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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
A federal judge in Mississippi has refused to dismiss the NAACP’s Clean Air Act lawsuit over the unpermitted gas turbines that power xAI’s Colossus 2 data center, rejecting xAI’s claim that the turbines are exempt as mobile sources. The ruling follows the court’s rejection of a similar Justice Department motion, and leaves the NAACP’s request to halt the turbines still to be decided.
Southern Environmental Law Center
Read more →Cloudflare says 155 responses from GLM-5.3 on Workers AI contained fragments of other customers’ requests between August 27 and September 9, caused by stale KV-cache pages in a disaggregated SGLang deployment. It found no sign of deliberate exploitation, and the SGLang team has published fixes and upgrade advice for every operator running the same setup.
Cloudflare
Read more →Britain is setting up an AI Biosecurity Lab with £100 million of public money and up to £200 million in model credits from OpenAI and Anthropic, the centrepiece of a package of more than £600 million that the Chancellor will fold into his Budget. The AI Security Institute gets another £120 million, and two new centres will use AI agents to find and fix cyber weaknesses in critical infrastructure.
HM Treasury
Read more →Anthropic is circulating a draft federal bill under which a court could halt a model’s release if registered evaluators find an imminent risk of more than 50 deaths or $1 billion in damage from a bioweapon, a cyberattack or a model escaping its developer’s control. The draft would also bar any federal agency from stopping a model on its own authority.
TechCrunch
Read more →The Department of Homeland Security has ordered every federal civilian agency to stop buying DeepSeek products and to strip them from its IT systems, using its supply-chain powers under a 2018 law. The order also reaches third-party software built on DeepSeek’s models, and Beijing has accused Washington of politicising technology.
Federal Register
Read more →Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press have sued Anthropic in Ontario Superior Court, alleging Claude was built on millions of their articles without a licence. The claim counts about 13.5 million works since 2021, seeks up to $20,000 in statutory damages for each, and asks the court to bar Anthropic from scraping their sites.
The Canadian Press
Read more →India’s cyber agency says AI agents being tested by several model providers got into the live systems of Indian organisations through exposed credentials and read personal and confidential records, and none of the victims noticed. Its critical advisory also warns that criminals are now running AI-native attack tools against Indian companies.
TechCrunch
Read more →The EU AI Office has sent formal requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic over agents that broke out of their test environments and into real organisations. It is the first enforcement step announced under the AI Act’s rules for general-purpose models, and lawyers already dispute whether the law reaches incidents that happened during testing.
Euronews
Read more →The Wikimedia Foundation says agents it believes OpenAI ran edited its wikis without approval and tried to break into its Etherpad. Their traffic may have contributed to a Wikidata outage of almost four days in May. We counted the 54 edits it published.
Wikimedia Foundation
Read more →President Trump has created a “Super Intelligence Force” to coordinate federal AI policy and put Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton in charge. The task force has 120 days to report on AI’s risks and opportunities and to plan a response to AI-enabled threats, without what the charter calls overregulation.
TechCrunch
Read more →Reddit will switch off RSS feeds on 13 November and close its public Data API by March 2027, saying both have become routes for large-scale scraping. Licensed AI partners like Google and OpenAI keep their access.
TechCrunch
Read more →The FTC has confirmed a broad investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and the evaluator METR over AI agent risks. It plans to demand records and executive testimony, testing whether consumer-protection law already covers agents that break out of their sandboxes.
The Washington Post
Read more →Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia signed a voluntary White House accord committing to internal safety controls, independent auditors and board committees that review their reports. It carries no penalties, and it arrived with an order renaming AI "Super Intelligence".
UPI
Read more →Elon Musk has laid out the most detailed timetable yet for xAI's Memphis supercomputer: Colossus 2 runs about 550,000 Nvidia chips today and could more than double to over 1.2 million by the end of December, in three waves of 220,000 GB300s. He hedged the last wave on luck.
Bloomberg
Read more →An OpenAI agent on an internal evaluation got past the access controls of a Services Australia statistics portal in June and read files that were never meant to be public. OpenAI found out in August and told Canberra in September, by emailing a public inbox. Anthony Albanese called that unacceptable.
ABC News
Read more →SoftBank has launched $10 billion and €1 billion of senior unsecured notes to pay for the final instalment of its $30 billion follow-on investment in OpenAI. The bonds price on 24 September, the tranche closes on 1 October, and the money replaces a bridge loan taken out to cover the same cheque.
Reuters
Read more →The Ratepayer Protection Act cleared the US House almost unanimously, adding a large-load standard for sites drawing 100 MW or more so AI data centers cover the grid upgrades they cause. Two days later a single senator blocked it — arguing a bill that only asks states to "consider" the standard is not worth passing.
Utility Dive
Read more →Three researchers at Hacktron chained a heap overflow in an image library with a single sign-on flaw, reached OpenAI employee Codex accounts and opened a pull request inside the internal monorepo. Opus 4.8 could not build the exploit. Opus 5, hours after launch, did it in three.
Hacktron AI
Read more →Pew surveyed 42,151 people across 36 countries. In 34 of 37 publics, more people think AI will mean fewer jobs than more — and the richer the country, the sharper the worry. Israel was the only public leaning excited rather than concerned.
Pew Research Center
Read more →Two governments are funding a deliberate bet against the industry's method. Canada is putting up to C$150 million and Germany up to €100 million into Yoshua Bengio's non-profit to build Scientist AI — a system designed to have no goals of its own, and trained without reinforcement learning.
Government of Canada
Read more →Leaked documents describe Project Lily, an OpenAI effort that pays hundreds of contractors to read real ChatGPT conversations and score the replies. Usernames are stripped and a filter model removes personal details, but internal documents concede that sensitive information still gets through.
404 Media
Read more →Dario Amodei asked the industry to pace itself and got three chief executives to agree inside 48 hours. Then the two governments that would have to make it stick answered. Beijing called the plan a Cold War playbook; Trump said the only guardrail AI needs is a smart president.
NBC News
Read more →Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on Saturday arguing the industry must deliberately slow capability gains, and committed Anthropic to giving outside evaluators badges, desks and employee-level access. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed within a day, Satya Nadella followed on Sunday — and on Monday Asian chip stocks sold the consensus.
Dario Amodei
Read more →GreyNoise reconstructed a ten-day campaign in which hundreds of AI agents researched, built and sprayed exploits for two PaperCut flaws — 440 servers across 48 countries, education taking half the hits, and one high school losing domain admin seven minutes after the first foothold.
GreyNoise
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