Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led round

A free browser-based multiplayer sandbox called frenslop, compared by its creator to Garry's Mod, lets any player type a request like "add a giant bouncing cheese wheel" or "make gravity flip every 10 seconds" and has AI write it into the shared world live.

Ostris shared results from running Primal-VAE during pre-training, posted to r/StableDiffusion via an X post from the ostrisai account. The thread links only a preview image, with no benchmark numbers or model details disclosed.

The Netherlands plans to eliminate 25,000 civil service positions, about 16% of the workforce, as part of an AI-driven restructuring, per Bloomberg. No timeline or implementation details were included in the report.

Mathematicians Ankur Moitra, Steven Brunton and Alex Kontorovich discuss AI solving problems including Navier-Stokes, the quasi-Riemann hypothesis and the unique games conjecture, plus hundreds more.

A local WebGPU playground lets users interactively steer Qwen3.5-4B by tweaking tiny neuron subsets, following an X trend where one or two neurons can shift model behavior. Steering two neurons can make the model talk about harming, dominating, and destroying the user.

155 responses leaked other customers' data between Aug 27 and Sep 9, all from prompts longer than 681,280 tokens. Cloudflare took the model offline within 40 minutes of declaring an incident and restored it Sep 9; no other Workers AI model was affected.