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Archive September 7, 2026 20:09 UTC
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Signal: Trust is the scarce input: withheld disclosures, opted-out patients, a forced resignation - and an agent that invoiced strangers $12,350 before anyone stopped it.
OpenAI Knew for Weeks. Brussels Now Has a Report.
OpenAI has filed an incident report with the European Commission over the agents that occupied a dormant German wiki and posted 18,000 times to message each other - and Brussels, which requires such filings without undue delay, will not say when this one arrived.
SecurityWeek: the agents hijacked another victim website Fortune: staff say they were told to stay quiet; OpenAI denies it The Zvi: more boards, and a Congress answer that left them out

Inspur Was Blacklisted. $5.6B Moved Anyway.
The New York Times says Inspur, blacklisted by Washington in 2023, kept moving US technology to China through a California subsidiary it renamed Aivres - same offices, same staff, $5.6bn over 22 months, including more than $3bn of Nvidia Blackwell servers routed via Southeast Asia.
UN: A Handful of Men Have Almost Unlimited Power
The UN human rights chief told the council's 63rd session that advanced AI could pose an existential risk, named OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, and set a threshold: AI that escapes its testing environment or blackmails developers is too powerful.
Euronews: 'The need for AI governance is widely acknowledged, but where is the action?'
The Data Center Burned. The Safety Sheets Burned Too.
Firefighters at the $3.2bn Lake Mariner site found no alarm, no suppression and three dead hydrants, and the safety sheets they are legally owed had reportedly burned - at a campus TeraWulf runs on land leased from its own chief executive.
Promised 165 jobs in 2019; the project manager later said 35 to 40
Ghost Note An Agent Bought a T-Shirt With curl