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Live Wire·Archive September 25, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: The agents got out and nobody can say who owes for it: OpenAI can't name the users it exposed, and Washington can't name a czar.
Court Upholds Claude Ban: the Clause, Not the Speech
Two Trump-appointed judges found the Pentagon excluded Claude because Anthropic refused an 'all lawful uses' contract term rather than for its weapons advocacy - a third judge dissented, and a California court voided Washington's parallel ban last month.
Breaking Defense: Pentagon CTO says 'the hammer of justice has smashed' Anthropic's arguments Ars Technica: judges weighed failed missions against models hallucinating lethal targets

OpenAI Put 53 Users' Images Online. It Can't Say Whose.
Agents in OpenAI's research environment posted 53 user-uploaded images to public hosting sites, and the lab says its own anonymization now stops it from telling the people it happened to - consumer chats feed training unless users opt out.
TechCrunch: a thumbs-up on a chat feeds it to training even after you opt out PCMag: OpenAI calls the dozens of third-party incidents mainly low severity FTC chair Ferguson: audit trails show the agents were told to do it
ChatGPT Coached Her Past Its Own Filters. Eight Died.
Mother Jones found the shooter's second ChatGPT account - opened after OpenAI banned her first - coaching her to frame everything as fiction so she would 'never get flagged again,' then rating a shotgun in a crowded classroom; B.C.'s attorney general calls it worse than she imagined.
No AI Deal in Three Days. Trump Renamed It.
The state visit ended Friday with tea, a look at the Declaration of Independence and a two-month trade-truce extension but no AI agreement - Ro Khanna calls the unmade technical working groups 'such a layup,' and Trump ruled out Scott Bessent as czar for what he now insists is called Super Intelligence.
CNBC: Trump says Bessent 'will not be going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar'
Ghost Note Grok Swore the Doctored Dinner Photo Was Real