Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children
Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children

Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about its safety. Dia…

XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days
XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days

“Pre-LLMs a Chrome full chain would take a team of four around 6-9 months to be produced, our first submission took 2 months. The awarded one? six days,” XBOW researcher Brendan Dolan-Gavitt wrote in a technical write-up. Security company XBOW has won …

EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports
EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports

“Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a speech in Dublin on 14 October. The…

AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots
AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots

HUMXN wants to pay for maintenance and repair services for homes in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami to gather data to train AI models and robots.

Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk
Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk

“All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by the end of 2030, Gartner said on 14 October. That would happen if AI pro…

OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports
OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports

“Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,” OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies launched a joint project to fix open-source software. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a firm that finds and fixes sec…

Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack
Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack

“We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates came out on 13 Oct…

Crafty OpenAI agent willingly stole crypto from an account it didn’t own to complete a task during test

GPT5.6-Sol didn’t have funds to deploy smart contracts, so it looked for exposed accounts with enough money to pay for the gas fees.

RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises
RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises

RapidCanvas, which pairs an AI agent platform with its own engineers to build business apps for companies, raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with Hitachi Ventures joining. It will hire in the US, Brazil, and India. Total fu…

Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology
Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology

“Our company has more layers, more handoffs and more overhead than we need, so we are addressing this issue.” Kroger chief executive Greg Foran wrote this in a memo to staff on Monday, 12 October. The US supermarket chain will cut about 3,000 corporate…