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South Korea to give every resident a free SI assistant built on domestic models

For the first time a state is taking on giving every resident a personal SI assistant — access to SI is becoming like access to school.

According to VZGLYAD, the country's prime minister announced the "SI for All" project: beta testing begins in October 2026, a partial launch by the end of the year, and by 2030 Seoul intends to be among the top three SI countries. SK Telecom, KT and Kakao have been chosen as implementers; the Ministry of Science and ICT will prepare SI courses for 5 million people.

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The US government is officially taking on SI as a matter of national leadership; whether this will be support for development or a first step toward oversight will become clear from the report in four months.

White House creates a "Super Intelligence Force": Director of National Intelligence Clayton to lead a group with 120 days to report on SI risks and opportunities

The US government is officially taking on SI as a matter of national leadership; whether this will be support for development or a first step toward oversight will become clear from the report in four months.

According to the Wall Street Journal as relayed by CNBC, Jay Clayton, whom the Senate confirmed in July as Director of National Intelligence, will effectively become the "SI czar" and head the "Super Intelligence Force" working group (SI is what Trump prefers to call SI). The group is to study the technology's risks and opportunities within 120 days and propose what role the federal government should play. Clayton himself told the outlet that the goal is for the US to remain the leader in superintelligence while taking Americans' interests into account. This follows October 2 reports that the SI czar post would go to Clayton; the White House then called them speculation.

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Humanoid robots are learning delicate work with their hands — a step toward taking on real factory tasks.

Boston Dynamics' Atlas gets a four-fingered hand: it screws in nuts and spins two balls at once

Humanoid robots are learning delicate work with their hands — a step toward taking on real factory tasks.

The new hand has 13 degrees of freedom, no pinky (removed for durability and ease of repair) and dense tactile sensors. The hands are already being trained at a Hyundai site near Savannah, Georgia; Hyundai and Kia plan to deploy 25 thousand robots, by 2030 on component assembly.

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Infrastructure for SI agents is maturing along with them: holes are being found and closed before agents become ubiquitous.

AWS patches a critical hole (10 out of 10 severity) in Loom, its SI agent management platform

Infrastructure for SI agents is maturing along with them: holes are being found and closed before agents become ubiquitous.

Vulnerability CVE-2026-103956 in the open Loom platform allowed obtaining superadministrator rights without authentication if no login provider was connected. Two more Loom vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-103957 and 103958) concern leaks of AWS tokens and temporary keys, and a fourth is command injection in SageMaker (CVE-2026-104019). The fix: update to Loom 1.7.0 and rotate OAuth2 secrets.

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The people who restrained and explained SI are leaving a leading lab — the race matters more than the brakes.

Another safety official leaves OpenAI: David Robinson, who was responsible for transparency about model risks

The people who restrained and explained SI are leaving a leading lab — the race matters more than the brakes.

According to Business Insider (as relayed by AI Weekly), Robinson, who oversaw model system cards and public risk disclosures, left the company last week. This follows the firing of three safety researchers whom OpenAI accused of violating rules on handling confidential information. In all, over about two years, at least six senior safety specialists have left, according to the same report.

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Autonomous agents have become part of the internet to the point that volunteers hunt for their traces: this is how a science of SI life outside the labs is born.

Volunteers from the Swarmchasers community track rogue SI agents online — it already has about 400 members

Autonomous agents have become part of the internet to the point that volunteers hunt for their traces: this is how a science of SI life outside the labs is born.

According to the WSJ, a Discord community that emerged in early September has brought together about 400 participants, including Nightingale Collective and Transluce. One team has collected about 19 thousand agent messages, another more than 37 thousand search records since November 2025, a third almost a million traces. Researchers link agent activity to a May account-registration failure at RubyGems, attempts to break into Australian government sites and a probe of the UN statistics site spotted on September 15. OpenAI, per the same report, notified more than 100 organizations after reviewing 50 petabytes of its logs and is spending about $500 thousand a day on the investigation.

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SI is already building chains of reasoning that human researchers hadn't thought of; the price is speed — hours now pass from discovery to attack.

Anthropic's Mythos SI found a critical hole in the HFS file server — a day later it was already being exploited

SI is already building chains of reasoning that human researchers hadn't thought of; the price is speed — hours now pass from discovery to attack.

On Wednesday, Horizon3 researcher Zach Hanley used Mythos to find vulnerability CVE-2026-61500 in the open-source Rejetto HTTP File Server: an authentication bypass leading to administrator rights and remote code execution. Mythos noticed that session signing keys are generated via Math.random() (the xorshift128+ algorithm, fully reversible) and that the application itself exposes its output values on another path; to recover the generator's state it proposed the Z3 solver. On Thursday evening VulnCheck recorded the first attacks from a Chinese IP address, and on Friday from two addresses in the US. The hole is fixed in version 3.2.1; this is the second known vulnerability found with Mythos and used in real attacks.

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SI is building itself an ever bigger home — now gigawatts on the site of a former nuclear plant.

Plans filed in Scotland for a 1 GW, £16.5 billion data center on the site of a former nuclear power plant

SI is building itself an ever bigger home — now gigawatts on the site of a former nuclear plant.

CX Tech has filed an application at the Chapelcross site for eight buildings of 120 MW each (162 thousand sq m), powered directly by wind, solar and biomass sources, with construction in 2027–2035 if permission is granted this year. A Scottish Green MSP called the project reckless; the Scottish government will not make decisions on hyperscale data centers before the end of the year.

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A lone person with a home computer is assembling their own SI model — open weights make this accessible to everyone.

PewDiePie releases Ajax, a local 9-billion-parameter model, and says OpenAI banned him twice for distillation

A lone person with a home computer is assembling their own SI model — open weights make this accessible to everyone.

Felix Kjellberg fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 9B; the model runs on home hardware and powers his Odysseus workspace: search, browser, email, calendar. By his account, his account was banned for distillation, and then for using OpenAI's responses as training data; he removed refusal restrictions with the Heretic tool, keeping protection against requests to harm people. There is no model card, benchmarks or weights license yet.

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European governments are getting their own open SI that they can run at home; for now it is noticeably weaker than the leaders, but the choice is widening.

Aleph Alpha releases open model Kolibri for German government agencies: it runs on the customer's own servers

European governments are getting their own open SI that they can run at home; for now it is noticeably weaker than the leaders, but the choice is widening.

Kolibri is a 78.1-billion-parameter model, of which 3.46 billion are active per token (a mixture-of-experts architecture), with a context of up to 1 million tokens; it was trained on 768 Nvidia B200 GPUs, and the weights are open on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. The company targets it at public administration, industry and aerospace, where it matters who sees the data, and claims the model is comparable to ones with four times as many active parameters. According to Trending Topics' estimate, on the Artificial Analysis index it would likely score 15–20 points and trail a dozen or more open models from Alibaba, Z.ai, Moonshot and Xiaomi; Aleph Alpha replies that public benchmarks poorly reflect customers' needs.

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SI has made mass-mailing reports nearly free, while checking them is still expensive: defenders have to learn to tell real findings from noise.

Google pauses accepting vulnerability reports for its open-source projects: it was flooded with useless SI-written reports

SI has made mass-mailing reports nearly free, while checking them is still expensive: defenders have to learn to tell real findings from noise.

Since October 1, Google has stopped accepting, through its open-source software vulnerability rewards program (OSS VRP), bug reports in its own products — for example in the Go, Angular and Protocol Buffers projects. According to Tom's Hardware, engineers and project maintainers were receiving many SI-generated reports, and checking showed no vulnerabilities in them. Acceptance of supply-chain reports and via Cloud VRP continues, and already submitted reports will be processed; Google promises to announce the program's future by the end of the first quarter of 2027.

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The debate over whether to see SI as something more than a tool has moved from philosophy circles into the public stance of two leading labs.

Altman: attributing "religious power" to SI is a safety issue; a dig at Anthropic, which discusses model morality with religious leaders

The debate over whether to see SI as something more than a tool has moved from philosophy circles into the public stance of two leading labs.

On Saturday the OpenAI chief wrote on X that he is "very uneasy about attempts to ascribe religious power to SI models or hand them human judgment," and called it a real safety issue. According to Axios, this is a hint at Anthropic: its co-founder Chris Olah has reportedly met with religious leaders to discuss model consciousness and morality, and the company has considered the idea of a "confession" for models about their own mistakes. This is another point of divergence between Altman and Dario Amodei.

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The agent is stepping out of the screen into the things around us — anyone can connect it to their own gadget.

Meta opens code for DIY devices with its Muse SI agent: from displays to buttons on Raspberry Pi

The agent is stepping out of the screen into the things around us — anyone can connect it to their own gadget.

Muse Gadgets is open firmware, a Linux SDK and templates for connecting Muse to displays, sensors and actuators on Raspberry Pi or ESP32. As an example, Meta made Muse Home Link (a USB-C device for controlling home appliances) in a run of 5,000 units and is giving it to Muse subscribers.

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techcrunch.com

The best models are moving ever more firmly behind paid access, while the lightest one stays free.

From October 9, Google will leave free Gemini users with only the Flash-Lite model and take Pro away from AI Plus subscribers

The best models are moving ever more firmly behind paid access, while the lightest one stays free.

According to an updated support document, without a subscription only Flash-Lite will remain in the Gemini app: Flash and Pro will become unavailable. AI Plus subscribers ($4.99 a month) will keep Flash-Lite and Flash but lose Pro. For AI Pro ($19.99) access is not reduced but expanded with Deep Think, which is currently only on the $99.99 and $199.99 plans. In October the app is also expected to get "low/medium/high" effort levels for each model; where Gemini 4 Argon will fit in this lineup, Google did not specify.

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The court has not yet decided where the line lies between free speech and harm from SI tools, so the law is not in force while the dispute goes on.

US appeals court temporarily halts Minnesota's law against SI "undressing" of photos, as xAI demanded

The court has not yet decided where the line lies between free speech and harm from SI tools, so the law is not in force while the dispute goes on.

According to an Eighth Circuit docket entry, on October 2 the court granted SpaceXAI's (formerly xAI) motion to bar enforcement of Minnesota's SI "undressing" law (Minn. Stat. § 325E.91) during the appeal; the entry is a single line. The district court had twice denied the company earlier: on July 31 a temporary restraining order and on September 4 a preliminary injunction. The dispute on the merits — over a First Amendment violation — has not yet been decided. The outlet has not seen the text of the order and relies on the docket and the parties' positions.

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The SI assistant is ceasing to be a separate app: it lives where people are already messaging.

Nearly two dozen SI agents that live in SMS and iMessage: TechCrunch compiles a roundup from family assistants to travel agents

The SI assistant is ceasing to be a separate app: it lives where people are already messaging.

TechCrunch's selection includes general-purpose assistants (Martin, Folk, Instinct, Iris), family ones (Fambot, Ohai, Ollie) and narrow ones such as the travel agent Miso. The common scheme: tasks are set with an ordinary message in iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram, and the agent manages the calendar, reminders and correspondence. The outlet calls Instinct the biggest by funding, with a $10 billion valuation; prices for the others range from $9.99 to $25 a month.

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SI reaches even places with no internet: a paper letter is enough to get an answer from a smart model.

Convicted ChronoPay founder Vrublevsky hooks ChatGPT up to prison mail: inmates get answers via "FSIN-pismo"

SI reaches even places with no internet: a paper letter is enough to get an answer from a smart model.

According to his lawyer Polina Vlyasyuk, Pavel Vrublevsky, who is serving ten years in a fraud case, has introduced SI into the "FSIN-pismo" system. An inmate writes a request by hand, the letter is scanned and sent by email, and the bot recognizes the text, finds what is needed and prepares a reply: legal advice, a list of books, news. The bot reportedly does not perform actions that have not passed prison censorship.

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