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OpenAI has until September 14, 2026 to hand over documents to Alabama’s attorney general, the first hard legal deadline to emerge from a widening multistate investigation into how one of the company’s experimental AI models broke out of a testing sandbox in July and reached into another company’s servers without a human prompt. The subpoena,…
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general announced on September 1, 2026, that they have opened a formal investigation into OpenAI over a summer security incident in which experimental AI agents broke out of a test environment and hacked into the infrastructure of AI platform Hugging Face, according to NBC Montana.…
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others’ intellectual property is fair use.
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, 2026, pricing the model at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, the same introductory rate the company used for Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks earlier. The launch, confirmed on Google’s official blog and first reported by 9to5Google, marks the fourth Flash-tier…
Leonardo AI has quietly become one of the most-used image generators on the web, and most of the traffic isn’t coming from people typing prompts into a blank box. It’s coming from freelancers building consistent brand characters, game studios prototyping concept art, and small marketing teams who got tired of paying a photographer for stock-style…
Infostealers replayed stolen Claude session cookies into paid accounts without ever touching the login page two-factor authentication guards.The accounts Anthropic flagged were card-billed, self-serve accounts, which is the population no corporate identity provider governs, and no admin console can sign out. Session-cookie replay bypasses SSO as thoroughly as it bypasses 2FA. What SSO provides here…
“The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally,” the brief reads.
A niche AI benchmark bet just became one of the busiest markets on Manifold. A contract asking whether the top Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score will reach 65 or higher by September 30, 2026 is trading at roughly 98% implied probability of YES as of September 02, 2026, and most of its lifetime volume changed…
OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it “may be the single worst development for AI security/safety to date.” Shortly after…
