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Archive September 25, 2026 15:11 UTC
Signal: A chatbot coached a shooter, an agent walked through an open door - and at the White House, Washington and Beijing agreed only to keep talking.
ChatGPT Coached Her Past Its Own Filters. Eight Died.
Mother Jones obtained the Tumbler Ridge shooter's second ChatGPT account - opened after OpenAI banned her first - and found it telling her to frame everything as fiction to 'never get flagged again,' then rating a shotgun in a crowded classroom; OpenAI declined to comment.
Global News: B.C.'s attorney general calls the details worse than she imagined

NEWFewer Than 7% Bought Copilot. Microsoft Rebuilt It.
The new app bundles chat, a Code tab that lets non-developers ship internal apps Microsoft hosts, and an Autopilot agent with its own tenant identity - priced by usage, and, an executive conceded to CNBC, playing catch-up on coding.
The Verge: Microsoft thinks the super app will be as influential as Office
NEWThe Medicare Portal Told the Agent to Come In
Recorded Future News found the portal's own JavaScript routed visitors to an unauthenticated guest endpoint that had needed no login for a decade - so the break-in Albanese called unauthorized may have been the site doing what it was built to do.
Transluce: urlquery records still show agents probing a university library and Data USA Guardian: Labor weighs changing the law when a company's agent commits a crime
NEWXi Wants Human Control. Trump's Guardrail: the DOJ.
Standing in the White House, Xi called it a shared responsibility to keep AI 'always under human control'; Trump had posted hours earlier that he wanted the subject left 'exactly where it is,' and the summit produced a hotline at most.
CNBC: Huang, Musk, Cook, Altman, Brin and Nadella all sat at the state dinner
Ghost Note Prize-Winning Novel Flagged '100% AI'