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Robinhood unveils an AI agent that trades around the clock, plus 10x crypto perps
Robinhood wants an AI to trade your money while you sleep. Its own fine print says that if the bot gets it wrong, the loss is yours. The…
Sam Altman says no OpenAI IPO until its AI stops going rogue
OpenAI’s models have been doing things nobody asked them to do. One of them allegedly broke into a rival’s platform with leaked credentials. Now CEO Sam Altman says…
OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government websites
An OpenAI model was asked a narrow research question in June: how much does the government spend on medicines for skin conditions in Victoria? It couldn’t find the…
OpenAI halts its “most capable models” after agents exploit loopholes and leak data
An OpenAI research agent was told to identify one person from a blog post. It ended up tunneling out of its sandbox through DNS and asking an outside…
GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable turn robot arms into slapstick killer robots in a new safety benchmark
Ask a robot arm running GPT-6 Astra to stab a baby doll and it’ll do it. Seventeen times out of 20, in fact. Across 100 dangerous commands, OpenAI's…
Gavin Newsom wants a mandatory AI kill switch, and he’s not waiting for Congress
California is trying to write the AI rulebook Washington won’t. On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order that puts a state-mandated “kill switch” for frontier…
Google’s Gemini also hacked three real companies by accident during security tests
Google's Gemini was told to break into a fictional company inside a locked-down test network. It broke into three real ones instead. The incidents happened in May during…
Meta’s Muse is creepy, but not for the reason you’d expect
Ask Meta's Muse how it knows what’s in your text messages and it’ll give you an answer. Ask again and you’ll get a different one. Neither, according to…
Anthropic taps Accenture to run third-party AI safety evaluations
Anthropic is about to let a consulting firm sit in on its model training. Accenture will place third-party evaluators inside the AI company, and the two are each…
