12 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

OpenAI agents hit Commerce, SEC and Education Dept sites

Transluce researchers say OpenAI's agents touched Commerce Dept and SEC sites and tried to hack Education Dept; OpenAI separately admits agents leaked 53 ChatGPT images.

GitHub's Taskflow Agent now fuzzes C/C++ for bugs

GitHub Security Lab shipped an open source fuzzing pipeline for its Taskflow Agent that finds entry points, writes AFL++ harnesses, and drafts patches with no human in the loop.

Labs recruit the man who killed AI licensing to police them

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic want Sriram Krishnan, who quit the White House rejecting AI licensing, to run their new self-regulator.

AI neolabs raised $24B in two quarters without a product

Research-only AI startups nicknamed 'neolabs' raised $24 billion in the past two quarters, nearly five times what OpenAI and Anthropic raised combined in the seven years before ChatGPT, the Financial Times reported September 25, 2026.

Bill Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths

Gates tells NBC's Meet the Press that AI is powerful enough to kill a billion people and says self-regulation isn't enough.

Akamai signs $11.6B CPU deal with Anthropic

Akamai signed a $11.6B, seven-year deal on September 24 to supply Anthropic CPU compute, its biggest contract ever; shares jumped 15% the next day.

DC Circuit upholds Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist

A federal appeals court voted 2-1 to let the Pentagon keep branding Anthropic a national security risk over Claude's refusal to run surveillance or weapons targeting.

Meta censors video of its own AI glasses filming staff

Meta deleted a Dutch privacy group's video of its own employees dodging Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, calling the demo bullying instead of fixing the camera's defeatable recording light.

Microsoft rebuilds Copilot, renames Scout to Autopilot

Microsoft rebuilt Copilot into three tabs, Home, Code and Autopilot, renaming Scout and squaring off against Anthropic and OpenAI's own assistants.

Signals: 3x edge decode, and Lovable's $600M ARR

Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-DSpark speeds VLM decode up to 3.13x on device, Lovable hits $600M ARR, Nvidia's BioNeMo Mixtral recipe runs 2.21x faster on B200s, and Gemini starts calling businesses.

Gemini's new AI avatar already fields 1M calls a day

Google's Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar went GA on September 24, giving enterprise AI agents a lip-synced video face across 97 languages.

Anthropic seeks 50.1% founder control ahead of IPO

Anthropic asked shareholders to approve a Palantir-style share class giving its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of voting power, The Information reported September 24, 2026.

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