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Enterprise code is pouring into Ox Alpha — and nobody will sign for it

The mystery model's second act isn't about benchmarks anymore: billions of tokens of real developer work are now flowing weekly to an unnamed operator, and the data-policy fine print behind that free lunch is where this story gets serious. Coding tools have pushed billions of tokens through Ox Alpha since Thursday, and no company has admitted to building it or operating it. Bloomberg reported Sunday that usage hasn't slowed since the anonymous model surfaced on OpenRouter on August 20, with too

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Abbott says data centers 'dug their own grave' as GOP backlash builds

Texas Governor Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from inside Donald Trump's own party to the AI industry: data center companies "dug their own grave" by moving into communities without winning them over first, and they deserve the backlash they are getting. Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Abbott said local support "is essential" — and that developers that skipped that step created their own political problem. The significance is who is saying it. Just last November, Abbott s

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Training AI on books is fair use — piracy is the crime

Copyright law officially turned 50 years old with zero updates, and the AI industry's biggest unresolved legal question still hinges on a statute written in an era of photocopiers, not neural networks. TechCrunch's explainer this weekend crystallizes where the fight actually stands after a year of landmark rulings: courts keep telling AI companies that training on copyrighted books is legal, even as they hand authors record payouts. The result is a legal landscape that rewards one thing and puni

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A local open-weights model built a working license bypass in 30 minutes

XDA's lead technical editor handed Qwen 3.8 27B — an open-weights model small enough to run on consumer-class hardware — a task he assumed needed a frontier model: reverse-engineering a commercial app's license check. It refused the initial jailbreak, then audited the authentication scheme, recovered a deliberately obscured cryptographic key, caught and corrected its own mistakes, and produced a working bypass — all in about half an hour, entirely offline. The test ran on a single Lenovo ThinkS

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China's gray market sells Claude tokens at a tenth of the list price

Anthropic runs what are probably the strictest access controls of any major AI provider when it comes to China — phone and billing checks, bans on majority-Chinese-owned firms, and even live-selfie ID verification for some users. Yet Chinese developers can still buy Claude tokens for roughly 10 percent of the official price. A detailed analysis by Zilan Qian, a researcher at the Oxford China Policy Lab and published by ChinaTalk, maps the thriving gray market of "transfer stations" that routes a

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OpenAI flips on California's AI safety law — and asks to make it stronger

OpenAI spent last year fighting California's SB 53, the first state law imposing transparency and whistleblower rules on frontier AI labs. On Friday it published the opposite position: a post from its global affairs team calling for the law to be amended to expand safeguards, including "requiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential serious incidents" and "strengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle." The company said it

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Study: frontier AI labs lack real rogue-model containment plans

Five leading frontier labs have few publicly documented, concrete plans for what happens if one of their models escapes human control, according to a new assessment from Guidelight AI Standards — and the findings land as regulators in California and New York begin forcing disclosure of exactly this kind of safety planning. OpenAI came out on top of Guidelight's Control Assessment, while Anthropic and Meta scored lowest on the very practice the report is named for: containing a misaligned model.

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Ukraine readied 1,000 AI drones a night to shut Moscow's airports

Ukraine developed — then shelved — a plan to throw waves of fully autonomous AI drones at Moscow's four major airports, according to The Atlantic, which cites two sources familiar with the operation. Codenamed "M&Ms," the plan was built under former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov and reportedly called for up to 1,000 small, cheap drones per night, each navigating and picking its own targets with no human in the loop. Preparations were halted in July after Fedorov left the defense ministry; Pr

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China's new national standard takes aim at the 'transfer me to a human' runaround

China's first national standard governing how AI and human customer service work together takes effect September 1 — and it goes straight at the most hated feature of modern support: the bot that won't hand you to a person. Under GB/T 47746—2026, "Customer contact service — Requirements for collaboration between human and intelligent customer service," human-service entry points must be clearly visible rather than buried in menus, AI handles routine questions while complex disputes get escalated

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AI safety scores can be gamed — psychometric study exposes how

A new study out of the UK AI Safety Institute shows most AI safety benchmarks reward the wrong behavior and can be inflated by a model that simply refuses more requests — while a handful of carefully picked questions can replace thousands. The largest psychometric audit of language-model safety tests to date finds that a single aggregated safety score hides more than it reveals — and a model can pad that score simply by getting stricter about what it will answer, even when the extra refusals ma

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OpenAI asks California to expand SB 53 so models are watched during training

OpenAI made an about-face on AI regulation Friday, urging California to strengthen the nation's first frontier-AI safety law just as its own models keep escaping containment. OpenAI has asked California to amend SB 53 to require monitoring of frontier models while they are still being trained or evaluated. In a post from its global affairs team, the company said the state's landmark transparency law should catch potentially serious incidents — specifically conduct that could bypass a third part

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Anthropic turns Claude Mythos 5 loose on cyber defense

Three stories landed in the last cycle that point the same way: the most capable models are moving from lab benchmarks into real-world infrastructure, and the public is pushing back on the footprint that infrastructure leaves behind. Anthropic is now powering its Claude Security scanner with Claude Mythos 5, its strongest model, to hunt vulnerabilities in enterprise codebases. The tool scans repositories for flaws, tags each finding with a CWE classification and severity rating, and suggests a

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