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Ontology Restarts Its Mainnet After a Roughly 41-Hour Precautionary Halt Over a Security Incident at an Unnamed Ecosystem Project
Ontology's mainnet is back after a 41-hour precautionary halt over an ecosystem project incident; it says the network lost no funds.
DATA Network and Its Trace Registry Move to Sui, Sui Foundation Invests $30 Million, and DATA’s Own Chain Will Be Retired
DATA Network will retire its own chain and run on Sui, with Walrus as default storage. Sui Foundation says it is investing $30 million. Figures are company-reported.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says AI Models Should Be Treated Like Insider Risks
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's X article says AI models should be treated like insider risks, with controls outside the model and a way to pause it mid-task. What he wrote, and what it doesn't show.
Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus Is Published in Science: 9 of 353 Erdős Problems, 44 of 492 OEIS Conjectures, by the Authors’ Own Account
DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus is in Science. Its authors report 9 of 353 Erdős problems and 44 of 492 OEIS conjectures proved. What that means, and the limits.
China’s Policy Guidelines Call for a National Blockchain Network, but Give No Details
China's 9 October policy guidelines call for "a national blockchain network". What the official text says, what it leaves out, and what it is not.
Helium Says the First Wakefern Supermarkets Are Live on Its Wi-Fi Offload Network
Helium says the first Wakefern supermarkets are live on its network, using store Wi-Fi to carry phone-carrier traffic. What Wi-Fi offload and Passpoint mean, and what Helium has not said: store count and carriers.
OpenAI Adds Composer Predictions to Codex for Pro Users, and Lets Dots Hand Work to Codex
OpenAI says Codex can now suggest your next message (beta, Pro), and ChatGPT dots can be created on a phone and start work in Codex. What is confirmed, and what is a staff post.
AI Still Misreads Pictures, and Reasoning May Hinge on One Word: Two New Studies
Scale AI and Elorian's Humanity's Sixth Sense benchmark finds people score 93.1% on everyday visual questions while the best model, GPT-6 Astra, scores 53.6%, mostly because models misread the picture. A separate preprint, not yet peer reviewed, says base models can reason almost as well as RL-trained ones when their answer starts with the right word.
Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program: Three Tiers of Looser Guardrails for Vetted Defenders
Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program into three tiers, Defense, Red Team and Specialized, that relax Claude's cyber safety blocks for vetted security teams on Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Mythos 5.1. Specialized applicants are reviewed with the US government. What each tier allows, and what Anthropic's own test shows.
OpenAI’s Decisions API and Perplexity’s Open Decider: AI That Answers With a Probability, Not an Essay
On 6 October OpenAI launched a Decisions API that returns yes/no probabilities, picks and rubric scores from GPT-6 Luna, and cut its API usage tiers from five to three. Perplexity released pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, an Apache 2.0 open-weight decision model. What decision models are, what each costs, and which scores are the vendors' own.
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