Claude nukes a developer’s 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision AI & Bots
Indiana power provider proposes $59 million rate cut for state, says data centers and other large customers are driving increased revenue — move could potentially save residential users $100 annually AI & Bots
X busts 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm, including accounts making claims about AI data centers and electricity — suspect accounts posted claims about pricing and grid strain to ‘manipulate’ debate AI & Bots
OpenAI, Google and dozens of other companies publish open letter calling for collective action on cyber defense – Engadget AI & Bots
James Pond’s creator is not happy with the series’ allegedly AI-generated legacy collection – Engadget AI & Bots
OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost AI & Bots
Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company history AI & Bots
Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM AI & Bots
