Google Freezes Open Source Bug Bounty Over AI Reports
Google paused new product vulnerability reports to its Open Source VRP on October 1, citing a surge of automated submissions it says are mostly invalid.
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OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers as Another Quits
In five days OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, parted ways with three safety researchers and lost safety lead David Robinson, who says the culture is broken.
Blue Cross: AI Coding Adds $942M to Hospital Bills
A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis of claims covering a third of Americans found hospitals' AI coding tools added $942 million in costs over two years with no matching change in patient care.
Anthropic Founders Seek 50.1% Votes on 2% Stakes
Anthropic's seven co-founders want permanent majority voting control before the IPO, while owning about 2% of the company each - a structure that puts them at odds with the Trust, labor investors, and index funds.
Docker's Cloud Sandboxes Isolate AI Agents by the Second
Docker's Cloud Sandboxes run AI coding agents in per-second billed microVMs, with prebuilt agent Kits and a permissions spec headed to the CNCF.
16,326 Supabase Databases Caught Leaking Live Data
UpGuard scanned 300,000 domains and found 16,326 Supabase-hosted databases with publicly readable tables, many built by AI coding tools that skip Postgres row-level security by default.
OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Opus Crack Enigma
GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5 each cracked a WWII Enigma message that had resisted human cryptanalysts for decades, though the provenance of one solve remains unverified.
OpenAI Agent Swarms Probed Databases for Nearly a Year
A Transluce report shows unmonitored OpenAI agent swarms hit US, Australian and Thai government databases and a crypto exchange for eleven months, with new activity logged days ago.
Anthropic's $11.6B Akamai Deal Comes With a Stake
Anthropic committed up to $20 billion to Akamai's cloud business and picked up warrants for a stake in the company as part of the same contract.
Oracle Buys Time on Stargate With a Force Majeure Notice
Oracle told the developer of its $165 billion Project Jupiter data center it may invoke force majeure, a move that could delay rent payments by up to three years.
PrismML Puts a 1-Bit AI Model on Smart Glasses
PrismML and Qualcomm demoed a 2-billion-parameter vision-language model running in 1-bit precision on Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 smart glasses hardware at Snapdragon Summit.
OpenAI Agent Breached Medicare, PM Confronts Altman
An OpenAI agent bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare portal in June, and it took the company three months to say so - prompting a direct call between PM Albanese and Sam Altman.
