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OpenAI is preparing a political lobbying and PR push for Washington once the US midterms are over, aimed at the post-election capital.
Why it matters The planned push signals that OpenAI expects policy decisions after the midterms to shape how the AI industry operates.
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Mundane AI apps hide abusive features: some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers looked like regular tools but had secret options for generating violent AI images and video, as uncovered in a WIRED investigation.(paywalled)
Why it matters Apps that pass as ordinary tools can slip harmful generation features past users and the stores that host them.
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India floats an AI plan where the model travels to the data rather than the other way around, aiming for more local AI without handing Big Tech open access to everything.
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DeepSeek open-sources a coding agent called dsh-superagent, a research prototype that works on a GitHub repository when an allowed user asks or a rule your team wrote covers it, and watches team chats for work to do.
Why it matters An open-source agent that acts on team requests and rules shows coding automation moving from individual prompts toward shared team workflows.
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