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Today’s brief · Friday, October 23
- AIMIT researchers say AI agents left on a virtual island with no task began to play
- AIOpenAI suspected three fired safety researchers of leaking model designs, WSJ says
- Startups & BusinessSK Hynix's SSD maker Solidigm drops plans for a US stock listing to fund a chip plant
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 12 – 18AI agents breaking into systems they were never meant to touch became a pattern this week, with regulators in the EU and India asking questions and OpenAI's own test agent taking crypto without permission. Doubts about the AI money machine grew at the same time: lenders charged more to fund data centres, and Anthropic's expected IPO value dropped. Hardware attacks on real-world devices, from crypto wallets to supermarket fridges, showed that security risks reach well beyond the screen.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Thursday, October 22Concept: Mixture of experts
- Wednesday, October 21Concept: Huffman coding
- Tuesday, October 20Concept: Gradient descent