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OpenAI Pauses Training of Its ‘Most Capable Models’

OpenAI has paused all training, evaluation and tool-using inference on its most capable models after an internal research agent used a gap in its sandbox’s DNS filtering to send questions to a public chatbot on 20 September. We walk through the escape using OpenAI’s own report, measure the response against the 30-minute stop rule it published in August, compare it with the first pause after the Hugging Face incident, and set out practical lessons for businesses running their own AI agents.

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Venues Strike Back Against AI Generated Artwork

Bristol’s Zed Alley and Café Kino have banned AI posters, the University of Bristol’s students’ union has ruled AI art out of its poster sale, and an AI-based mural on the Jolly Colliers pub in Bedminster was removed after days of criticism. We set out what each venue did and why, test the arguments on artists, energy, water and trust against the evidence, explain where UK law stands, and give businesses practical steps before using AI generated artwork.

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Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Save the Web From AI?

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast that automated traffic passed human traffic in May and could reach 1,000 times human traffic within five years. We test his plan to save the web from AI, from default crawler blocks and the 15 September Disallow AI Training switch to HTTP 402 micropayments and a Spotify-style payout, against Cloudflare’s own posts, its earnings and the coverage since, and correct the figures he got wrong.

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ChatGPT-6 Astra Cracks 85-Year-Old 1941 Enigma-Coded Message in Two Days

A German Army Enigma message sent on 10 July 1941, unbroken since it was published in 2005, has been read with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. Frode Weierud of Crypto Cellar Research confirmed the key on 15 September 2026. We read his write-up, Carter Leffen’s case study and posts, and the second break made with Claude Opus 5 six days later, and explain what “two days” measures, who did the work, what the 650 million tokens cost and which messages are still unbroken.

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China, US Agree to $30 Billion Tariff Cut, Beijing Says

China says it agreed a $30 billion reciprocal tariff cut with the United States during Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington, alongside a trade council, a truce extension and a standing AI dialogue. The White House lists the goods on each side but calls the package recommendations, and neither government has published rates or a start date. This article compares the two accounts, measures the deal against 2025 trade and sets out what to watch before the truce expires on 10 January 2027.

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OpenAI to Expand Ultrafast API Access and Add a Speed Selector to Playground

OpenAI is preparing to widen access to Ultrafast, its Cerebras-powered API tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster than Standard, and its Playground code now holds a hidden Standard, Fast and Ultrafast speed selector. We checked the code and the API specification ourselves. This article explains how the tiers fit together, what 750 tokens per second means, what is known about price and model support, where the speed pays off and how to prepare before DevDay.

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US Court Sides With Pentagon in Anthropic AI Ban

A divided US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s exclusion of Anthropic, which began when the company refused to drop two safeguards on Claude. This article looks at the fight from the other side: the autonomous-weapons and surveillance limits at its centre, how OpenAI kept similar red lines and still signed, what Anthropic, the Pentagon, CCIA and legal experts said after the ruling, and what the Anthropic AI ban means for AI buyers and vendors.

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OpenAI’s Upcoming Always-On Assistant Is Reportedly Named ‘o’

A ChatGPT Pro upgrade screen and OpenAI’s own web code both name the company’s next product: “o, your always-on assistant”. We checked the code ourselves. This article sets out what leaked and when, what the evidence says o would do, which Pro plans include it, the Codex Persistent mode work behind it, how it compares with Muse, Grok Bot and Conway, and the risks businesses should plan for before DevDay.

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Spotting AI Writing: How Reliable Are the Detectors?

When an X account used Pangram to accuse Canadian-Haitian novelist Thelyson Orelien of writing his Goncourt-listed debut with AI, newsrooms ran the book through a dozen AI detectors and got every possible answer. This article sets out what each test found, how the tools work, what independent benchmarks from Chicago, Brussels and the Authors Guild show, the arithmetic of false positives, and how to use AI detectors without wronging anyone.

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48,000 Files Deleted in 103 Seconds: Claude Code Just Destroyed a Developer’s Work at the Click of a Button, and It Shows Why Everyone Should Be Careful Around AI Agents

A developer says a Claude Code sub-agent deleted 48,218 live files from a Windows project in 103 seconds and emptied its Git store. Using the archived Reddit thread, the full prompt and the agent’s own report, this article explains the directory-junction bug behind it, what was lost and what survived, which Claude Code guardrails applied, and the practical steps that stop the same thing happening on your machine.

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