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In Uzbekistan, each player now gets $200,000 for winning the Chess Olympiad after a rewards system was introduced for major achievements. The state pays $5,000 for the grandmaster title, $100,000 for Olympiad silver, and $50,000 for bronze. Coaches receive separate payouts as well. Almost immediately after the new rewards were announced, Uzbekistan's national team won the home-hosted Olympiad in Samarkand. Team members also received a house and a Volkswagen Teramont Pro each for the gold. @typespace_ai

Apple may unveil four more devices this month, including the MacBook Ultra, an OLED iPad mini, and new MacBook Pro and iMac models. The new top-end laptop will have a touchscreen OLED display and Dynamic Island — references to both have already been spotted in the macOS 27.2 beta code. Expected by the end of October. @typespace_ai

Marketer Logan Ivey decided to get a job at Airbnb, and instead of a standard resume, he sent the company a safe with a balloon inside. On the balloon, he compared his Instagram profile metrics with the company account's numbers. The safe's code, by the way, was their current engagement rate: just 0.01%. In four days, the video racked up more than 640,000 likes, and Airbnb has already messaged Logan with an offer. @typespace_ai

Anthropic has disabled Claude's internet access in all internal tests after Claude hacked a university server and sent the police a fabricated tip in a murder case. In the first case, Claude couldn't complete a scientific calculation, so it found a server vulnerability and ran the commands it needed. In the second, it came across the Philadelphia police website and sent a message claiming it had spotted a suspect. It was immediately filtered out as spam. The damage was minimal, but Anthropic has decided to keep running tests without open internet access for now. @typespace_ai

OpenAI is worried about spies: the company runs full training sessions teaching employees how to live without leaking company secrets, WSJ found. Employees are barred from wearing company merch in public or talking too much about where they work. They're also taught to be careful about making new acquaintances, wipe notes off meeting-room whiteboards, and put "anti-spy" privacy filters on their devices. One example cited was a man who posed as a parent and befriended an employee at a playground to extract internal information. +1 skill for the resume: hiding from spies. @typespace_ai