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OpenAI reports issues with file uploads in ChatGPT

OpenAI is reporting an increased error rate and degraded performance for file uploads in ChatGPT. The incident has the status "Identified", and the company is working on mitigation.

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Venkatesh Rao essay: AI elite's approach to intelligence compared to mercantilism

Engineer Venkatesh Rao argues in an essay on the Contraptions blog that part of the AI elite treats intelligence as a scarce resource, similar to how mercantilists hoarded gold, and proposes focusing on fair access to AI instead of protecting outdated jobs.

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Researchers warn against using ChatGPT for flirting and dating communication

A commentary on The Conversation warns that using ChatGPT for flirting or dating communication can deprive a person of self-awareness of their own emotions and carries risks of privacy violations and inaccurate representation of the person.

Importance: monitoring Anthropic Other ✓ official

Hour-long outage of Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Claude API services

Anthropic reported approximately an hour of elevated error rates on Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and, to some extent, Claude API on 29. 9. 2026, including sign-in problems and a risk of unsaved messages. Service was restored around 14:59 UTC.

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Timnit Gebru: the debate over existential AI risk distracts from the real problems

Researcher Timnit Gebru, in an interview for Wired, calls the narrative of existential AI risk a harmful distraction and points out that it is spread and funded by the same people who stand behind companies like Anthropic as well as the institutions that assess that risk.

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A creator on TikTok described typical signs of AI-written scripts for social media

On TikTok, creator @therealcornpop described recognizable signs of AI-written scripts for social media – hackneyed phrases, choppy punctuation, and above all, the lack of an opinion of the author’s own. Simon Willison quoted the commentary on his blog.

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Mixture of Experts changes inference architecture: data movement and cluster orchestration

An analysis by SemiAnalysis describes how the Mixture of Experts architecture changes the requirements for inference infrastructure – which tensors remain active, how data moves between the prefill, midfill and decode phases, and how orchestration layers such as NVIDIA Dynamo or Mooncake coordinate this.

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Google strengthens its research program on the impacts of AI on the economy, bringing in Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion and other economists

Google is expanding AI & Economy Research Program with new senior researchers – economist Philippe Aghion (Nobel Prize in economics 2025) as an advisor, Ajay Agrawal as a Visiting Fellow, and Anu Madgavkar together with Daniel Rock as directors of research into the impacts of AI on work and productivity.

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Artificial intelligence consciousness could become a new social divide, according to the author

According to the author of a chapter in the book Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, debate about the consciousness of future AI systems may become as divisive as abortion or climate change. A survey of 1202 participants in the USA: 45 % consider AI consciousness impossible, 23 % consider it possible, and experts also disagree.