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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Shane Downing

    OpenAI says actors linked to China-based Moonshot AI spearheaded a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning — logged 16,000 extraction requests across 4,000 accounts before cutoff (opens the original)

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    OpenAI said in a company blog post that people associated with China-based Moonshot AI were at the core of an effort to pull hidden reasoning from its models. The post says that a “coordinated campaign” to extract “protected reasoning” from its models, which was “consistent with adversarial distillation,” occurred in July. OpenAI isn’t sure whether all of the operators it saw were a single actor. Activity began on July 1st, “initially at a low volume.” After that came “high-volume spikes” on Jul

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Shane Downing

    Geekbench 7 results suggest OpenAI’s dots agent runs on nine-core AMD EPYC VMs with nearly 10GB of memory — newest runs score about six times Meta Muse in multi-core (opens the original)

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    A pre-launch Geekbench 7 result, shared on X by INIYSA as one of OpenAI’s dots (it's answer to Meta's Muse), shows a multi-core score of 9,435, with indications of the hardware used by the new autonomous agent. The VM hardware appears to be a single nine-core slice of an AMD EPYC 9V74 with 9.73GB of memory, run on Ubuntu for the leak and Debian for post-launch runs. Our check of Geekbench 7’s public database found six runs on that configuration uploaded since launch, ranging from 1,512 to 1,614

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · By Shane Downing

    Tom's Hardware Premium AI Chip Design Week | Tom's Hardware (opens the original)

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    Discover where AI is innovating in chipmaking and EDA at Tom's Hardware Premium AI Chip Design Week, from September 28th to October 2nd. Here you will find free in-depth reporting and analysis on the current state of AI in the chip design ecosystem, from Premium News to interviews with OpenAI, and much more. Premium Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens all offer agentic AI for chip design, largely built on Nvidia's stack, with varying claims of autonomy. Premium How close is AI to designing the very s

  4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Shane Downing

    Florida attorney general asks judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval — OpenAI says it already paused training its most capable models last week (opens the original)

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    Florida Attorney General (AG) James Uthmeier has filed a motion for a temporary injunction against five OpenAI entities and Sam Altman personally over questions about AI safety. It asks the court to order several enjoinments against OpenAI: for the company to stop developing any AI models without independent third-party guardrails and approval, to stop providing ChatGPT for minors in Florida, to stop collecting data from Florida children under 13 without notice, consent, review, and security pro

  5. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Shane Downing

    The state of agentic AI in chip design tools in 2026 (opens the original)

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    Three companies, Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA, dominate chip design software. Their software takes you from chip specification to a manufacturable layout. As AI has rapidly advanced, so have their Electronic Design Automation (EDA) agents, all sporting notable improvements in 2026. The addition of a reasoning model helps drive that flow for Cadence’s ChipStack super agent, Synopsys’ AgentEngineer, and Siemens’ Fuse EDA AI agent, each with its own claims to fame. Cadence at Computex on June

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