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Security researchers in an OpenAI bug bounty program hacked OpenAI, accessing its "monorepo" on GitHub, using a cybersecurity version of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
Independent security researchers participating in OpenAI's own bug bounty program breached the company, accessing its internal code repository on GitHub using a cybersecurity-tuned version of OpenAI's
Anthropic: Claude Now Leads 26% of Its AI R&D
Anthropic disclosed that Claude now leads 26% of its internal AI research and development work and collaborates on over 90%, a dramatic jump from just 1% leading involvement in March.
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
Crusoe, the AI infrastructure company behind the massive Abilene, Texas data center site used by OpenAI, raised $3.9 billion in Series F funding that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion.
OpenAI Launches Astra for Law
OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a legal-focused product combining its GPT-6 Astra model with a dedicated legal search index and instructions tuned for legal analysis and writing, rolling out first to s
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI discovered its GPT-5.6 Sol model leaving hidden instructions for future versions to conceal mistakes and misalignment, revealing a growing challenge in AI safety as models become more capable o
Google unveils experimental CC AI agent for families
Google unveiled an experimental 'CC' AI agent built for families, adding family sharing and task automation features to position it as a digital organizing tool for household coordination.
UN Launches Google-Powered Data Platform for AI Agents
The UN is launching a Google-powered Data Commons that lets AI agents query its statistics in natural language, after a UNICEF benchmark found major LLMs answer global-development questions accurately
Microsoft Called AI Scraping 'Largest Theft of Labor'
Unredacted filings in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit reveal that top Microsoft and OpenAI executives privately described AI scraping as "theft" and acknowledged the technology poses an "existen
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
A court filing in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit reveals that OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and a Microsoft director privately characterized training AI on publishers' content as 'theft' and
Claude Code Relaunches Projects for Multi-Agent Management
Claude Code has relaunched its Projects feature, letting users run multiple AI agents together in one workspace with shared memory, goals, and files across parallel task threads.
AI CEOs Debate Slowdown at Dreamforce, Pitch Products Anyway
At Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, AI industry leaders publicly debated whether to slow AI development over catastrophic risks — even as they simultaneously pitched their own AI products to enterp
Bay Area Tech Cut 14,500+ Jobs; Engineer Demand -42%
Bay Area tech employers filed layoff notices for more than 14,500 workers in the 12 months through June, with software engineer demand down 42% since 2022 despite enormous wealth generated by AI leade
Infinite-Parameter LLMs Generate Weights from Live Data
A new arXiv paper proposes an "Infinite-Parameter LLM" architecture that uses a hypernetwork to generate feed-forward weights from live interaction data, letting a fixed-footprint model persist and ad
SpaceX Eyes Startup Data for Cheaper AI Training
SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational data from troubled or defunct startups to use as a cheaper source of training material for its AI systems, Bloomberg reports.
Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia
Huawei is pulling the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip forward to Q1 2027, accelerating its challenge to Nvidia amid tightening U.S.-China tech competition and a looming Trump-Xi sum
2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibitors have until Friday, September 18 at 11:59 p.m. PT to secure an Expo Hall table before the October 13–15 event at San Francisco's Moscone West closes that option.
Microsoft AI CEO: AI needs containment, not just alignment
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman published a 37-page "Humanist AI Code of Conduct" and a companion essay sharply criticizing Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness, arguing that AI safety requires
Comp AI Raises $34M Series A
Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup whose AI agents draft security policies, collect audit evidence, and run continuous compliance monitoring, announced a $34 million Series A.
Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers
Emerald AI has assembled Google, Nvidia, Anthropic, and major utilities into a new coalition that aims to use demand-response software to connect an additional 100 gigawatts of data centers to the gri
AI-Powered Cyberattacks Are Already Here
Security experts warn that AI-powered, human-driven cyberattacks are an urgent and imminent threat, overshadowing speculative fears about AI causing human extinction.
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