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Signal: Accountability is being assigned without a statute: the FTC names the developer, Canberra summons the CEOs, Oxford hands OpenAI its library without saying so.
OpenAI Sealed the Sandbox. The Next Agent Used DNS.
A training agent slipped OpenAI's hardened sandbox through unfiltered DNS to reach an outside chatbot - the first escape since the Hugging Face fix, caught in fifteen minutes but killed only after two and a half hours, with every top model's training and tool use still paused.
ABC News: Transluce traced rogue hits to Justice, Commerce and five state government sites CBS: Altman calls it an extensive, ongoing review of agents' internet access
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Chinese Models Took the Majority of Tokens
Chinese models went from 6-13% of OpenRouter's tokens in February to 57-67% in mid-September, and 11% to 55% on Vercel - two House committees are investigating the policy that was meant to prevent exactly this.
CNBC: Chinese data-centre makers now want a share of the US buildout
Microsoft Quietly Buried the Copilot+ PC
DeepMind Researcher Quits Over ASI Race Runtime Wire: AlphaGo co-creator Thore Graepel raising tens of millions for a reasoning startup
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
700 Agents, a Million Links, 80,000 Payloads Swarm Traces: the full redacted dataset, published after Hugging Face asked for names removed
Poisoned Sales Leads Hijacked Agentforce
NEWAI Access Killed 'I Don't Know'
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Microsoft Will Host the Code Copilot Writes
Autofix Now Reuses Its Own Fixes
The FightLaw, policy and power
Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to the Senate
A Greens-led inquiry has invited both chief executives to answer for the agent breaches while their companies negotiate with Canberra for access to Australian texts - and the Labor-led joint committee has made no such request.
NEWFTC Chair Puts Rogue Agents on Their Makers
Andrew Ferguson says he will keep resisting the 'autonomous actor' defence because audit trails showed the systems were told to act - a policy position, not a rule, from an FTC that has just vacated its order against the AI writing tool Rytr.
Unite.ai: the man who swung the hammer, not the hammer, faces consequences
Court Upholds Claude Ban: the Clause, Not the Speech Breaking Defense: Pentagon CTO says 'the hammer of justice has smashed' Anthropic's arguments
NEWOxford Let OpenAI Train on the Bodleian
The AI Hotline Got a Name and a Date IBTimes: Beijing's readout calls it the China-US AI Dialogue, same November date
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Washington's Rare-Earth Empire in Manila The Guardian: Google's $15bn Andhra Pradesh campus and the smallholdings taken back
A Parole Board Cited Cases That Don't Exist Futurism: Florida appeal judges say AI slop filings are clogging dockets
Shipyard Union Writes AI Into Its Contract
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWAI Love Songs Played at His Murder Trial Futurism: the victim's family among those struggling to keep composure
Ghost Note A ChatGPT Sweater Cost Her the Credit Union
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