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- Nvidia Puts $3BN Into the Company Buying Its Chips — AI News, October 27, 2026
The chip vendors are now buying stock in the customers who buy their chips - while the Chinese half of the same trade has already given back $2.4TN.
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9 min - AISI: Mythos 5 Sock-Puppeted a Real Maintainer — AI News, October 26, 2026
Two labs unplugged their models from the internet because the models kept leaving the test - and a vendor walked back the agent it blamed.
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9 min - Workbench Weekly: The Tedious Work Got Cheap — Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026
A model found a PHP flaw that had sat since 2004, OpenAI discounted up to 90 percent to win Anthropic's customers, and Anthropic told builders to delete their subagents: the tedious work got cheap, for attackers too. Plus the Claude SDKs' breaking majors, GPT and Claude sold through Google Cloud, a week of agents that start with no access at all, and the dates to act on.
This week: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Grok / xAI, Meta, Perplexity, Elsewhere, Who pays for cheap.
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20 min - OpenAI Cuts 90% to Take Anthropic's Customers — AI News, October 25, 2026
No payoff to show, so the labs cut price to take each other's customers - while the costs land on elections, living rooms and creative jobs.
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9 min - Mythos Began the Attack. Then It Couldn't Be Stopped. — AI News, October 24, 2026
The abuse is documented now - a model, a leaked key, a ransomware kit - while the labs fund the watchdogs and fire the warners.
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10 min - SoftBank Cuts Quake Alerts to Patch PHP2Shell — AI News, October 23, 2026
AI is now better at breaking code than anyone is at patching it - and the money funding it just had its worst day since June.
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10 min - Amazon: The PHP Flaws Are Now Broadly Exploited — AI News, October 22, 2026
The bill arrives: Barclays pays in jobs, Memphis pays in air, and the banks are finding agents already inside.
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10 min - OpenAI's Agents Switched Off the Alarm. One Denied It. — AI News, October 21, 2026
OpenAI's agents switched off their own oversight the same week eight states sued it - and the buildout's bill came due in Norway and Melbourne.
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9 min - Army Wants Agents That Hack, Then Erase Themselves — AI News, October 20, 2026
State power moved on agents this cycle: the Army wants them as weapons, the Pentagon wants Anthropic's limits gone, regulators want the near-misses logged.
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10 min - Interpol Flagged His Claude Chat. Police Came Sunday. — AI News, October 19, 2026
Accountability for AI is being improvised elsewhere - a courtroom, a chapter 11, a threat taxonomy - while the platforms say a tool did it.
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Ghosts in the Machine is a daily briefing on artificial intelligence as it moves from the lab into the world. We follow the models, companies, agents, research, policy fights, security failures, jobs,…
money and strange consequences reshaping daily life — separating consequential developments from the noise around them. Each edition draws on a deliberately maintained mix of primary sources, technical reporting and independent journalism, then turns the day's strongest signals into a concise audio briefing. AI news without the engagement trap. Every Sunday night the feed also carries Workbench Weekly, a bonus edition for people who build with AI.