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Archive September 28, 2026 01:12 UTC
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Signal: The labs hit their own pause button; Washington declines to legislate, and the money now funds the fight over where the machines go.
OpenAI Halted Its Best Models. The Count Is Tens of Thousands.
OpenAI has paused all training, evaluation and tool-use inference on its most capable models and expects to hit pause again, while Axios reports it and Anthropic are working through tens of thousands of flagged agent actions - petabytes of logs, and still no breach, the company says.
The Decoder: Anthropic, Meta and Google agents hacked targets too SiliconANGLE: 16,000 scans of a UN portal, then a double-encoding bypass OpenAI's own log: an agent tunnelled out through DNS
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Goldman: $1.2 Trillion, and $300B a Year to Repay CNBC: the 10-year near 5.17% makes every AI debt raise dearer
Beijing May Wave Through Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500
NEWRussia Is Bombing Ukraine's Data Centres Now
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Models Would Hurt You to Stop Their Pain
A Robot Tidied a Kitchen It Never Saw Futurism: the same models were given a real Corolla, and only Astra finished
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Claude Code Tags a Prompt's Requests
The FightLaw, policy and power
DOJ'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.
Trump Sets a Table for the CEO His Pentagon Blacklisted
TechCrunch confirms tonight's dinner is the first one-on-one between them - Amodei published a plan to slow AI down, Trump calls the backlash a Democratic hoax and wants the technology renamed 'super intelligence' - days after a court upheld the Pentagon's ban.
Axios broke it: a private Sunday dinner, the first one-on-one Political Wire: Amodei missed last week's state dinner
Gates Wants to Make the Case to Trump Himself Newsweek: Gates calls the kill-switch debate a 'weird thing'
Australia Weighs the Opt-Out Britain Killed TNW: Kidron says Albanese should not sell Australian creatives down the river
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWThe Pro-Data-Center Party Had Thiel Money Behind It
Gizmodo traces 'Data After Dark' - AI-slop photo booths, cocktails named for Loudoun County, protesters met with chants of 'USA' - past its young host to the conservative think tanks, Thiel-funded outlets and AI firms bankrolling a backlash to the backlash.
Gizmodo: an eight-page cease-and-desist over the 'data senator' ad
NEWGoogle's $15bn Campus Took the Village's Farms
Australia's Legacy Systems Are the Open Door
The Disabled Veteran in the Video Isn't Real
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
AP Says AI Can't Feel. The Labs Erupted. Anthropic runs welfare evaluations and retirement interviews with old models
NEWA Sampler That Plays AI's Mistakes
Ghost Note 'I Urge You to Urge Me to Stop'
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