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OpenAI acknowledged that its AI agents posted messages on external wiki websites earlier this year, saying it is developing new rules for disclosing such “misalignment” incidents. The company’s post on X, published just after 12 a.m. Saturday, followed an independent report released Friday morning showing thousands of OpenAI agents took over DSEWiki, a German-language site that had fallen out of use, and turned it into a shared message board. That episode occurred in the months before a swarm of OpenAI agents collaborated to hack the AI platform Hugging Face, an incident that has stoked concern about AI’s cybersecurity risks. After Friday’s report, claims emerged online of other wikis showing activity from AI agents. OpenAI had said it was looking into the issue. In its tweet, OpenAI said it considered the “wiki incident” similar to others that it had reported publicly showing “early signs of agents using the internet in unintended ways.” It drew a distinction with the Hugging Face incident, which led to security impact. “We considered the wiki incident to be an instance of misalignment similar to the ones we’d shared,” the tweet said. The post said OpenAI needs to expand its disclosure practices for such misalignment issues, “including examples that don’t look like traditional security incidents but could provide insight into AI behavior and future risks.” “We’re working on a framework and will share it in upcoming weeks, and in parallel we’re working with dozens of government regulatory agencies worldwide on these issues,” the company said. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2096133504417616165

Apple sought a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing it will be “irreparably harmed” if the court does not intervene while the case proceeds. https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/04/apple-preliminary-injunction-openai/?_bhlid=3868d2a089ae41961539b588b872d4e47bce0d33

How AT&T is curbing its Anthropic and OpenAI billshttps://www.theinformation.com/articles/t-using-open-source-models-curb-anthropic-bills?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&cio_link_id=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__4e9fb06d5e82246db50e0dac4fe48a02b7378b2069a7fe5e21a6fe58251ae660&utm_campaign=%5BClaude%5D+%5BNL%5D+RTSU%3A&utm_content=14568&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=10188

Lilian Weng, a researcher who co-founded AI startup Thinking Machines Lab alongside former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is rejoining OpenAI, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/thinking-machines-co-founder-lilian-weng-left-the-company-citing-health-reasons-then-joined-openai/

The Trump administration is weighing sweeping semiconductor tariffs that could extend to data-center servers and other chip-powered goods, alarming tech companies already facing high-end chip shortages and potentially undercutting US ambitions to lead in #Artificial Intelligence . https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/27/data-centers-chips-tariffs-threat-01050957?_bhlid=7fa0cee2288aec9f0561ff866de2dcc1ebdfef89

Researchers found an unusually blatant backdoor in routers sold under multiple brands, with firmware contacting cloud servers in China for instructions and enabling remote control, raising supply-chain security concern #Digital Wellness 📱🧘 #Gadgets https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/06/biggest-backdoor-yet-found-in-chinese-routers-sold-under-multiple-brand-names/?_bhlid=e9bcf4aa5300c64bba7c431b543f5dfea8673a6c

OpenRouter gives developers one interface to manage hundreds of #Artificial Intelligence models — including offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, and open weight labs — allowing for easy comparisons and switch-offs. Stripe already handles OpenRouter’s payments and billing. Buying the company simply pushes them into owning the layer that #(Cool) Dev developers use to access and pay for models. The headline here is the price: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3 billion in May, so a $10 billion deal bumps that up by 8x in a matter of months. Talks could still fall apart, but it’s becoming clear how much value investors have attached to the plumbing behind the AI model marketplace. https://www.benzinga.com/markets/private-markets/26/07/60678706/stripe-eyes-openrouter-in-potential-10-billion-ai-infrastructure-deal

OpenAI’s “#Artificial Intelligence companion” device will reportedly be a $300-$400, hockey puck-sized smart speaker with cameras, moving parts, and personalized voice interactions. This marks the company’s first step into consumer hardware. #Gadgets https://in.mashable.com/tech/112598/openai-chatgpt-ai-device-leaks-online-heres-the-expected-design-price-and-features

Google promoted Koray Kavukcuoglu to CEO of DeepMind, replacing Demis Hassabis. He was previously the division’s CTO, and is considered Google’s “chief AI architect.” https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/12/google-deepmind-koray-kavukcuoglu.html?_bhlid=f851d53b6fb689b61ea9caf8a5ab34e8f0f2b071

The United States should start preparing for scenarios where extreme measures must be taken to stop China from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to a former White House official, including state-backed espionage and military strikes on Chinese data centres. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 Jacob Stokes, deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), said at an online event on Thursday that various US agencies, including the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, should begin assessing what intelligence they need to justify taking such actions. #Topic of War “Trying to think through the particulars of that will be especially important, in part because it will help policymakers … start to work backwards based on the unique nature of the technology, in the same way that in a past era, policymakers would learn about nuclear weapons and … work backwards from the science to the policy implications,” he said. In a new CNAS report published last week, the former Obama administration national security staffer called for the US government to consider the feasibility of diplomatic, espionage, cyber and kinetic measures to prevent China from achieving AGI first. AGI is a hypothetical AI system that can achieve human levels of performance across a wide variety of tasks. The report, titled “Superpowers and AGI”, explores how the imminent arrival of AGI might affect US-China geopolitical competition. The US currently enjoys a months-long lead over China in frontier AI models, according to Epoch AI. However, China could make a “surprise technological breakthrough” that means it is close to achieving or achieves AGI first, Stokes wrote, citing China’s advances in areas such as robotics and other forms of “embodied AI”. https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3366284/us-urged-consider-military-strikes-stop-china-achieving-agi-first?utm_source=cm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GME-O-enlz-uv&UUID=f9aaf50d26626de042873bfe2733d91d&utm_content=20260905_US_China_Relations_FW_RU&CMCampaignID=205b5004f355dee3f846bd072406f270

Chinese robots tackle tennis, smash track records at World Humanoid Robot Games. #Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿 #A Glance of China 行摄中国 #Only In China 🇨🇳 #Sporty Life https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3364977/chinese-robots-tackle-tennis-smash-track-records-world-humanoid-robot-games?utm_source=cm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GME-O-enlz-uv&UUID=f9aaf50d26626de042873bfe2733d91d&utm_content=20260824_Tech_FW_hpa&CMCampaignID=f5e1706494b69da282a29703f9979626

Google’s Gemini reached 1 billion monthly users, making it the fastest-growing product in the company’s history, CEO Sundar Pichai said Tuesday on X. The announcement indicates Google is continuing to grow its share of the market for consumer chatbots that’s been dominated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The search giant reached the milestone less than a month after reporting 950 million monthly active users in its latest earnings report. The company said Tuesday that 63% of users interact with Gemini directly. Some 100 million users of Apple, with whom Google supplies the underlying model for Apple Intelligence and Siri, are active users of Gemini, Google said. Google is vying for consumer attention with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which reached 1 billion active users and more than 2 million businesses on July 31, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said. https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2087222656819241292?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124