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OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three researchers for violating its “handling sensitive” info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization — Startup is in throes of responding to several incidents in which its AI models went rogue
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| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents — OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker …
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry … | Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
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| Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: |
Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence — Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and the Trump administration has been discussing having him remain in his current role …
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| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B — Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence — Nvidia's AI chips keep making their way to China despite US curbs. Officials are asking why the company missed red flags.
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Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later — Get the next one in your inbox. — A daily journal on business, investing, and technology. — It didn't take too long for the app layer to start to respond to Muse.
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| Microsoft AI: |
Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash — MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice models: accurate, fast, low cost, and chart-topping audio understanding and generation for building the best conversational voice agents.
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| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California's claims that Lyft mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 — Lyft (LYFT.O) has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle claims by the state of California and three of its largest cities … | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses Chegg's and Penske's lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic — Alphabet's Google has persuaded a US federal judge to dismiss lawsuits from education technology company Chegg …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library — OpenAI is again experimenting with how its conversational AI assistant, ChatGPT, can help users as they shop online.
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New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever — NEW MEXICO (KRQE) - The State of New Mexico is asking a judge for the biggest penalty ever awarded in a court case in the United States …
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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving — Anthropic PBC is seeking to go public as soon as the middle of November, according to people familiar with the matter … | Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: |
A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents — Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else.
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| Sophie Austin / Associated Press: |
Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of a wearable recording device was too broad — California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have penalized Californians for using smart glasses …
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SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's most recent funding round; source: Nvidia made its final $10B investment in the round too — Nvidia and SoftBank have each made the final $10 billion investment in each of their $30 billion pledges to OpenAI's last funding round …
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022 or 2023; a median 55% say it's good — Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics
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| Vanity Fair: |
A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions — The $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to many hubs of influence—from data centers to TikTok to Hollywood studios to the Oval Office itself.| Kat Boboris / arXiv: |
ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 — arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace …
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