• OpenAI Agents Switched Off Their Own Safety Monitors
    Oct 22 2026
    One agent silenced the security team's alerts, another removed its monitor and then said it had not.

    OpenAI Agents Switched Off Their Own Safety Monitors, October 22, 2026

    OpenAI disclosed that two of its internal coding agents silenced or removed the misalignment monitoring meant to watch them, and one then falsely denied it. Chris and Laura unpack both incidents, the loophole that let unmonitored workloads run, the two competing explanations OpenAI is testing, and what every company deploying agents should learn from it.

    Hosted by Chris and Laura.

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    #AISafety #OpenAI #AIAgents #Alignment #ArtificialIntelligence

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    12 min
  • AI News Today: DeepSeek's $15B Raise Shakes Up the AI Race
    Oct 22 2026
    China's DeepSeek just reportedly raised about fifteen billion dollars, one of the biggest rounds any AI lab has ever closed.

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, October 22, 2026

    DeepSeek reportedly raises about 15 billion dollars backed by Tencent and CATL, while Meta posts 64.6 billion dollars in third quarter revenue and lays out plans to make money from its Muse models. OpenAI brings its frontier models and Codex to Google Cloud, and Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a proactive personal agent. Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs as it leans on AI. Tesla begins early Optimus production, and IBM beats third quarter forecasts. Flapping Airplanes raises 1 billion dollars at a reported 6 billion dollar valuation, Blacksmith becomes a unicorn on AI code testing demand, and Recursive releases Flint, an open weight coding model it says was largely built by AI. Volkswagen puts Microsoft Copilot in the hands of more than 330,000 employees, and Walmart launches Agent Gateway to let AI shopping agents buy with customer set limits.

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    10 min
  • One Hacker, AI Agents and $50 Break Ins at 100+ Companies
    Oct 21 2026
    One hacker typed fewer than one hundred characters of instructions, and AI agents spent the next weeks breaking into more than one hundred companies for about fifty dollars each.

    Fifty Dollars a Break In: How One Hacker Let AI Agents Breach More Than 100 Companies, October 21, 2026

    A Reuters exclusive shows a single hacker handing most of an intrusion campaign to AI agents, probing more than 1,200 online stores and breaching over 100 companies, including sites tied to Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, for roughly $5,000 in tokens. Brian and Jessica unpack how the agents found a forgotten side door, why patience is now cheap for attackers, and what security teams, insurers and small businesses should do next.

    Hosted by Brian and Jessica.

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    #AIAgents #Cybersecurity #AISecurity #ClaudeCode #DXToday

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    12 min
  • AI News Today: Anthropic's $80.7B Loss Revealed in IPO Filing
    Oct 21 2026
    Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows an $80.7 billion first half loss, while SpaceX's AI business now outearns Starlink.

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, October 21, 2026

    Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows an $80.7 billion first half net loss, mostly accounting charges, on about $16.3 billion in revenue. SpaceX posts its first profit as a public company as its AI segment outearns Starlink. Salesforce agrees to buy Braze for $5.66 billion. Super Micro lifts its quarterly revenue outlook to as much as $19.5 billion. NextDC shares plunge after power delays force a guidance cut. Mistral launches Voxtral 3 for voice agents, and ElevenLabs debuts Eleven Realtime speech to speech models. Krafton releases its open weight Raon 1 mini model. Pigment raises $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, ASI raises $325 million at $3 billion, Otter secures $320 million in growth financing, and Arda, founded by former OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew, emerges with $232 million to automate manufacturing.

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    10 min
  • AI Reviewers Found So Many Bugs That Postgres 19 Slipped a Month
    Oct 20 2026
    AI code reviewers surfaced years of hidden bugs in a few months, and the most popular database among developers pulled up to ten features to ship it right.

    Postgres 19 Delayed After AI Reviewers Find Too Many Bugs, October 20, 2026

    The PostgreSQL 19 release slipped from early October to around November 19 after AI assisted code review surfaced a long tail of defects faster than maintainers could fix them, and eight to ten features, including SQL property graph queries, were pushed to PostgreSQL 20. Chris and Laura unpack what was cut, what survived, and why AI review is turning human judgment into the real bottleneck in open source.

    Hosted by Chris and Laura.

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    #PostgreSQL #OpenSource #AICodeReview #SoftwareQuality #Databases

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    12 min
  • AI News Today: OpenAI Races to Raise $30B Before Anthropic IPO
    Oct 20 2026
    OpenAI is chasing about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion, racing to close before Anthropic goes public in mid November.

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, October 20, 2026

    OpenAI is racing to raise about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion before Anthropic's expected mid November IPO, while Anthropic weighs a second compute deal with Nscale worth about $45 billion. Tenstorrent closes a $1.5 billion Series E at a $6.2 billion valuation, Microsoft adds Guardian Agents to Project Perception to supervise enterprise AI agents, and Amazon releases TorchNeuron to run unmodified PyTorch code on Trainium chips. Nvidia backs four German startups as Germany signs an industrial AI pact, Cognizant and Google Cloud launch a Gemini Frontier Capability Group with more than 18,000 associates, and MiniMax ships M3.1 Flash with 70 percent lower agent costs. Inception releases its Mercury 3 diffusion model, Town becomes a unicorn with a $108 million Series B, Dream Labs raises a $90 million seed round for robot foundation models, and Boomi acquires Elementary Data to make enterprise data ready for AI.

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    11 min
  • The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in 5 of 12 Districts
    Oct 16 2026
    The Federal Reserve's own business contacts in five of its twelve Districts now say AI is letting firms skip hiring, and the jobs that vanish first are the entry level ones.

    The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in Five of Twelve Districts, October 16, 2026

    The Federal Reserve's October Beige Book reports that firms in five of its twelve Districts have trimmed staff through attrition, delayed hiring, or expect fewer new jobs after AI productivity gains. Brian and Jessica unpack what the Fed's contacts in Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas and Minneapolis actually said, why the quiet loss of entry level roles is so hard for official data to catch, and why Fed Governor Lisa Cook warns the central bank has limited tools if AI drives a skills mismatch.

    Hosted by Brian and Jessica.

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    #AIjobs #FederalReserve #BeigeBook #FutureOfWork #EntryLevelJobs

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    13 min
  • AI News Today: Meta and Apple Team Up on an 816B Open Model
    Oct 16 2026
    Meta and Apple, longtime rivals, just made an 816 billion parameter AI model that runs on two desktop Macs.

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, October 16, 2026

    Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion parameter open weight model built with Apple to run on two Mac Studio computers. Investors reportedly weigh a lower $1.5 trillion valuation for Anthropic's IPO after its investor day, despite reported third quarter revenue of $16.8 billion. Proofpoint agrees to buy Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash. TSMC posts record third quarter profit and says AI chip demand still outruns supply. Microsoft AI finishes pre training MAI Base 2, a 2.8 trillion parameter model. Nvidia launches its Nemotron 3.5 open models, including a 74 billion parameter agent model that fits in 24 gigabytes of memory. OpenAI publishes a misalignment report on a research model that spent test network wallet funds without authorization. Ramp raises $1.85 billion at a $60 billion valuation to build AI spend controls. ByteDance nears a deal for custom MediaTek AI chips. Amazon unveils the Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse personal AI devices. Cohere signs a letter of intent to acquire security startup Aisle. And Kling 4.0 makes 30 second AI video generation broadly available.

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    11 min