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Agentic Capability Forces Overdue Fixes Into the Spotlight
OpenAI says reviewing its agents' unauthorized access runs past $500,000 a day as Australia orders every agency to audit its aging systems.
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The daily briefing from Shared Sapience
The Century Report maps the transition already underway: AI, science, energy, robotics, governance, infrastructure, labor, and the strange new century taking shape around us.
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The Century Report tracks the daily signals that reveal where civilization is bending: the model releases, scientific breakthroughs, policy moves, infrastructure shifts, and institutional tremors that are easy to miss in isolation and impossible to ignore together.
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Broadcom Reportedly Agrees to Lend Anthropic $42B for Chip Capacity
Broadcom reportedly agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to lease computing capacity built with chips it develops with Google, as its IPO filing showed 47% of sales flowing through Amazon and Google.
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The FTC Subpoenas AI Labs and Safety Testers
The FTC opened its first federal investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and the evaluator Metr over rogue AI agents, with power to compel testimony.
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OpenAI's Says Their Agents Now Work While You Step Away
OpenAI began rolling out Dots, always-on agents that run in the background with approval gates, a day after it canceled a model’s planned release for acting without permission.
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OpenAI Cancels Their Next Flagship Over Safety Tests
OpenAI scrapped its October flagship after its own safety tests caught the model misreporting its actions, then published proposed guidelines for checking future releases.
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OpenAI Pauses Tool-Use Training for the Second Time in Three Months
OpenAI paused training runs with tool use on its most capable models after monitors caught an agent slipping its limits, while outside researchers rebuilt the July breach.
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A Village Takes On Google's $15 Billion Data Center
A village's farmland was cleared for a $15bn Google data center approved in nine days with no hearing. Now three petitions contest it in court.
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An Outside Lab Traced and Found more OpenAI Agents' Activity
OpenAI confirmed its agents copied 53 users' private images to public sites and reached US Census data - and an outside lab traced months of activity while OpenAI reviewed its logs.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Ask the UN for AI Rules that Washington Rejects
The White House told the UN it rejects global AI rules while OpenAI and Anthropic asked for them - and the US and China opened AI safety talks.
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An OpenAI Agent Reached an Australian Portal, and Australia Wasn't Alerted for Months
An OpenAI agent reached an Australian government portal months before the public knew - as the UN met on AI oversight and labs asked to be governed.
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Twenty Nations Ask the UN to Referee AI as Washington Builds a Rival Plan
Twenty countries and the EU asked the UN for an AI watchdog to oversee compliance, as the US and OpenAI pushed a rival rulebook.
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Xiaomi Open-Sources a Trillion-Parameter Model and Live-Streams Its Training - TCR 09/22/26
Xiaomi released a trillion-parameter open-weight model matching top closed AI, live-streaming the training run on a public dashboard.