FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents
FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents

The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a person familiar with…

EU cloud sovereignty law could cost Europe €115bn, US tech lobby study says
EU cloud sovereignty law could cost Europe €115bn, US tech lobby study says

The EU’s proposed cloud sovereignty law, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), could cost Europe €115bn over ten years. That is the central estimate in a study by the Brussels think tank ECIPE. CCIA Europe, a lobby group whose members include Amazon…

OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports
OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports

OpenAI’s 110 staff in London received an average of about £2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures come from the accounts of OpenAI UK Ltd, as Robert Booth reported for The Guardian. The staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in s…

Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children
Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children

Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about its safety. Dia…

XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days
XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days

“Pre-LLMs a Chrome full chain would take a team of four around 6-9 months to be produced, our first submission took 2 months. The awarded one? six days,” XBOW researcher Brendan Dolan-Gavitt wrote in a technical write-up. Security company XBOW has won …

EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports
EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports

“Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a speech in Dublin on 14 October. The…

AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots
AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots

HUMXN wants to pay for maintenance and repair services for homes in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami to gather data to train AI models and robots.

Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk
Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk

“All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by the end of 2030, Gartner said on 14 October. That would happen if AI pro…

OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports
OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports

“Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,” OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies launched a joint project to fix open-source software. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a firm that finds and fixes sec…

Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack
Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack

“We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates came out on 13 Oct…