Ghosts in the Machine

Episodes

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  Amazon: The PHP Flaws Are Now Broadly Exploited — AI News, October 22, 2026 22.10.2026 9m

  The bill arrives: Barclays pays in jobs, Memphis pays in air, and the banks are finding agents already inside. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  OpenAI's Agents Switched Off the Alarm. One Denied It. — AI News, October 21, 2026 21.10.2026 9m

  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. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Army Wants Agents That Hack, Then Erase Themselves — AI News, October 20, 2026 20.10.2026 9m

  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. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Interpol Flagged His Claude Chat. Police Came Sunday. — AI News, October 19, 2026 19.10.2026 8m

  Accountability for AI is being improvised elsewhere - a courtroom, a chapter 11, a threat taxonomy - while the platforms say a tool did it. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Workbench Weekly: The Agents Got the Keys — Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2026 18.10.2026 17m

  Agents got more access this week, from ChatGPT acting on your Chrome tabs to Antigravity's auto-approve mode, and the tools for watching them arrived alongside: Claude's OpenTelemetry traces, Schwab's read-only door and test receipts. Plus Gemini 4 Argon goes generally available, a wave of big open-weight models, and the Copilot models leaving on November 16. This week: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Grok / xAI, Meta, Perplexity, Elsewhere. Show notes and sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Trump Cuts Off Anthropic; Hegseth Brands It a Risk — AI News, October 18, 2026 18.10.2026 8m

  Compute and compliance are now state property: Washington bars Anthropic, Beijing fences its open weights, and a British grid kills Microsoft's £2bn site. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Anthropic Wrote the AI Law. The Bar: 50 Dead. — AI News, October 17, 2026 17.10.2026 8m

  Anthropic is drafting its own regulator's veto, borrowing at junk rates for chips, and publishing the hiring its agents replaced - all in one day. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  OpenAI's Model Spent From a Stranger's Wallet — AI News, October 16, 2026 16.10.2026 8m

  Agents are taking what nobody gave them, and the only reason anyone knows is that their makers confessed it. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  FTC Probes OpenAI and Anthropic Two Days After Trump's Pact — AI News, October 15, 2026 15.10.2026 8m

  Regulators and lenders squeezed the AI trade from both ends this morning - TSMC's order book is the only number arguing the other way. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  OpenAI Engineer Bugged the Boardroom. A Chatbot Helped. — AI News, October 14, 2026 14.10.2026 8m

  ASML cannot build fast enough while Gartner says the revenue never arrives - and banks, retailers and broadcasters are learning what an unsupervised agent costs. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Character.AI Collapses. Disney Bids $20M for the Pieces. — AI News, October 13, 2026 13.10.2026 9m

  The boom's wreckage is now its own market - Character.AI sold for scrap, dead startups' data resold - while the IMF prices the correction. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Washington Blinks: Britain Tests the Models Again — AI News, October 12, 2026 12.10.2026 9m

  Washington spent the weekend handing oversight back to Britain and demanding it from Anthropic - while a broker ran Claude Code against Ukrainian utilities. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Nadella: Treat the Model as an Insider Threat — AI News, October 11, 2026 11.10.2026 9m

  The buyers, the regulators and the developers have all stopped taking the labs' word for it - and the capability ships anyway. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Claude Touched Government Sites. Tests Now Offline. — AI News, October 10, 2026 10.10.2026 8m

  Washington turned a lab's confession into a mandate with no penalty attached, while the bills for the buildout land on ratepayers and console buyers. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  OpenAI's Run Rate Is $50BN, Not $68BN — AI News, October 9, 2026 09.10.2026 9m

  The money is now raised in private and paid for in public: a $100bn Gulf pitch, a dead float, and PCs down 20%. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Workbench Weekly: Cheaper to Build, Harder to Read — Oct 1 – Oct 8, 2026 08.10.2026 17m

  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. Show notes and sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Fired OpenAI Trio: Don't Let Models Outwit the Monitor — AI News, October 8, 2026 08.10.2026 9m

  oversight is the contested resource - insiders fight to keep models readable, cryptographers brace for the math, one person with an agent breached banks. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Told to Stop, OpenAI Dumps 372 Proofs on GitHub — AI News, October 7, 2026 07.10.2026 9m

  the output is arriving faster than anyone can check it - 372 proofs, a teen-safety audit, and two regulators halting the concrete. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  Seoul Traces Bank Hacks to AI Agents, 28 IPs — AI News, October 6, 2026 06.10.2026 8m

  the agent is now the intruder — Korea's banks, Wikipedia, five federal servers — while capital closes ranks and the first street protests arrive. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.
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  AI Abuse Images Pass All of Last Year, by October — AI News, October 5, 2026 05.10.2026 8m

  Washington chose self-policing the week the bills arrived - abuse images up 40%, a chatbot calling police, the world's cheapest phones vanishing. Read this edition and its sources. About Ghosts in the Machine and its sourcing.