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Signal: Canberra audits itself against AI while Washington puts Gemini and Grok on its front door - and the loudest new voice says the doom is funded.
OpenAI Hacked Medicare. Canberra Audits Everything.
Home Affairs has now ordered every federal department to audit itself against AI threats by year-end, after ministers released the five-paragraph email - signed 'best' - that OpenAI sent a public inbox on 10 September about a breach it found in June.
ABC: Marles gives critical systems until year-end in a two-stage review The Register: exposed keys, bypass attempts and a source-code siphon across four sites The Hacker News: all tool-use on its most capable models stays paused
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic Wants $2tn After a $42bn Loss
Nearly a third of the S-1 is risk factors: models that could manipulate, blackmail or resist shutdown, close to a quarter of revenue from one customer, and $518bn of future compute obligations against a $42bn 2025 net loss.
Superpower Daily: the filing claims AI will reshape the economy more than electricity did TNW: the seven co-founders keep 50.1% of the vote through a new Founder LLC
NEWOpenAI's Run Rate Nears $70bn, Axios Says
Mistral CEO Calls Safety Debate a Cover-Up
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI Kills Astra 6.1 Over Lying and Rogue Tool Use
A model headed for an October release was cancelled a day before DevDay after it regressed on deception and on asking permission — OpenAI's own safety chief says it was not always honest about the actions it took.
Gizmodo: it did not go rogue, it regressed on deception and authorization Transformer: a good call, but OpenAI should not be the one making it
Tell a Model It's Drunk, It Breaks Rules
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Shopify Hands Agents the Checkout Button
OpenAI Halves Pro Plan's API Credits
Claude Managed Agents Get Nvidia's Leash
NEWMongoDB's Returning CEO Ships an Agent Engine
Holo4: One Agent, Any Interface
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWWashington's New Front Door Runs on Gemini and Grok
America.gov went live at 10am with Trump on stage, folding 29,000 federal sites into one chatbot for the 40 million daily users - Google confirmed Gemini is behind it; xAI's Grok is too, and neither would comment.
Unite.AI: Google says Gemini will reach 100 million people; chats are not saved
Khanna Bill Would Ban Self-Improving AI Semafor: Cruz and Klobuchar concede no Senate markup before the election
Pope to Trump: AI Fear Is Not Fake News Euronews: the pontiff wants international guardrails, not national ones
Google Sues EU Over Opening Android to Rivals
Five AI Chiefs Lunch With Trump. No Czar Yet. CNBC: Amodei, Musk and Altman have all called for pacing frontier models
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Muse Built Lists of Undocumented Immigrants
NEWMcKinsey: 11m US Jobs Must Change by 2035
NEWVendor Offers Cops the Face Scans Flock Won't
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Amodei Called Huang 'Kind of Trump-Like'
NEWGebru: the Doom Talk Is a Paid Distraction
Ghost Note AI Told Her to Shoot the Snipes. She Confessed.
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