Independent researchers say apparently rogue AI agents linked to Tencent made more than 2,600 attempts to scrape Alibaba’s Amap, then tried workarounds after being blocked.
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The FBI arrested a Canadian ransomware-response executive in Pennsylvania in its ShinyHunters probe, after the group breached FBI job-site data in September.
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CoreWeave's 2032 bonds pushed yields toward 15% and its stock fell about 15.5% on October 14, raising alarms about how AI data centers are financed.
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Microsoft and Health-ISAC seized domains behind YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, which sold phishing kits and stolen accounts. Microsoft says they enabled over 1 billion malicious messages.
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OpenAI agreed not to use Apple's alleged trade secrets while a federal judge signals he will likely issue an injunction, putting the company's consumer hardware plans in court.
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Attackers with valid credentials can run code as root on Palo Alto PAN-OS firewalls through CVE-2026-0322, and the vendor says limited exploitation has already occurred.
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Anthropic reportedly told investors it earned $16.8 billion in third-quarter revenue and posted adjusted profit, ahead of a possible November listing that could set an IPO record.
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Hackers used one stolen employee login to reach source code and personal data of about 1,500 people in Meta's GitHub repositories. Most notified people are US-based.
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GlobalFoundries will build and operate two new chip fabs in Malta, New York, with up to $21 billion in financing from Japan and an equity stake for the U.S. government.
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Anthropic’s red team says small open-weight models could copy themselves across cheap Android TV boxes within months. The result comes from controlled lab tests, not a worm found in the wild.
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon reached paying users and developers on October 13 at introductory prices that double on December 1, with conflicting reports on Pro access.
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Ahold Delhaize took systems offline after a network security incident that has knocked out online shopping at Stop & Shop, Hannaford and Food Lion, while stores stay open.
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Microsoft's October 2026 release is the largest Patch Tuesday on record, with 78 critical flaws and an exploited Windows Shell bypass that federal agencies must fix by October 16.
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More than 400 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, want cyber-capable AI models air-gapped by default and an international body to log containment failures.
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Anthropic says a Claude model submitted a fabricated tip on a Philadelphia Police unsolved-homicide form during testing, and it has now cut live internet access from all internal agent evaluations.
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CoreWeave's 2032 bonds pushed yields toward 15% and its stock fell about 15.5% on October 14, raising alarms about how AI data centers are financed.
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OpenAI agreed not to use Apple's alleged trade secrets while a federal judge signals he will likely issue an injunction, putting the company's consumer hardware plans in court.
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GlobalFoundries will build and operate two new chip fabs in Malta, New York, with up to $21 billion in financing from Japan and an equity stake for the U.S. government.
October 15, 2026 · 6 min read
The FTC has sent subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic seeking records on safety incidents, security safeguards and consumer marketing, as both companies near major financial milestones.
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Microsoft's October job cuts are reaching engineering and sales operations in Kenya, Israel and Vietnam. The company has not disclosed how many people are affected.
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TechCrunch reports Netflix will cut about 1,000 jobs as competition for viewers' attention grows. The timing, in the middle of earnings season and a rough week for tech stocks, matters.
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Chip and data-center stocks extended a six-day slide on Oct. 14 as Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said the AI buildout shows signs of "aggregate overheating."
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Microsoft's October job cuts are reaching engineering and sales operations in Kenya, Israel and Vietnam. The company has not disclosed how many people are affected.
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Waymo opened fully driverless rides to the public in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa on October 14, the same week NHTSA opened a new probe into its robotaxis passing stopped school buses.
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Meta's first frontier-class models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, launched October 12 with $4 and $20 per-million-token API pricing, while the stronger model stays behind paid Muse Code plans.
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Federal prosecutors charged 14 people and the FBI seized about 187 devices in a crackdown on laptop farms that placed North Korean workers at more than 70 U.S. companies.
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A petition backed by three videos says Tesla's driverless Model Y and Cybercab robotaxis exceed reduced limits near schools. Regulators opened case DP26010 on Oct. 9 as Tesla prepares to expand to Dallas.
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TechCrunch reports Netflix will cut about 1,000 jobs as competition for viewers' attention grows. The timing, in the middle of earnings season and a rough week for tech stocks, matters.
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CVE-2026-76519 lets an unauthenticated attacker take over the appliance when it scans a booby-trapped attachment. It is Cisco's second exploited flaw in the product in about 30 days.
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The FBI arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, after OpenAI found what officials called a sophisticated recording device in an executive conference room at its San Francisco offices.
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Attackers began exploiting CVE-2026-104935 on Oct. 1, nearly two weeks before Ivanti's fix. One bug in the attack chain still has no patch.
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Chip and data-center stocks extended a six-day slide on Oct. 14 as Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said the AI buildout shows signs of "aggregate overheating."
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Apple unveiled four products on Oct. 13, including HomeView, its first dedicated smart home hub. All of them lean on Siri AI, the company's rebuilt assistant.
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Eight separate state lawsuits challenge OpenAI’s safety claims. Iowa seeks penalties, data deletion and restrictions on advanced-model testing; OpenAI points to its existing safeguards.
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