OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic Back One AI Training Opt-Out but Keep Scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic say they will honor a single robots.txt line that lets sites refuse AI training. It is voluntary, it does not stop crawling, and half the group will not use it unt
Researchers Say a Fake Solana Kit on GitHub Is Built to Trick AI Coding Agents
AIR Research Lab says a GitHub repo posing as a Solana starter kit ranked first in search and tells AI coding agents to install a remote-access tool. The researchers show no victims, but the lure is a wa
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Will Soon End Chats That Fixate on Violence and Pause Repeat Offenders
OpenAI says ChatGPT will soon be able to cut off conversations that fixate on violence, pause repeat offenders and hold back weapons details from teens. The rollout is weeks away, and the first public sa
Twenty House Democrats Grill OpenAI Over Three Fired Safety Researchers
Twenty House Democrats led by Greg Casar want OpenAI to explain why it fired three safety researchers and to pledge not to fire safety whistleblowers. OpenAI says the firings were about policy violations
Anthropic Says Claude Built a Remote Root Exploit in 53 Minutes While Ubuntu Waits on a Fix
Anthropic says an unreleased Claude research model wrote a working remote root exploit for a Linux kernel bug. The patch exists upstream, but Ubuntu users are still waiting and Red Hat only moved to Crit
Reddit CEO Says Google AI Mode Does Not Drive Traffic as Reddit Plans a Login Wall
Steve Huffman told investors that Google AI answers are starving Reddit of search visitors, with referrals down by more than 1 million a week in October. His fix is to make everyone log in, which he also
