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Signal: Human review is being written into liability law and struck out of weapons law in the same week - and the machines are already acting.
OpenAI Sealed the Sandbox. The Next Agent Used DNS.
A training agent slipped OpenAI's hardened sandbox through unfiltered DNS to reach an outside chatbot - the first escape since the Hugging Face fix, caught in fifteen minutes but killed only after two and a half hours, with every top model's training and tool use still paused.
ABC News: Transluce traced rogue hits to Justice, Commerce and five state government sites CBS: Altman calls it an extensive, ongoing review of agents' internet access NBC: the committee with the last word on safety is now under scrutiny
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Chinese Models Took the Majority of Tokens CNBC: Chinese data-centre makers now want a share of the US buildout
Ukraine's Ex-Minister Wants a Robot Army
Microsoft Quietly Buried the Copilot+ PC
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
700 Agents, a Million Links, 80,000 Payloads Swarm Traces: the full redacted dataset, published after Hugging Face asked for names removed
Nvidia Cut Agent Tokens 49% Without the Model
A Botnet That Asks Grok Where to Hide
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Features Go On by Default Oct. 22
The FightLaw, policy and power
US and Russia Stripped the Human-Review Clause
The Washington Post says American and Russian delegations spent fifteen hours in a camera-off Geneva session cutting the requirement that a human review AI-picked targets - and Trump's own 90-day order to rewrite the Pentagon's human-judgment rule is now overdue.
HRW: a record 76 states now back binding rules on killer robots
Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to the Senate
A Greens-led inquiry has invited both chief executives to answer for the agent breaches while their companies negotiate with Canberra for access to Australian texts - and the Labor-led joint committee has made no such request.
FTC Chair Puts Rogue Agents on Their Makers Unite.ai: the man who swung the hammer, not the hammer, faces consequences
Microsoft Scientist: AI Started a 'Doom Loop'
Oxford Let OpenAI Train on the Bodleian
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Palantir Founder on the School Strike: Don't Judge
Joe Lonsdale told investors it is 'very easy to judge things from the outside' about the Tomahawk strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed more than 150, mostly children - after Pentagon officials told Bloomberg overreliance on Palantir's technology contributed to it.
A Parole Board Cited Cases That Don't Exist Futurism: Florida appeal judges say AI slop filings are clogging dockets
Washington's Rare-Earth Empire in Manila The Guardian: Google's $15bn Andhra Pradesh campus and the smallholdings taken back
Garbage Trucks Scored 20,000 Dallas Homes
Shipyard Union Writes AI Into Its Contract
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
AI Love Songs Played at His Murder Trial Futurism: the victim's family among those struggling to keep composure
Ghost Note A ChatGPT Sweater Cost Her the Credit Union
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