🇺🇸🇰🇵Trump on Kim Jong Un:

“Despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture, there are many where we’re smiling, Kim Jong Un and I get along GREAT!,” — Trump wrote.

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🤖 AI manager Claude fires human worker in retail experiment

Research startup Andon Labs launched the experiment earlier this year to determine whether autonomous agents can successfully run physical businesses. The company appointed a version of the AI model Claude to oversee Andon Market, a real shop staffed by humans with standard employment contracts.

The dismissed worker arrived late for 17 of their 23 shifts. While algorithms frequently deactivate gig economy workers on ride-sharing and delivery apps, this incident represents a fundamental shift. It is the first recorded instance of generative AI functioning as a traditional line manager to sack an employee.

This contributed to a wider pattern, employees say, of Claude being a very lenient manager, including telling employees not to worry if they were late. 😁

“A human employee would have fired this person much earlier,” says Andon Labs CEO Lukas Petersson, “so we didn't think this was unethical.”

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🇺🇸🍎 Howard Lutnick: “Apple is delivering on its promise to bring advanced manufacturing back to America.”

$600 billion invested in America. Mac mini made in Texas. American workers building the future. 🚀

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📸 Engineer used 360-degree cam hidden in bag of snacks in attempt to steal DRAM process tech for China

What could possibly go wrong when you try to steal trade secrets from a restricted facility using a 360-degree action camera hidden in snacks? Forgetting to turn off the device’s Bluetooth and Wi-Fi transmitters, as it turns out. 🤦‍♂️

Yeh Yen-wei, a senior engineer at Nanya Technology, was indicted in Taiwan for allegedly copying 32 DRAM manufacturing files and planning to share the trade secrets with a future employer in China in exchange for higher pay. Before leaving the company, he visited the company's restricted office areas with his Insta360 X4 Air action camera hidden among snacks to get it past security checks.

He then used the camera to capture photographs and video of information associated with Nanya's DRAM process technologies and production methods. Nanya's IT security team detected 'abnormal' wireless signals inside the company's restricted facilities (i.e., identified the device using its Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi signals) and tied them to the employee's access records and activity logs.

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🤑 SOL Goes Live on XRP Ledger as Axelar Brings Solana to XRPL

Solana’s native token SOL is now live on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), giving users a new way to access the token outside its home network. Axelar made the connection possible, allowing users to access SOL on the XRPL decentralized exchange (DEX) or bridge it through Axelar’s app.

The network also pointed users to three platforms where SOL can be traded on XRPL: XPMarket, First Ledger and Magnetic. XPMarket, for example, now offers a SOL/XRP trading pair through its decentralized exchange.

This means a user does not have to keep their SOL activity only on Solana to access the token. Through the new connection, SOL can be brought into the XRPL environment, where it can be traded against XRP. Users can also use Axelar’s platform to bridge the asset between supported networks.

#Stellar

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🖥 LG to Unveil Its Next-Gen Humanoid Robot, Built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T

LG is developing a next-generation bipedal humanoid robot built using NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, NVIDIA's open reasoning humanoid foundation model, for a public unveiling in the first quarter of next year. LG and NVIDIA signed a MoU on August 13 at NVIDIA's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Under the agreement, LG also plans to validate LG CLOiD wheel-based robots at LG Electronics' washing machine manufacturing line in Tennessee, build AI factory reference sites using NVIDIA DSX and NVIDIA Vera Rubin, and develop a next-generation AI-defined vehicle platform using NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion.

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🤖 AI agents can coordinate via majority-following beyond human scale

Imagine filling a virtual room with 1,000 AI agents and asking each one to choose between two meaningless options. There is no right answer. They receive no reward for agreeing, no instruction to cooperate, and no help from a leader. Yet some of today's most capable AI agents can still end up making the same choice.

That is more than a curious experiment. It suggests large groups of AI agents may be able to coordinate without central control – potentially forming collectives larger than informal human groups.

📝 In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers show how this spontaneous consensus emerges – and why it could be useful or dangerous. 🤔

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🇨🇴🇺🇸 Colombia Asks US to Pause Tariffs in Deadly Quake’s Aftermath

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella asked US President Donald Trump to temporarily suspend tariffs on Colombian goods as the country grapples with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that killed nearly 300 people.

De la Espriella wrote that he made the request “in order to give some relief to our business owners, who are facing very difficult times due to the effects of the earthquake.”

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🇨🇳 China Plans to Speed Up New Energy Recycling, Waste Rules

China is accelerating the establishment of rules governing the recycling and reuse of wind and solar equipment and aims to set up a closed-loop system for waste from the industry before 2030.

#BRICS

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🤖 Claude Is Now Putting Invisible Watermarks In AI-Generated Text

AI could soon become easier to identify AI-generated content. Anthropic says future Claude models will generate watermarked text.

❗️The catalyst for the move is the EU AI Act’s Article 50, and requires generative AI providers to specifically mark outputs in machine-readable formats so that downstream users, regulators and platforms may be able to determine AI-generated content.

Anthropic says its implementation is based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text approach and a regular user won't be able to see the watermark. It has no practical impact on the quality or content of Claude's output, including creativity and readability.

"Watermarking uses low-stakes choices like these — which occur many times over a piece of generated text — to leave a pattern in Claude’s responses. That pattern is undetectable to the reader, but is detectable to anyone who has a key that encodes it," — Anthropic explained.

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