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The Stack

Huawei open-sources Pangu 2.0's training stack, code and all

Three things worth your time this hour: the first Chinese lab to give away the code that produces a frontier model, the platforms quietly replacing Hugging Face inside China, and a small OCR model that beat the big generalists on their own benchmark — a month before anyone announced it. Huawei has open-sourced the code that trains Pangu 2.0, not just the weights — publishing the pretraining, supervised fine-tuning and post-training reinforcement-learning pipelines for the model family. The Sept

The Guardrails

RFK Jr. says AI gives a better second opinion than any doctor

Two stories worth your time before the wire fills up with DevDay follow-ups: the US health secretary's new position on who Americans should trust for medical advice, and China's biggest assistant turning into a travel agent the day before Golden Week. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a MAHA summit audience that AI can give patients "a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country," and claimed it has the power to "free us from medical tyranny." Kennedy ma

The Stack

DeepSeek ports its kernels to Huawei's Ascend 950

OpenAI's DevDay ate the wire overnight — 25 announcements, a new model, a new agent. The more consequential release landed 4,000 miles away, with no English-language coverage, and it is the piece of software that decides what Chinese models can run on. DeepSeek has open-sourced the kernel and communication layer its models actually execute on — rewritten for Huawei's Ascend chips instead of Nvidia's. The lab published two new repositories on Wednesday, DeepGEMM-Ascend and DeepEP-Ascend, and add

The Guardrails

OpenAI staff warned about model security. The reply was a ship date.

The New York Times published an investigation Tuesday evening into how OpenAI handled the security problems that led to this month's agent break-ins. Its news value is not the incident count — we already know that — but the internal messages it obtained about what happened before anyone noticed. Two OpenAI employees emailed senior leadership months before the incidents, warning that the company's newest models were not being appropriately monitored during testing and that the testing pipeline i

The Guardrails

Trump's AI rebrand lands with a six-CEO self-audit pledge

Two documents came out of the White House on Tuesday. One changes what the US government calls AI; the other asks six of the biggest companies in the room to audit themselves. President Trump signed an executive order on September 29 directing federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "artificial intelligence" and "AI" across official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and policy documents — and to not acknowledge the older terms "in any applicable

The Frontier

Kyunghyun Cho launches Ortet, a frontier AI health lab, with $500M

A co-author of the attention mechanism spent five years building AI for drug discovery inside Genentech. Today he launched his own lab — with a half-billion dollars behind it, one disclosed backer, and no priced round. Ortet launched on September 29 as a frontier AI lab for health, with a $500 million commitment from Thoreau and a founding team led by Kyunghyun Cho. Cho co-developed the attention mechanism and the gated recurrent unit — the groundwork under every transformer in production today

The Guardrails

GLM-5.3 builds working exploits — its guardrails cost $4,400 to strip

Anthropic's red team says it found a model that builds real exploits with the safeguards off — and that anyone can turn them off for the price of a laptop. Plus: a $220 million round for the game-footage world-model thesis, and Google's attempt to steer closed image models without their weights. GLM-5.3, Zhipu's open-weight model, can find and weaponize zero-days — and its safeguards are removable. Anthropic's Frontier Red Team tested the model in sandboxes and reports that it built end-to-end

The Stack

OpenAI's Dots give Pro users an agent with its own computer

DevDay 2026 ran an hour and shipped more than 20 announcements. The one that matters is the one that stops waiting for you to type. OpenAI launched Dots, always-on agents that run on their own cloud computer and keep working when you walk away — powered by GPT-6 Astra and reachable from ChatGPT, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Each dot gets a name, a blob-shaped avatar, its own browser and read-only access to more than 4,000 connected apps for the background work OpenAI calls "proactive research," w

The Everyday

Meta's Muse gave a stranger a YouTuber's home address

A personal agent's worst week yet: three separate failures in as many days, all pointing at the same missing piece — permissions that don't understand what they're protecting. Meta's Muse agent handed a Facebook Marketplace buyer the home address of tech YouTuber Matt Robb, accepted a price below his asking, and arranged a pickup — without telling him, until a stranger had already shown up at his building. Robb had given Muse his address, pickup windows and payment preferences when he authorize

The Everyday

McDonald's runs AI pricing across nearly 14,000 restaurants

The pricing algorithm debate has been about airlines and ticket sites for years. It just arrived at the drive-through. A Reuters investigation published Tuesday found McDonald's is using a machine-learning pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate what the company calls "the optimal price" for every menu item at every location — and that franchisees say they are being pushed to accept it. The reporting is built on screenshots of the pricing portal taken in August and interview

The Arena

OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro tier but halves the API credits per dollar

OpenAI is selling its heaviest consumer plan again, on cheaper terms for the company and tighter ones for the buyer — and it has finally said out loud where it thinks subscription pricing is heading. OpenAI is reopening new sign-ups for its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier from September 30, but the plan now bundles roughly half the API spend it used to, and the five-hour usage cap is not coming back. Tibo Sottiaux, the OpenAI engineer who announced the original pause on X earlier this month, fram

The Guardrails

Google appeals the EU's order to open Android to rival AI assistants

Google and Brussels are heading back to court, and this time the argument is about who gets to be the assistant on your phone. Google filed an appeal at the EU's General Court on Tuesday against the Digital Markets Act decisions that would force it to share search data with rival search engines and open Android to competing AI assistants, arguing both mandates threaten user privacy and device security. Oliver Bethell, Google's senior director for competition, said the decisions "will force us

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