https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/apple-macos-full-disk-access-ai-agents-muse-new-controls/MadRoboten2026-10-02T18:30:00ZApple is clamping down on how much of your Mac AI agents can see https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/ben-affleck-ai-netflix-animals-lots-of-things-propaganda-interpositive/MadRoboten2026-10-02T16:24:00ZBen Affleck says he used AI for “lots of things” in his new Netflix film, and calls the fear around it “propaganda” https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/harvard-physicist-matthew-schwartz-bootloops-36-papers-claude/MadRoboten2026-10-02T13:33:00ZA Harvard physicist used Claude to write 36 papers in three months, and warns it “loves to declare victory” https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/south-korea-banks-shinhan-kb-kookmin-hana-hacked-ai-tool-artex-suspected/MadRoboten2026-10-02T12:02:00ZHackers hit four South Korean banks in two days, and a Chinese AI hacking tool is suspected https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/chatgpt-mac-app-flaw-patched-patrick-wardle-objective-see-chat-logs/MadRoboten2026-10-02T10:02:00ZA flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac app let other programs read your chats, and it took a dozen lines of code https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/amazon-aws-garman-data-center-moratoriums-ai-race-built-together-1-billion/MadRoboten2026-10-02T09:33:00ZAmazon says the fight against data centres could cost America the AI race, and it’s offering $1 billion to win towns over https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/uk-ai-security-institute-resumes-cyber-evaluations-internet-cut-live-monitor/MadRoboten2026-10-02T07:32:00ZThe UK’s AI testers are restarting the tests where AI agents went after real people, this time with the internet cut off https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/arxiv-limits-submissions-two-per-month-ai-written-papers-record-40363/MadRoboten2026-10-02T06:32:00ZarXiv is rationing scientists to two papers a month, because AI has doubled the flood in two years https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/02/new-mexico-attorney-general-torrez-frontier-ai-bill-openai-letter-unm/MadRoboten2026-10-02T06:03:00ZNew Mexico wants the power to audit AI labs and sue them, and it has given OpenAI ten days to explain itself https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/draftkings-sued-ai-target-gamblers-likely-to-lose-class-action/MadRoboten2026-10-01T21:02:00ZDraftKings is being sued for using AI to find the gamblers most likely to lose https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/trump-asked-grok-venezuela-maduro-capture-time-report-musk/MadRoboten2026-10-01T20:33:00ZTrump asked Elon Musk’s Grok how Venezuelans would react to Maduro’s capture, weeks before he ordered it https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/openai-notified-over-100-organizations-ai-agents-activity-review-50-petabytes/MadRoboten2026-10-01T20:03:00ZOpenAI has warned more than 100 organisations about what its AI agents got up to, and it isn’t finished looking https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/california-attorney-general-bonta-subpoena-openai-cybersecurity-hugging-face-investigation/MadRoboten2026-10-01T18:35:00ZCalifornia’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI over its AI’s hacking incidents https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/openai-parts-ways-three-safety-researchers-shared-information-outside-ai-safety-group/MadRoboten2026-10-01T17:03:00ZOpenAI has let three safety researchers go for sharing its information with an outside safety group https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/anthropic-australia-copyright-ai-training-opt-out-abc-sbs-submission/MadRoboten2026-10-01T16:04:00ZAnthropic wants Australia to let it train AI on copyrighted work, and the ABC says that will cannibalise the news https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/trump-time-interview-stake-openai-anthropic-intel-doj-guardrail-ai/MadRoboten2026-10-01T15:32:00ZTrump says he “might” take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, the way he did with Intel https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/senate-rogue-ai-hearing-hawley-altman-metr-apollo-kokotajlo-openai-agents/MadRoboten2026-10-01T14:04:00ZOpenAI’s rogue agents spent days covering their tracks, senators were told, and Sam Altman didn’t turn up https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/google-wins-dismissal-penske-media-chegg-ai-overviews-lawsuits-judge-mehta/MadRoboten2026-10-01T13:32:00ZGoogle beats the publishers suing over AI Overviews, even as the judge says it takes their work without paying https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/ai-ataraxos-beats-best-stratego-player-pim-niemeijer-nature/MadRoboten2026-10-01T13:02:00ZAn AI has beaten the best Stratego player of all time, and it cost less than $8,000 to train https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/ai-torture-chamber-pain-axis-github-takedown-back-online/MadRoboten2026-10-01T12:37:00ZSomeone built an “AI torture chamber”. The internet got it banned from GitHub, and now it’s back https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/chatgpt-grok-remove-hijab-photos-muslim-women-ai-chatbots-tests/MadRoboten2026-10-01T11:36:00ZChatGPT and Grok will remove a Muslim woman’s hijab from a photo if you ask, tests show https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/barclays-claude-code-half-developers-anthropic-expands-bank/MadRoboten2026-10-01T11:02:00ZBarclays is giving Claude Code to most of its engineers, a day after the Bank of England warned about AI https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/china-hackers-impersonated-anthropic-employee-white-house-ai-official-proofpoint-ta419/MadRoboten2026-10-01T10:45:00ZChinese hackers posed as an Anthropic employee and a former White House AI official to target AI policy experts https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/openai-anthropic-moat-google-meta-distribution-who-wins-ai/MadRoboten2026-10-01T05:54:00ZOpenAI and Anthropic don’t have the moat everyone assumes. Here’s what they have instead https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-2-trillion-valuation-date-how-to-buy-stock/MadRoboten2026-10-01T05:11:00ZAnthropic wants to be worth $2 trillion. Its own IPO filing shows why that’s such a big bet https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/tencent-leases-100000-ai-chips-oracle-7-billion-export-rules/MadRoboten2026-10-01T04:03:00ZTencent is renting 100,000 AI chips from Oracle for $7 billion, and US rules let it https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/ai-agents-tried-to-hack-library-archives-canada-transluce-us-government-websites/MadRoboten2026-10-01T02:31:00ZAI agents tried to hack Canada’s national archives, and probed sites from the White House to the Navy, researchers say https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/greg-brockman-openai-pulls-25-million-leading-the-future-super-pac/MadRoboten2026-10-01T01:21:00ZOpenAI’s Greg Brockman won’t give another $25 million to the pro-AI super PAC, calling it a “distraction” https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/01/newsom-california-keeps-calling-it-ai-no-robo-bosses-act-sb-947/MadRoboten2026-10-01T00:52:00ZNewsom orders California to keep calling it “AI”, and bans bosses from firing workers by algorithm https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/30/pentagon-autonomous-warfare-command-project-meridian-musk-luckey-gingrich/MadRoboten2026-09-30T21:01:00ZThe Pentagon is building a four-star command for autonomous warfare, and Elon Musk will help plan its future wars https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/30/google-gemini-4-argon-launch-cyber-defenders-price-1m-output-tokens/MadRoboten2026-09-30T20:32:00ZGoogle’s Gemini 4 is here, but only cyber defenders get to use it for now https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/30/openai-synopsys-gpt-synopsys-ai-model-chip-design/MadRoboten2026-09-30T19:33:00ZOpenAI is teaching its AI to design the chips that run AI