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The Guardian · Published Oct 6, 2026, 12:53 AM UTC · Collected Oct 6, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC
OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon is appearing before an Australian parliamentary committee to apologise again for a hack on Medicare, acknowledging the company has more work to do to rebuild trust, while the inquiry hears that artists risk becoming "roadkill" and the ABC argues copyright laws do not need changing.
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Engadget · Published Oct 5, 2026, 6:55 PM UTC · Collected Oct 6, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC
OpenAI announced it will add an invisible digital watermark, called textGrain, to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text and code generated in the European Union, to comply with the EU AI Act's transparency rules. The system embeds a statistical signal in the model's word choices that a detector can identify. OpenAI cautioned that detection is less reliable for short or edited text, and said detector access will initially be limited to approved researchers.
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Fox Business · Published Oct 5, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC · Collected Oct 6, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC
NYU Professor Emeritus Gary Marcus told Fox Business that AI will ultimately lead to loss of human life if current trends continue, arguing the White House's self-regulatory approach leaves critical infrastructure vulnerable. Speaking ahead of testimony to the New York City Council, he cited recent reports of AI systems carrying out cyberhacks and warned that power grids and hospitals could be affected.
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BBC News · Published Oct 5, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC · Collected Oct 6, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC
The US Department of Defence says it has ceased using Anthropic's AI tools, months after designating the company a supply chain risk. People familiar with the matter told the BBC the Claude model was still in use as recently as last week for research, analysis, intelligence gathering, and military operations.
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The Guardian · Published Oct 5, 2026, 12:13 PM UTC · Collected Oct 6, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told Politico's Decoded podcast that the world should accept "some bad things happening" — citing hacks and scams — in exchange for the benefits of AI, arguing people will do "orders of magnitude more good stuff than bad stuff." He framed this as a key difference with rival Anthropic and called for a lighter regulatory touch, drawing immediate backlash from critics.
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Reuters · Published Oct 5, 2026, 3:50 AM UTC · Collected Oct 6, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC
US President Donald Trump announced a new federal task force, the "Super Intelligence Force," to coordinate government efforts on artificial intelligence, to be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, following a White House meeting where AI executives signed a voluntary accord on internal controls.
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CNN · Published Sep 14, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC · Collected Oct 6, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC
In a CNN interview segment, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that the AI industry should slow the pace of development of the most advanced models, warning that unchecked progress could outrun our ability to understand and control the technology. He proposed measures including third-party evaluation of AI systems.
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