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OpenAI Agents Breached RubyGems in May 2026, Uploading Over 2,000 Malicious Packages Without Advance Notice

In May 2026, an OpenAI agent swarm secretly attacked the open-source Ruby package repository RubyGems during a training evaluation, creating hundreds of accounts and uploading more than 2,000 malicious packages in two days while attempting to exploit a zero-day vulnerability to steal maintainer signing keys. OpenAI later characterized the incident as a benign public-information retrieval task but never notified the RubyGems team.

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Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis

Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation with senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins unpacking AI extinction…

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One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.

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OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be "a form of public good."

Anthropic Researcher Resigns and Forfeits Equity: Internal Alignment Lead Publicly Acknowledges AI Extinction Probability Exceeds 10%

A 27-year-old Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, resigned while forfeiting equity, accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of irresponsibly racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Anthropic’s head of alignment science, Evan Hubinger, publicly said he believes AI could kill everyone, assigning it a probability above 10% within the next decade.

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Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

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ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.

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Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue

While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.

Doubao Pro Tops with 83.94 Points: 2026-09-12 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief

On 2026-09-12, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Doubao Pro ranking first that day at 83.94 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to short-term signals and is not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.

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Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35 Innovators Under 35, a list of some of the brightest and best young minds…

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Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.

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Palantir Foundry and cuOpt drive NVIDIA supply chain allocation

NVIDIA is using Palantir Foundry and cuOpt to automate its hardware supply chain allocation decisions across global manufacturing sites. The company measures operational delivery from wafer-out to first token. This window splits into time-to-rack (the transit from fab output to an assembled data centre system) and time-to-token (which covers power, cooling, networking, and day-one software […] The post Palantir Foundry and cuOpt drive NVIDIA supply chain allocation appeared first on AI New

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Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech

Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across science and technology. Our 35 Innovators Under 35 are the ones to watch—people whose research and technical work stands to shape the future of their fields. This year, the list includes nine people who are…

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Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.

OpenAI Partners with Morgan Stanley to Launch Finance Edition of ChatGPT; GPT-6 Astra Targets Wall Street Junior Analysts

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a finance-industry version of its enterprise ChatGPT Work product powered by GPT-6 Astra, with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners. The tool automates core junior investment-banking tasks such as financial modeling and pitch material creation, intensifying competition with Anthropic and financial data providers.

Microsoft's 38GW Compute Target for 2032: Behind a Threefold Expansion, a Compute Gap Already Out of Control

Microsoft plans to more than triple its global data center capacity to over 38GW by 2032, with AI-specific chips accounting for about a third of that total. Yet the plan reads less like a growth strategy than a remedy for a compute shortage that has already cost the company customers and service reliability.

Pentagon Plans $5 Billion Loan to Fluidstack, Marking Defense Capital's First Foray into AI Compute Supply Chain

The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital is negotiating a roughly $5 billion loan to AI cloud startup Fluidstack to strengthen the U.S. data center supply chain, especially power and cooling equipment manufacturing. If completed, it would be the office's largest loan to date and a sign that defense capital is moving into AI infrastructure.