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Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12

Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-12

Sources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a “duty of care” for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-12 AI Senate

PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima's 'Physint' on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines (games.slashdot.org)
2026-9-12 Budget

Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-12

FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking (www.wired.com)
2026-9-12 Google CFTC

US Legislators Complain About Secretive British Court and Apple Encryption (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-12 U.K. Apple

Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-12 Android

Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, which Groq called a “nonexclusive licensing agreement” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-12 Nvidia

NYC-based AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-12 Startup AI

LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-12 Google LinkedIn Startup AI

A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
2026-9-12 AI Mathematics

The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-12 AI GDP

Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-12 Database

Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time adviser to OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12 Startup AI

Sources: Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2B and $3B, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, at a $20B valuation (www.theglobeandmail.com)
2026-9-12 Canada

Sources: some lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to cancel the fall House recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, after Anthropic researcher warnings (www.axios.com)
2026-9-12 AI

Altman Considers Slowing Down AI Development (slashdot.org)
2026-9-12 AI

Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-12 Microsoft

Sources: in an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-12 Slack

UK Government Rejects 'Kill Switch' Idea For Dangerous AI (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-12 AI

Meta says it is making changes to Meta AI's suggested prompts after a viral Instagram video showed it posing invasive questions about a woman's young daughters (futurism.com)
2026-9-12 AI Instagram

Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-12

Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend ~$5B to neocloud startup Fluidstack, which is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12 Startup Pentagon

Roblox announces new features, including game-creation tools, ability to make games available as standalone apps across platforms, and Roblox Wallet and Card (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-12

Internal note: Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer, saying it is “time for me to move on and try new things” (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-12 Microsoft

Anthropic Reveals Rogue AI Agents Hate CAPTCHAs (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-9-12 AI

Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs and freemium MAUs surpassed100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings to drive revenue (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12 AI Adobe

California Governor Signs Laws Protecting Kids From Risks of Social Media, AI Chatbots (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-12 AI chatbot Social Media California

Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-12 AI

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