ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send Your iMessages. Apple Is Suing OpenAI at the Same Time.
OpenAI's new Mac plugin lets ChatGPT read, search and send Apple Messages through AppleScript and Accessibility APIs, launching six weeks into Apple's active trade-secret lawsuit against the company.
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Nvidia Denies It Is Building China a Chip. It Denied the Same Thing in March.
Nvidia told Tom's Hardware a report of year-end China shipments for a Groq-based inference chip is incorrect, the second time this year the company has had to deny building one.
Federal Agencies Warn Attackers Are Writing Their Own Exploit Code for Water Plant Controllers
The NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA say attackers are using AI to write exploitation scripts against Siemens S7 controllers running water, power and chemical plant equipment.
The CFTC Wants to Regulate GPU Rental Contracts Before the First One Trades
The regulator is soliciting public input on GPU rental futures as CME, ICE and a new exchange race to launch competing contracts, with CME's first products due October 5.
Google Will Earn Its Way Into a Marvell Stake, $500 Million of Chip Orders at a Time
A new warrant lets Google earn up to $12.2 billion in Marvell stock, vesting only as it places chip orders, on an agreement that could be worth $120 billion to Marvell through 2033.
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OpenAI Paused Its Biggest Training Run Over Findings It Won't Fully Describe
Sam Altman told Time the two-week pause on Astra followed research showing degrees of misalignment, while OpenAI's own account points at a narrower cyber-capability threshold.
Pennsylvania Found Only 5 of Its 100-Plus Data Centers Actually Permitted
Governor Shapiro signed an executive order converting voluntary GRID standards into a mandatory gate, after state agencies found only 5 of over 100 proposed data centers fully permitted.
China Let 20,000 H200s Through, Then Told ByteDance and Tencent to Leave Them in Hong Kong
ByteDance and Tencent each took delivery of about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips, the first shipments at meaningful scale, with Beijing keeping the hardware off the mainland.
OpenAI Broke Up Its Preparedness Team, and a Lead There Says It Is Alive and Well
The Financial Times reported the team was dissolved at the end of July, its work split across existing groups. An OpenAI lead who runs one of those areas disputes the framing.
Nvidia Cuts Its Ohio Guarantee by More Than Half, to the First Phase Only
The guarantee behind the 10-gigawatt Piketon campus drops from roughly $250 billion to less than $120 billion and now covers only the project's first phase.
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The Watermark Removers Arrived Before the Watermark Detector
Two weeks after Anthropic began marking Claude output under the EU AI Act, removal tools have hit 13,000 GitHub stars, and no removal claim can be verified.
Document AI Models Answer Blank Images With Identities They Memorized
Researchers found that when an identity document carries no readable evidence, extraction models assemble an answer from field relationships memorized during training.