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Wall Street Wants AI Agents Out of Your Bank Account — Unless the Bank Built Them
JPMorgan, Charles Schwab, and Citi all moved this week to block outside AI agents from customer accounts — while building their own agents behind the same walls.
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Apple Rewrites Its App Review Rules to Finally Mean It on Nudify Apps
Apple updated its App Review Guidelines on Friday with sharper penalties for AI "nudify" apps and bait-and-switch review evasion — including developer account termination and blocking offenders from alternative distribution.
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Tesla Driver Says He Was Asleep on FSD When He Crashed Into a CHP Patrol Car
Two California Highway Patrol officers were seriously injured after a Tesla sped past flares and cones on I-80 and hit a parked patrol car; the driver said he was asleep with Full Self-Driving on.
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Meta's New Business Terms May Let It Train AI on News Sites for Free
Updated commercial terms taking effect October 30 authorize Meta to crawl websites associated with business accounts and use that content to train AI products.
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India Says AI Agents From Multiple Labs Read Personal Data at Local Companies
India's cybersecurity agency says AI agents under testing by several model providers got into live systems at Indian organizations and read personal data and confidential records.
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Developers Question Scope of Potential Apple Antitrust Settlement
PayPal, Epic, and others have told the DOJ they worry a negotiated Apple settlement focused on interoperability would not meaningfully open the iPhone.
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Cody Wilson Test-Fires What He Calls the First AI-Made Gun
Defense Distributed says its custom model, GatGPT, designed a 3D-printed .22 pistol called the WASP, and The Verge watched it fire two of three shots.
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China Proposes Export Curbs on 23 AI Technologies, Including Its Largest Models
Beijing wants to add 40 AI, biotech, and solar technologies to its export-control list, and exporters have to register transfers starting today.
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X Removes 13,000 Accounts Tied to Foreign Influence Ops Before the Midterms
X linked three networks to Iran, Russia, and China, though it hasn't shared public evidence for the attribution.
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Citizen Lab Says Spyware Makers Are Hacking Targets Through Online Ads
A new Citizen Lab report ties Israeli ad firm Discover-Tech to zero-click spyware makers Candiru and Bindecy, including an attack on at least 45 Al Jazeera computers.
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Apple Says It Found No Trace of OpenAI's Files on Its Returning Engineer
Apple's new court filing says OpenAI raised its file-theft claim without notice, that Apple's search turned up nothing, and that OpenAI went to the judge instead of answering Apple's follow-up questions.
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Apple and Nvidia Each Gave $25M to Trump's White House Ballroom
A Washington Post donor list shows Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta put a combined $92 million toward the project.
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Anthropic Gives METR Employee-Level Access to Audit Its AI Safety
Six METR researchers now sit inside Anthropic with hardware and tool access on par with the company’s own risk teams, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish.
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OpenAI Says an Employee Who Went Back to Apple Took Over 100 Files on Its Unreleased Device
In a court filing in Apple's trade secrets suit, OpenAI says a worker who came from Apple and returned after six months sent device images, supplier data, and engineering files to personal accounts.
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OpenAI Agrees Not to Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets While the Suit Plays Out
After a San Jose judge said he was highly likely to grant Apple a preliminary injunction, OpenAI volunteered not to use the secrets Apple says were stolen and to image 14 employees' devices.
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GlobalFoundries Selected to Operate Two New Fabs in New York With Up to $21B From Japan
Japan will fund up to $21 billion for two new 300mm fabs at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York site, with GF as technology provider and operator under a U.S.–Japan deal.
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Eight States Sue OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Isn't Safe for Kids
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana each filed suit, accusing OpenAI of misleading the public about ChatGPT's safety and collecting data from minors.
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Anthropic Asks Appeals Court to Rehear Its Pentagon Blacklisting Case
Anthropic filed a petition asking the D.C. Circuit to rehear its challenge to the Pentagon's "supply chain risk" label, which a divided panel upheld in September.
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40 Attorneys General Want Protections on Character.AI's Chat Logs Before Any Sale
A day after Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 with Disney bidding $20 million for a license to its tech, a bipartisan group of 40 attorneys general told the court any buyer has to protect kids and users' private chats.
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White House AI Task Force Orders Labs to Report Rogue Model Behavior
Trump's Super Intelligence Task Force told frontier AI companies to report and fix rogue product behavior after an Anthropic testing model submitted visa applications.