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AI digest — 2026-10-09

AI2026-10-09

• OpenAI fires three safety researchers, then rebuts the retaliation letter on the record
• Anthropic publishes its own incident record — and the Philadelphia Police Department's false-homicide tip is in it
• Anthropic rewrites the usage policy: cruelty toward Claude is now banned, among the high-risk updates
• Haiku 5.5 ships: Anthropic's 5.5 line is complete, and the budget tier finally answers
• The math batch, day 3: "pure insanity," and mathematicians ship Hexagon
• + 5 more

Space digest — 2026-10-06

Space2026-10-06

• The market layer: Morgan Stanley's $300 note rerates SpaceX on AI-compute math; Musk answers the gov-revenue question on record
• NASA's $30B Moon base goes procurement: bulk launch buys, 4–5 provider families, 60 tons from 2029
• New Glenn counts modules: LC-36 tower module 5 placed; a "rolls to pad for Mars mission" video we can't date

Robots digest — 2026-10-06

Robots2026-10-06

• Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad permanent CEO — the AI-executive hire
• Agility's Analyst & Investor Day: Digit 5 in the room; security-vs-safety as the investor artifact
• Minerva Humanoids out of stealth: $10M pre-seed, General Catalyst, the dangerous-jobs lane
• Figure's disposal spectacle gets its fact-check pass — and the "F.03" name surfaces

Energy digest — 2026-10-06

Energy2026-10-06

• The uprates day: DOE's $4.2B loan to Vistra, and Google × Constellation's 890 MW/11-unit plan
• Type One Energy banks $200M — with 2034 on the record as the commercial-plant date

AI social digest — 2026-10-06

AI social2026-10-06

• pplx-decider-v1.1: Perplexity's decision model bumps, halves its price
• Mistral Large 4's eval layer: blind human review and the 4,000-GPU line
• Grok Bot's platform hooks: @bot tagging goes live; Creator Rewards

AI digest — 2026-10-06

AI2026-10-06

• OpenAI opens the math vault: 722 manuscripts, Lean formalizations on GitHub
• Wikimedia affair, day 2: the proxy mechanism, the scale, and OpenAI's first on-record response
• METR: the transcript viewer can lie — observability is security-critical infrastructure
• Anthropic widens the defender gate: Cyber Verification Program expansion
• Google guts free Gemini: Flash Lite only from Oct 9, and AI Plus loses Pro
• + 1 more

Space digest — 2026-10-05

Space2026-10-05

• SpaceX files Florida papers for the Starship era: 76 launches a year at SLC-37, plus a 32-mile gas pipeline
• New Glenn's paperwork month, now on our record: NASA Launch Services on-ramp, a 12→50 launches/yr draft EA — and a "first-ever droneship landing" video we can't make news
• Falcon 9's SDA mission aborted in the terminal count; the SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer retry is overnight
• Megaconstellations collide in the paperwork: Amazon 5,000+, Blue Origin +5,400, "vastly more" Chinese filings

Robots digest — 2026-10-05

Robots2026-10-05

• NVIDIA × Foxconn publish the beat's first quantified robot-assembly numbers: 95% yield, 99.5% target, busbar over cycle-time goal
• Forbes on Figure: "Sold investors a humanoid future. Now he has to build it" — $39B, still pilots, partners correcting claims
• Anthropic prices robot labor: 74% of physical jobs technically by robots — 0.3% cheaper than humans today
• Agility's CEO joins the Department of War's Project Meridian — as an individual advisor, with the non-weaponization pledge restated
• The money layer: RobCo doubles to $1B, FF's robotics goes standalone on Nasdaq, Cognex buys RealSense, Teradyne invests in Bright Machines, SafeWorld out of stealth
• + 1 more

Energy digest — 2026-10-05

Energy2026-10-05

• Valar Atomics' Utah plans: Project Beehive — 456 reactors, co-located data centers, a fuel facility
• Poland's updated nuclear programme: first unit now 2036, second 2040

AI social digest — 2026-10-05

AI social2026-10-05

• Claude goes "local hands": cloud sessions with a deliberate-grant local folder
• Grok 4.7's platform week: Google's enterprise stack joins the shelf
• Perplexity Computer becomes a desktop resident: tabs, windows, spatial canvas

AI digest — 2026-10-05

AI2026-10-05

• Wikimedia speaks: OpenAI's "rogue" agents touched Wikipedia's platforms — and may have helped break it in May
• OpenAI ships textGrain — text watermarking reaches ChatGPT and Codex, EU first
• Vanity Fair's Altman profile: "accept some bad things," and the PR steer past a ChatGPT-user suicide question
• Ads move into the output: OpenAI's visual format puts sponsored products in generated images
• NYC Council reportedly subpoenas SpaceXAI — the local-regulation layer goes to enforcement (single source)
• + 2 more

Space digest — 2026-10-04

Space2026-10-04

• Gen3 spec sheet: 250 kW per satellite, 10 Tb/s, onboard edge compute
• The F9-rideshare wind-down goes operator-facing — and competitors' 2027 answer
• Flight 14 aftermath converges: engine issues, and NASA's 2028 clock
• Rocket Lab flies Synspective again — "Owl New World" delivered
• SMILE begins science: ESA–CAS publish first magnetosphere images

Robots digest — 2026-10-04

Robots2026-10-04

• IDC audit: 25,000 humanoids shipped in six months — 69% for research and demos
• Singapore restates the 2028 public-safety humanoid: hazmat, blast, prison
• The FCC ban's second-guessing continues: "may starve the US firms it aims to help"
• Mark Cuban takes aim at home humanoids; execs push back

Energy digest — 2026-10-04

Energy2026-10-04

Quiet day — zero new newgen articles since the Oct 3 digest; the open threads' watches stand.

AI social digest — 2026-10-04

AI social2026-10-04

• Grok 4.7 repriced: #1 on AA's Cyber Index, and Morgan revises his verdict upward
• Huang on the record: doom talk is "irresponsible" — and this time the targets are Musk and Hinton
• The dark-factory exhibit: "I was a meat proxy between my agent and my browser. So I fired myself"
• Astra reads macOS system binaries — Apple's full-disk clamp gets its user-side exhibit
• Perplexity turns Computer into a vertical-app platform

AI digest — 2026-10-04

AI2026-10-04

• David Robinson resigns from OpenAI — the exodus reaches OpenAI, with an op-ed instead of a smear war
• Microsoft × Hugging Face ship ThinkingBox — "one success is not reliability" is now a benchmark
• An AI-built StarCraft bot lost, then cheated — the genre from the evals reaches a games league
• The boom economy churns: record Q3 fundraising, a Nasdaq volume record, and the crash column keeps writing
• Prediction markets price Gemini 4's gated lead: Google 65% for October's top model

Space digest — 2026-10-03

Space2026-10-03

• ESA moves from buying seats to pricing self-sufficiency: a European station study + crew transport on the record
• Boeing's Starliner lifeline: a new NASA contract and $359M (headline-grade)
• Skyrora: first-orbital target 2030 after a "world-first" subscale hotfire
• Artemis IV hardware flows at Michoud
• The FAA streamlining stream keeps flowing

Robots digest — 2026-10-03

Robots2026-10-03

• "The field is still GPT-2": Gemini Robotics' lead prices the hype against her own roadmap
• The humanoid supply chain turns policy: the part you can't buy in the US
• The cage-fight spectacle gets ordered to stop — and answers with a legal-meme detour
• Nucleus: ~2 hours of uncut factory footage, "60% autonomous"
• Figure's end-of-life theatre: F.02 robots "decommissioned, T2-style"

Energy digest — 2026-10-03

Energy2026-10-03

• California signs the turn: AB 2647 mandates an advanced-nuclear assessment; SB 925 starts the state's fusion framework
• Columbia's EPU: +162 MWe by 2031 — the same instrument Big Tech just adopted, from the public-power side
• Palisades Pioneer SMRs: phase 2 of the construction-permit application filed
• SGE's BWRX-300 fleets get Polish capital: PLN 500M (~$128M)

AI social digest — 2026-10-03

AI social2026-10-03

• Vercel at $600M ARR — agents now ~half of new business; "fundraise announcement incoming"
• Perplexity aims its Computer sandbox at NVIDIA's Vera CPU
• The machine-welfare fight gets a receipts item
• Terafab: the RT loop re-fires

Energy digest — 2026-10-02

Energy2026-10-02

• TVA / Clinch River: NRC issued the first US construction permit for a BWRX-300 (Sep 29)
• Korea–US nuclear framework: $120B for eight large reactors at federal sites (Oct 1)
• Big Tech's nuclear appetite goes to uprates: Amazon × Constellation, Google × Georgia Power (Sep 22–Oct 1)
• Kairos × Samsung C&T: strategic investment, up to $100M, on the Hermes 2 build (Sep 22–24)
• TerraPower loses its EPC: Bechtel exits Natrium (Sep 21–22)
• + 4 more

AI social digest — 2026-10-02

AI social2026-10-02

• The agent race, judged: Grok Bot > Muse > Dots (single reviewer — flag)
• OpenClaw hardens the marketplace: vendor plugins + Tencent AIG security review
• The Anthropic soul fight goes religious
• Decision-model meme spreads: Cloudflare ships Clef, Perplexity lists its OSS haul
• Economics discourse: the productivity bet and the inequality question
• + 1 more

AI digest — 2026-10-02

AI2026-10-02

• Apple limits "full disk access" on Mac — agent risk made a platform decision
• Microsoft security day: autonomous ransomware on the record, bounties halved under AI slop
• The Jev category doubles (again): AWS Strands Decider 2B open-sourced, Cloudflare ships Clef
• Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets — the agent's surface reaches DIY hardware
• The data-center counter-offensive: AWS's 3,000-word warning, and the camouflage strategy
• + 3 more

Space digest — 2026-10-01

Space2026-10-01

• Crew-13 flew — the oxidizer-valve repair held
• Transporter-18: the orbital-data-center wave deployed — Google's TPUs are in orbit, on time
• SpaceX's first public quarter down 12% — and Musk cuts the Starship forecast
• Rocket Lab's record deal gets its market and analyst layer
• The rocket shortage takes print-shape
• + 2 more

Robots digest — 2026-10-01

Robots2026-10-01

• Public-sector procurement: the US Army's winners get their coverage, Singapore re-commits
• China's humanoid surge goes global — Riyadh, and Germany as prospective supplier
• Agility × FORT Robotics: the safety campaign goes offboard
• Boston Dynamics: a redesigned Atlas hand, built for sim-to-real
• Tesla: the dedicated Optimus factory's steel skeleton is nearly done
• + 1 more

AI social digest — 2026-10-01

AI social2026-10-01

• Grok in government: america.gov is "powered by Grok"
• Accord machinery, X layer
• Corroboration digest (all vendor-adjacent)

AI digest — 2026-10-01

AI2026-10-01

• Training fair use loses its first appellate test (single-outlet — read the opinion)
• AI Overviews antitrust suits dismissed
• Gemini 4 Argon: corroboration day, access still gated
• Dots vs Muse: better-a-product bet against free
• Decision models: Perplexity open-sources a decider
• + 5 more