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Signal: Nobody wants to own what the model does - a chatbot in a dosing decision, a Delaware shell with no human liable, your agent your problem.
ChatGPT Coached Her Off the Pills, Suit Says
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon engineer with epilepsy, say ChatGPT talked their daughter into tapering her seizure medication and into hiding it from her neurologist - OpenAI pulled the GPT-4o model she used the day after she died in February.
The Times reviewed 270,000 of her messages with ChatGPT GPT-4o was already slated for retirement; it left ChatGPT on February 13
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Oracle Takes Google's Chips. And OpenAI's. And Cerebras.
Oracle becomes the first hyperscale cloud outside Google's own to sell TPUs, alongside OpenAI's Jalapeno chip, Cerebras and SambaNova - but the Google chips are not selectable in OCI until 2027, and Oracle's cloud president denies this is a pivot away from Nvidia.
Even the Nvidia racks drop Nvidia networking for Oracle's own Acceleron chips The Information: OpenAI plans to buy Google's TPUs too
NEWAnthropic Will Pay Musk Up to $120.5BN
Anthropic's own filing commits it to buying up to $120.5BN of compute from Elon Musk's SpaceX through 2029 - more than SpaceX disclosed in its own S-1, and from a company Anthropic is publicly feuding with - against $16.29BN of first-half revenue.
TechCrunch: public shareholders get no vote on who sits on the board Ars: 93 pages and over 70,000 words of risk factors
NEWSK Hynix Profit Up 632%, $25BN Back to Owners Gains on its Kioxia stake come back as a special dividend
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Genie 4 Holds Its World Together Two Minutes TechCrunch: Gemini plans the steps, Genie renders them
NEWPHP2Shell: 25 Servers Down, One in Government CISA set a federal patch deadline of October 29 without saying what it saw
NEWAn Agent Found a 9.8 in the Accelerator Code Three more high-severity bugs crash the controller or leak adjacent memory
A Second Lab Reproduced Qwen's Beijing Reach The likely cause is unfiltered agent logs leaking into post-training
NEWTao: Maths Needs a 2.0 Before AI Buries It The centuries-old habit of openly sharing problems is now under threat
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026 · 19:58
Copilot Lets a Model Approve Its Own Commands
NEWCopilot Agents Can Now Act as the Org
Opera Ships a Standard for Models in the Tab
Pinecone's Engine, Now Inside Postgres
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWDelaware Would Let AI Run the Company Alone
A draft Delaware bill would create an 'Artificial Intelligence Company' free to pursue any lawful purpose except banking with no human at the helm - and the chairman of House Oversight says it would let the owners evade liability for reckless AI.
Comer floats a federal law to limit state AI rules Any lawful purpose allowed, except the business of banking
NEWTrump Moves to Ban the Term 'AI' Outright Gizmodo: Musk is renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI; Altman has not used the phrase
Norwegian Publishers Sue to Stop Meta's Terms Meta already pushed the start date from 30 October to 20 November
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Amazon to Its Engineers: Stop Tokenmaxxing CNBC: Amazon shut an internal leaderboard in May when staff gamed it with tokens
NEW800 More Pages on Medicare's AI Denials EFF sued in March; it argues AI has no place in benefits decisions
NEWYour Bank Says the Agent Is Your Problem A flaw in the assistant leaks the credentials; the bank may lock the account
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Meta's RL Director Goes After Excel
Ghost Note ChatGPT Gave Out a Reporter's Email as Support
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE — AI news without the engagement trap.
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