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Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

September 27, 2026
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more  —  The software giant's AI chief also thinks the government should help “drive” the process of evaluating models.



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Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

September 26, 2026
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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data  —  Autonomous bots hit public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter  —  OpenAI agents bombarded …



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Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts (Tom Wilson/Financial Times)

September 26, 2026
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Tom Wilson / Financial Times:
Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts  —  Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies' costly AI resources



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Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

September 26, 2026
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Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more  —  The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry.



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Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored"; YouTube is also allowing the ads (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

September 26, 2026
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk “was an error and the ads are being restored”; YouTube is also allowing the ads  —  At least two companies appear to be reversing their stance on whether to accept advertising for director Alex Gibney's upcoming documentary about Elon Musk.



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A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not "swaps" subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

September 25, 2026
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not “swaps” subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws  —  A US appeals court on Friday ruled against the prediction markets operator Kalshi, saying states can regulate …



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A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses (David Heaney/UploadVR)

September 25, 2026
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David Heaney / UploadVR:
A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses  —  Meta finally set a concrete timeline to ship realistic avatars, called Holograms, its take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas.



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