The Brutalist Report

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Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News) [6d]
Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [6d]
Binance says it has covered 90% of its hack losses, having set aside $6.34B+ of company funds; the remaining 10% is in less liquid tokens (Angela Christy/Reuters) [6d]
How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, "not X, but Y" phrasing, and words like "delve", or add typos, to look human (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg) [6d]
A look at growing bipartisan opposition to AI data centers in drought-stricken Arizona, where TSMC's chip fabs were welcomed but newer projects face backlash (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge) [6d]
As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs (The Commanding Heights) [6d]
When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time" (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware) [6d]
Sources: neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius, and Nscale have effectively been shut out of the bond market in recent weeks as lenders and investors demand tougher terms (Wall Street Journal) [6d]
S&P downgraded Meta's outlook from stable to negative, citing high capex and negative free cash flow; META fell 15% in October, its worst month in four years (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [6d]
Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a "tampered" copy of the Claude Code extension, which it didn't build or publish (Felix Rieseberg/@felixrieseberg) [6d]
John Ternus says Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake" and that Tim Cook is "available to help wherever I ask" on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump (Steven Levy/Wired) [6d]
Sources: OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target, and expects to raise more in coming weeks (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) [6d]
Sources: OpenAI now seeks ~$20B at a $1.25T valuation for its latest round, from $30B at a $1.4T valuation, as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff (Financial Times) [7d]
Sources: Baseten is raising ~$2B in two tranches, one valuing it at $26B and the other at $30B; Baseten was valued at $13B in June after raising $1.5B (Bloomberg) [7d]