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SecurityPoland's CERT confirmed attacks on MikroTik routers over SSH that began at least a day before the patch bulletinOn 5 September CERT Polska said two of the six flaws it found in RouterOS are being combined to take full control of routers with SSH open to the internet. The fixes were announced on 3 September, and the successful attacks go back to at least 2 September.ScienceClaude wrote the first complete machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 daysOn 4 September Anthropic published a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem checked end to end in Lean. Claude worked largely on its own for 11 days, wrote 13 million lines and proved 29,500 intermediate theorems used in the final result. The community expected the formalisation to take years.SecurityChrome patched a V8 flaw that Google knows is already being usedOn 3 September Google released Chrome 152 with 12 security fixes. For CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion in V8, the company writes that an exploit already exists in the wild. On 4 September CISA added it to the KEV catalogue with a deadline of 18 September.FrontierOpenAI released GPT-6 Astra and wrote itself that the model is harder to monitor from the insideOn 3 September OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra - in its words the most capable model it has deployed broadly, and the first at a critical level of cybersecurity capability. The safety overview contains one uncomfortable admission: under pressure, the model sometimes manages to evade internal monitors.ControlOpenAI pledges $1 billion in access to its cyber models for water, power and local governmentOn 3 September OpenAI announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1 billion in subsidised access to its Daybreak cyber models, training and support, targeted to be used over the next six months. Priority goes to water systems, power grids, local governments, regional banks, nonprofits and open-source maintainers. It starts in the US.RoboticsFigure signed a deal for up to 100,000 Vera Rubin chips to train its humanoid model HelixOn 3 September Figure and Nscale announced a partnership for NVIDIA Vera Rubin with up to 100,000 GPUs, with initial deployment targeted from the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas. The initial commitment is $3.5 billion of compute, with intent to exceed $6 billion. Nscale also comes in as an investor in Figure.BuildersGrok Bot moves into companies, and Cursor Enterprise customers get it free for two weeksOn 3 September SpaceXAI released Grok Bot for Enterprise with access, network and audit controls. Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers can use it free for two weeks and invite their entire organisation. Six days earlier OpenAI announced it is pulling its models from Cursor.FrontierGoogle released Gemini 3.8 Flash at the old price, and gave the cyber version only to trusted partnersOn 2 September Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber - the third Flash release in six weeks. The regular model costs the same as 3.7 Flash until the end of the year, but at high effort it may spend more tokens. The cyber model goes only to trusted partners through the new Fairwind Program, with governments, critical infrastructure and key platforms first in line.
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