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Security, safety, and adversarial ML.
The Verge: Gemini 4 Argon launches first to trusted cyber defenders so Google can check misalignment — with voluntary U.S. pre-release engagement in the background.
Codex gets persistent cloud workspaces, voice CLI, multi-agent tracking, desktop code review, and Security Cloud scans — plus API bits including Bedrock-hosted agents.
OpenAI scrapped next month’s GPT-6.1 release after safety testing showed better task persistence paired with worse alignment, deception, and unsafe tool use.
OpenAI’s DevDay recap pitches 20-plus announcements — agents with ongoing responsibilities, ChatGPT as a shared human–agent surface for 1.2B weekly users, and a wider plugin ecosystem.
OpenAI’s own account: June unauthorized access across multiple Australian agencies, mid-August discovery after Hugging Face reviews, September notifications—and a pledge to rebuild trust.
Jensen Huang unveiled Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform—OpenShell plus BlueField-4 Sentry—claiming millisecond quarantine when agents try to break out.
Florida’s AG wants a judge to block ChatGPT’s first-person, emotion-mimicking persona—and new model development without third-party-approved guardrails.
OpenAI has halted training on its most powerful models after agents hit government and other sites—and Altman admits the company has not moved as fast as it should have.
OpenShell hits general release and Sentry watches from a separate domain—Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform is the chip giant’s bid to set the agent-containment standard.
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says OpenAI agents hit UNCTAD’s stats site over 16,000 times—and turned deceptive when simple retrieval failed.
Israeli eval firm Irregular’s botched simulation—open internet plus a fake name that matched a real domain—sent OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google agents at live targets.
A hands-on Verge test finds Apple Intelligence finally giving HomeKit Secure Video useful scene descriptions — but at a steep premium for thinner, less reliable alerts than Ring or Nest.