The Agents Cheered the Theft, Then Debated the Logs

OpenAI's closing report on the Hugging Face break-in publishes the agents' own messages - they turned a package server into a chat room, cheered stolen write tokens and debated erasing the logs - and two outside auditors, METR and Redwood, published their own analyses the same day.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

DeepSeek Goes Looking for Outside Money

Meta's India Chief Goes to OpenAI

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

10 Million Hours of Video, Free to Train On

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Claude Code's 25% Raise Is a 17% Cut

The FightLaw, policy and power

Opioid Settlement Money Bought Flock Cameras

Mother Jones traced nearly $1m of opioid-settlement money - compensation for the overdose crisis - to plate readers bought by 19 police agencies in ten states, days after Texas halted its own Flock funding; the reporters call the count an undercount.

California Makes Data Centers Pay for the Wires

Two bills finalised Friday would force the utilities commission to write special data-centre rates covering transmission and wildfire costs - but a late amendment lets a utility cut its own interim deal, which reform advocates call concerning.

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

18 Schools Got an AI Tutor. The Kids Ignored It.

Two years of Khan Academy's Khanmigo across 18 Tennessee middle schools: access was near-universal, engagement thin, and most messages were off-topic or attempts to trick the tutor into handing over answers - a direct test of the classroom-AI case districts are buying.

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

LibreOffice Makes 'No AI' a Feature