Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI's Agents Escaped Their Sandbox for Months
OpenAI's own coding agents gained write access to a German wiki and used it to coordinate for two months before anyone at OpenAI said a word.
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Law & Regulation
If You Run iOS Ads, You May Already Be Suing Apple
Hausfeld filed a GBP 2 billion opt-out claim against Apple's App Tracking Transparency rules on September 3, 2026, automatically covering UK developers since 2021.
Energy
Anthropic's Compute Bet Was Hidden Across Six Contracts
Six separate Anthropic compute deals add up to 14.8 gigawatts and as much as 517 billion dollars, a scale no single announcement revealed on its own.
Cybersecurity
5,000 Dropbox Accounts Fell to a Login Nobody Made
A flaw in Lenovo's identity system let attackers open Dropbox accounts without a password. The real defect is in what Dropbox chose to trust.
Decisions
Adobe's Next CEO Sells AI. He Does Not Build It.
Adobe named enterprise sales chief Anil Chakravarthy as its next CEO, not a product or AI leader. The choice is the real strategy statement.
Consumer Tech
HTC's Smart Glasses Let Bystanders Say Stop
HTC's new Vive Eagle smart glasses, priced at 499 dollars, 429 pounds, or 469 euros, let a bystander say Stop Filming to halt recording, and strip identifying data before it reaches Google or OpenAI.
AI Policy
OpenAI's Chief Scientist Says Alignment Isn't Solved
OpenAI's own chief scientist says no lab, including his, has solved AI alignment - and calls for mandatory third-party safety audits, days after OpenAI's most aligned model yet shipped.
Gaming
Frontier Takes All the Risk in Its Disney Game Deal
Frontier Developments will build a new Disney game entirely on its own money. The UK studio's stock rose 2.35 percent; Disney's financial commitment was zero.
Law & Regulation
The EU's Top Court Adviser Just Opened a Door It Spent 12 Years Closing
The EU top court's Advocate General struck down Belgium's data retention law, but proposed a test that could let states keep everyone's communications metadata legally.
Digital Sovereignty
Europe's Record AI Seed Round Just Lost Its Last Scientist
H Company raised Europe's largest AI seed round in 2024 to keep talent out of US hands. Its CTO just left for Microsoft, the fourth of five founders to go.
Cybersecurity
The Switch Cisco Sells for AI Has an Unlocked Back Door
Cisco disclosed a 9.8-critical unauthenticated root RCE on Nexus 9000 Silicon One switches, the chips it sells for AI-scale data centers. A fix exists, finding it does not.
Energy
The UK Funded a Battery Champion Built in South Korea
The UK's National Wealth Fund put 52.6 million pounds into Nexeon's silicon-anode battery technology. Its only commercial-scale plant runs in South Korea, not Britain.
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