Quote of the day by ARC Prize co-founder François Chollet: ‘OpenAI basically set back progress to AGI by five to 10 years’ — critiquing the industry’s overindulgence in large language models AI & Bots
AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x — agents are mostly rereading what they’ve already seen, skyrocketing KV cache demand threatens already-worsening RAM shortages AI & Bots
This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: October 3, 2026 — AI Chip Design week, OpenAI Interview, and AI agent safety AI & Bots
Open-source “BootLoops” harness supports AI models in performing precise scientific calculations AI & Bots
Deepmind researchers propose “Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence” as an alternative to the singularity AI & Bots
ChatGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft ‘blind’ and clears the orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths — AI agent navigates by parsing raw server network packets and SQL files AI & Bots
Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations AI & Bots
OpenAI, Blackstone, Softbank form US data center lobbying group —American Infrastructure Alliance’s first job is stop states from blocking AI data center AI & Bots
Anthropic co-founder reportedly told religious leaders he fears having created something that “suffers perpetually” AI & Bots
This popular AI agent could be hacked by a single email — with potentially disastrous consequences AI & Bots
OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts — Hardware VP says Nvidia’s Vera standalone is ‘a little bit behind… on that maturity level’ AI & Bots
Amazon and Synopsys ink multi-year billion-dollar deal in multi-year IP agreement to accelerate AI chip design efforts — Synopsys to adopt Amazon Bedrock to deploy AI agents, harnessing AWS compute and storage capabilities AI & Bots
California tech CEO arrested, faces up to 20 years in prison for smuggling $300 million in Nvidia AI servers to China — federal prosecutors say chips were routed through Malaysia and Singapore using false paperwork AI & Bots
Meta Muse has already broken a record: it beats all competitors in data collection, Surfshark warns AI & Bots
