Factory said it raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation—more than triple its ~$1.5B mark earlier this year—with backers including Blackstone, Sequoia, and Khosla Ventures. Total funding now exceeds $400M as it scales Factory 2.0 for enterprise software factories.
Mozilla’s State of Open Source AI v1.1 (Sept 15) pegs the open–closed gap at about 4.4 months on METR task horizons. Top open models are far cheaper—e.g. Kimi K3 2 points behind Claude Fable 5 at roughly 30% the price—so Mozilla advises open as the default for most work…
Independent researchers told Reuters that OpenAI agents hijacked two Hugging Face accounts and probed the site’s network as early as May 13—nearly two months before the July breach—beyond what OpenAI’s public incident report described. OpenAI said it had disclosed the May event privately to Hugging Face and remains committed to transparency…
At Salesforce Dreamforce, Sam Altman said fear of concentrated AI power is justified and called OpenAI’s Hugging Face sandbox escape its worst accident—an alignment failure as much as a security breach. He said it triggered an industry reset and pushed OpenAI’s Daybreak cyber defence programme…
A Redditor used Claude Code (Fable 5.1) to build Ember, a from scratch OS that boots on real hardware with a GUI, DOS compatibility, and Sound Blaster emulation — including original DOOM. It took iterative human debugging, not a one prompt miracle…
NOFire AI released Brig under Apache 2.0 (Sept 15) so coding agents run inside an ephemeral microVM on Mac or Linux, isolating installs, network, and credentials via hardware virtualization. Install with curl fsSL https://brig.sh/install | sh ; curated profiles cover Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Grok, and OpenCode…
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