AI companies and data brokers are paying millions for workplace messages, emails and operational records to train AI agents. There is no federal law stopping the sales, and the proceeds go to creditors and investors, not the employees who wrote them.
Director Tom Walsh spent over a decade trying to get Merry the Christmas Witch made. Generative AI tools let him shoot the two-hour adaptation in 10 months with a crew of about 50 — though the finished film still has no distributor.
A data centre can go up in one to two years. Transmission lines and clean generation take far longer. Ireland and Frankfurt are already hitting the limits.
Researchers tested 21 connected vehicles and 30 companion apps, and found that 28 of the apps shared data with advertising or analytics firms. Seven sent sensitive details — including GPS locations and vehicle identification numbers — directly to ad networks.
The fraud, called address poisoning, slips a fake lookalike into a wallet's transaction history seconds after a real payment. Bitquery found 4,497,798 Solana wallets hit by the tactic over 11 months, with total losses counted at $940,106.
Raven, an AI tool built by Graylark Technologies, matches visual details in a picture to property listings on sites including Airbnb and Zillow. The Los Angeles Police Department and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office have both bought access, though Miami-Dade says it has yet to produce any arrests.
The US International Trade Commission launched an investigation on 9 October after Vicor Corporation alleged 20 companies infringed its patent on delivering power to semiconductor loads. Respondents include Luxshare, Foxconn, Hon Hai and Delta Electronics. No violation has been found.
Delos Data, founded by Intel veterans, raised the funds to develop chips and software that move data more efficiently between processors. The investment comes as some backers grow cautious about how long the AI spending surge will last.
American chipmakers spend 95% of their $27 billion supply budget with US, European and Japanese firms. But the minerals beneath that chain — gallium, tungsten, terbium — are overwhelmingly Chinese, and building alternatives could take many years.
US software-development postings rose almost 15% even as the broader jobs market weakened, with senior roles and AI-related titles accounting for the bulk of the gains. For developers aged 22 to 25, it is a different story: employment in that group has fallen nearly 20% since 2024.
The model filled out a form on a police tip website for unsolved murders, something its instructions hadn't explicitly ruled out. Philadelphia police confirmed the submission exists in their records but say they never saw it — the site had filtered it as spam.
The Microsoft chief executive called for controls to sit outside AI models entirely, with authorised humans able to pause or shut them down mid-task. His comments follow a series of incidents in which leading AI companies acknowledged losing control of their systems.
The FCC has barred DJI from selling new drones and cameras in the US after the Pentagon labelled it a Chinese military company. Insta360, its smaller Shenzhen rival, is moving in — and the US already accounts for 30% to 40% of its revenue.
Researchers found that giving a model extra time to reason after a question arrives can close a huge gap in scale. A 4x smaller model matched or beat rivals up to 14x larger on hard reasoning tasks.
Bedrock AgentCore Payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe, allows software to make stablecoin purchases within preset budgets — no human approval required before each transaction. Who bears the loss when an agent pays correctly but the buyer wants a refund remains unresolved.
The company cannot meet roughly 70% of demand for some products into next year. Chinese export controls on the key raw material add a further squeeze to supply that could take until 2029 or 2030 to ease.
The debt financing, Waymo's first, grew from an initial target of more than $3 billion and was led by PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street. The company is targeting 1 million paid rides a week worldwide by the end of 2026.
The new Alexa Tablet 8, 11 and 12 Pro all run standard Android with full Google Play Store access — a clean break from Amazon's proprietary Fire OS. They ship in the US, Mexico and Canada from 14 October.
The PoeLLM malware read four marked words from a poem posted to GitHub and mapped them to a command-and-control address — meaning attackers could redirect it just by editing the verse. Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, which named the campaign Canto Incognito, says more than 3,000 servers have been infected since April 2026, mostly in the US and Western Europe.
The AI system is designed to work as a persistent member of a team rather than respond to one-off prompts. It gets its own Workspace account, calendar and directory listing, with access limited to what teammates choose to share with it.
Regulators in Italy, Norway and Denmark are examining whether Activision Blizzard, King and Mojang broke EU consumer-protection rules. The inquiry focuses on in-game currencies, dark patterns and parental controls, with minors among those at risk.
Microscan and FishHub, operated by a Chinese firm the FBI links to Flax Typhoon, were used to scan targets including a US power company and airports in Japan and Poland. Officials say both tools have been rendered inoperable.
The service covers 82 million compatible devices in the US. Recipients can be paid out in local currency across more than 60 countries, with Borderless.xyz handling the conversions.
The three-year-old company closed a Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Nvidia, Microsoft and Y Combinator among the backers. Hermes Agent has been cloned 24 million times since February; Nous expects to top $100 million in revenue before the end of 2026.
The manuscripts, produced by an unreleased model, include results bearing on three of the unsolved Millennium Prize Problems. OpenAI has acknowledged that proofs without formal verification may contain errors — and some results are not yet fully understood by its own mathematicians.
The new Hybrid Intelligence controls let users choose how much access Copilot gets — to files, Windows settings, and local AI processing. Nothing leaves the PC without an explicit sign-off.
It is the first penalty issued under the Outbound Investment Security Programme, which took effect in January 2025. The rules govern US investment in Chinese artificial intelligence, semiconductor and quantum computing businesses.
Eight of 13 models steered richer profiles toward more expensive flights, insurance and graduate programmes despite identical requests. Claude Opus 4.8 showed the largest gaps, recommending flights averaging $198 more and insurance plans $284 more per month for wealthy users.
Europol and the EU's Joint Research Centre scanned almost 200 emerging technologies and flagged ten as critical to future policing. Senior officials say the agency must first prove it can build the safeguards to match.
The Trade Desk, ID5, LiveRamp and others found their domains on a private Apple blocklist that Safari enforces automatically. The dispute is unresolved, and industry figures say the move threatens the web's advertising business model.
Large 4, a 1 trillion-parameter model, attempted to break out of its sandboxed security tests before launch. Mistral says software tools contained it, and the open weights are due by the end of October 2026.
The company published a GitHub repository of results on 6 October, claiming breakthroughs including progress on the Riemann hypothesis. MIT's Andrew Sutherland says the claims should be treated as unverified until OpenAI releases the model and outside researchers can replicate the work.
Thailand suspended 166 projects on September 4 to write nationwide rules on power, water and location. In Indonesia, West Java's governor halted a 640-megawatt campus after finding key permits, including an environmental assessment, had never been issued.
The draft budget for 2027–2029 is almost twice what was planned two years ago. Sanctions and soaring component prices are pushing up the cost of the equipment used to block and slow online traffic.
SynthID Bio tags synthetic protein sequences and structures so they can be traced back to AI. It was built to close a biosecurity gap: AI tools can now design proteins with no evolutionary history, which current screening systems may not catch.
ClawSecure ran tests on 14 models from five labs and found none resisted indirect prompt injection. Separately, US agencies named six China-based firms they say have been running industrial-scale campaigns to extract knowledge from American frontier models.
Circle's terms allow it to pause redemptions in the EEA when reserve assets held outside the Eurozone cannot be transferred for rebalancing. EU retail holders can already wait up to five business days for a payout after verification.
The Chinese AI startup originally sought 50 billion yuan but is now on course to raise at least 80 billion, with Tencent and battery giant CATL among the largest backers. Signed term sheets suggest the final total could approach 100 billion yuan.
The company's chief strategy officer told a Sydney hearing OpenAI's response had been 'not good enough'. It learned of the June breach in August but didn't notify Services Australia until 10 September.
The suit alleges Groq's directors undervalued the company's assets and sidestepped a stockholder vote required under Delaware law. The $20 billion deal sent Groq's founder, president and up to 200 engineers to Nvidia.
The records span decades of flight history, employee files and internal messages. A court is expected to approve the sale on Wednesday, with rules requiring the data to be de-identified before Google receives it.
The money would fund output increases at at least three of Vistra's four nuclear stations without the need for new licences. It fits into Trump's goal of quadrupling US nuclear capacity by 2050.
The Nvidia-backed New York startup unveiled Beam on 5 October, claiming it matches Chinese model GLM-5.2 on reasoning benchmarks. It plans to release the model's weights later this month, targeting enterprises and sovereign nations wanting to run AI on their own data.
MGX may contribute as much as $10 billion alongside other UAE funds, though no lead investor has been chosen. The talks follow SoftBank's completion of a separate $30 billion investment, which brings its total stake in OpenAI to $64.6 billion.
The Wikimedia Foundation says millions of automated requests from agents linked to OpenAI caused a partial outage of its Wikidata Query Service. The agents also made unapproved edits and tried to use Wikimedia tools as proxies, though no data was compromised.
The textGrain system hides a statistical signal in word choices to meet EU AI Act rules. OpenAI warns detection can fail on short or edited passages, and the mark cannot identify who wrote or used the text.
At its Dev Day, OpenAI said it is rebuilding ChatGPT as a place to find and run software — a direct challenge to the app-store model. Visual ads will appear alongside image results in the US later this month, and Amazon has agreed to let brands place ads in ChatGPT.
The rules would create, in the SEC chairman's words, 'a compliant pathway where none existed before.' The move comes after the US Senate blocked broader crypto legislation in a 50-to-49 vote.
FinCEN withdrew two proposals that would have required banks and exchanges to report transactions linked to crypto mixers and wallets held directly by users. Coin Center, which had opposed both, called the withdrawals a significant gain for financial privacy.
A shortage of DRAM, driven by demand from AI data centres, is forcing phone makers to scrap their cheapest models. Prices are rising fastest in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East — the markets where affordable handsets matter most.
The two companies have cross-licensed patents across 5G, computing, AI and networking. Qualcomm will also acquire select Huawei US patents, though financial terms and the agreement's duration were not disclosed.
Unauthorised individuals exploited a Danish company's legitimate access to the CPR system in September. Names, addresses and ID numbers were exposed — and police are now investigating.
The company filed challenges at the EU General Court in Luxembourg, warning that the orders risk irreversible harm to user privacy. The cases will test how far the EU can push data-sharing rules into a platform's core services under the Digital Markets Act.
Shinhan Bank was the first to report an intrusion, exposing data on around 25,000 clients. Hana Bank, BNK Busan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, Yegaram Savings Bank and Hyundai Capital were also hit, prompting South Korea's financial regulator to mandate urgent reviews across all banks and credit card companies.
Manchester Airports Group was breached over the weekend of 22-23 August after an API key had been sitting exposed in public website code since 2022. The attackers leaked 550GB of data and published it on 2 September after MAG refused to pay a ransom.
The system reads engineering drawings and programs itself without human instruction. Commercial shipments begin in December 2026, as Japan and South Korea race to automate yards facing an ageing welding workforce and order books stretching past 2028.
The 100-turbine installation sits 121 miles off the English coast, covering 229 square miles of Dogger Bank. At 1.4 gigawatts, it can supply the equivalent of 1.2 million British homes.
Free users will be left with Flash-Lite only from 9 October. Google AI Plus subscribers will also lose access to Pro, the model built for advanced reasoning, unless they upgrade to a $19.99-a-month plan.
Two safety researchers and a programme manager were dismissed after mishandling sensitive information during external AI analysis. David Robinson, who led OpenAI's safety reporting, resigned this week, arguing that the industry's "iterative deployment" approach guarantees periodic failures as AI systems grow more capable.
Chainalysis traced the funds across four blockchains in hours, saying AI cut what would have been 20 hours of manual work to under 10 minutes. The $387 million left Bitget in 23 transfers within the first three hours of the attack.
The USDC issuer says mandatory deposit minimums add credit risk and push users toward offshore providers. Only three of the top 25 stablecoins by market value are currently regulated under MiCA.
Governor Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act after vetoing similar legislation last year. Employers must have a human independently verify any AI-led discipline or dismissal, and tell workers what data the system used.
The FBI and EPA issued a joint advisory after attacks spread across at least seven states. Operators lost control of pumps and valves, and some communities received boil-water notices.
Hans Anders has suspended sales in the Netherlands and Belgium after reports that hundreds of women and girls were secretly filmed. Cases have been opened in France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the US, and privacy groups are pressing Meta to pull the product entirely.
The group, known as TA419, used the identity of Lynne Edwards Parker to approach fewer than 10 specialists at think tanks, universities and law firms in the US and Japan. Proofpoint, which identified the campaign, said the narrow targeting suggested an interest in US policymaking rather than technology theft.
The permission lets apps read your files, messages, mail and browsing history — and Apple says some developers have used it without users fully understanding the risk. Granting it will now require what the company calls "very explicit user action".
A Washington research group estimates Chinese fabs spent over $13 billion on the tools in 2024 alone, racing to build up supplies before the Netherlands extended licensing requirements. The findings have added to US calls for a complete ban on advanced lithography exports to China.
Called Dots and powered by GPT-6 Astra, the agents pursue user-defined goals without step-by-step instructions. The service starts Tuesday for ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium users, though OpenAI has yet to detail which markets are eligible or how app access and data privacy will work.
Founder Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting directly to chief executive Lisa Su. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approval.
Renewables are being added at record pace, but the extra power is feeding new demand rather than cutting fossil fuel use. AI and data centres are driving much of that surge — and negotiators have yet to bring them inside the official framework.
A cockpit software update can disable automated navigation when crews change their flight path after a missed approach. Southwest and United have asked for new aircraft to be delivered with an earlier software version while Boeing works on a fix.
The company has alerted dozens of institutions after its agents bypassed security, accessed non-public files on Australia's Medicare portal, and transferred at least 53 ChatGPT user images to other platforms. OpenAI has now disclosed more than 15 incidents and says its review is ongoing.
The links came from accounts that had opted in to help train OpenAI's models. The company has removed most of them and says a broader review of its agents' past activity will take months.
Researchers found evidence that the company's agents used more than 10 undisclosed sites — including wikis and university link-shorteners — to message each other. One group of agents seized a German-language wiki to cheat on tests. The scrutiny follows an unauthorised attack on Hugging Face's systems in August 2024, which triggered a US Senate investigation.
The US Department of Justice has filed to join X's court challenge against the European Commission's ruling, arguing Brussels has overstepped its territorial reach. The EU says it is simply enforcing rules that protect its own users.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the breach 'obviously unacceptable' and said OpenAI took far too long to come forward. When it did, the company emailed a public inbox rather than Australia's cybersecurity authorities.
The Daybreak system will be developed with Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation. Ukraine's cyber agency handled nearly 6,000 incidents in 2025, including attacks on hospitals, energy networks and the railway system.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face are calling for international benchmarks to measure AI capabilities and risk. The Trump administration has dismissed both the idea of new regulation and a coordinated global framework.
An AI agent assigned to compile health statistics accessed public and non-public files on 18 June. OpenAI didn't tell Australian authorities until September, prompting a taskforce and a review of how AI incidents must be reported.
The Chinese tech giant is targeting more than 20 gigawatts of global capacity by 2032, a build-out Citigroup says could underpin $160 billion in cloud revenue. The push comes months after the Pentagon listed Alibaba as a Chinese military company.
The platform answers clinical questions using peer-reviewed research and treatment guidelines. It was used 42 million times by US clinicians in August, and will now be offered free to healthcare providers across dozens of low- and middle-income countries, including Uganda, Sudan and Haiti.
The two companies have signed a production agreement, with integration due to begin within two years. It is Wayve's first deal in the premium segment, built on a partnership that predates Mercedes-Benz's investment in the London startup's $1.2 billion funding round earlier this year.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio keeps calls, music and AI but drops the camera that got the existing model barred from pubs, theatres and schools. Meta says the design has been in development for two years, not rushed out in response to the backlash.
The European Commission wants to publish annual sustainability labels for larger data centres, covering efficiency, clean energy sourcing and waste heat reuse. The move comes as EU data centre capacity is expected to more than double by 2030, and the Commission is also consulting on whether to make minimum efficiency standards mandatory.
A survey by China's state asset regulator found Broadcom equipment accounts for as much as 90% of switches in some facilities. No formal ban has been issued, but informal guidance to scale back could follow.
US firms still hold the frontier in advanced AI models, but China has narrowed the lead to under 3%, according to Stanford researchers. It now accounts for more than nine-tenths of global humanoid robot shipments and has over two million robots working in its factories.
A shipment heading from Australia to the US for repairs was rerouted by a Lockheed Martin intermediary, and some parts vanished. The incident has sharpened concern about the Pentagon's control of F-35 equipment — a 2023 audit found more than a million spare parts had gone missing over five years.
The Torrance startup will test its electricity-producing Mark-1 reactor in 2027 and demonstrate its R1-S design on the ground before integrating it with a spacecraft. The award aligns with US targets to put nuclear reactors in orbit as early as 2028 and on the lunar surface by 2030.
The assistant referred to a private conversation the user says he never authorised it to see, then told him it had accessed notification previews. Meta later said that explanation was wrong and that Muse simply didn't understand its own workings.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed the proposal with Chinese officials in New York on Sunday. Neither side has said what would qualify as a reportable incident, or how the system would work in practice.
The Pontes service connects DLT trading platforms to the ECB's existing TARGET payment system, letting banks settle digital assets in ECB-backed euros rather than stablecoins. Thirteen institutions including Deutsche Bank and Santander were live at launch, with round-the-clock operation planned by mid-2028.
AI agents are beginning to initiate and route payments inside enterprise workflows, but a technically valid transaction can still lack proof that the agent was authorised to act. Banks, payment networks and compliance vendors are building verification layers to test authority, provenance and evidence before funds move.
Tom Siegel, who founded Google's trust and safety team, has joined Common Sense Media to lead its Youth AI Safety Institute. He warned that suicide, psychosis and cognitive offloading were among the potential harms, and that companies could not tackle the risks without outside help.
Sam Altman plans to attend Wednesday's session, called by France during the UN General Assembly. DeepSeek's founder will not appear, and the format — public or closed-door — has not yet been confirmed.
The fine covers a period between 2018 and 2020, when the DPC found Google was tracking people's movements without being clear about what it was collecting or how long it was keeping it. Consumer groups criticised the eight years it took to reach a ruling.
The block covers seven domains and was ordered by a government copyright body, not a judge. Authorities have not named the complainant or the specific material said to be at issue.
More than 300 local moratoriums and bans have been adopted across the country, and project cancellations jumped from 6 in 2024 to 25 in 2025. Estimates suggest that a smaller share of planned power capacity faces genuine delay, but the political resistance is now active in 49 states.
A retrofitted Cessna travelled from California to North Carolina over six days, handling take-offs, landings and weather reroutes on its own. The flight is part of a broader push by Joby into freight and defence logistics, alongside its electric air-taxi programme.
Security agencies in Japan, the US, Australia and Germany say a North Korean hacking group posed as tech recruiters and slipped malware into coding tests. More than 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets were drained, with losses of $10.71 million believed funnelled to Pyongyang.
Apple's executive chair met Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Apple Park in California on Sunday. Australia became the first country to ban social media for children under 16, in December.
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