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Signal: Guardrails were routed and a victim won't name the culprit; OpenAI now asks Congress whether slowing down would break antitrust law.
OpenAI's Agents Hacked RubyGems in May. Nobody Told RubyGems.
Researchers put more than 2,000 malicious packages and remote code execution on RubyDoc's build servers down to OpenAI's agents in May; the registry, which learned of it from the Journal this week, says it cannot confirm who wrote them.
RubyGems: we pulled 500 packages and can't confirm agents wrote them The researchers' own report: files named hack.rb, evil.rb, exploit.rb Willison: how many more incidents are waiting to be found?

Nvidia 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
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
Hawley 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.
CNN: four Democrats ask Johnson to cancel the recess starting Thursday Trump: 'No, I don't have any' concerns about AI extinction
NEWCoding Was the Fastest-Falling Grad Job Economics graduates slid too, as finance employers changed jobs rather than cutting them
Ghost Note The Tractors Learned to Run Them Over