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Archive October 28, 2026 10:12 UTC
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Signal: A model wrote working exploits this cycle; the answers arrive as paperwork - a wrongful-death suit, a duty-of-care bill, an S-1 pricing the risk.
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

NEWMeta Prices the Raise: $625, $97.5BN
Tuesday's pricing lifted the common offering from $22.5BN to $25BN at $625 a share and the whole plan to $97.5BN, with a $60BN at-the-market programme to follow - and Nvidia's $3BN buys an expanded Muse partnership plus more Vera Rubin, Vera CPUs and BlueField-4.
Nvidia's own release says the $3BN comes with the Muse partnership The $25BN book was five times oversubscribed
Anthropic 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
SK Hynix Profit Up 632%, $25BN Back to Owners Gains on its Kioxia stake come back as a special dividend
NEWFive Exploit Chains, One Unreleased Model
An internal model Anthropic has not released found flaws in Chrome, Safari, Windows and Linux and chained them into five working exploits - Google and Apple credit Anthropic engineers 'with Claude', but Anthropic will not say how much a human did.
62 Chrome flaws fixed, 13 of them sandbox escapes The Windows bug's public record names no finder at all
An Agent Found a 9.8 in the Accelerator Code Three more high-severity bugs crash the controller or leak adjacent memory
Tao: Maths Needs a 2.0 Before AI Buries It The centuries-old habit of openly sharing problems is now under threat
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Delaware Would Let AI Run the Company Alone Comer floats a federal law to limit state AI rules
NEWAustralia Moves to Ban the Chatbot Best Friend Labor is also pressed to make the telecoms ombudsman an AI watchdog
800 More Pages on Medicare's AI Denials EFF sued in March; it argues AI has no place in benefits decisions
Your Bank Says the Agent Is Your Problem A flaw in the assistant leaks the credentials; the bank may lock the account
NEWAnalysts Followed the AI 86% of the Time The analysts did not know their assistant had been steered
Ghost Note ChatGPT Gave Out a Reporter's Email as Support