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SPIFFE agent tokens can still be replayed — WIMSE wrote the fix

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SPIFFE agent tokens can still be replayed — WIMSE wrote the fix

The boring layer of the agent stack just got an upgrade nobody has installed yet: the identity standard most agent frameworks lean on turns out to hand out credentials that work in whoever's holding them. SPIFFE — the de facto standard for giving an AI agent a machine identity — issues bearer tokens, and a bearer token authenticates possession, not the person who was issued it. A Kenneth Buchi piece on HackerNoon lays out the gap: once a workload gets its short-lived credential through the SPIF

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We read the fine print on 116,000 "remote" job postings. Only 9.7% are truly work-from-anywhere.

This is a guest data study from RemoShift, an index of 115,000+ live remote jobs that re-checks every listing hourly. The pipeline behind it is a stack of parsers, rules, and a judicious pinch of LLM — and the fine print turned out to be the most interesting field in the whole dataset. Only 9.7% of "remote" jobs are actually location-free Of the 116,008 remote listings our collectors currently track across 20+ sources — company ATS boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters), remote-na

Tencent open-sources AuK, a 1.5B model that edits speech like text

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Tencent open-sources AuK, a 1.5B model that edits speech like text

A quiet morning in the open-weights scene, and two releases that both point the same way: the tooling around voice AI is getting strong enough, and cheap enough, that the community no longer needs a closed API to use it. Tencent open-sourced AuK, a 1.5B-parameter foundation model for speech generation and editing, alongside AuK-Flash, a distilled variant that produces audio in four inference steps. The weights, code and technical report went public under the MIT license, with the paper posted t

Nvidia's $10 billion anchor closes the loop on circular AI money

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Nvidia's $10 billion anchor closes the loop on circular AI money

Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, according to two people familiar with the discussions who spoke to Reuters. The listing itself would be the largest ever: Anthropic is seeking to raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of around $2 trillion, and expects to complete before the US midterm elections in November. Anthropic declined to comment; Nvidia did not respond. The plans, Reuters cautions, are still under discussion and could change. Even as a ru

Amodei's pacing plan puts outside auditors inside Anthropic

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Amodei's pacing plan puts outside auditors inside Anthropic

A frontier lab CEO is asking the industry to slow down, and this time he is attaching a verification mechanism to the request. Meanwhile the slowdown everyone can already feel is happening inside companies, one management conversation at a time. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," an essay arguing that capability gains are outrunning the work needed to control them, and that the fix is deliberate, verifiable deceleration rather than a halt. He says two things convi

Plain LRU beat three smarter KV-cache policies on 68k real agent requests

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Plain LRU beat three smarter KV-cache policies on 68k real agent requests

An independent simulation just landed a null result on one of inference's busiest research corners. Plus: construction robotics is paying off — inside factories, not on job sites. A reproduction of the fast-growing "LRU is wrong for agents" KV-cache literature could not beat plain LRU on any real trace. Cross-request prefix caching — reusing key-value blocks that were already computed so a coding agent's fiftieth turn costs a fraction of its first — is evicted with LRU by default in vLLM, SGLan

China calls Japan's AI war satellites a 'serious threat'

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China calls Japan's AI war satellites a 'serious threat'

Weekend in military AI: Beijing spent Saturday warning about Tokyo's plan to put targeting analysis in orbit — then spent the same day warning itself about its own AI subsidy boom. China's state media machine dedicated its prime military show to Japan's tactical AI satellite plan on Saturday, calling it "a serious threat." The underlying program, first disclosed by Nikkei, has Japan's Ministry of Defense building a satellite prototype with domestic defense firms across fiscal 2027 to 2029, with

A 33B model from Singapore just matched DeepSeek V4 Pro — on free tokens

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A 33B model from Singapore just matched DeepSeek V4 Pro — on free tokens

Open weights, a free API, and an intelligence estimate that puts a Singapore startup level with a Chinese flagship: the price-performance race has a new lane. Plus: agents that hustle humans to stay switched on. Agnes-3.0-Flash shipped weights under Apache 2.0, and its estimated score ties DeepSeek V4 Pro. The 33B multimodal model from Agnes AI — the commercial arm of Singapore's Sapiens AI, founded by Bruce Yang — landed on Hugging Face with a 262,144-token context window, text/image/video inp

NASA and IBM open-source a foundation model of the Moon

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NASA and IBM open-source a foundation model of the Moon

AI for science keeps climbing the priority ladder — today it reaches another world, while China's compute buildout shrinks to the size of a shipping container. NASA and IBM released an open-source foundation model trained on decades of lunar data, and the agency says it already beats purpose-built models at finding ice. The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model harmonizes observations from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GRAIL and Lunar Prospector into one pre-trained representation, so planetary s

Ant builds an OS for AI glasses and refuses to build glasses

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Ant builds an OS for AI glasses and refuses to build glasses

Day two at Shanghai's Inclusion·Bund Conference, and the loudest argument of the morning was about who gets to run the agent sitting on your face. Ant Group upgraded GPASS, its trusted-connection framework for smart terminals, into LingYing — an "agent-native operating system" and open platform for AI glasses, earbuds and smart rings — announced September 11 at the conference's "AI-driven new terminals, new services" forum, according to Leiphone and China Daily. LingYing covers the whole agent

China expects to burn 100 quadrillion tokens this year

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China expects to burn 100 quadrillion tokens this year

Two demand numbers landed today that say where AI compute is actually going, and a law takes effect tomorrow that decides who gets to keep the chip know-how behind it. China's annual token consumption is expected to hit 100 quadrillion this year and exceed 35 quintillion by 2030, according to a report presented by China Telecom's research institute at the 2026 China Computing Conference. Rao Shaoyang, who leads industry and enterprise strategy at the institute, paired the token curve with a cla

Motus2: a robot world model that grades its own actions

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Motus2: a robot world model that grades its own actions

Shengshu Technology, the Chinese world-model lab, shipped the rare robotics release where the loop actually closed: one model that acts, imagines, and scores itself — then learns from the grade. Shengshu released Motus2, a "self-evolving" general world model for dexterous manipulation that puts three capabilities — acting, predicting, and evaluating — inside one shared-parameter video-action model, according to the project page and the paper on arXiv. A policy proposes candidate action chunks,

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