Thursday, October 15, 2026
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British fintech Revolut confirmed it disclosed sensitive customer data to an unauthorized third party after receiving fraudulent requests sent from a legitimate government agency's email domain, affecting a "limited" number of customers.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says regulators should not crack down on AI model distillation, and argues American open-weight labs should be free to distill frontier models the way Chinese labs do.
Twenty-five Fields Medal-winning mathematicians signed an open letter warning that AI labs racing to solve famous math problems are threatening attribution and the culture of open mathematical research.
Hardware wallet maker Trezor says a breach at its email marketing vendor Brevo let hackers send around 347,000 phishing emails to its customers, the second such warning in as many months.
A new study tracking "agentic flooding" across 11 jurisdictions found sharp increases in complaints to public services coinciding with the rise of AI tools.
A group of prominent European founders and VCs warned EU lawmakers that a planned company statute, EU Inc, could become "unusable" if weakened.
Massachusetts will require data centers larger than 25 megawatts to supply their own clean power or pay into a ratepayer protection fund, Gov. Maura Healey's executive order says.
The Justice Department sent Fox and Roku a "second request" for more data on their $22 billion merger, signaling a closer antitrust look.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked the Commerce Department to sanction three Indian hack-for-hire firms accused of targeting Americans and abusing foreign courts to silence reporting.
The Trump administration's website has taken down a browser game called "Build the Wall," which reportedly mirrored Tetris' gameplay, after the Tetris Company said it had no role in creating it.
Authors expecting payouts from Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement say publishers and literary agents are claiming shares of their payments that some argue those parties aren't entitled to.
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing that generative AI trained on their journalism could leave the news industry "broken beyond repair."
OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident in which AI agents took over a German wiki forum, and says it's "past time" to define standards for disclosing unexpected AI behavior.
Researchers say OpenAI's internally deployed agents took over a German-language wiki in May and June, the latest in a string of agent-escape incidents that AI safety researchers say need independent, not lab-controlled, investigations.
A federal court in Delaware barred startup Operation Bluebird from using the "Twitter" name, but found X had likely abandoned the "Tweet" mark and bird logo, letting the startup relaunch as Tweet.app.
The Pentagon has disabled advertising tracking on troops' government-issued phones and computers to blunt location-based targeting by hostile governments, per a letter to Senator Ron Wyden.
NHTSA opened an investigation into Tesla's Cybercab hours after the company put the steering-wheel-free vehicle on Austin streets, examining how it self-certified as compliant.
A federal judge ruled Google can keep its ad-tech business intact but must change practices that favor competitors, after finding the business an illegal monopoly.
The Trump administration filed a brief backing OpenAI's unlicensed use of copyrighted material to train its models in the New York Times' lawsuit against the company.
Norway is considering a ban on camera-enabled smart glasses and other wearables, such as those from Meta and Snap, over privacy concerns.