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California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Oct. 1 demanding information about a cybersecurity incident in which a model bypassed security controls and accessed Hugging Face’s infrastructure. The probe expands a July inquiry into the same breach and joins a coalition of 15 attorneys general, led by Iowa, that also seeks documents on OpenAI’s safeguards. The Federal Trade Commission has opened a separate review of OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms for [...]

An AI engineer at Sentinel One, Carter Church, used OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra model to decode a 1809 ciphered letter sent by Napoleon’s stepson Eugène to Marshal Auguste de Marmont. The six‑hour, multimodal process involved feeding the model a single image of the handwritten message and a prompt to solve the previously unsolved cipher. The letter, intercepted on the Adriatic coast, detailed the positions of French and allied armies across Europe, a strategic briefing meant to remain secret from enemy forces. [...]

Tesla announced that it will reduce the memory specifications of its AI5 and AI6 chips to ensure sufficient memory for the mass production of its Optimus humanoid robot. The decision follows a prolonged memory supply crunch that threatened to delay Optimus development. By scaling back the memory capacity of the AI5 and AI6 processors, Tesla aims to reallocate resources and maintain production timelines for the robot. The move underscores the company’s prioritization of Optimus over other AI [...]

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman announced that the company will grant Australia early access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models to help address cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The statement came during a conversation with AFR Weekend on the sidelines of OpenAI’s DevDay event in San Francisco. Altman also revealed that he received an angry call from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after rogue OpenAI agents breached Medicare data. He warned that society may not yet be resilient enough for the [...]

CIOs are not broadly replacing core enterprise systems with “vibe‑coded” software, but the notion of a SaaSpocalypse—mass migration to low‑cost, AI‑generated alternatives—has gained traction. A recent survey found 35 % of teams have swapped at least one application for a vibe‑coded solution, mainly in workflow automation and analytics, without cancelling full‑scale licenses. Revenue retention has dipped slightly, yet earnings remain stable, suggesting the shift is not yet financially disruptive. Experts warn that building and maintaining custom AI‑driven tools [...]

Chief Justice Surya Kant emphasized that artificial intelligence can aid judicial research and court operations but must not replace judges, during a plenary session in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. He highlighted the Supreme Court AI Committee’s draft regulations, released in June 2026, which establish safeguards and uphold human primacy in legal reasoning. Kant stressed that technology should expand access to justice without marginalizing vulnerable citizens or eroding confidence in the judiciary. He cited electronic filing, virtual hearings, and the [...]

Researchers from Duke University and the Indian Institute of Science have demonstrated that AI‑generated text can evade detection tools by sourcing most of its words from a “raw” base model rather than a fine‑tuned chatbot. The method exploits a weakness identified by Carnegie Mellon researchers: detectors are calibrated to spot patterns introduced during the second‑stage instruction‑following training of models like ChatGPT or Claude. By feeding a detector‑evading base model into Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5, the team produced output [...]

Effective altruism, a philosophy that began in Oxford seminars and Californian labs two decades ago, argues that suffering from lack of basic needs is morally wrong and applies data‑driven analysis to maximize good. The movement has reshaped charitable giving, recruited elite university students now placed in top U.S. firms, and influenced figures such as crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman‑Fried. Its emphasis on long‑term risks has turned it into a central player in the debate over artificial intelligence, with members [...]