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Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security

OpenAI quadruples bug bounty payouts and launches new internal security sprint. Critical vulnerabilities in core products like ChatGPT or Codex now earn outside researchers up to $30,000, the company ...
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Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers

Goldman Sachs is pulling AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot from traders and bankers, limiting access to engineers only. As recently as July, CIO Marco Argenti publicly praised "vibe ...
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AI elites might hoard intelligence like mercantilists hoarded gold

Engineer Venkatesh Rao compares the fear of AI job losses to mercantilism: intelligence is treated as a scarce resource that elites want to control. But AI could boost demand for human thinking, much ...
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SpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product

SpaceXSI is apparently cutting usage limits for its AI agent Grok Bot, less than two weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product. The operating costs were "unsustainably high relative to ...
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Anthropic grows revenue twelvefold but posts $23 billion loss

Anthropic swings back to an operating loss ahead of its blockbuster IPO. According to Bloomberg, the company posted quarterly revenue of nearly $17 billion, twelve times what it brought in a year ...
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Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal

Saudi Aramco is buying into Humain, the company meant to turn Saudi Arabia into a global AI hub. According to Aramco, the oil ...
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OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington

OpenAI is gearing up for a political lobbying and PR push after the US midterms. According to Axios, the company is bracing for a tougher fight in Washington if Democrats win control of the House.
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers Goldman Sachs has cut off most of its employees from advanced AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and ...
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Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would

Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of ...
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Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners

Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, ...
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Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work

A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up ...
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OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing

OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. More complex models ...