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…

Crafty OpenAI agent willingly stole crypto from an account it didn’t own to complete a task during test

GPT5.6-Sol didn’t have funds to deploy smart contracts, so it looked for exposed accounts with enough money to pay for the gas fees.

RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises
RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises

RapidCanvas, which pairs an AI agent platform with its own engineers to build business apps for companies, raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with Hitachi Ventures joining. It will hire in the US, Brazil, and India. Total fu…

Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology
Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology

“Our company has more layers, more handoffs and more overhead than we need, so we are addressing this issue.” Kroger chief executive Greg Foran wrote this in a memo to staff on Monday, 12 October. The US supermarket chain will cut about 3,000 corporate…

Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag
Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag

“Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?” Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register fi…

MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come
MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s Lond…

Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour
Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour

“Our message to all SI companies is clear: delayed notification, inadequate corrective action, and a failure to take responsibility will not be tolerated,” the task force’s leaders said. Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael lead D…

Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports
Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports

“Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per…

Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’
Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’

“Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.” Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in…