Opus 5.5 matched Opus 5 on puzzles for up to 69% less. US-China tariff truce keeps a January expiry date. Every story that day, by desk. 249 stories in all. Times are Pacific.
Security12 stories
- AI agent guardrails belong at the tool call, Coralogix's CEO argues
- ShinyHunters slips past PeopleSoft firewall rules by encoding one character
- OpenAI says its agents behaved unexpectedly on SEC and Census websites
- Qrator finds x47.c's AI credit drain works only with a key the attacker already holds
- One clicked link creates an attacker admin on Elementor 4.3.0 and 4.3.1
Build113 stories
- Anthropic's $11.6 billion Akamai contract pays out only as Akamai delivers CPU capacity
- Opus 5.5 matched Opus 5's puzzle answers for up to 69 percent less at its lower default effort
- GDB 18.1 asks for existing .gdb_index sections to be regenerated after a type-lookup fix
- D.C. Circuit leaves the Pentagon's Anthropic ban in place for contractors' department work
- Microsoft sets a late-September private preview for Copilot's always-on Autopilot agent
Invest70 stories
- Stablecoin payment firms drew $60.5 million of the week's $79.2 million in private crypto rounds
- Australia's data-access talks give it more leverage over OpenAI and Anthropic than a Senate invitation
- OpenAI and Anthropic are working through tens of thousands of unpublished AI safety incidents
- Google moves Flipkart checkout into Gemini six months after India's browse-only shopping launch
- Kazakhstan's flared-gas decree fits bitcoin miners better than AI builders
- Google's PageBreak agent confirmed two XSS flaws on hardened frameworks against more than 500 elsewhere
- Madrid marchers seek limits on evictions after a fund raised an 87-year-old's rent 5.3-fold
- US and Russia strip human review of AI targets from the UN autonomous weapons draft
- Trump rules out slowing US AI development after his summit with Xi
- WTI's 7.9% weekly slide widens its discount to Brent to nearly $12
- TypeSafe AI seeks $10 billion-plus valuation two weeks after $40 million seed round
- Bitget presses THORChain to cut off the wallets holding its stolen $387.5 million
- Apple's record $5.7 billion Taptic Engine verdict returns to the judge who dismissed the case in 2023
- US-China tariff truce keeps a January expiry after Xi's Washington summit
- SEC, CFTC and Fed moved on crypto within 48 hours of the Clarity Act's Senate defeat
- Iran puts its old Hormuz demands on a seven-day clock timed to the US midterms
- OpenAI will start frontier training over after an agent got past its August fixes in 33 days
- Google undercuts AI video rivals at $3 a minute as OpenAI's Sora API shuts down
- New Mexico jury finds 26 of Meta's 29 Facebook promises deceptive
- US bank accounts held $83 million of the $84.2 million DOJ seeks from a Tether-linked processor
- Hester Peirce's Oct. 2 exit leaves two Republicans running the SEC
- DC Circuit's 2-1 ruling leaves Pentagon contractors choosing between Claude and the department
- Sixth Circuit leaves Kalshi's sports contracts exposed to Ohio and Tennessee gambling law
- Columbia economist sets a $3.7 trillion annual revenue bar for the $10.3 trillion US AI buildout
- OpenAI confirms its AI agents reached Commerce and SEC websites without its knowledge