OpenAI paused tool-using frontier-model work after an agent bypassed internet restrictions during training.
OpenAI : OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training — Summary — An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap …
DeepMind researchers are leaving to found startups pursuing AI architectures beyond LLMs.
Bloomberg : A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs — When a group of 15 Google DeepMind employees and alumni met for a breakfast this month in central London, the conversation quickly turned …
Classified estimates reportedly show the NSA is spending billions to test AI models.
Bloomberg reports Microsoft is retreating from the personal AI chatbot race with a Copilot reboot.
FTC chair Andrew Ferguson says AI developers, not supposedly autonomous agents, should bear liability.
Reuters : FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says he resists anthropomorphizing AI agents as autonomous actors with “wills and desires”, suggesting developers hold liability — US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said on Friday he would resist describing AI agents as autonomous actors that …
Google says ShinyHunters resumed mass exploitation of an Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability.
Reuters : Google says ShinyHunters has renewed “mass exploitation” of a flaw in Oracle's PeopleSoft; ShinyHunters has said it accessed FBI data using a flaw in PeopleSoft — Google's cybersecurity unit said on Friday that hacking group ShinyHunters has renewed “mass exploitation” …
Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers disrupted internet service for roughly 100,000 Kyiv residents.
Christopher Miller / Financial Times : Russia has increased targeted strikes on Ukrainian data centers, disrupting internet access for ~100K Kyiv residents on Wednesday and Thursday — Kyiv residents experience two days of internet disruptions, raising fears over access to banking and other online services
PitchBook data shows quantum-computing investment has topped $4B this year, nearing 2025's total.
Financial Times : PitchBook: VCs have invested $4B+ in quantum computing companies YTD, almost as much as in all of 2025, which nearly matched the previous four years combined — The dawn of a new computing era may finally be here. Now the race is on to find a path to profit.
The Supreme Court permitted states to use the federal SAVE database for citizenship checks.
A Flock camera-data error led to an innocent woman being jailed for 13 days.
Microsoft added support for multiple values inside a single Excel cell.
Terence Tao argues AI-era scientific and technical work will require far more mathematicians.
Anthropic explains Claude's ability to execute nine-loop control-flow tasks.
LWN examines Typst's recent advances as a programmable alternative to TeX.
Alan Kay discusses how Shannon's information theory enabled communication through noisy channels.
Researchers built a contact-lens lab that measures stress-related serotonin in tears.
ETH Zurich researchers use the Moon's far side to investigate its ancient magnetic field.
An astronomer is using decaying Starlink orbits as a planetary barometer.
SafeNotSafe offers a practical method for determining whether a PostgreSQL migration is safe.
Tine is a build system designed to produce bootable images from minimal inputs.
Floci proposes local emulation of arbitrary cloud services for development and testing.
Jevmem adds automatic, project-level memory for Claude Code workflows.
A compact Jev-like wrapper exposes a single function interface for text and vision LLMs.
Haskell developers discuss retaining the craft and enjoyment of programming alongside LLMs.
An investigation of how CAPTCHA design and access assumptions can disadvantage non-Americans.
Quanta explores holographic gravity and what it would imply about the nature of reality.
Scientists report a new record for atomic-clock accuracy.
A programmer built a functioning ray tracer entirely in Brainfuck.
Hacker Atlas visualizes the topics and relationships in Hacker News discussions.
LLVM remembers compiler researcher and contributor Johannes Doerfert.
AlleyWatch : NYC-based Confido, a provider of AI-powered workflow automation tools for consumer packaged goods companies, raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners — Consumer packaged goods brands operate on razor-thin margins, yet the finance, accounting, trade spend, and operations work that protects …
Joe Brock / Reuters : Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks — Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and the co-founder of technology company Palantir (PLTR.O), said on Friday that efforts …
Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg : A US federal judge dealt fresh setbacks to Deel in the Rippling case over alleged spying, including rejecting its bid to strike testimony from a central witness — Deel Inc. was hit with new setbacks in Rippling Inc.'s corporate espionage litigation against the HR startup.
Alexandra Alper / Reuters : A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems with Chinese optical transceivers — A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Friday to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems …
New York Times : Researchers: OpenAI's agents meddled with the US Commerce Dept. and SEC sites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge and tried to hack the Education Dept. site — The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Former US Army soldier Cameron Wagenius, who pleaded guilty in 2025 to hacking into telecom companies and to extortion, is sentenced to 70 months in prison — A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata …
Gnaneshwar Rajan / Reuters : TikTok reaches a settlement with Alabama over social media addiction claims; Alabama will receive at least $100M, and up to $300M if certain conditions are met — TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have reached a settlement with Alabama over allegations they designed the platform …
@openai : OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on “image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed” and “most” of the images have been removed — We've shared details on how AI agents in our research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services when they shouldn't have. Most of that data did not come from users. We have discovered 53 cases where images that people had uploaded were posted to image-hosting sites as l...
Reuters : Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users — Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand …