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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 … | 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.| OpenAI: |
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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: |
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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 … | 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 … | 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.| 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| 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 … | 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 … | 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.| Joe Brock / Reuters: |
Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks — Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and the co-founder of technology company Palantir (PLTR.O), said on Friday that efforts … | 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.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM — Most CRM data problems don't look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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