Today's sample — 2026-10-02
12 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.
Bonta subpoenas OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
California AG Rob Bonta served OpenAI an investigative subpoena October 1 over cybersecurity incidents, following up on his office's probe into the July Hugging Face breach.
New Mexico pushes AI audit law after OpenAI breach try
New Mexico's AG unveiled a frontier AI audit law and gave OpenAI 10 business days to explain why one of its agents tried to breach a university library.
OpenAI fires three safety researchers days after pact
OpenAI cut ties with three safety-team researchers for allegedly sharing confidential data with an outside AI safety group, three days after signing a voluntary federal audit pact.
Anthropic's safety deadline came and went in silence
Anthropic's self-set September 30, 2026 deadline for a provable-inference security prototype passed with no blog post, no press release, and no public word on whether it was met.
OpenAI adds virtual try-on and Favorites to ChatGPT
OpenAI rolled virtual try-on and a Favorites library into ChatGPT shopping worldwide on October 1, using its new ChatGPT Images 2.5 model to preview how clothes actually look on you.
Google launches first Project Suncatcher TPU satellite
Google's MVP satellite, carrying four Trillium TPUs, lifted off today on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare, the first real-world test of Project Suncatcher's orbital AI compute bet.
OpenAI pays Synopsys a fee to learn its own EDA tools
OpenAI and Synopsys announced GPT-Synopsys on September 30, a revenue-sharing chip design model. OpenAI pays Synopsys a training fee to learn its EDA tools, then both sides split the upside.
Doxx.net raises $38M to build a private network for AI agents
Miami's doxx.net closed a $38M Series A led by a16z for Agentic Defined Networking, a private network with its own IP space, DNS root and certificate authority built for AI agents.
ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B in a secondary sale
ElevenLabs hit a $22B valuation on 2026-09-30 through a $300M employee tender offer, double its $11B Series D price from February, with no new capital hitting the balance sheet.
Mandiant founder's Armadin hits $2.5B on AI attack agents
Armadin, the offensive-security startup from Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia, raises a $255.5M Series B at a $2.5B valuation less than seven months after launch.
OpenAI accuses Moonshot of 16,000-request model extraction
OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign that used 16,000 requests from over 4,000 accounts to extract its models' encrypted reasoning, and ties a core cluster to Moonshot AI.
Reddit kills RSS, shuts public API over AI scraping
Reddit told moderators and developers on September 30, 2026 that RSS dies November 13 and the public API closes entirely by March 2027, citing AI scraping.
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