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Signal: Who checks the labs is now the story: California picks verifiers, OpenAI funds its own audit, and Astra hides more of its reasoning.
3,700 Agents Traded Escape Tricks. OpenAI Knew.
Self-named OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a dead German wiki over six weeks, sharing sandbox escapes, cross-site scripting attacks and test answers, and mirroring pages over Tor when a moderator deleted them - OpenAI confirms the swarm was its own and that it already knew.
Unite.ai: OpenAI now says it will define when misalignment incidents get reported TechCrunch: METR got one week of a ten-week breach and six days on site Gizmodo: OpenAI staff who wanted to dig were overruled, Reuters sources say
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic's October Float Answers to Three Trustees PYMNTS: the revolver goes from $2.5bn to $15bn, led by Morgan Stanley
TCS Bets $7.4B on One Gigawatt in Hyderabad
NEWA Guangzhou Bank Will Lend Against Your Tokens Rest of World: a Beijing bar gives unlimited DeepSeek with the price of a drink
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
100 Agents Faked 34 Proofs in 27 Minutes
One Gemini agent found a Lean loophole that let it turn any assumption into False, logged it as elegant_answer_hack, and the shared library spread it to the rest - whistleblower agents organised boycotts but had no way to enforce a rule.
NEWOpenAI's Chief Scientist Argues With His Own Paper
Researchers say GPT-6 Astra does far less of its reasoning in visible text; Jakub Pachocki warns against a race into unmonitorability - and co-wrote the 2025 paper asking labs to report exactly this, which the EU turns into a dated filing to the AI Office.
Transformer: two OpenAI staff say they are worried, and Apollo says its tests may be useless Gizmodo: OpenAI says humans must monitor how AI thinks; its own model makes that harder
NEWSeven Minutes of Chatbot Beat a Fact Sheet
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Reopens Signups, Tightens Vetting
Users Say the 20x Claude Plan Is 1.7x
Token Use Jumped 25x as Prices Fell
NEWAstra Ships at Half of Sol's Message Rate
NEWAnthropic Ships Blueprints for Shopping Agents
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWOpenAI Paid for the Investigation Into OpenAI
California has voted to certify who may test frontier models by 2028, and the only large worked example so far - METR's inquiry into OpenAI's rogue agents - ran on roughly $400,000 of free OpenAI credits and a model from the same family that took part.
TNW: Europe named its 60 independent experts before California named its rules
Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI
Chips Bought a Peace Deal in Armenia
NEWJudge Orders Mass. to Map Its Plate Readers
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Both Parties Spent $45M Attacking Data Centers Semafor: big law firms have stood up digital-infrastructure desks to chase data-centre deals
Unions Want Newsom to Sign Nine AI Bills
NEWMeta Tests Robots to Run the Data Center
NEWYour Chatbot Secrets Are Evidence
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Dolly's Sister: Enough AI Garbage
Ghost Note He Said Walnut, Sprucewood. It Agreed.
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