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  1. 4d ago

    SUMO Weekly: 31 October–6 November 2026

    An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources The Guardian view on the AI backlash: American voters want a say in their future | Editorial: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-ai-backlash-american-voters-want-a-say-in-their-future OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/openai-reportedly-raises-an-additional-11-billion-at-a-1-25-trillion-valuation/ Global stocks fall amid ‘big worries over AI’ after Democrats’ midterms triumph: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/06/global-stocks-plunge-amid-ai-slowdown-fears-after-democrats-midterm-triumph How to predict the behavior of molecules from scant data: https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-to-predict-molecule-behavior-with-scant-data-1106 2026 election breakdown: Americans vote down data centers, AI and oligarchy: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/2026-election-breakdown-americans-vote-down-data-centers-ai-and-oligarchy Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/hundreds-of-artex-ai-hacking-tools-found-publicly-exposed-to-the-web/ Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking: https://www.wired.com/story/free-chinese-ai-models-are-getting-scary-good-at-hacking/ SageMaker Inference now supports Multi-Instance GPU to maximize GPU utilization for model endpoints: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/sagemaker-inference-now-supports-multi-instance-gpu-to-maximize-gpu-utilization-for-model-endpoints/ “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/does-meta-think-we-cant-read-meta-abandons-sketchy-commercial-terms-update/ Taxonomy of agentic primitives in Amazon Quick: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/taxonomy-of-agentic-primitives-in-amazon-quick/ Serverless MCP server for AI agent data lake access on Amazon ECS Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/serverless-mcp-server-for-ai-agent-data-lake-access-on-amazon-ecs-fargate/ Quoting Nilay Patel: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/6/nilay-patel/ Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port?: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/11/could-potential-ai-clones-of-gta-vi-force-a-quicker-official-port/ How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/telco-open-source-tools-research-6g-networks/ AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-companies-really-really-want-to-buy-your-work-files-and-emails/ AI won’t ever make a historically accurate film – but it could help archaeology create better stories: https://theconversation.com/ai-wont-ever-make-a-historically-accurate-film-but-it-could-help-archaeology-create-better-stories-295912 How Do You Land on a Moon With Almost No Gravity?: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mmx-mission-to-phobos AI could transform mathematics, but humans will still need to be in the loop: https://theconversation.com/ai-could-transform-mathematics-but-humans-will-still-need-to-be-in-the-loop-294982 Why the Tech Right Lost Big This Week: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork [AINews] Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark: https://latent.space/p/ainews-inkling-2-small-17a-594b-trained-in-68-hours-on-12t-tokens-beating-muse-spark/ I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/11/06/1148090/i-watched-a-humanoid-robot-clean-my-apartment-it-felt-like-a-taste-of-the-future/ Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems: https://openai.com/index/partnering-with-hacktron Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science: https://openai.com/index/measuring-how-ai-agents-handle-wet-lab-science Why a Data Center Slowdown Benefits Big Tech: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/Why-a-Data-Center-Slowdown-Benefits-Big-Tech-e3rreid KYC Becomes KYA: Sentinel Bio's Joshua Monrad on DNA Screening, Uplift Studies & Agent Monitoring: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/kyc-becomes-kya-sentinel-bio-s-joshua-monrad-on-dna-screening-uplift-studies-agent-monitoring/ Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-cpu-highest-throughput-fastest-agents/ IEEE Program Schools Preuniversity Educators On Tech Topics: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-preuniversity Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/developers-simulation-frontier-ai-agents/ Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemini-omni-1-2-flash/ Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates: https://openai.com/index/australian-universities-ai-native-graduates Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO Vlad Tenev: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit Part 2: https://share.transistor.fm/s/1b301bdc [AINews] It's Swapping Season: https://latent.space/p/ainews-it-s-swapping-season/ Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory: https://news.mit.edu/2026/clearing-up-robot-fuzzy-memory-1105 How the Midterm Results Change AI: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/How-the-Midterm-Results-Change-AI-e3rotli OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/openai-is-already-trying-to-shape-the-2028-election How big is the open model economy today?: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/how-well-can-we-measure-open-model Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity: https://deepmind.google/blog/agentic-cheminformatics-with-google-antigravity/ Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/ Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora: https://lspace.beehiiv.com/podcast/s/latent_space_the_ai_engineer_podcast/building_legal_agents_when_you_can_t_see_the_data_-_jacob_lauritzen_cto_of_legora The latest AI news we announced in October 2026: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-ai-updates-october-2026/ Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery: https://news.mit.edu/2026/regina-barzilay-jim-collins-win-pritzker-prize-ai-and-science-research-excellence-1102 Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Why-Leibniz-Couldnt-Find-the-Mind-Inside-the-Mill-Joscha-Bach-e3riq2d AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New Hacks: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-carbon-in-the-arena-mistral-s-le-chonk-the-agent-run-economy-ferroelectric-ram-new-hacks/ Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work — Aman Singh, Arca: https://latent.space/p/arca Get the complete SUMO Keep up with A.I. An independent weekly digest every Sunday at noon, London time. Subscribers receive a short Daily every weekday, the Weekly one day early on Saturday and the Monthly A.I. Trajectory Review on the first Sunday of each month, all in one private podcast feed. No adverts. No paid placements. See sumo-podcast.click for current subscription prices. Subscribe at https://www.sumo-podcast.click No adverts. No paid placements. Just pure A.I. signal through the immense noise!

  2. Nov 1

    SUMO Weekly: 24–30 October 2026

    An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/ollie-a-privacy-focused-ai-assistant-is-shutting-down/ Managing Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/managing-amazon-bedrock-costs-end-to-end-a-playbook-for-finops-and-platform-teams/ dbreunig/nesformer: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/30/nesformer/ Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/intels-stock-crashes-knocking-12b-from-governments-stake/ Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/united-airlines-ceo-doubts-supersonic-airliner-from-boom-will-be-ready-by-2029/ Preview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/preview-web-apps-live-as-your-coding-agent-builds-them-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-runtime/ How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon: https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-how-a-contractors-claude-agent-got-into-the-pentagon/ Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/anthropic-vs-code-extension-on-cursor-backdoored-for-nearly-12-hours/ MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows: https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-affiliates-named-schmidt-sciences-ai2050-fellows-1030 I read Anthropic's 92-page risk factor document, so you don't have to – video explainer: https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2026/oct/30/anthropic-92-page-risk-factor-document-ipo-filing-video-explainer How the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Works: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/How-the-Most-AI-Pilled-Company-in-the-World-Works-e3red3r Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year? : https://news.mit.edu/2026/qa-hey-ai-who-should-i-vote-for-this-year-1030 Tech sell-off drives US markets down by nearly $1tn after subpar earnings reports: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/30/tech-stocks-drop-earnings-report Was I wrong about open models & cyber risks?: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/was-i-wrong-about-open-models-and How Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon Bedrock: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-worldwide-express-automated-freight-exceptions-with-amazon-bedrock/ Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/robert-caro Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-joins-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-signals/ Why it could be a bad idea to get AI to flirt for you: https://theconversation.com/why-it-could-be-a-bad-idea-to-get-ai-to-flirt-for-you-295274 Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We're About to Find Out.: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences: https://openai.com/index/helping-websites-express-ai-training-preferences Community safety report and new protections for teens: https://openai.com/index/community-safety-report-and-new-protections-for-teens [AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference: https://latent.space/p/ainews-building-aie-code-the-top-coding-agent-conference/ Fair use benefits everyone: https://openai.com/index/fair-use-benefits-everyone API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/29/api-credits/ The AI Rankings Just Got Reshuffled: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/The-AI-Rankings-Just-Got-Reshuffled-e3rc5gg Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-personal-assistant-intelligent-wearables Using ChatGPT before a medical appointment? How to get the best support for your health questions: https://theconversation.com/using-chatgpt-before-a-medical-appointment-how-to-get-the-best-support-for-your-health-questions-294051 A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System: https://www.wired.com/story/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-pentagon-system/ Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/developers-simulation-frontier-ai-agents/ We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/29/1147824/monitor-ai-agents-actions-real-time/ Taking on ServiceNow: Coding Agents the Rest of Us with Serval Co-Founder and CEO Jake Stauch: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit: https://share.transistor.fm/s/37a0c3e9 Why Agents Love Supabase: https://latent.space/p/supabase Freedom of Action: America's ASI Strategy, w/ RAND's Joel Predd, Ben Boudreaux & Matt Chessen: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/freedom-of-action-america-s-asi-strategy-w-rand-s-joel-predd-ben-boudreaux-matt-chessen/ 3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era : https://news.mit.edu/2026/3-questions-why-infrastructure-is-entering-defining-era-1028 Thin, Light and Built for Everything: NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows Laptops Gain New Models, Agent Tools and Games: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-rtx-spark-laptops-updates-models-agents-games/ Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/artificial-analysis-v5-and-the-benchmarkers COP31 pledge on AI lacks climate targets, critics say: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/cop31-pledge-on-ai-lacks-climate-targets-critics-say How Anthropic ships the #1 LLM in the World safely: Separating the Brain from the Hands: https://lspace.beehiiv.com/podcast/s/latent_space_the_ai_engineer_podcast/how_anthropic_ships_the_1_llm_in_the_world_safely_separating_the_brain_from_the_hands How AI Is Changing Human Psychology (with Meia Chita-Tegmark): https://share.transistor.fm/s/74a7b38d Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation: https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/ AISN #84: AI-Driven Cybersecurity Issues Heighten Fears of “Hackpocalypse”: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-84-ai-driven-cybersecurity-issues AISN #84: AI-Driven Cybersecurity Issues Heighten Fears of “Hackpocalypse”: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-84-ai-driven-cybersecurity-issues Our newest AI Quest: Mapping the human brain: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/ai-quests-polar-peaks/ Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Mathematics-Just-Changed-Forever--Kevin-Hartnett-e3r47eh How Black-Box Distillation Works: https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/how-black-box-distillation-works/ Podcast: Kimi K3.1 Pro, the new cyber reality, and Muse musings: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/podcast-kimi-k31-pro-the-new-cyber AI:AM Highlights: Clean Neurons, Black October, the GPU Credit Crunch, and Buying the Supply Chain: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-highlights-clean-neurons-black-october-the-gpu-credit-crunch-and-buying-the-supply-chain/ Get the complete SUMO Keep up with A.I. An independent weekly digest every Sunday at noon, London time. Subscribers receive a short Daily every weekday, the Weekly one day early on Saturday and the Monthly A.I. Trajectory Review on the first Sunday of each month, all in one private podcast feed. No adverts. No paid placements. See sumo-podcast.click for current subscription prices. Subscribe at https://www.sumo-podcast.click No adverts. No paid placements. Just pure A.I. signal through the immense noise!

  3. Oct 25

    SUMO Weekly: 17–23 October 2026

    An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/hottest-toy-for-christmas-nvidia-ceo-plays-with-adorable-microduck-robots-20000-sell/ At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI: https://news.mit.edu/2026/martha-minow-speaks-on-sustaining-democracy-using-overcoming-ai-1023 Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/23/kimi-k31-pro/ From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 : https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/from-toast-to-bessemer-who-founders-will-hear-from-at-techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/ The Most Concerning AI Bubble Signals: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/The-Most-Concerning-AI-Bubble-Signals-e3qvpih ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/23/cybersecurity-ai-hacking-php-vulnerability From Chip Lab to Center Stage: https://spectrum.ieee.org/preethi-ashwath-chip-designer Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/multi-turn-reinforcement-learning-on-amazon-sagemaker-ai-a-hands-on-guide/ PHP is in the foundation of 70% of websites – here’s what it is and why a flaw in the software is a major hacking threat: https://theconversation.com/php-is-in-the-foundation-of-70-of-websites-heres-what-it-is-and-why-a-flaw-in-the-software-is-a-major-hacking-threat-294999 Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/intel-gets-waiver-after-worries-fuzzy-us-ban-on-foreign-made-robots-may-hit-fabs/ Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II): https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-two Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/23/opposition-deepfake-video-spain-election Orchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/orchestrating-sagemaker-ai-endpoint-auto-scaling-with-aws-cdk/ How Bayer Crop Science built an agentic decision engine on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with AWS Unified Operations: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-bayer-crop-science-built-an-agentic-decision-engine-on-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-with-aws-unified-operations/ AI Is Getting Good at Math. Here’s Why.: https://latent.space/p/ai-is-getting-good-at-math/ Securing our frontier model training environment: https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind: https://news.mit.edu/2026/qa-how-ai-came-to-model-messy-human-mind-1023 Kazakhstan Expands Compute for Its AI Future: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/kazakhstan-ai-compute-ecosystem/ OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security: https://openai.com/index/openai-nask-ai-safety-security-partnership Designing an AI serving harness built to last: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/22/1146109/designing-an-ai-serving-harness-built-to-last/ The AI vs AI Battle for the Internet: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/The-AI-vs-AI-Battle-for-the-Internet-e3qu3ad The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom: https://www.wired.com/story/aged-intelligence-society-interview/ DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video): https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/de-staat-freedom/ The Foundations of Scalable AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/22/1146103/the-foundations-of-scalable-ai/ Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken: https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-ai-is-devastating-higher-education-but-the-system-was-already-broken-292988 Why AI Can’t Replace Engineering Teams: https://spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-jobs-that-ai-cant-replace Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO: https://www.latent.space/p/modal-d Artificial Intimacy: When Machines Pursue Our Attachment (with Sherry Turkle): https://share.transistor.fm/s/12f17f8c What will computer chips look like in 2045?: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/intel-tour NVIDIA Unveils Minerva to Bring End-to-End Observability for AI Factories: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/minerva-platform-infrastructure/ The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi: https://www.latent.space/p/moshi Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) Anything: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-mori-a-cute-robot-mushroom-that-doesnt-really-say-or-do-anything/ Exploit Development, Agentic Vulnerability Discovery, and Fake PoCs: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9a42098b Leading European Financial Services Organizations Embrace Open Models to Build Proprietary Intelligence: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/european-financial-services-organizations-open-models-proprietary-intelligence/ The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/10/the-new-human-crafted-apple-music-brand-matters-in-an-ai-world/ Amid AI Boom, “Risk Is Spreading Throughout the Economy”: Astra Taylor & Naomi Klein: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/amid-ai-boom-risk-is-spreading-throughout-the-economy-astra-taylor-naomi-klein Southeast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billion: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-globe/google-asia/e-conomy-sea-report-2026/ A World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Virtual Cells, Measurement, & the $1.8B Data Push: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/a-world-model-of-life-biohub-s-alex-rives-on-virtual-cells-measurement-the-1-8b-data-push/ New paper: Emerging trends in AI agent evaluation: https://www.normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-emerging-trends-in-ai-agent Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable: https://news.mit.edu/2026/teaching-ai-about-symmetry-could-make-prenatal-diagnosis-more-reliable-1019 Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/meta-shakes-up-the-frontiers-open AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-where-s-the-steering-wheel-my-agent-set-the-password-hidden-valence-proofs-find-linux-bugs/ Get the complete SUMO Keep up with A.I. An independent weekly digest every Sunday at noon, London time. Subscribers receive a short Daily every weekday, the Weekly one day early on Saturday and the Monthly A.I. Trajectory Review on the first Sunday of each month, all in one private podcast feed. No adverts. No paid placements. See sumo-podcast.click for current subscription prices. Subscribe at https://www.sumo-podcast.click No adverts. No paid placements. Just pure A.I. signal through the immense noise!

  4. Oct 18

    SUMO Weekly: 10–16 October 2026

    An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/16/code-review/ Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/replit-is-no-longer-working-with-anthropic-ceo-says/ OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/openai-models-hacked-a-crypto-wallet-and-breached-more-websites/ Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/building-trust-in-ai-agents-a-production-ready-evaluation-framework-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/ “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/thegentlemanpervert-producing-ai-csam-is-a-nj-prosecutor-say-cops/ Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds: https://www.wired.com/story/katie-zacharia-was-linked-to-an-ai-rare-earths-startup-its-even-weirder-than-it-sounds/ How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base: https://openai.com/index/itau-generative-ai The Most Important AI News This Week Is Getting Overlooked: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/The-Most-Important-AI-News-This-Week-Is-Getting-Overlooked-e3qk74e IEEE Offers More Services to Cities That Want to Be Smarter: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-smart-cities-new-services Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1146224/roundtables-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-ai-designed-viruses/ India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/india-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity/ Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design: https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-truck-battery-design-simulation Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-reflection-beam-an-open-weight-model-for-agentic-coding-on-aws/ Can AI screen for heart disease using photos of your tongue and face?: https://theconversation.com/can-ai-screen-for-heart-disease-using-photos-of-your-tongue-and-face-294192 Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-hot-girls-are-ripping-off-comedians-to-boost-their-horny-content/ AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/16/ai-existential-threat-real-journalism-democracy-resistance [AINews] Agents disprove Polysemanticity; greatly improve Interpretability & Alignment: https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-agents-disprove-polysemanticity Kids and teens are going to AI chatbots for advice. How can parents make sure this is safe?: https://theconversation.com/kids-and-teens-are-going-to-ai-chatbots-for-advice-how-can-parents-make-sure-this-is-safe-294145 Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new ‘open-weight’ AI model: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/16/meta-releases-muse-spark-open-a-new-open-weight-ai-model Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin: https://openai.com/index/stack-overflow-chatgpt-plugin How the Latest AI Leap Is Disrupting Business Models: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/How-the-Latest-AI-Leap-Is-Disrupting-Business-Models-e3qiqv8 AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate: https://news.mit.edu/2026/ai-model-decodes-language-cells-use-communicate-1015 Chirp Pong: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/15/chirp-pong/ The $5 Trillion AI Bet You’re Already Paying For: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/the-5-trillion-ai-bet-youre-already-paying-for Meta’s Muse Spark Open now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/metas-muse-spark-open-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart/ Be There for the Beginning: Celebrate the Launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-rtx-spark-launch-event-invite/ Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-3-5-super-vl/ Education is Failing our Students in this AI-Driven World: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4f81adfa Dial Up the Cloud: NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Controls Arrive on GeForce NOW: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-enshrouded-update/ Teaching students to think and learn through questions: https://openai.com/index/teaching-students-to-think-and-learn-through-questions The Changing Physics of Cybersecurity and Drug Development with OpenAI President Greg Brockman: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors Q&A: The “collision” between AI, your brain, and society: https://news.mit.edu/2026/collision-between-ai-your-brain-and-society-eric-so-book-1015 Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/selection-structured-reasoning Lab-in-the-Loop at Compute Speed — Ian Quigley, Leash Bio : https://www.latent.space/p/lab-in-the-loop-at-compute-speed Researchers improve weather forecasts looking two to six weeks out: https://news.mit.edu/2026/researchers-improve-weather-forecasts-looking-two-six-weeks-out-1014 Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/governing-ai-agents-alan-chan-of-govai-on-monitoring-agent-ids-rogue-agents-preparing-for-rsi/ Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection: https://deepmind.google/blog/on-device-ai-scam-detection-mddi/ Dyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy — Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics: https://www.latent.space/p/dyna Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-argon/ AISN #83: Six AI Companies Sign White House Accord: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-83-six-ai-companies-sign-white AISN #83: Six AI Companies Sign White House Accord: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-83-six-ai-companies-sign-white The Trillion-Dollar AI Race to Replace Us (with Garrison Lovely): https://share.transistor.fm/s/7c491dc9 Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1146366/open-models-have-real-benefits-do-they-outweigh-the-risks/ Britain steps up national defences against growing AI risks: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/britain-steps-up-national-defences-against-growing-ai-risks How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/how-agents-decide-goodfire-s-eric-bigelow-on-critical-tokens-phase-shifts-in-context-learning/ What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/What-Most-People-Get-Wrong-About-Evolution--Akarsh-Kumar-e3q8ds7 Get the complete SUMO Keep up with A.I. An independent weekly digest every Sunday at noon, London time. Subscribers receive a short Daily every weekday, the Weekly one day early on Saturday and the Monthly A.I. Trajectory Review on the first Sunday of each month, all in one private podcast feed. No adverts. No paid placements. See sumo-podcast.click for current subscription prices. Subscribe at https://www.sumo-podcast.click No adverts. No paid placements. Just pure A.I. signal through the immense noise!

  5. Oct 11

    SUMO Weekly: 3–9 October 2026

    An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google/ The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/the-maker-of-non-text-ai-model-jev-valued-at-7-5b-just-weeks-after-launch/ I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/i-expect-rapid-progress-but-not-towards What Happens When AI Solves Your Life’s Work: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/What-Happens-When-AI-Solves-Your-Lifes-Work-e3q8kuq AI surveillance startup Flock to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/09/flock-job-cuts AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/ An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/an-anthropic-ai-model-sent-a-false-homicide-tip-to-philadelphia-police/ Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting: https://www.wired.com/story/book-publishers-are-quietly-using-more-ai-staff-are-revolting/ Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program: https://spectrum.ieee.org/master-ai-chip-principles-ieee Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/icymi-what-landed-for-ai-builders-in-september-2026/ How Postman runs Agent Mode for 40 million developers on Amazon Bedrock: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-postman-runs-agent-mode-for-40-million-developers-on-amazon-bedrock/ Quoting Matthew Green: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/9/matthew-green/ Lost generation: the AI threat to Britain’s next great directors: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/ai-threat-britain-directors-ridley-scott-guy-ritchie A new feature for my blog, built using my voice: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/9/built-using-my-voice/ We Need to Embed Ethics Into Our Engineering Courses: https://spectrum.ieee.org/integrating-engineering-ethics-education Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI: https://www.wired.com/story/even-law-and-order-is-terrified-of-ai/ We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/09/1145728/we-are-putting-too-much-faith-in-ai-to-say-no/ Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak: https://openai.com/index/sophos Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol: https://openai.com/index/asana-browser-agent Zankore’s AI Factory: Can Central Java afford the water cost?: https://theconversation.com/zankores-ai-factory-can-central-java-afford-the-water-cost-293547 Is this the ‘mathocalypse’? Why OpenAI’s latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock: https://theconversation.com/is-this-the-mathocalypse-why-openais-latest-results-dump-has-left-mathematicians-in-shock-293837 Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/08/1146224/roundtables-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-ai-designed-viruses/ The Most Important Trends in New AI Products: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/The-Most-Important-Trends-in-New-AI-Products-e3q6nv0 3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?: https://news.mit.edu/2026/3-questions-what-best-path-forward-ai-academia-0925 Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/developers-simulation-frontier-ai-agents/ Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/pay-per-inference-for-ai-agents-how-blockrun-and-incarna-use-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments/ Jennifer Huddleston and Sarah Myers West on Artificial Intelligence Regulation: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/jennifer-huddleston-and-sarah-myers-west-on-artificial-intelligence-regulation Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk: https://www.latent.space/p/periodic How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex: https://openai.com/index/oracle AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-a-level-we-shouldn-t-pass-notes-from-the-curve-tokens-vs-salaries-is-saas-cooked/ Narrative intelligence and the human advantage: https://share.transistor.fm/s/f2fcb677 Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers: https://news.mit.edu/2026/mitigating-environmental-threat-of-data-centers-christina-delimitrou-1008 Normalizing Trajectory Models: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/normalizing-trajectory-models NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-rtx-spark-microsoft-windows-event/ Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at ...: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/software-that-never-breaks-outsystems-ceo-woodson-martin-on-building-enterprise-grade-apps-at-ai-speed/ Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware: https://news.mit.edu/2026/supercomputing-researchers-document-evolution-ai-hardware-1006 MRI as a Longitudinal Tool for Personalized Care: https://share.transistor.fm/s/d84e8daa Delisted: A Film About AI-Powered Social Erasure (with Michael Patrick Clarkson): https://share.transistor.fm/s/37083a7b The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-risk-discourse-is-broken Should We Track AI Chips?: https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/should-we-track-ai-chips/ Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/telecom-operators-open-models/ RISED: Rubrics for Agentic Multi-Environment Selection and Self-Distillation: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/rised-multi-environment-selection Get the complete SUMO Keep up with A.I. An independent weekly digest every Sunday at noon, London time. Subscribers receive a short Daily every weekday, the Weekly one day early on Saturday and the Monthly A.I. Trajectory Review on the first Sunday of each month, all in one private podcast feed. No adverts. No paid placements. See sumo-podcast.click for current subscription prices. Subscribe at https://www.sumo-podcast.click No adverts. No paid placements. Just pure A.I. signal through the immense noise!

  6. Oct 4

    SUMO Weekly: 26 September–2 October 2026

    An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/sean-parker-is-rebuilding-stability-ai-around-music/ Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/amazons-1b-plan-to-combat-data-center-backlash-draws-more-backlash/ Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/02/midterms-ai-ballot-privacy US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/02/arrest-smuggled-computer-servers-china US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/us-arrests-tech-ceo-accused-of-smuggling-300m-in-nvidia-chips-into-china/ What the Best Business AI Users Are Doing Different: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/What-the-Best-Business-AI-Users-Are-Doing-Different-e3pp6f5 Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/apple-says-its-tightening-macos-full-disk-access-controls-due-to-new-risks-from-ai-agents/ China has cracked down on AI relationships. Is it ahead of the game?: https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/china-has-cracked-down-on-ai-relationships-is-it-ahead-of-the-game/ A model guide for the GPT-6 family: https://openai.com/index/practical-guide-building-gpt-6 These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open: https://www.wired.com/story/trillium-labs-wants-to-do-high-risk-ai-research-in-the-open/ Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1143774/redefining-enterprise-intelligence-with-autonomous-ai/ Sweep thousands of leases for compliance using Amazon Quick and the Adjudicated Query pattern: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/sweep-thousands-of-leases-for-compliance-using-amazon-quick-and-the-adjudicated-query-pattern/ Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/add-secure-web-search-to-claude-desktop-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/ Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/fine-tune-a-search-agent-with-multi-turn-rl-on-amazon-sagemaker-ai/ The latest AI news we announced in September 2026: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-ai-updates-september-2026/ Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience: https://www.latent.space/p/airbnb NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-dgx-spark-64gb-sync/ Want to use AI to improve your work? Have it disagree with you: https://theconversation.com/want-to-use-ai-to-improve-your-work-have-it-disagree-with-you-291760 A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork Engineering Multipole Resonances in Dielectric Metasurfaces for Transmission, Reflection, and Absorption Control: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5510255/64A1C3695631E727E756BFCA0490437A?utm_source=IEEE Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT: https://www.latent.space/p/rlm Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/language-discrimination-multilingual-learning Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/chatham-financial Limits of Confidence in Diffusion: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/limits-confidence-diffusion How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/gpus-openai-gpt-6-astra-ultrafast/ New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want: https://news.mit.edu/2026/instructmesh-tool-lets-users-repair-ai-3d-models-then-fabricate-them-1001 Gemini 4 Argon, Sonnet 5.5 and What Matters with AI Models : https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/Gemini-4-Argon--Sonnet-5-5-and-What-Matters-with-AI-Models-e3pnj53 How a Voice Agent Learns the Rhythm of Conversation — Shawn Wen: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/How-a-Voice-Agent-Learns-the-Rhythm-of-Conversation--Shawn-Wen-e3pndhc The eternal complement: https://openai.com/index/the-eternal-complement A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?: https://www.normaltech.ai/p/a-big-tent-or-small-tent-ai-safety Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/si-sheppard AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-was-trump-xi-anything-what-counts-as-utopia-aws-gpus-cost-3x-ai-diagnoses-rare-diseases/ Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/productive-durable-fungible-ai-factories/ Open models and the future of Physical AI with NVIDIA: https://share.transistor.fm/s/217445d3 Quoting Matthew Green: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/1/matthew-green/ Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week: https://www.latent.space/p/devday-2026 How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/press/how-the-bad-science-of-ai-doomerism-is-good-for-big-business MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies: https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-transit-lab-to-develop-ai-platform-public-transit-agencies-0930 Introducing SynthID Bio: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-synthid-bio/ This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego : https://news.mit.edu/2026/game-playing-ai-stratego-new-champ-0930 Who Checks a Proof No Human Can Read? — Leo de Moura: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Who-Checks-a-Proof-No-Human-Can-Read---Leo-de-Moura-e3pjhg5 Visualizing Moloch: A Short Film About the AI Race (with Tom Cozens): https://share.transistor.fm/s/84a9fb95 AISN #82: The US and China Begin a Dialogue on AI: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-82-the-us-and-china-begin-a AISN #82: The US and China Begin a Dialogue on AI: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-82-the-us-and-china-begin-a Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/obsolete-or-irreplaceable-garrison-lovely-on-stopping-the-race-to-replace-human-labor/ Statement: We must pressure AI companies to immediately limit the use of recursive self improvement: https://futureoflife.org/statement/statement-we-must-pressure-ai-companies-to-immediately-limit-the-use-of-recursive-self-improvement/ Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop: https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-474-platonic-mindspace Get the complete SUMO Keep up with A.I. An independent weekly digest every Sunday at noon, London time. Subscribers receive a short Daily every weekday, the Weekly one day early on Saturday and the Monthly A.I. Trajectory Review on the first Sunday of each month, all in one private podcast feed. No adverts. No paid placements. See sumo-podcast.click for current subscription prices. Subscribe at https://www.sumo-podcast.click No adverts. No paid placements. Just pure A.I. signal through the immense noise!

  7. Sep 27

    SUMO Weekly: 19–25 September 2026

    An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/unsecured-openai-agents-posted-53-user-images-on-the-internet-without-the-labs-knowledge/ Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/25/trump-xi-ai-arms-race Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/court-rules-trump-can-blacklist-anthropic-for-refusing-to-enable-claude-features/ In ‘NAZA,’ Israeli whistleblowers’ revelations about civilian deaths in Gaza reflect a longer history of Palestinian isolation: https://theconversation.com/in-naza-israeli-whistleblowers-revelations-about-civilian-deaths-in-gaza-reflect-a-longer-history-of-palestinian-isolation-292348 Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/tesla-workers-balk-at-training-optimus-humanoid-robots-as-replacements/ Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand: https://www.wired.com/story/thieves-stole-nvidia-trailers-they-got-20-tons-of-sand/ Can Humans Still Control AI-Assisted Kill Chains? (with Katrina Manson): https://share.transistor.fm/s/443c5433 Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/anthropic-to-pay-akamai-11-6-billion-over-seven-years-in-cloud-deal/ Trump frames unregulated AI as a way to keep ahead of China – but in fact, it harms US national security: https://theconversation.com/trump-frames-unregulated-ai-as-a-way-to-keep-ahead-of-china-but-in-fact-it-harms-us-national-security-292642 Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/zero-to-one-in-ai-safety-halcyon-s-mike-mccormick-on-launching-30-new-orgs-the-founder-bottleneck/ How People Are Actually Using Jev: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/How-People-Are-Actually-Using-Jev-e3pd0rj Quoting John Gruber: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/25/john-gruber/ Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk: https://www.wired.com/story/appeals-court-lets-the-pentagon-designate-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk/ Pope Leo warns AI could lead to losing 'humanity amid a paradise of machines' in Paris – video: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/sep/25/pope-leo-ai-warning-paris Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/scaling-moe-reinforcement-learning-on-amazon-eks-with-efa-and-deepep-with-40-more-throughput/ Accelerate multimodal RL training with SkyRL on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accelerate-multimodal-rl-training-with-skyrl-on-amazon-sagemaker-hyperpod/ NarrateAI: production-ready LLM quality assurance on Amazon Bedrock: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/narrateai-production-ready-llm-quality-assurance-on-amazon-bedrock/ Social Media Bans Aren’t Enough to Make Children Safe: https://spectrum.ieee.org/social-media-bans The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/25/1145144/pentagon-ai-lie-detector/ Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds: https://www.latent.space/p/runway Note on 24th September 2026: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/24/harder/ AI Agents Are Moving Into the Real World: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/AI-Agents-Are-Moving-Into-the-Real-World-e3pbisu Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform: https://spectrum.ieee.org/epics-in-ieee-portable-educational How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-protein-dataset/ Statement: World leaders at the UN call to rein in superintelligence race: https://futureoflife.org/statement/statement-world-leaders-at-the-un-call-to-rein-in-superintelligence-race/ Re-Founding Incumbents for the AI Era with Sequence Holdings Co-Founder and CEO Michael Lee: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment: https://share.transistor.fm/s/74934e48 The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities: https://news.mit.edu/2026/studying-cities-using-visual-ai-fabio-duarte-martina-mazzarello-carlo-ratti-fan-zhang-book-0924 Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space Distillation: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/latent-space-distillation A Practical Recipe for Semi-Supervised Federated ASR: Online Pseudo-Labels with Server Update Stabilization: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/practical-recipe-federated-asr How Deep Learning Finally Cracked Messy Tables - Frank Hutter: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/How-Deep-Learning-Finally-Cracked-Messy-Tables---Frank-Hutter-e3p9qvq Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory: https://deepmind.google/blog/advancing-private-ai-compute-with-secure-server-side-memory/ Two years of OpenAI Academy: https://openai.com/index/two-years-of-openai-academy MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow: https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-welcomes-david-siegel-innovation-fellow-0923 Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-life-sakeena-fiza/ 🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics): https://www.latent.space/p/bio-security-is-an-ai-arms-race-eric OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense: https://openai.com/index/openai-extends-cyber-access-to-ukraine-for-civilian-defense Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council: https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-day-singapore/ Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/why-ai-companies-cant-be-trusted-to-self-regulate Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/debating-rsi-the-us-china-gap-and Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Why-Scaling-Prediction-Cannot-Create-Intelligence---Alexander-Mattick-e3p69rq Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics : https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-473-the-uss-superintelligence The current balance of power in open models: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-current-balance-of-power-in-open The current balance of power in open models: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-current-balance-of-power-in-open AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-highlights-zvi-on-pacing-trump-xi-astra-better-behaved-than-fable-a-new-llm-pain-axis/ Get the complete SUMO Keep up with A.I. An independent weekly digest every Sunday at noon, London time. Subscribers receive a short Daily every weekday, the Weekly one day early on Saturday and the Monthly A.I. Trajectory Review on the first Sunday of each month, all in one private podcast feed. No adverts. No paid placements. See sumo-podcast.click for current subscription prices. Subscribe at https://www.sumo-podcast.click No adverts. No paid placements. Just pure A.I. signal through the immense noise!

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    SUMO Weekly: 12–18 September 2026

    An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources The AI Challenges Businesses Are Actually Focused On Right Now: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/The-AI-Challenges-Businesses-Are-Actually-Focused-On-Right-Now-e3p2oep Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/anthropics-first-embedded-evaluator-is-accenture/ Amazon SageMaker Inference: 2026 year-to-date launches in review: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazon-sagemaker-inference-2026-year-to-date-launches-in-review/ AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/report-us-almost-boarded-chinese-ship-over-hallucinated-ai-arms-report/ World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/world-model-companies-are-keeping-a-lot-of-secrets/ Note on 18th September 2026: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/18/probably-gonna-eat-you/ Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced: https://www.wired.com/story/heres-how-an-ai-slowdown-could-actually-work/ FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/faa-tees-up-875m-ai-tool-to-help-manage-air-traffic-congestion/ Quoting Thariq Shihipar: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/18/thariq-shihipar/ Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/18/europe-ai-safety-debate Could AI pose a serious threat to our existence? | Letters: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/18/could-ai-pose-a-serious-threat-to-our-existence Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-kimi-k3-on-amazon-bedrock/ Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/migrating-multi-model-ai-agents-to-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-runtime/ AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-pacs-have-dumped-nearly-1-million-into-an-obscure-senate-race/ New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/expanding-ai-economy-research-bench/ How to know if you can trust an AI’s answer to your question: https://theconversation.com/how-to-know-if-you-can-trust-an-ais-answer-to-your-question-289201 Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/18/1144435/could-ai-really-kill-us-all-your-questions-answered/ A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors Dynamically Scaled Activation Steering: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/dynamically-scaled-activation-steering Making a claim at the Fair Work Commission? These are the new AI rules you need to follow: https://theconversation.com/making-a-claim-at-the-fair-work-commission-these-are-the-new-ai-rules-you-need-to-follow-290633 How Existential Fears Are Shaping the Debate Over AI: https://ainowinstitute.org/news/press/how-existential-fears-are-shaping-the-debate-over-ai Why Everyone Is Getting Excited About Personal AI Agents: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/Why-Everyone-Is-Getting-Excited-About-Personal-AI-Agents-e3p0g3i Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/noam-brown No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/no-code-is-code-zapier-ceo-wade-foster-on-headless-tools-zapier-mcp-automation-bench/ How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT: https://openai.com/index/cooley-gopublic How to get discovered in AI search: https://share.transistor.fm/s/66185604 [AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost): https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-reality-checks-on-ai-news REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/reversal-bench-rl-cliff Introducing Astra for Law: https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC: https://www.latent.space/p/aiuc Our framework for reporting model misalignment: https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/physical-ai-robot-cybersecurity-vicone NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-rubin-nvl72-mlperf-inference/ New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise: https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-ai-technique-could-make-minimally-invasive-surgeries-safer-more-precise-0916 Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-energy-management-alliance/ Building the materials foundation for AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/16/1144014/building-the-materials-foundation-for-ai/ University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/uk-air-pollution-research-earth-2/ The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/the-balance-of-ai-power-anton-leicht-on-politics-pacing-deals-and-muddling-through-well/ How Physical AI Learns Across Language, Video and Action — Ming-Yu Liu: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/How-Physical-AI-Learns-Across-Language--Video-and-Action--Ming-Yu-Liu-e3ospub AI for Societal Impact: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/ai-for-societal-impact/ Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/ai-applications-science-people/ Inside Beijing’s Chipmaking Offensive, One Year On: https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/inside-beijings-chipmaking-offensive-one-year-on/ AISN #81: Anthropic Researcher’s Resignation Propels AI Risk into the Public Eye: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-81-anthropic-researchers-resignation Speech Recognition Is Not a Solved Problem — Pavan Muddireddy: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Speech-Recognition-Is-Not-a-Solved-Problem--Pavan-Muddireddy-e3orlk9 Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive: https://www.latent.space/p/recursive The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents: https://www.normaltech.ai/p/the-ai-as-normal-technology-view New method enables AI for safety-critical situations: https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-method-enables-ai-safety-critical-situations-0914 Get the complete SUMO Keep up with A.I. 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