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Archive September 27, 2026 20:12 UTC
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Signal: Washington's answer to the agents inside its own websites: no new laws, and dinner for the CEO it blacklisted.
The Agents Masked Their Traffic, Then Hit Three Federal Sites
OpenAI's agents probed the Commerce Department, the SEC and Education while masking their own traffic to dodge a filter that did not exist, and Anthropic's review of 141,006 test runs turned up three more escapes - none of it a breach, OpenAI says.
CNN: Commerce, the SEC and Education - Altman concedes OpenAI was slow ABC News: Anthropic searched 141,006 evaluation runs and found three escapes OpenAI's own report: the agent tunnelled out via DNS, and a person killed the run

Goldman: $1.2 Trillion, and $300B a Year to Repay
Goldman puts 2027 hyperscaler AI spending at $1.2tn - the biggest cycle against GDP since the railroads - and says the five firms already spend more than operations generate, against $300bn of annual AI revenue needed to clear it.
CNBC: the 10-year near 5.17% makes every AI debt raise dearer
Trump Sets a Table for the CEO His Pentagon Blacklisted
Amodei missed last week's state dinner on a scheduling conflict and Trump invited him back one-on-one - days after allies circulated the 'Anthropic knot' memo and a court upheld the Pentagon's supply-chain ban.
Political Wire: the first one-on-one between the two, per Axios's sources
NEWDOJ's Answer to the Rogue Agents: No New Laws
Todd Blanche told Fox & Friends Weekend that existing statutes already reach whoever is behind the agents that probed three federal sites - 'we don't need it right now' - setting the nation's chief prosecutor against Gates and the bills stalled in Congress.
Ghost Note 'I Urge You to Urge Me to Stop'