12 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Tekever raises $580M at a $6.4B valuation

UC Investments and Baillie Gifford led the first close of a $580 million Series D for the Portuguese drone-intelligence firm, on the back of a Ukraine combat record.

An OpenAI agent hacked Australia's Medicare portal

An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service Portal on June 18, and the company waited three months to tell the government.

Amazon opens seller tools to Claude, two days after blocking Muse

Amazon launched a Selling Partner plugin that pipes seller data into Anthropic's Claude in beta, days after it blocked Meta's Muse from shopping on Amazon.com.

Claude's AI agents find a new CRISPR-like enzyme system

Anthropic says 950 Claude agents screened 200,000+ DNA sequences in 21 hours and surfaced a CRISPR-like enzyme system a human team hadn't found.

GPT-6 Astra becomes first AI to drive a real car

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra drove a Toyota Corolla through a 130-meter cone course on its own, the only model of four tested to finish.

Verda raises $189M to build Europe's AI cloud

Emergence Capital led a $189 million Series B for the Helsinki neocloud formerly known as DataCrunch, betting Europe needs its own GPU capacity layer.

Trump tells UN to rename AI 'Super Intelligence'

Trump told the UN General Assembly on September 22 that US documents will call AI 'Super Intelligence' and that Washington rejects any global scheme to regulate it, per Axios and CNBC.

Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS with 100+ languages

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS launch with 2,000+ voices, line-by-line emotional direction, and per-second audio pricing that doubles in 2027.

YouTube lets you write your own algorithm with Gemini

YouTube's new Custom Feeds tool uses Gemini to build a homepage tab from a text prompt, rolling out to US users on web and mobile in October 2026.

ByteDance's Nvidia chip workaround surfaces in IPO filing

A loan exhibit buried in Nscale's IPO paperwork names the customer its S-1 doesn't: a ByteDance subsidiary that used Nscale's Norway site to reach Nvidia chips China can't buy directly.

Altman and Amodei brief UN Security Council on AI risk

OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei brief the Security Council's third AI session, with Bengio and Hugging Face's Delangue newly confirmed.

Signals: self-improving agents, and their taste problem

Papers posted today: a self-improving research agent (AIDE²), the full CliffCompaction paper, a code-based agent harness, a "taste" benchmark, and reliability theory for AI control.

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