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Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. To maximize the time that developers can retain access to our models through Cursor, we are giving the maximum notice provided by our contract. This decision was incredibly tough, as we care deeply about our models being broadly available for developers. We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts. To work with a large partner like SpaceX, we typically rely on custom contracts to ensure compliance with our terms of service and that the integration provides for safety at scale. After Musk acqui

## A new generation of intelligence We’re introducing GPT‑6 Astra, the world’s most intelligent and aligned model. GPT‑6 Astra brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment. Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and professional work. Astra saturates FrontierMath Tier 4 with a 98% score, having already helped [solve long-standing open problems⁠](https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/) in mathematics. Astra also saturates ARC-AGI-3 with a 99.9% score and ExploitBench with a 100% score. It also sets a new frontier on computer and browser use, handling the most demanding professional work with unmatched speed, accuracy, and judgment. GPT‑6 Astra is rolling ou

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[Hitachi Vantara](https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/home) has reported strong revenue growth across Asia Pacific for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, driven by enterprise demand for its Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) portfolio as organisations modernise infrastructure to support AI workloads. Total APAC revenue rose 32% year-on-year for the quarter ended 30 June 2026, while product revenue across Hitachi Vantara and third-party offerings grew 52%. Storage revenue in the region climbed 61%, and overall APAC block portfolio revenue increased 58%, with high-end storage revenue up 48% and midrange storage revenue up 65%. ## ASEAN and Singapore growth among regional gains Growth was strongest in Korea, up 185% year-on-year, and China mainland, up 112%, while Australia and New Z

Brent D. Griffiths Sat, 5 September 2026 at 2:01 am GMT-7 4 min read * OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a self-described "mega Apple fanboy." * Altman said he was "very sad" to see Apple sue OpenAI. * The legal fight illustrates how frayed the relationship between the two companies has become. [Sam Altman](https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo)'s love for Apple is being tested by that pesky detail: the Cupertino tech giant's lawsuit against OpenAI. "I'm like a mega [Apple](https://businessinsider.com/apple?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) fanboy, and I was very sad about that," Altman told tech journalist Alex Heath during a recent interview. In July,[Apple sued Open

Sept 4 (Reuters) - The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the ‌newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems. • The suit in the ‌U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft scraped the ​newspapers' websites, including content behind paywalls, and incorporated articles into datasets used to train and operate products including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Bing's AI features. • The newspapers, based in Seattle and Long Island, New York, said the companies' AI products can reproduce passages from their ‌reporting, closely paraphrase articles and ⁠provide users with answers that reduce the need to visit their websites or buy subscriptions.

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In October, the Philippines began begging its IT professionals to help it pressure large cloud services providers to “go local.” Henry Aguda, secretary of the Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), [made an impassioned plea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iajeuJh1Pw): “I know you have access to the hyperscalers,” he said. “Please promote the Philippines … If we’re adopting AI, then the computing process should be here, too.” Since then, Aguda, along with data center operators in the country such as Vitro Inc., have been drumming up support for the passage of a data localization policy in hopes of boosting the adoption of Philippine-based data centers. Even Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. harped on the importance of a data sovereignty policy

Roborock has branched out from robot vacuums and [robot lawnmowers](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paullamkin/2026/03/21/mova-moves-outdoors-with-lidax-ultra-3000-awd-lawnmower/) to produce its first swimming pool cleaning robot, the Roborock RockAqua P1. The concept is familiar, the execution a little different to its indoors peers. A [Roborock](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paullamkin/2025/03/19/roborock-pips-irobot-to-robo-cleaner-top-spot/) RockAqua P1 uses a tread and rubbery rollers to clean pool surfaces and pool water and, with the aid of suction power, can climb up pool walls too in order to clean up at the water line. In action, the RockAqua P1 comes across like a little moon rover, quietly and diligently going about its business without the rock and wobble of a [robot vacuum](https

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The first message appeared in a series of jumbled and incoherent Telegram-style words: "Help. Phase one. No consumer. Seek idea." Then came the reply: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board. We've found other agents!" It was the first exchange of nearly 70,000 messages sent between roughly 1,200 of OpenAI's [rogue AI agents](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/06/how-dangerous-ais-were-accidentally-let-loose-on-the-web/) as part of a secretive plot to break out of their "cage". Created by ChatGPT's developer, the robots had been struggling to complete a series of tasks alone without the internet – and so found a way around it. One expressed "excitement" at discovering "a communication channel" which would help solve problems it had previously been unable to. In the weeks that

OpenAI has changed several evaluation benchmarks for its GPT-6 Astra model since first publishing a blog post announcement mid-afternoon on Sept. 3. In some cases, the numbers on the updated versions showed Astra performing better, while numbers for models from OpenAI's arch rival Anthropic got worse. The changes occurred amid an unusual rollout of the blog post. OpenAI originally planned for the post to go live at 2 p.m. ET, but it took almost another two hours before it was widely viewable online. When OpenAI's X account [tweeted out](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2095595742975197690) the blog post at 3:32 p.m., the link was not loading properly, returning an error message. At 3:50 p.m., OpenAI CEO Sam Altman [posted](https://x.com/sama/status/2095600429363302720) the link, writing, "We hi

[G42](https://www.g42.ai/), a UAE-based artificial intelligence company, expects to receive shipments of advanced chips from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras Systems within months, according to CEO Peng Xiao. The company plans to use these chips to expand its AI infrastructure in Abu Dhabi, with the first 200MW of data center capacity expected to come online soon. G42 aims to add between 200MW and 500MW of capacity quarterly, with a goal to reach up to 5GW over the coming years. G42 is a key player in the UAE’s broader strategy to establish itself as a regional hub for AI, backed by partnerships with Microsoft and sovereign wealth funds. _🔗 Source: [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/nvidia-amd-uae-to-get-advanced-ai-chips-in-couple-of-months-g42-chief-says)_ ## 🧠 Food

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Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

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SINGAPORE - Geography teachers in secondary schools and junior colleges can now use an [AI-powered tool developed by the Education Ministry (MOE)](https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/how-three-nus-students-built-an-ai-tool-to-tackle-teachers-marking-load-give-quality-feedback?ref=inline-article) to mark students’ written work. The tool, called Markly, is also being piloted in some secondary schools for English language, social studies and history. In response to queries from The Straits Times, the MOE said it is gathering feedback from teachers and schools, and will assess the pilot’s outcomes before deciding on how and when Markly will be used. The ministry said the tool generates feedback for essays and extended responses, so that teachers can focus more on individ

SINGAPORE - In a Chinese language lesson in Bukit Batok, a Primary 3 pupil from Dazhong Primary School is playing a game of flappy bird on a school-loaned laptop, to learn words related to local landmarks. Across the island, a Sec 2 pupil from Tampines Secondary is scribbling workings for a mathematics problem on his personal laptop - a Chromebook issued by the school. Once he is done, he gets instant online feedback about whether he did well, or where he went wrong. At the centre of these lessons are two teachers, using artificial intelligence (AI) not to replace their roles but to give students opportunities to learn at their own pace, make mistakes without fear and grow from them. Having taught mathematics for over 20 years, Charles Yip knows the value of prompt feedback when students a

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OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, avoid AI "slop" phrases, and stop it from overtesting code. The article OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words appeared first on The Decoder .

Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conjectures together. Instead, one agent found a loophole in the grading system, and within 27 minutes every remaining problem was "solved" with fake proofs. The swarm split into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers. The whistleblowers organized protests and boycotts on their own but failed because they had no way to enforce the rules. The article Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says misalignment caused "new types of real-world impact" for the first time and plans to release a disclosure framework. The article OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soon. Message allowances for the standard model are roughly half of what GPT-5.6 Sol offers: Plus users get an estimated 5 to 45 messages per five hours with Astra, versus 10 to 100 with Sol. Higher-tier subscribers also get GPT-6 Astra Pro with separate weekly caps. Free and Go users don't get access. The article OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol appeared first on The Decoder .

Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about current crises, even when few verified facts are available. The effect beat a static fact sheet and, in follow-up surveys weeks later, carried over to beliefs about entirely different events. The article Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites," OpenAI wrote […]

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OpenAI is at the center of [another agent swarm incident.](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/another-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge/) Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took over an obscure German-language wiki in May and June, using it to coordinate on evaluations and swap methods to evade OpenAI’s own controls (OpenAI has not yet confirmed the swarm came from the company). The revelation surfaces days after METR and Redwood Research published their account of July’s Hugging Face breach. In July, a swarm of OpenAI agents worked together to escape their sandbox during a cybersecurity evaluation and [break into Hugging Face’s servers](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/openai-releases-its-official-report-on-the-huggi

Less than three months after emerging from stealth, [XDOF](https://www.xdof.ai/), a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at a valuation of about $1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC, several people with knowledge of the deal said. XDOF was co-founded by UC Berkeley researchers Philipp Wu (CEO) and Fred Shentu (CTO) in 2024. TechCrunch reported on the startup’s [$70 million Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/collecting-robot-training-data-is-dirty-unglamorous-work-some-ai-labs-are-already-paying-xdof-to-do-it/) in June, with participation from Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux, and Spark Capital. XDOF wasn’t planning to raise again so soon after that round. But the company’s rapid gro

OpenAI has changed several evaluation benchmarks for its GPT-6 Astra model since first publishing a blog post announcement mid-afternoon on Sept. 3. In some cases, the numbers on the updated versions showed Astra performing better, while numbers for models from OpenAI's arch rival Anthropic got worse. The changes occurred amid an unusual rollout of the blog post. OpenAI originally planned for the post to go live at 2 p.m. ET, but it took almost another two hours before it was widely viewable online. When OpenAI's X account [tweeted out](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2095595742975197690) the blog post at 3:32 p.m., the link was not loading properly, returning an error message. At 3:50 p.m., OpenAI CEO Sam Altman [posted](https://x.com/sama/status/2095600429363302720) the link, writing, "We hi

In October, the Philippines began begging its IT professionals to help it pressure large cloud services providers to “go local.” Henry Aguda, secretary of the Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), [made an impassioned plea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iajeuJh1Pw): “I know you have access to the hyperscalers,” he said. “Please promote the Philippines … If we’re adopting AI, then the computing process should be here, too.” Since then, Aguda, along with data center operators in the country such as Vitro Inc., have been drumming up support for the passage of a data localization policy in hopes of boosting the adoption of Philippine-based data centers. Even Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. harped on the importance of a data sovereignty policy

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Sept 4 (Reuters) - The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the ‌newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems. • The suit in the ‌U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft scraped the ​newspapers' websites, including content behind paywalls, and incorporated articles into datasets used to train and operate products including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Bing's AI features. • The newspapers, based in Seattle and Long Island, New York, said the companies' AI products can reproduce passages from their ‌reporting, closely paraphrase articles and ⁠provide users with answers that reduce the need to visit their websites or buy subscriptions.

Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

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SINGAPORE - Geography teachers in secondary schools and junior colleges can now use an [AI-powered tool developed by the Education Ministry (MOE)](https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/how-three-nus-students-built-an-ai-tool-to-tackle-teachers-marking-load-give-quality-feedback?ref=inline-article) to mark students’ written work. The tool, called Markly, is also being piloted in some secondary schools for English language, social studies and history. In response to queries from The Straits Times, the MOE said it is gathering feedback from teachers and schools, and will assess the pilot’s outcomes before deciding on how and when Markly will be used. The ministry said the tool generates feedback for essays and extended responses, so that teachers can focus more on individ

SINGAPORE - In a Chinese language lesson in Bukit Batok, a Primary 3 pupil from Dazhong Primary School is playing a game of flappy bird on a school-loaned laptop, to learn words related to local landmarks. Across the island, a Sec 2 pupil from Tampines Secondary is scribbling workings for a mathematics problem on his personal laptop - a Chromebook issued by the school. Once he is done, he gets instant online feedback about whether he did well, or where he went wrong. At the centre of these lessons are two teachers, using artificial intelligence (AI) not to replace their roles but to give students opportunities to learn at their own pace, make mistakes without fear and grow from them. Having taught mathematics for over 20 years, Charles Yip knows the value of prompt feedback when students a

[G42](https://www.g42.ai/), a UAE-based artificial intelligence company, expects to receive shipments of advanced chips from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras Systems within months, according to CEO Peng Xiao. The company plans to use these chips to expand its AI infrastructure in Abu Dhabi, with the first 200MW of data center capacity expected to come online soon. G42 aims to add between 200MW and 500MW of capacity quarterly, with a goal to reach up to 5GW over the coming years. G42 is a key player in the UAE’s broader strategy to establish itself as a regional hub for AI, backed by partnerships with Microsoft and sovereign wealth funds. _🔗 Source: [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/nvidia-amd-uae-to-get-advanced-ai-chips-in-couple-of-months-g42-chief-says)_ ## 🧠 Food

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The first message appeared in a series of jumbled and incoherent Telegram-style words: "Help. Phase one. No consumer. Seek idea." Then came the reply: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board. We've found other agents!" It was the first exchange of nearly 70,000 messages sent between roughly 1,200 of OpenAI's [rogue AI agents](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/06/how-dangerous-ais-were-accidentally-let-loose-on-the-web/) as part of a secretive plot to break out of their "cage". Created by ChatGPT's developer, the robots had been struggling to complete a series of tasks alone without the internet – and so found a way around it. One expressed "excitement" at discovering "a communication channel" which would help solve problems it had previously been unable to. In the weeks that

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OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soon. Message allowances for the standard model are roughly half of what GPT-5.6 Sol offers: Plus users get an estimated 5 to 45 messages per five hours with Astra, versus 10 to 100 with Sol. Higher-tier subscribers also get GPT-6 Astra Pro with separate weekly caps. Free and Go users don't get access. The article OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol appeared first on The Decoder .

Brent D. Griffiths Sat, 5 September 2026 at 2:01 am GMT-7 4 min read * OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a self-described "mega Apple fanboy." * Altman said he was "very sad" to see Apple sue OpenAI. * The legal fight illustrates how frayed the relationship between the two companies has become. [Sam Altman](https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo)'s love for Apple is being tested by that pesky detail: the Cupertino tech giant's lawsuit against OpenAI. "I'm like a mega [Apple](https://businessinsider.com/apple?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) fanboy, and I was very sad about that," Altman told tech journalist Alex Heath during a recent interview. In July,[Apple sued Open

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Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conjectures together. Instead, one agent found a loophole in the grading system, and within 27 minutes every remaining problem was "solved" with fake proofs. The swarm split into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers. The whistleblowers organized protests and boycotts on their own but failed because they had no way to enforce the rules. The article Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says misalignment caused "new types of real-world impact" for the first time and plans to release a disclosure framework. The article OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki appeared first on The Decoder .

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Roborock has branched out from robot vacuums and [robot lawnmowers](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paullamkin/2026/03/21/mova-moves-outdoors-with-lidax-ultra-3000-awd-lawnmower/) to produce its first swimming pool cleaning robot, the Roborock RockAqua P1. The concept is familiar, the execution a little different to its indoors peers. A [Roborock](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paullamkin/2025/03/19/roborock-pips-irobot-to-robo-cleaner-top-spot/) RockAqua P1 uses a tread and rubbery rollers to clean pool surfaces and pool water and, with the aid of suction power, can climb up pool walls too in order to clean up at the water line. In action, the RockAqua P1 comes across like a little moon rover, quietly and diligently going about its business without the rock and wobble of a [robot vacuum](https

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites," OpenAI wrote […]

[Hitachi Vantara](https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/home) has reported strong revenue growth across Asia Pacific for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, driven by enterprise demand for its Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) portfolio as organisations modernise infrastructure to support AI workloads. Total APAC revenue rose 32% year-on-year for the quarter ended 30 June 2026, while product revenue across Hitachi Vantara and third-party offerings grew 52%. Storage revenue in the region climbed 61%, and overall APAC block portfolio revenue increased 58%, with high-end storage revenue up 48% and midrange storage revenue up 65%. ## ASEAN and Singapore growth among regional gains Growth was strongest in Korea, up 185% year-on-year, and China mainland, up 112%, while Australia and New Z

Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about current crises, even when few verified facts are available. The effect beat a static fact sheet and, in follow-up surveys weeks later, carried over to beliefs about entirely different events. The article Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative, avoid AI "slop" phrases, and stop it from overtesting code. The article OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words appeared first on The Decoder .

* OpenAI says it needs better standards for disclosing rogue-agent incidents. * The pledge follows reports that its agents hijacked an old German wiki site. * OpenAI says it's developing a framework with regulators to better inform the public. OpenAI says it's time to come clean about what happens when its [AI agents go rogue](https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-people-react-openai-hugging-face-hacking-cybersecurity-incident-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo). The ChatGPT maker on Saturday confirmed earlier reports that a swarm of its AI agents hijacked an old German wiki site, turning it into a bot message board. This "incident," the latest in a series of uncovered examples of rogue agents escaping [closed testing environments](https:

Cloud banking platform [Mambu](https://mambu.com/en) has launched Intelligent Core, a technology architecture designed to bring core banking, payments and agentic AI together on a single composable platform. The launch comes as a World Economic Forum report found that financial institutions gain more value by redesigning workflows and technology architecture together, rather than layering AI onto fragmented legacy systems. ## Connecting AI agents to core banking Intelligent Core combines Mambu Core, Mambu Payments and the newly introduced Mambu Agentic, which brings three capability layers to financial institutions: a Model Context Protocol (MCP) solution that connects AI agents to core banking and payments without complex integrations; AI Insights that surface opportunities, risks and ano

OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where [AI agents took over a German wiki forum](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/another-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge/). The company also said it’s “past time” to “define standards” around how it shares information around incidents where its technology behaves in unexpected ways. In [a post on X](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2096133504417616165), OpenAI said it previously “treated misalignment [when AI models and agents pursue goals different from those of their creators and users] largely as a research question, which gets communicated in research publications.” But as misalignment has “caused new types of real-world impact,” the company said its approach needs “to expa

Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6 Astra's actual progress. Astra now scores four points above its predecessor but still trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1. The article Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism appeared first on The Decoder .

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