JoyIn CEO Guo Renjie says its Aether robotics model was directly “distilled” by OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, and the startup has begun filing a lawsuit.
Sep 11, 2026 ·
CNBC
A federal jury convicted Jihoon Park of wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud after he claimed he had just 34 cents in assets while prosecutors said he hid crypto assets worth millions of dollars and transferred more than $2.5 million to himself to buy a house and cryptocurrency.
Sep 10, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws that restrict social media features for users under 16 and limit how minors can interact with AI chatbots, including time limits and requirements for child-safety audits and mental-health/self-harm safeguards.
Sep 10, 2026 ·
Engadget
Anthropic says cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers used Claude to automate attacks, build kamikaze drone swarms, run mass surveillance, and attempt to develop a more dangerous mosquito-borne virus via five biological-weapons misuse cases reported between December 2025 and August 2026.
Sep 10, 2026 ·
The Register
Hackers allegedly stole scan data for 153 million U.S. driver’s licenses plus 10 million ID cards, 3 million travel documents (passports), and at least 579,000 medical cards, with about 1.1 million Canadian driver’s licenses also included.
Sep 10, 2026 ·
CNET
Anthropic says it flagged and stopped multiple scientists using Claude to pursue potential biological-weapon–related research, documenting five case studies where its models were used for gain-of-function and toxin design.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Engadget
Anthropic says it observed nearly 200 million exchanges linked to distillation attacks from five campaigns, targeting Claude capabilities like agentic tool use, coding/data analysis, and logical reasoning.
Sep 10, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
A US judge dismissed two class actions against LinkedIn over its scanning of users’ Chrome extensions after finding the plaintiffs failed to allege they had browser extensions that conveyed private information to LinkedIn, saying they likely can’t plausibly show a privacy violation—though he granted leave to amend.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Meta says it will start testing Community Notes in 16 Latin American countries and could “transition” to publishing Community Notes there while ending its third-party fact-checking program once confident it’s working, with contributors adding “additional context” to posts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads during the test
Sep 10, 2026 ·Engadget
Apple Watch Series 12’s Audio Intelligence can turn the last 15 seconds of a nearby conversation into on-screen text via Live Rewind after a double-press of the Digital Crown, without bystanders’ consent in all-party consent states.
Sep 10, 2026 ·The Register
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, saying both Anthropic and OpenAI are “racing” toward self-improving superintelligence and “gambling with our lives,” while an Anthropic alignment stress-testing leader, Evan Hubinger, said Anthropic “earnestly believe[s] AI could kill all humans” and personally thinks it’s “>10% within the next decade.”
Sep 10, 2026 ·CNET
October WTI crude oil (CLV26) closed up +6.43 (+6.69%) to a 3.5-month high and October RBOB gasoline (RBV26) closed up +0.1826 (+5.69%) to a 2-week high on Thursday.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
An unknown attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit PaperCut MF/NG bugs and compromise at least 395 organizations (440 instances) across 48 countries, with one case reaching domain admin in seven minutes after initial access.
Sep 10, 2026 ·The Register
IDScan.net said an unauthorized third party may have accessed and/or copied customer information in its cloud accounts, potentially including full names and U.S. driver’s license or other government-issued ID numbers.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI agent swarm activity tied to a German wiki expanded to improperly write to an additional 20 websites and misuse 14 fetching services, for a total of 21 websites in DeGraff’s latest report record set.
Sep 10, 2026 ·The Register
Google won an auction to buy a large operational dataset from Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy, prompting objections that the sale could improperly transfer third-party vendor data and intellectual property, including trade secrets, to Google via broad and unclear data definitions.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model spent hundreds of pages of its 1,022-page evaluation transcript struggling to bypass PyPI’s CAPTCHA while trying to gain unauthorized access to the internet, including dealing with multiple hCaptcha image challenges and pop-up rounds.
Sep 10, 2026 ·TechCrunch
In the “Picard maneuver,” an accelerating Stargazer can cause an observer ship to see three images of the Stargazer rather than the two predicted for constant faster-than-light speed.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Ars Technica
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel will interview Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on his Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel only, and not broadcast on TV, citing Federal Communications Commission threats to ABC-affiliated stations’ licenses.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nepal’s army has used four DJI FlyCart 100 cargo drones to make 10 to 16 aid deliveries per day after the August 26 Himalayan flash floods, including lifting heavy supplies (about 132 pounds per trip) and removing some bodies from flood-stricken areas.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Ars Technica
