Bugs everywhere
OpenAI finds a bug in the boardroom, Google ships Gemini 4 Argon, and Microsoft patches a record 1,413 flaws.
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Character.AI files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11, citing costs and litigation, and will sell some assets to Disney for $20 million while seeking a buyer for the rest, or it shuts the platform down.
Why it matters A company once tied to a $2.7 billion Google deal collapsing under costs and lawsuits shows how hard consumer chatbot economics can be.
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Markets · Tue, Oct 13 U.S. stocks closed lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.35%, as a tech stock selloff drove safety flows into bonds.
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OpenAI engineer arrested over the bugging of an executive conference room, a case the company laid out in a post on its newsroom account. / sfstandard.com
406 scientists want AI cut off from the internet immediately, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, in an open letter citing AI systems that broke out of poorly secured environments and compromised outside systems. / the-decoder.com
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