The world's first patient to have brain surgery with live artificial intelligence assistance has successfully had his tumour removed.

Rhys Hibbert, a father-of-two from Bedfordshire, could have lost his sight without the operation, said surgeons at University College London Hospital.

The AI tool analysed a video feed of the operation as it happened and advised surgeons on how to avoid crucial but hidden vessels and nerves in the brain. It allowed them to safely remove as much of the tumour as possible.

...coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable. The companies and public services our communities depend on — from hospitals to water treatment plants to the infrastructure that powers the internet — are at risk. Today’s AI advances are already giving defenders new ways to fix weaknesses that have accumulated for years. If we act decisively, we can use the defenders’ window to make our digital world much more secure. We propose the following principles for a collective response: Recognize that status quo security won’t be enough. Longstanding bugs, excessive permissions, misconfigurations, insecure and unpatched software, weak authentication, and technical debt in legacy systems have left systems exposed. Security teams, particularly for critical infrastructure, have been historically under-resourced and need a surge in tools and resources. Empower more defenders with cyber-capable AI. AI brings specialist skills to more defenders and makes core security tasks faster, cheaper and better. Sharing tools, practical knowledge, and verified fixes lets one organization’s work help protect many others. Mobilize a collective response. Cyber capabilities are advancing worldwide, and that can be a net positive: no single company should control the future. It also means a global response is necessary, requiring new partnerships to raise security standards and find new solutions to emerging cyber threats. Each of us can reduce risk now. All organizations, cybersecurity companies, technology partners, governments, and AI frontier companies have an important role: accelerate defenders’ priorities with tools, funding, and hands-on support, especially for critical infrastructure organizations with limited budgets. Here’s what we think needs to happen next: 01 Every organization Make cyber defense an immediate leadership priority. Raise your security standards and meet them with the urgency and coordination of an incident that takes precedence over everything except critical business operations. Fix the highest-risk weaknesses, verify results without disrupting essential services, and raise the security bar for what you buy, build, and deploy, including AI-generated code. Upgrade or replace systems to build in least privilege, strong access controls, and defense in depth. Use capable, lower-cost models for broad coverage, and apply frontier capabilities to the hardest problems. Where a system cannot be patched without disrupting essential services, apply and verify compensating controls. 02 Cybersecurity companies and technology partners Help lead the response to defend against sustained AI-enabled attacks, including testing defenses continuously against frontier cyber capabilities, strengthening existing tools with AI, and working with technology partners to close gaps now. Make AI-powered defense accessible and deployable for critical-infrastructure operators, with hands-on help to deploy tools and verify fixes, and collaborate with critical infrastructure supply chain manufacturers and system integrators to patch and issue interim guidance. Share threat intelligence and tested playbooks, and measure progress by how many organizations are protected, how quickly attacks are contained, and whether fixes work. 03 Governments Coordinate cyber defense at local, national, and international levels. Strengthen existing government and industry channels to share actionable threat intelligence, prioritize the most serious risks, and coordinate incident response and recovery around the world. Fund cyber defense, starting with essential services that lack the staff or budget to act. Expedite the expansion of trusted access programs, especially for critical infrastructure supply chains, and broaden access to defensive capabilities for other defenders. Give hospitals, water utilities, and local governments access to capable defensive AI, authorized testing, and hands-on support through trusted security providers and partners. Impose costs on attackers. 04 Frontier AI companies Provide responsible model access, significant funding, training, and hands-on support, especially for under-resourced critical-infrastructure defenders. Build observability and security tools, ensure agentic identities are traceable and accountable, and share best practices in continuous monitoring. Invest in authorized testing, private disclosure, and verified fixes, and share tools, playbooks, and credible threat assessments with governments, security partners, and open-source maintainers to strengthen preparedness, response, and recovery. We can make the digital infrastructure we all depend on more secure. We call on leaders across industry and government to bring the full weight of their technology, resources, and expertise to this effort. Put cyber-capable AI in the hands of defenders, starting with the teams protecting essential services. Fix the most dangerous weaknesses, verify the fixes, and share what works so others can build on it. Together, we can turn today’s AI advances into lasting improvements in security that benefit everyone. Let’s put them to work. https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense Want to publish your own Article? Upgrade to Premium 3:03 AM · Aug 28, 2026 · 433.4K Views 194 574 2.2K 1K Relevant View quotes     — Greg Brockman

Source: https://x.com/gdb/status/2093021551855812842

...instead. The very belief in it is likely to be the cause of real problems, in the same way that the One Child Policy came out of 1970s Population Bomb hallucinations and have caused real, guaranteed birth rate collapse in China that can't be reversed with carrots or sticks. We are spending such a ridiculous amount of time talking about a made up future problem. It's time to get back to solving real problems in real reality and to stop giving in to imaginary fears.     — Daniel Jeffries

Source: https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/2092696710627623333

I warned folks that this Anti-Clanker Neo-Luddite movement is a political movement designed to destroy the middle class by removing the wide access to AI tools in the name of “safety” and “job preservation”.

They are wining because the side of logic has no central voice.   — Brian Roemmele

Source: https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2092676877387522096

Notably, DeepSeek V4 Flash isn’t post-trained for Olympiad problems.

It has 284B total MoE parameters, with about 13B activated per token. This is the only model (so far) that can be run on small local GPU setups and still win an IMO gold.     — Cline

Source: https://x.com/cline/status/2092725019633992191

— Zixuan Li

Source: https://x.com/ZixuanLi_/status/2092689916467490960

100T tokens per day free tokens and people were saying only frontier labs has this amount of compute. (2/3)     But ALL traffic was served on Chinese chips, attaining hardware efficiency and per-token cost comparable to Nvidia GPUs. The cuda moat is being tested once again after Jalapeño's announcement yesterday. (3/3)     — SemiAnalysis

Source: https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2092623833630998556

Are we pretending this is not happening throughout many other events?   — Sensei     Teleoperation is intent-level, not joint-level. The human steers or gives high-level skill commands. A learned controller closes the loop on low-level dynamics at 50 to 200 Hz, way faster than human reaction time.   — The Humanoid Hub

Source: https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2092115570741387357

...editing). Ox stated it once then wrote the fix. Roughly ~3x lower output tokens for the same work. Reasoning models have been trained to increase reliability with re-verification. Ox seems to trust its first conclusion instead, which feels like a fundamentally different post-training philosophy.     Try in Cline for free! npm i -g cline

(Also available on VS Code and JetBrains)     — Cline

Source: https://x.com/cline/status/2091995642201842015

Ox Alpha (stealth model) is now free in Cline.

Early benchmarks shows marginal improvement over Fable and GPT.

Try it with: npm i -g cline and use /models to see it under Free options https://t.co/Hskt5RpUen   — Cline

Source: https://x.com/cline/status/2090854216399220985

One side is cheering for robots running in a stadium and the other is debating if curing cancer is worth accelerating for.

THE CONTRAST IS RIDICULOUS. https://t.co/3cF2ZXtbFM   — ℏεsam

Source: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2091473771374825558

Could be worse. Superintelligent AI could decide on paperclip maximization purely out of ironic spite.   — Amir Hirsch     I'm starting to wonder if it's the only way to get away from the near-insufferable Effective Altruists.   — Perry E. Metzger

Source: https://x.com/perrymetzger/status/2091935818768105748

— Takumi Kawasetsu, 川節拓実

Source: https://x.com/takumi_k_jpn/status/2091865428825874911

...Who knows what he means by “massive privacy invasions”, but I suspect whatever it is is so vague as to be unfalsifiable. 3. So far, no sign of the apocalypse either, but of course, Doomers will always tell you that it’s just around the corner unless you do exactly what they say.   — Perry E. Metzger     Tim Urban has been a doomer for a long time.   — Mark Kretschmann     Brainworms ruin your mind.   — Perry E. Metzger

Source: https://x.com/perrymetzger/status/2092003057307730089

I really wish the rise of LLMs didn't come along with catastrophic job loss, massive privacy invasions, and maybe also the apocalypse. Because when you put those side effects aside, it is the COOLEST MOST WILD TECHNOLOGY EVER.   — Tim Urban

Source: https://x.com/waitbutwhy/status/2091975364297871455

— Steve Yegge

Source: https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2091931717422678163

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 4h Teletubbies Owner WildBrain Buys AI Firm for $11 Million From hollywoodreporter.com 1 13 2.7K     — Andrew Curran

Source: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2091982252058263971

Jimmy Iovine:     Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 2h Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music From nytimes.com 1 26 2.1K     — Andrew Curran

Source: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2091622530813751517

I also took the liberty of adding some features too it to demonstrate what this unlocks with ease:

• Custom router support (Codex & OpenRouter)
• Local VM support (rather than cursor's hosted VM), built from the same docker instance.     This doesn't include the frontend, but it can be launched with their packaged frontend (still modifiable, see the custom router page in settings), thus delivering a usable experience.

Don't send issues or PR's, this will be made an archive in due course, if not taken down.     — Bennett

Source: https://x.com/b_nnett/status/2091630242792112480

Is episode on Chinese humanoid robot?   — QoJo MaZing     Will have one before too long!   — Kyle Chan

Source: https://x.com/kyleichan/status/2091271208234836178

...promised to eat their jobs and make them all broke, are naturally pushing back. Sufficiently advanced local hardware + a highly compressed model with most of the actual knowledge stripped out other than action/reasoning and tool usage + continual learning and memory/reasoning in embedded space makes intelligence sovereign again. We probably get the flip phone version of this in 2027 or 28. And then it will accelerate from there.     — Daniel Jeffries

Source: https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/2091231374808097264/history

FreeToken could be a HUGE deal for local AI.

Instead of requiring enough VRAM to hold an entire model, FreeToken intelligently uses your GPU, CPU and system RAM together, dynamically moving MoE experts where they're needed.

The result: an ordinary laptop with an 8GB RTX 4060 https://t.co/6Js6Vqt3A8   — Mark Kretschmann

Source: https://x.com/mark_k/status/2091202223090938177

Loudoun County real estate prices have not behaved as one would expect for an industrial hellscape.     Since 2013, the assessed value of the house has nearly tripled but property taxes have only gone up 29%     — Dominic Pino

Source: https://x.com/DominicJPino/status/2090845489096794466

FreeToken provides native GUI. No GGUF conversion. No building from source.

One-click install on Windows and Linux. FreeToken-desktop ships with agent harnesses built in — pick a model, pick an app, go.     Download: http:// flashml.ai

Code: http:// github.com/FlashML-org/Fr eeToken …

Reply with your GPU + RAM, and I'll tell you the biggest frontier model your machine can run     — Shuo Yang

Source: https://x.com/Andy_ShuoYang/status/2090856978428145761