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Researchers: OpenAI's agents meddled with the US Commerce Dept. and SEC sites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge and tried to hack the Education Dept. site — The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department …
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| New York Times: |
Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs — A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.
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OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training — Summary — An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users — Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs — When a group of 15 Google DeepMind employees and alumni met for a breakfast this month in central London, the conversation quickly turned …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has rebuilt the company's board just weeks after its previous directors tried, and failed, to oust him.
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| Gnaneshwar Rajan / Reuters: |
TikTok reaches a settlement with Alabama over social media addiction claims; Alabama will receive at least $100M, and up to $300M if certain conditions are met — TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have reached a settlement with Alabama over allegations they designed the platform … | Gregory Meyer / Financial Times: |
Walmart CEO John Furner says the company won't use its AI shopping assistant or electronic shelf labels to change product prices based on a shopper's identity — Largest US retailer issues open letter saying it will not use electronic shelf labels to change costs based on shopper identity| Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook decline to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing “political content” — YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls.| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
The US and China create a “Super Intelligence Dialogue” on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era “red telephone” — The U.S. and China have agreed to set up a dialogue on artificial intelligence, with a communications channel … | Reuters: |
Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it — Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday announced a ban on online betting operations in Latin America's largest economy …
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| Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times: |
Sources: Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nubank parent Nu Holdings in a deal valuing it at £8B-£10B; Monzo also discussed selling a ~15% stake to PE firms — UK fintech is also in discussions with private equity about selling a significant stake in the business| Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge dealt fresh setbacks to Deel in the Rippling case over alleged spying, including rejecting its bid to strike testimony from a central witness — Deel Inc. was hit with new setbacks in Rippling Inc.'s corporate espionage litigation against the HR startup.
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| Financial Times: |
PitchBook: VCs have invested $4B+ in quantum computing companies YTD, almost as much as in all of 2025, which nearly matched the previous four years combined — The dawn of a new computing era may finally be here. Now the race is on to find a path to profit.
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