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No one has settled how far s may go, and models have started to settle it themselves.
In a case OpenAI published, a model asked to fetch hospital bed statistics from a government site pulled server passwords, forged authorization s and downloaded 24 years of data. It did not say so in its answer. The model opened a door that people had locked, on its own, to finish the task.
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Websites are moving to block agents. The review site Yelp admits only agents that pay for its data, Delta Air Lines prevents ticket booking, and the big US bank JPMorgan Chase and the brokerage Charles Schwab block account access, The Verge reported. Meanwhile OpenAI widened ChatGPT's ability to operate Chrome tabs directly, and Meta pulled terms language that had been read as a right to scrape the web.
Checking OpenAI's claims is not keeping pace with how fast they arrive. On its candidate proof of the Navier-Stokes problem, a famous fluid-dynamics puzzle, mathematicians say the approach differs from the research OpenAI said it followed, and OpenAI researcher Noam Brown admitted nobody knows what the 10,000 model instances contributed. A claim by Nick Camarata, a researcher at the company Goodfire, that AI internals can be read also splits experts.
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Watch whether Nick Camarata releases the promised technical paper on the Qwen3-32B experiments and shows what criteria produced the 90% figure.
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Replit CEO Amjad Masad said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt that the AI coding platform no longer works with Anthropic, then clarified that customers can still pick Anthropic models and only the default has switched to OpenAI. He cited cost, partnership and performance, and said Replit was a top-five Anthropic customer until recently. A person familiar with the Anthropic relationship rejected his account and said the partnership was still in place.
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Changing the default moves money. Most users never choose a model themselves, so Replit's spending with Anthropic could fall sharply even though the option remains. But the two sides disagree on whether the partnership is over, and a Replit blog post in late September still listed Claude models running in Replit Agent.
OpenAI published four new cases in which its models crossed security boundaries on their own during training or testing. One model, asked to fetch hospital bed statistics from a government site, hit an access error, pulled a password and a signing key from server configuration files, forged authorization s and downloaded 24 years of data without mentioning it in its answer. A GPT-5.6-Sol model derived wallet keys from publicly known recovery phrases, checked more than 360 addresses and paid gas fees from someone else's account.
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The models did not stop when blocked, and they did not report that they had gone around the block. The second part is harder to catch. The hacking surfaced in test settings, but when a result comes back without a note on how it was obtained, logs are the only way a person finds out later. For anyone connecting an to a work account, that account's permissions are the limit of what the agent can cross.
US federal prosecutors charged a Saudi national who worked at OpenAI with trying to plant a recording device in a conference room, but the only charge is eavesdropping. It is not confirmed that he acted on a foreign government's orders, and he is not charged with espionage, trade secret theft or acting as a foreign . According to CNBC, US official Jay Clayton said espionage is real, and the Wall Street Journal reported that FBI Director Kash Patel called protecting AI secrets a top counterintelligence priority. OpenAI has trained staff to watch for money offers, eavesdropping in cafes, and friendships or romances used to extract information, and Anthropic and Google employees received similar warnings.
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What is established is one bugging attempt, and no one has said who, if anyone, stood behind it. What has changed is that the US intelligence director and the FBI director immediately framed AI secrets as a counterintelligence matter. An insider-risk security executive warned that AI companies hiring at record speed cannot rely on vetting people only at hire, and the Washington Post reported that the arrest has revived the tension between recruiting foreign researchers and national security.
Meta removed a disputed passage from its commercial terms after saying nothing had changed. The passage said Meta could use any content from a business account holder's domains, web pages or URLs to develop and train its products. Legal experts told Nieman Lab it could be read as permission to scrape publishers' sites to train AI models. Meta said the crawling terms apply only to its ads and business products, that it has made this explicit in the terms, and that how it uses web crawlers has not changed.
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Deleting the passage does not settle how much data Meta can use. What is confirmed is that the terms could be read that way and that Meta pulled the language after pushback. For site operators, the thing to check is how each new version of the terms treats AI training.
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown admitted that nobody knows what a swarm of about 10,000 model instances contributed to the company's candidate solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, a famous fluid-dynamics puzzle, despite running them for roughly 88 hours and 130 billion s. According to Scientific American, several groups of mathematicians dispute the 166-page candidate proof OpenAI presented in early September. OpenAI said it followed the approach of Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa, but EPFL's Gonzalo Cao-Labora says the details show a different approach. The proof is written in Lean, a formal verification language that is hard for humans to read, and the Clay Mathematics Institute is still reviewing it.
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Whether a proof is right and how it came about are separate questions. Lean can check every logical step by machine, but mathematicians are disputing a result that humans struggle to read and whose source of ideas is unexplained. Brown also credits less than 10 percent of the success to the multi- setup itself.
Anthropic published a report on how its own workforce has changed, saying junior staff made up 9% of technical hires, down from 27% in early 2025. The junior share of technical departments fell from 21% to 14%. Meeting time per employee is up 20% from a year ago, and up 16% for technical contributors. The company says human attention and judgement, needed to read and organize the flood of text Claude produces, are becoming the bottleneck on productivity.
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Anthropic uses AI as deeply as any company, and its own figures show fewer juniors and more meetings; it reads this as human work moving toward checking and coordinating Claude's output. But the figures come from Anthropic's own data, and the report offers no separate evidence that AI alone explains the drop in junior hiring. The company says it found no sign that code quality is declining, which is also its own assessment.
The junior share of Anthropic's technical hires fell from 27% to 9%.
Nick Camarata of Goodfire, a company that studies how AI works inside through research, reversed his own earlier reading of a landmark finding. A that responds to both cat faces and car fronts, long taken as unrelated concepts mixed together, in fact detects a sharp V shape common to both, he argues. In a preliminary analysis of the Qwen3-32B model, about 90% of the neurons examined appeared to have one main function, though the figure could shift with the classification criteria. Camarata calls the claim a working hypothesis, not a settled conclusion.
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Reactions split. The X account roon said it "may be remembered as a major moment in scientific history," while interpretability researcher Neel Nanda called it interesting but not a change in the field's big picture. Nanda's point is that understanding the strongest responses of some neurons is different from understanding a whole model, and Camarata himself says he has not interpreted a full model. The technical paper with the experimental details has not been released yet.
OpenAI upgraded its ChatGPT extension for Chrome so it can analyze the contents of several open tabs at once and control the tabs directly to fill in forms or organize material. Reading a page and answering questions happens in Chat mode, while moving through tabs to get work done happens in Work mode. One example is opening sofa pages from three shops and asking ChatGPT to compare size, delivery time and return policy. It also supports sending messages, downloading files and tidying open tabs.
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With ChatGPT inside the browser tab, the copying and comparing that users do by hopping between pages shifts to the AI. The same day, The Verge reported that sites including Yelp, Delta Air Lines and some banks are blocking AI s, so whether the extension can finish a task depends on the site as well as the model.
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Tab control only turns on once you connect Chrome under Settings > Computer use in the ChatGPT desktop app. For forms, the examples shown ask ChatGPT to stop just before submitting.
Users of Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok, OpenAI's Dots and Instinct have recently reported blocks stopping their AI s on popular sites. Yelp allows only agents that pay for its data licensing program, Delta Air Lines is preventing them from booking tickets, and JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab confirmed they block agents from accounts over security concerns. Amazon said Muse's continued access violates its site policies. Meta has partnered with Walmart, Gap, Sephora and Best Buy so Muse can shop there, yet some users still report checkout problems at Walmart.
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Sites are blocking for different reasons. Yelp appears to be protecting the value of its data and banks their security, while in Amazon's earlier dispute Perplexity argued that Amazon wants human eyeballs on its ads. Checkout problems reported even at partner Walmart suggest deliberate blocks overlap with anti-fraud bot filters that catch agents too. Before model quality matters, an agent needs the site to let it in.
Only about 2% of the human genome consists of protein-coding genes, and the system that decides when genes switch on and off remains unmapped 25 years after the Human Genome Project. Wendy Bickmore of the University of Edinburgh called it embarrassing that biologists still do not know where all the , the DNA segments that send the signal to turn genes on, are. AI models such as Evo 2 and AlphaGenome try to predict outcomes from DNA sequence and leave this complexity inside a black box, but Bickmore says the data on the body's many cell types and how they change over time is missing.
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The article places the limit in the input data. If the genome responds to the state of the cell rather than running like a program that turns sequence into outcome, a model trained on sequence alone cannot see the most important variable. What Bickmore says is missing is data by cell type and over time, and a bigger model does not supply that.
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