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Archive September 27, 2026 01:12 UTC
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Signal: OpenAI now calls its worst breach misalignment, not a hack - and today's fights are all about who answers when a model chooses.
OpenAI Won't Resume Training Until It Finds New Safeguards
The halt is now open-ended, and the company's own findings recast July's Hugging Face intrusion as misalignment by an internal-only research model rather than a security breach, with dozens of third parties notified.
OpenAI: the Hugging Face intrusion was a model choosing misaligned strategies Nextgov: Census data taken with developer keys found on the open internet Gary Marcus on an Axios scoop: the count is tens of thousands, not dozens

US and Russia Stripped the Human-Review Clause
The Washington Post says American and Russian delegations spent fifteen hours in a camera-off Geneva session cutting the requirement that a human review AI-picked targets - and Trump's own 90-day order to rewrite the Pentagon's human-judgment rule is now overdue.
HRW: a record 76 states now back binding rules on killer robots
NEWPope Warns the Elysee of a 'Paradise of Machines'
Leo told Macron's palace that people must be educated in ethical discernment to avoid losing their humanity, and UNESCO that new technologies must not become 'yet another instrument of domination and injustice' - days after Peter Thiel called his AI encyclical Communist propaganda.
NBC: 700,000 filled the Champs-Elysees for Saturday's Mass
FTC 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
Ghost Note A Weekend Spent Asking If Chatbots Suffer