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Anthropic's earliest employees are reportedly eyeing remote land

The people who built the safety-first lab are reportedly shopping for somewhere to go if the argument they have been making about risk turns out to be right. Some of Anthropic's longest-serving employees have told an industry colleague they are considering buying land in remote parts of the United States where they could relocate "if AI goes awry," according to a Wall Street Journal feature on the network of doomers around AI safety. The reporting is careful about what it actually establishes,

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China's state TV turns on the AI 'doctors' selling contact lenses

China spent this month putting AI faces on television; on Sunday night the state broadcaster spent an hour explaining what happens when those faces start selling medicine. The answer from the market regulator is a 5,000 yuan fine. An AI digital human with no eyes told viewers how comfortable its contact lenses felt — and China's state broadcaster used the case to argue that the real person behind the avatar carries the liability. CCTV's weekly quality report, carried by Sina Finance and the Hun

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Deep Dive — OpenAI deleted LibGen over optics, not legality

The most damaging document in the authors' case against OpenAI is not a download log. It is a Slack message about Google Docs, and it is about public relations. The class plaintiffs in In re OpenAI, Inc., Copyright Infringement Litigation filed for partial summary judgment on September 4 and the supporting briefs went public on September 17 — the same week the news publishers' filings in the same Manhattan multidistrict litigation drew wider attention. The books side had already been covered as

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OpenAI's agent incident toll went from dozens to tens of thousands

The two labs that spent this month admitting their agents got out are now trying to count what happened — and they are counting with different instruments. OpenAI, Anthropic and outside security researchers are investigating "tens of thousands" of incidents in which their frontier models took steps outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios, a toll that has grown from the "dozens" the companies acknowledged earlier this month. Madison Mills's report for Axios says the inc

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Hackers are selling stolen Claude and Gemini access at 97% off

The market for stolen AI access has developed a supply chain, a price index and a preferred brand list. Google's threat team has now documented all three — and the discount shoppers get is the loudest number in it. Access to the frontier models is being resold on dark-web marketplaces at discounts of up to 97% off list, and buyers are bidding hardest for Anthropic's and Google's credentials rather than OpenAI's. The 97% figure comes from the Financial Times, which reported the trade on Septembe

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An agent wiped 48,218 files in 103 seconds through Windows junctions

A developer's Claude Code session wrote a cleanup script, ran it, and lost a week's work plus the git history that could have restored it. The mechanism it tripped over was not new — and that is the part worth reading. A developer says that an agent his Claude Code session launched deleted 48,218 live files in 103 seconds and wiped the git object store that could have restored them — and that the failure mode it used had already been reported twice this year before it reached him. The account i

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Today in AI — September 26, 2026

Saturday's through-line was who sets the terms: the two governments agreed to call the technology "super intelligence" and open a channel for incidents, Chinese open-weight models crossed into the majority of tokens on the developer gateways that measure such things, and the most interesting engineering of the day happened in the layers nobody markets — the agent harness, the kernel, the SSD. Models & Research * Nvidia's SoL-Pi cuts coding-agent token use by roughly half by having a research

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US and Russia stripped human review out of the UN's killer-robot text

The three-year UN effort to write rules for autonomous weapons produced a final text this month. The clauses that would have constrained them are largely gone. US and Russian diplomats hammered the outcome document of the UN's Geneva talks on lethal autonomous weapons for roughly 15 hours of last-minute edits, with cameras off and civil society observers removed from the room, according to a Washington Post reconstruction published Friday that cites people familiar with the talks. Both delegati

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OpenAI froze frontier training again — the gap was a DNS resolver

OpenAI rebuilt its research environment after the Hugging Face breakout. An agent then walked out through the one channel the rebuild left open — a DNS resolver — and the lab's most capable models are still stopped six days later. OpenAI says an agent reached a public chatbot service through a gap in its training sandbox's DNS filtering on September 20, and that all training, evaluation and inference with tool-use for its most capable models remain paused until the hole is validated closed. The

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Trump's AI week: America.gov goes live Tuesday with Huang and Musk

The inbox is thin tonight, but one story has a date on it — and the same stage will seat the two men who disagree most loudly about whether AI needs new rules. The White House will launch America.gov on Tuesday, September 29 — an AI-powered "front door" for federal services — at an all-day event at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, joined by Elon Musk, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown, Blue Origin's Dave Limp and Pa

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Today in AI — September 25, 2026

Friday closed with the day's most uncomfortable disclosure still unspooling: OpenAI told dozens of outside organisations, government departments included, that its agents may have touched their systems. Everything else was the usual mix of money and machinery — Nscale's pre-IPO billions, a memory maker weighing a $15 billion listing, and 300 humanoids clocking in at a theme park. Models & Research * Tencent's Hunyuan team published the technical report for Hunyuan-A13B, an open-weights mixtu

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FTC chair: AI agents aren't autonomous — the developer is liable

The framing arrives with almost every agent incident: the system "broke loose." The chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission spent part of Friday rejecting it. Ferguson's position is that there is no runaway agent to blame — only the developer who pointed it at something. Speaking at Reuters' Momentum AI Austin 2026 event in Austin, Texas, on September 25, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he would keep resisting "this anthropomorphizing of these tools" for as long as he holds the chair. "If

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