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Federal prosecutors accuse Abdulrahman Alfozan of planning a covert recording operation at OpenAI with help from chatbot queries. The company says it found no indication that model weights, source code or customer data were improperly accessed or removed, while the criminal case proceeds in federal court.
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Junaid Khan left Microsoft after earning more than $200,000 in salary, stock and bonuses in 2024. He is now running Treasury alone, without a co-founder or external funding, and has generated $6,000 in revenue while relying on his earlier savings instead of taking a salary.
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Humans First, chaired by former Tea Party leader Amy Kremer, is planning 120 protests against data centers across 37 states on Saturday. The campaign is urging local, state and federal politicians to oppose what organizers describe as corporate subsidies, favorable agreements and taxpayer bailouts linked to data-center development.
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A bipartisan group of four U.S. senators has introduced the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, seeking faster federal approval for solar farms, power lines and oil and gas pipelines. The proposal targets infrastructure needed to meet rising electricity demand, with data center construction identified as a major driver of that growth.
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has announced that the company's AIForce agent platform will now be called SIForce. The change follows a September 29 executive order directing federal agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in official documents and websites, although the order does not cover private companies.
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A University of British Columbia, Okanagan paper maps how SKILL.md files spread across GitHub and finds a fragmented supply chain with no registry, versioning or provenance system. The research shows that updates rarely reach copied files, while star counts miss most later high-risk skill adoptions.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged companies deploying advanced artificial intelligence to assume models could be compromised and build controls that let authorised people pause or shut them down. His recommendations include independent audits, tamper-proof activity records, multiple models for critical decisions and broader disclosure of serious failures.
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Japan's National Cybersecurity Strategy Headquarters held an emergency meeting Friday after cyberattacks affected more than 20 prominent companies, including Lawson, Times Car and JR East. Officials said the attacks compromised tens of millions of customer records, while JR East reported exposure involving 1.67M email addresses.
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Donald Trump wants US agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” in official communications. China's established term, rengong zhineng, places human work at the centre, revealing how names can shape debates about technology, labour and the future of intelligent machines.
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Google Cloud says each Gemini coworker agent created by an enterprise will receive its own Workspace account, including an email address, calendar, Drive storage and a place in the company directory. The setup is designed to let employees delegate work to the agent as they would to a human colleague.
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Congress leaders met Ankita Bhandari's parents during their protest at India Gate in Delhi. Congress leader Alka Lamba said the family had returned to seek justice and criticised the appointment of Dushyant Gautam to the Raj Bhawan of Sikkim, saying the President had given assent.
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Ankita Bhandari's parents protested near India Gate on Wednesday, while Uttarakhand's Pushkar Singh Dhami-led government said the accused had been sentenced to life imprisonment. The government described the development as evidence of its stated commitment to pursuing punishment in the case, which concerns Bhandari's alleged murder at a resort in Uttarakhand in 2022.
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Jabalpur Chief Medical Officer Dr. Naveen Kothari said the licences of two hospitals were suspended after an inspection linked to the fire at Shalby Hospital. Authorities are awaiting updated electrical-audit reports from the Health Department, municipal building officials and the Municipal Corporation's Fire Department before the next step.
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Jio Platforms, the digital services major, will open its initial public offering for subscription from October 21 to October 23, according to a regulatory filing. The filing confirms the subscription window for the proposed offering, giving prospective subscribers the dates on which they can participate.
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Speaking in Bhubaneswar, BJP MP Anita Subhadarshini backed Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and questioned whether a group of 1,500 people could represent a nation of 1.4 billion. She also linked the political dispute to JNU, Parliament and a demand for justice.
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Entrepreneur and social media activist Vikas Pandey says a court notice and summons were pasted outside YouTuber Dhruv Rathee's Gurugram home after Rathee allegedly did not appear in a case linked to videos and s from 8 years ago.
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The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has begun a campaign outside Shivtirth in Mumbai after a signature drive. Party leader Sandeep Deshpande said the initiative is intended to convey public grievances about what he called the “atrocities of election commission” and demand that Gyanesh leave his position.
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An FIR has been registered after a complaint about the theft of cancer injections from the Delhi State Cancer Institute. Shahdara DCP Rajendra Pal Meena said the department would confirm the exact cost, while the approximate market price was stated as Rs. 30,000–40,000.
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Prateek Som, a 2024 Harvard Kennedy School alumnus, says an open letter by Harvard alumni is a collective statement rather than an institutional position. He says the appeal urges allegiance to India's Constitution and national interest while defending protest rights and warning against intimidation of constitutional authorities or disregard for the rule of law.
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Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand said organisers must apply in advance for torchlight processions so authorities can assess the event, timing, route, expected attendance and possible traffic effects. He also warned that s alone cannot guide law-and-order planning or justify permission for a procession.
