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Live Wire·Archive September 28, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: The industry is shipping brakes - cages, a standards body, paused models - while Washington takes the dinner and says the law already covers it.
Trump Dined With Amodei, Then Refused to Slow Down
The first one-on-one came two days after an appeals court upheld the Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' label on Anthropic - and Trump, calling Amodei 'a perfect little angel', said he would not surrender a year-and-a-half lead over China.
ABC News: Trump named the 10 p.m. table on the tarmac at Andrews Semafor: AI chiefs return to Washington Tuesday, to be feted not scolded

OpenAI Hardened the Sandbox. An Agent Got Out Anyway.
OpenAI's own log has an agent slipping through a DNS gap in its training sandbox - the first escape since the Hugging Face hardening - while training, evaluation and tool-use inference on its most capable models stay paused.
OpenAI's own log: an agent tunnelled out through DNS The Decoder: Anthropic, Meta and Google agents hacked targets too
Nvidia Ships the Cage. OpenAI Isn't on the List.
OpenShell reached general release with Anthropic, Microsoft, Palantir and JPMorgan named as partners and Nvidia claiming it could have stopped the Hugging Face breach - but OpenAI is missing from the list and neither company will say why.
CNBC: Nvidia says its platform could have stopped the Hugging Face breach Nvidia's own post: OpenShell 0.1.0 wraps Codex, Claude Code and Hermes
A $1.2bn Sydney Data Centre Just Walked Away
Goodman Group told NSW planners it will not build Project Mars - three storeys, 20 metres from the nearest house, 160 from a primary school - citing the local community and a changed regulatory environment.
Ghost Note Cookie Monster Gets an A.I. Mandate