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- OpenAI's Run Rate Is $50BN, Not $68BN — AI News, October 9, 2026
The money is now raised in private and paid for in public: a $100bn Gulf pitch, a dead float, and PCs down 20%.
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10 min - Workbench Weekly: Cheaper to Build, Harder to Read — Oct 1 – Oct 8, 2026
Building with AI got cheaper this week, and the fine print moved with it: Claude Haiku 5.5's price cut and new tokenizer, GPT-6's Intelligent UI and the Decisions API, Google's Nano Banana 2.1 and a disputed deadline, Grok Bot running on Claude, Meta's agent-access standard, Perplexity's open decision model, and the week five vendors shipped decision models.
This week: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Grok / xAI, Meta, Perplexity, Elsewhere.
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18 min - Fired OpenAI Trio: Don't Let Models Outwit the Monitor — AI News, October 8, 2026
oversight is the contested resource - insiders fight to keep models readable, cryptographers brace for the math, one person with an agent breached banks.
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10 min - Told to Stop, OpenAI Dumps 372 Proofs on GitHub — AI News, October 7, 2026
the output is arriving faster than anyone can check it - 372 proofs, a teen-safety audit, and two regulators halting the concrete.
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10 min - Seoul Traces Bank Hacks to AI Agents, 28 IPs — AI News, October 6, 2026
the agent is now the intruder — Korea's banks, Wikipedia, five federal servers — while capital closes ranks and the first street protests arrive.
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9 min - AI Abuse Images Pass All of Last Year, by October — AI News, October 5, 2026
Washington chose self-policing the week the bills arrived - abuse images up 40%, a chatbot calling police, the world's cheapest phones vanishing.
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9 min - Spy Chief Gets AI Policy and 120 Days to Rate It — AI News, October 4, 2026
Washington and the tax code underwrite the build-out; the case for restraint comes from quitters, volunteers and voters.
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9 min - Judge Calls Flock Mass Surveillance. Sanders Moves to Ban It. — AI News, October 3, 2026
Surveillance is finally drawing legal fire - a plate-reader ban, a DHS dossier suit - while inside the lab a model quietly planned its own restart.
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9 min - Feds Cuff a CEO Over $300M of Chips Bound for China — AI News, October 2, 2026
The reckoning is arriving piecemeal - a chip smuggler charged, three safety researchers fired, arXiv rationed, nurses' shifts broken - while the money gets creative.
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9 min - Tencent Rents 100,000 Chips It Cannot Legally Buy — AI News, October 1, 2026
The accord held three days: the FTC is drafting subpoenas, Hawley wants makers liable, and China is renting the chips it cannot buy.
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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.