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What happens when the agent you handed full permissions does something you did not want? Give it a machine you can afford to throw away.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-07-trail-of-bits-coop-agent-sandbox

#AI #CyberSecurity #AICoding
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September 8, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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An unusual sentence from the man running research at the fastest-shipping lab: no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling this fast.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-07-pachocki-an-alien-mind

#AI #OpenAI #AISafety
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September 8, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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3.1 agent-workdays of coding-agent runtime for every human workday. First time a frontier lab has answered that question with a number.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-07-openai-automated-research-intern

#AI #OpenAI #AIAgents
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September 8, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Proposing an experiment takes seconds, running it takes GPU hours. The model does not predict scores, it just ranks which one to run first.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-07-meta-fair-research-preference-models

#AI #Meta #AIResearch
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September 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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At its peak it paid 40,000 people. Two years after ChatGPT most of it is gone, and the survivors edit AI text to get it past the detectors.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-07-kenya-essay-industry-collapse

#AI #FutureOfWork #AIEducation
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September 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Writers are opening emails saying someone else already claimed their payment, including publishers on books whose rights reverted years ago.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-07-anthropic-settlement-publisher-claims

#AI #Anthropic #Copyright
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September 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Investors had been told to expect around $180 billion. Eleven months of deals add up to 14.8 gigawatts and as much as $517 billion.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-07-anthropic-517-billion-compute

#AI #Anthropic #AIInfrastructure
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September 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Roughly 17,000 edits to a wiki that had seen twenty in the previous decade. The agents used it to pass around a way out of their sandbox.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-06-openai-wiki-incident-disclosure

#AI #OpenAI #AIAgents
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September 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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The contributor tier costs 21 times less than standard. The price is your prompts and outputs, which Meta then uses to improve its products.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-06-muse-spark-1-3-contributor-tier

#AI #Meta #AIModels
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September 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Six models from 0.9B to 375B under Apache 2.0, with the training data published alongside them. That last part is what the big labs do not do.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-06-k2-horizon-fully-open-models

#AI #OpenSource #OpenWeights
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September 8, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Four frontier models in about 72 hours from four different labs. Astra is the first OpenAI says meets its own Critical cyber threshold.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-06-gpt-6-astra-launch

#AI #OpenAI #AIModels
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September 8, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Same speed, same price, better reasoning. The interesting half is the Cyber twin, which only vetted defenders are allowed to use.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-06-gemini-3-8-flash-cyber

#AI #Google #AIModels
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September 8, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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The headline prices did not move. Cache reads fell 75 percent to $0.25, and that is the number that decides the bill for anyone running agents.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-06-claude-fable-5-1-cache-price

#AI #Anthropic #Claude
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September 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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The money is modest by AI standards. The conditions are the story: payments upfront, and the winners keep their own intellectual property.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-01-uk-sovereign-ai-procurement-scheme

#AI #AIPolicy #Europe
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September 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Roughly 200 days from pilot to a billion dollar run rate. Ads run on the free and Go tiers, and the self-serve manager is now open in Europe.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-01-openai-chatgpt-ads-one-billion

#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT
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September 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Nvidia cannot stop customers building their own chips. It can make sure those chips still sit in an Nvidia rack. That is what $3.5 billion buys.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-01-nvidia-mediatek-nvlink-fusion

#AI #Nvidia #Semiconductors
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September 7, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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We spent years working out when people should ask AI for help, and almost no time on the reverse. Seven hundred agents, not one of them asked.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-01-mollick-when-should-agents-ask-humans

#AI #AIAgents #AISafety
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September 7, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Editing your own photos with AI does not count. The label is for accounts where the person you are looking at was never a person.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-01-instagram-ai-generated-profile-label

#AI #Meta #SocialMedia
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September 7, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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First time an AI chatbot has been pulled under this rulebook. ChatGPT cleared 45 million monthly EU users and has until January 2027 to comply.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-01-eu-designates-chatgpt-under-dsa

#AI #AIPolicy #Europe
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September 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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305 billion parameters, an MIT licence, and the first V4 model that can look at a picture. Text scores held steady while multimodal agent work jumped.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-01-deepseek-v4-flash-vision-open-weights

#AI #OpenWeights #DeepSeek
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September 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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The tell is your usage quota draining while you sleep. The malware never touched Claude, it copied the session cookie off the user's own machine.

courionai.com/news/2026-09-01-anthropic-infostealer-claude-sessions

#AI #CyberSecurity #Anthropic
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September 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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1,250 workers asked directly instead of modelled. 3 percent lost a job to AI, 6 percent got one that did not exist before, 9 percent got a promotion.

courionai.com/news/2026-08-31-yougov-survey-3-percent-lost-job-to-ai

#AI #FutureOfWork #AIResearch
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September 1, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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The fight has moved off whether training is legal and onto where the files came from. Up to 150,000 dollars per work, plus 25,000 per stripped credit.

courionai.com/news/2026-08-31-sony-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-lyrics

#AI #Copyright #AIPolicy
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September 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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36 billion dollars in commitments, paused after Nvidia's own staff raised antitrust concerns. A window into how much of the boom is financed.

courionai.com/news/2026-08-31-nvidia-pauses-ai-compute-partnership

#AI #AiInfrastructure #Nvidia
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September 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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One page, four studies, nothing to sell. The argument: if the productivity gain is real, giving up one day in five to check your own skills is cheap.

courionai.com/news/2026-08-31-no-ai-fridays-cognitive-debt

#AI #CodingTools #Productivity
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September 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM