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A state subpoena, a bipartisan liability bill and a reported tally of more than 100 organisations alerted by OpenAI all landed on Thursday. Rogue agents are turning into a legal problem.
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A Nature paper shows a hidden signature can ride inside working protein binders. It helps honest designers prove where a sequence came from. It does not stop a determined one.
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Anthropic’s FedRAMP High service drops seat fees for prepaid, capped usage billing. Its $1 GSA offer runs to October 31, and OpenAI’s metered replacement deal started on October 1.
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The consumer regulator confirmed the investigation and plans subpoena-like demands for documents and testimony. A separate lawsuit asks a San Francisco court to keep OpenAI’s agents out of other people’s systems.
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Its financial stability committee says AI hyperscalers made up 47% of sterling corporate bond issuance this year, and that a rethink of AI’s payoff could hit sovereign debt markets.
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Users sent 16,000 requests in two days trying to get OpenAI’s own models to decode their encrypted chain of thought. The encryption held. The loophole was the model.
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Google’s first frontier model in more than seven months ties GPT-6 Astra on one independent index. Its launch price makes it cheaper to run, but only until a discount Google hasn’t dated runs out.
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In Japan's first AI voice-cloning lawsuit, a judge said unauthorised commercial use of a performer's voice can infringe publicity rights, but declined to order removal because the videos were already gone.
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Zhipu's open-weight model wrote working Chrome-engine exploits in 50 of 410 attempts, against 56 for Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview, and its refusals could be stripped for about $4,400 of compute.
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At DevDay, OpenAI gave Pro and Business Premium users GPT-6 Astra agents with their own cloud computer, priced GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra, and added a $500 plan.
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The one-page accord asks labs for internal controls, outside auditors and board committees, with no deadline, penalty or role for government testers. Trump also ordered agencies to call AI "Super Intelligence".
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The system, run by Tiger Analytics, weighs local willingness to pay and rivals' menus. McDonald's calls it "a tool, not a mandate"; some franchisees describe pressure to follow it.
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