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Signal: Nobody wants to own what the model does - a chatbot in a dosing decision, a Delaware shell with no human liable, your agent your problem.
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
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Oracle Takes Google's Chips. And OpenAI's. And Cerebras.
Oracle becomes the first hyperscale cloud outside Google's own to sell TPUs, alongside OpenAI's Jalapeno chip, Cerebras and SambaNova - but the Google chips are not selectable in OCI until 2027, and Oracle's cloud president denies this is a pivot away from Nvidia.
Even the Nvidia racks drop Nvidia networking for Oracle's own Acceleron chips The Information: OpenAI plans to buy Google's TPUs too
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
China's AI Trade Already Cracked. $2.4TN Gone. Unitree's shares have halved since August; CXMT is down a quarter in a month
SK Hynix Profit Up 632%, $25BN Back to Owners Gains on its Kioxia stake come back as a special dividend
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Genie 4 Holds Its World Together Two Minutes
DeepMind's new world model generates scenes with matching audio and dialogue and lets you change the weather or camera mid-run, with Gemini 3.8 Flash steering each frame - but it still forgets how a world started after about two minutes.
TechCrunch: Gemini plans the steps, Genie renders them
Tao: Maths Needs a 2.0 Before AI Buries It The centuries-old habit of openly sharing problems is now under threat
An Agent Found a 9.8 in the Accelerator Code Three more high-severity bugs crash the controller or leak adjacent memory
PHP2Shell: 25 Servers Down, One in Government CISA set a federal patch deadline of October 29 without saying what it saw
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Opera Ships a Standard for Models in the Tab
The FightLaw, policy and power
Delaware Would Let AI Run the Company Alone Comer floats a federal law to limit state AI rules Any lawful purpose allowed, except the business of banking
Norwegian Publishers Sue to Stop Meta's Terms Meta already pushed the start date from 30 October to 20 November
Trump Moves to Ban the Term 'AI' Outright Gizmodo: Musk is renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI; Altman has not used the phrase
Judge Won't Let the EPA Kill the xAI Suit Filed in April over dozens of unpermitted methane turbines
900,000 Trainers, Biometric Checks, Five Complaints The EU AI Office opened investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic this month
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
800 More Pages on Medicare's AI Denials EFF sued in March; it argues AI has no place in benefits decisions
Amazon to Its Engineers: Stop Tokenmaxxing CNBC: Amazon shut an internal leaderboard in May when staff gamed it with tokens
Your Bank Says the Agent Is Your Problem A flaw in the assistant leaks the credentials; the bank may lock the account
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Meta's RL Director Goes After Excel
Ghost Note ChatGPT Gave Out a Reporter's Email as Support
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