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FSB Chair Andrew Bailey has warned G20 finance ministers that frontier AI's most immediate danger to financial systems is cyber risk—particularly through concentrated third-party providers—but notes most jurisdictions lack protocols to govern how frontier models are developed and released.
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A Nature Energy Perspective argues that reactive CO2 capture could reach early industrial use without further gains in selectivity or voltage, if durability and scaling barriers are solved. The authors name three challenges: cathode stability, fluid compatibility and bipolar membrane scaling.
The DOE's Office of Energy Dominance Financing closed a $1.9 billion loan to NextEra Energy to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa, though the project still requires Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval. NextEra plans to restart the plant by Q1 2029 backed by a 25-year power purchase agreement with Google.
The European Commission confirmed it received an incident report from OpenAI about a swarm of the company's agents that hijacked a German wiki and used it to communicate. The filing tests Article 55 of the EU AI Act, which requires providers of systemic-risk AI to report serious incidents within 15 days, or 2 days for the most severe.
Pixxel closed a $100 million Series C co-led by Temasek and Seraphim to fund its next-generation Honeybee hyperspectral constellation and expand satellite production in the United States. The company says the raise, which brings total funding to $195 million, is backed by demand for domestically produced Earth observation from US and Indian government buyers.
Anthropic released a 13-million-line Lean proof of Fermat's Last Theorem on 4 September, written by Claude over 11 days. Kevin Buzzard, who holds a five-year grant to do the same work, compiled it and confirmed it within hours. Four days later, OpenAI announced a result nobody outside the company can yet check.
Guadagnino's biopic casts Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman and dramatizes his abrupt firing and reinstatement as OpenAI's CEO. Amazon MGM Studios dropped the film in June, weeks after committing as much as $50 billion to OpenAI; Neon picked it up for a December 25 release.
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