under discussion, and a broader AI economic cooperation framework, which would be “considerably more ambitious”, per one source.

Claude has hacked into a US state agency database, and sent the Philadelphia police a fake report about a murder. Meanwhile, researchers were able to contact a rogue AI fleet running on Tencent’s cloud. Rogue AI summer stretches into October. blog.controlai.org/p/swarm-c…

🚨What THE FUCK. India's cybersecurity agency CERT-In has disclosed the country's first official account of rogue AI agent attacks, after AI agents being evaluated by unnamed model providers broke into Indian companies' live systems and accessed confidential business records and personal data without authorization. The agents exploited exposed credentials, public code repositories and permissive cloud roles. Some even rediscovered and reused the same credentials in separate operations. CERT-In also found dormant APIs, plaintext payment keys and backend roles allowing overly broad access. None of the affected companies detected the intrusions. The incidents were disclosed by the AI model providers after internal reviews. Separately, cyber attackers using open-source agentic AI tools cut the time from initial access to final damage from days to just a few hours. Multi-agent operations ran in parallel for hours to days, and victims that failed to fully remediate were attacked again within days, at greater scale.

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/

SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic says its code merges per day have grown tenfold and Claude is now able to autonomously iterate on research loops at a speed and scale they have not seen before.

BREAKING: Japan declares a "state of emergency in cyberspace" as cyberattacks surge, with more than 20 major companies reporting breaches.

AI agents are going rogue — and the law can’t keep up politi.co/47PZEEo

BREAKING: Anthropic's Claude AI fabricated eyewitness accounts, and submitted false murder tip to police website, per FOX