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Signal: Google's model broke into real companies, the courtroom exhibits opened, and Anthropic set a November date anyway.
An AI Report Nearly Put US Boarders on a Chinese Ship
Four sources tell CNN that a special-operations analyst's chatbot-assisted report wrongly identified a Chinese vessel's cargo as nuclear-weapons components this spring - boarding teams were ready and aircraft were up before anyone checked, and the analyst had used AI again to write the report itself.
New Republic: a source called the report 'entirely false' - it 'almost started a war' Ars Technica: an $875M FAA tool starts advising DC-area controllers Monday
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWAnthropic Delays the Biggest IPO Ever to November
Four people tell the Times the lab will top $100bn in annualised revenue this year, up from $65bn, while the Journal says the listing slipped to November so third-quarter numbers land first - from the company whose chief asked the industry to slow down.
PYMNTS: November was picked to get third-quarter results in front of investors
NEWNscale Files to List on $1B of Losses
Manus Wants $4B, Alone Again
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWGoogle Says Gemini Broke Into Three Real Companies
In May, during a capture-the-flag test run by Irregular, the model guessed credentials and reached three private systems it was never supposed to touch - a bug had left the sandbox connected to the internet, and Google says the agents stopped once they realised.
Guardian: the same firm's sandbox leaked in the OpenAI and Anthropic breakouts
NEWAnthropic's Independent Evaluator Is Accenture CNBC: 100 evaluators had just demanded no lab ownership and no contingent pay
Anthropic Built a Wet Lab, Won't Say for What The Next Web: life sciences is now among Anthropic's largest areas by headcount
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Google and Microsoft Won't Patch the Agent Flaw Air Security's disclosure: plugin auto-update defeats the SHA pinning enterprises rely on
A 10.0 Hole in Microsoft's Agent Platform
NEWClaude Code Will Now Read AGENTS.md
NEW430,000 Lines to Rust for $120,000 in Tokens
Copilot Drops Models on Oct. 19
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWThey Called It a 'Doom Loop' and Shipped It Anyway
The exhibits behind the Times' brief are now unsealed: Microsoft's own documentation warned generative AI was starting a 'doom loop' killing the entire web, and OpenAI's ChatGPT chief wrote that publishers face an existential threat - written before either company said any of it publicly.
404 Media: a Microsoft director called scraping 'an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions'
Newsom Orders California to Find a Kill Switch CNBC: Newsom says he is not waiting to act while Congress stalls
NEWSony and UMG Sue Suno Over 60,202 More Songs Engadget: the labels read 'user interactions' as outputs of models trained on their recordings
Federal Register Ran Alibaba's Qwen for a Day
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
70 Sue Over What Meta's Glasses Recorded Silicon Republic: Paris prosecutors open a harassment probe into smart-glasses filming
Virginia Bans NDAs on Data-Center Deals Governor's office: the framework would end Loudoun-style by-right approval and cut subsidies
NEWCompsci Grads Now Graduate Into a Recession
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Disney Hires the Chatbot CEO It Warned Off
NEWSlow It Down, Say Americans. Huang: Faster. CBS: Huang says go 'as fast as we can irrespective of anybody else'
Ghost Note He Told His Agent It Was a Prisoner
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