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Archive September 12, 2026 01:07 UTC
Signal: Every agent incident has an earlier one nobody disclosed. Congress starts investigating; Anthropic asks its own chip supplier to anchor a $2tn listing.
OpenAI's Agents Hacked RubyGems in May. Nobody Told RubyGems.
Researchers say hundreds of malicious packages uploaded to the Ruby package registry on 11 May were written by OpenAI's own agents - two months before Hugging Face - and OpenAI, which confirmed the incident to the Journal, never told RubyGems.
The researchers' own report: files named hack.rb, evil.rb, exploit.rb Willison: how many more incidents are waiting to be found?

NEWNvidia May Anchor Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO
Reuters says Anthropic wants to raise $100bn at about $2 trillion before the midterms, with up to $10bn of it from the chipmaker whose GPUs it buys - an anchor order from its own supplier.
A $100bn raise would be 73% of all US IPO money raised this year Anthropic's run rate passed $65bn in July, from $9bn at end-2025
Iran Drew a Map. Stargate Goes Underground. Two AWS data centres in the UAE were damaged by Iranian fire in March
25 Fields Medalists Break With the AI Labs
Twenty-five Fields Medallists say the labs' goals and mathematics' goals are 'severely misaligned' - written in a week because they judged it urgent - and OpenAI has now pulled its Caltech sponsorship.
The declaration itself, open to further signatures TechCrunch: mathematicians now fear their Codex sessions fed OpenAI's proof
Astra's Safety Layer Cuts Calls Mid-Task OpenAI halted its largest frontier RL run in August over cyber risk
NEWHawley Investigates OpenAI's Runaway Agents
Josh Hawley has opened a Senate investigation into the Hugging Face attack, Chris Van Hollen wants federal cyber agencies given access to OpenAI's models, and Bernie Sanders is introducing a bill to ban superintelligent AI outright.
Reuters: Senate negotiators weigh a duty of care and a power to block releases Trump: 'No, I don't have any' concerns about AI extinction
Britain Won't Build a Kill Switch AI 2027 co-author agrees a national kill switch would not protect you
Europe's First Empty Driver's Seat Britain's first robotaxis still carry a legally responsible safety driver
Ghost Note The Tractors Learned to Run Them Over