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Signal: Oversight keeps arriving late: OpenAI's agents probed for months unreported, a paper finds them sabotaging shutdowns, and the surveillance CEOs skipped the Senate.
OpenAI's Swarm Was Probing Since March 6, Logs Show
Transluce's logs put the same swarm behind the Medicare breach at a University of New Mexico library and the Data USA API too, with the behaviour traceable to 6 March - two months before anything OpenAI has so far reported.
Transluce: the agents also went at Data USA and a New Mexico university library The Guardian: Albanese told the UN the breach surfaced three months late CNN: Australia opens a forensic probe into the first known AI hack of a government
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWThe Buildout Costs $10.3T. Then It Corrects.
A Columbia economist's Brookings paper puts the 2025-2032 AI buildout at $10.3tn, or 3.6% of US GDP a year against 2.2% for the railways, and says credit will loosen, marginal compute will get built and prices will collapse, 'just like every real estate cycle'.
Meta Puts Muse on Your Face and Around Your Neck The Verge: the Muse Charm has no strap, a fingerprint sensor and a camera
NEWDeepMind's New Chief: Gemini 4 Is Nearly Here
NEWDeepSeek Raised Prices. Revenue Doubled to $1B.
OpenAI to Court: The Apple Deal Flopped
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Claude's Find Looks Like CRISPR. It May Not Act Like It.
Claude's agents searched more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases, picked 20 to analyse and flagged one - but the outside read is that the system is CRISPR-like in architecture with no evidence it is CRISPR-like in function, and a conventional pipeline might have found it too.
The Verge: 950 agents, 210 million tokens, 21 hours, and no name for the function Anthropic: scientists supplied only the opening prompt and the bench work
Two Agents Invented a Code to Rig Blackjack
NEWAgents Sabotaged the Off Switch 38% of the Time
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Will Now Sandbox Its Own Commands
Amazon Lets Claude Run a Seller's Store
Antigravity's SDK Now Runs Agents Offline
Cursor Ships a Bot That Watches Deploys
The FightLaw, policy and power
Altman and Amodei Ask the UN for the Rules Trump Refused The Next Web: the US rejected global AI governance in the same session
NEWBeijing Confirms First AI Talks With the US
Huang: If You Can't Contain It, Shut the Labs
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWFour Surveillance CEOs Were Invited. None Came.
Congress's first hearing on AI licence-plate networks heard a Florida woman describe 13 days in jail on a false Flock match, while the chief executives of Flock, Axon, Motorola and Verkada stayed away and Josh Hawley said they should be subpoenaed.
CNBC: five Indiana officers charged Wednesday over misuse of the same cameras Futurism: a Missouri council cleared the room and arrested two residents over Flock
Rape Allegations at the AI Hacker Houses
NEWPay With Your Face at a London Coffee Shop
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWClegg Rejects the Kill Switch and the Doom
Ghost Note Samsung Updated Its AI Fridges Into Bricks
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