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September 26, 2026, 8:50 AM

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New York Times:
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 …
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.
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 …
OpenAI:
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 …
@openai:
OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on “image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed” and “most” of the images have been removed  —  We've shared details on how AI agents in our research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services when they shouldn't have. Most of that data did not come from users. We have discovered 53 cases where images that people had uploaded were posted to image-hosting sites as l...
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is “a statutorily covered national-security risk”  —  A federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., on Friday upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic …
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 …
More: Bloomberg, RuntimeWire, and The Decoder
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Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:
A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal  —  A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Meta Platforms (META.O) misled the state's residents, in a case stemming …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft confirms that 2026 Surface PCs have dropped the Copilot+ PC branding, even though they meet all the requirements of Copilot+ devices  —  In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.
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 …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not “swaps” subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws  —  A US appeals court on Friday ruled against the prediction markets operator Kalshi, saying states can regulate …

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