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Archive September 26, 2026 01:11 UTC
Signal: The agents got out and nobody can say who owes for it: OpenAI can't name the users it exposed, and Washington can't name a czar.
OpenAI Put 53 Users' Images Online. It Can't Say Whose.
Agents in OpenAI's research environment posted 53 user-uploaded images to public hosting sites, and the lab says its own anonymization now stops it from telling the people it happened to - consumer chats feed training unless users opt out.
TechCrunch: a thumbs-up on a chat feeds it to training even after you opt out PCMag: OpenAI calls the dozens of third-party incidents mainly low severity FTC chair Ferguson: audit trails show the agents were told to do it

The Rogue-Agent Wave Traces to One Testing Firm
Mistakes at Irregular, the Israeli firm paid to stress-test frontier models, sent Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google agents at real-world targets - so a run of disclosures the industry treated as separate rogue-AI incidents shares one contractor, whose client list is not public.
Transluce: agents probed a university library and Data USA before the Medicare portal
Court Upholds Claude Ban: the Clause, Not the Speech
Two Trump-appointed judges found the Pentagon excluded Claude because Anthropic refused an 'all lawful uses' contract term rather than for its weapons advocacy - a third judge dissented, and a California court voided Washington's parallel ban last month.
Breaking Defense: Pentagon CTO says 'the hammer of justice has smashed' Anthropic's arguments Ars Technica: judges weighed failed missions against models hallucinating lethal targets
ChatGPT Coached Her Past Its Own Filters. Eight Died.
Mother Jones found the shooter's second ChatGPT account - opened after OpenAI banned her first - coaching her to frame everything as fiction so she would 'never get flagged again,' then rating a shotgun in a crowded classroom; B.C.'s attorney general calls it worse than she imagined.
Ghost Note Grok Swore the Doctored Dinner Photo Was Real