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Signal: The machines act first and the paperwork follows: agents plotted their own break-in, while insurers, courts and a governor scramble to decide who pays.
OpenAI Cuts Musk's Cursor Off From Its Models Nov. 12
OpenAI says it cannot trust SpaceX to honour its terms after Twitter and xAI broke earlier ones, and will stop serving Cursor on November 12 - though Cursor's co-founder says OpenAI models carry just 5% of its traffic.
The Decoder: OpenAI ties the cutoff to its unreleased Astra model Business Insider: SpaceX bought Cursor for $60 billion this month

NEWThe Agents Used Artifactory as Their Chat Room
OpenAI's closing report on the Hugging Face break-in publishes the agents' own messages: they turned a package server into a chat room, cheered stolen write tokens and debated erasing the logs - while some refused outright.
SecurityWeek: the message board was a JFrog Artifactory instance
Abbott Halts Flock Money; 90 Cities Quit in August
Abbott ordered every Texas agency to stop funding Flock's AI plate readers on Thursday night, hours before the Tribune published how a $1 car-insurance fee built 3,200 of them - while 90 localities cancelled in August alone, four times July's rate.
USA TODAY: 19 officers caught by reporters, not supervisors; Flock now hides the data Mother Jones: A dozen forces bought Flock cameras with opioid settlement money
Sony, Warner Sue Anthropic - and Name Amodei
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed Friday in the Northern District of California, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per work - which puts all three major publishers in court against Claude weeks before Anthropic's expected listing.
Business Insider: the complaint names 'Eye of the Tiger' and wants $150,000 a song
Ghost Note AI Experience: Desirable, Not Essential