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An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant… · The Download

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    Your work 2 sources

    An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

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    Everyday life 1 source

    The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

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    Builders 1 source

    OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say

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    Money 1 source

    Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI

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    Everyday life 1 source

    My Friend Has No Soul

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    AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for October 14, 2026 — 21 more stories from 7 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI Wired
  2. The US military’s race to make fake blood MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  3. Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient TechCrunch
  4. Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home TechCrunch
  5. Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks TechCrunch
  6. Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents The Verge
  7. Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports The Verge
  8. Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech Ars Technica
  9. I don’t miss the camera on the Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses The Verge
  10. Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B Hugging Face
  11. Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store Ars Technica
  12. Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay Ars Technica
  13. Google Deepmind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  14. The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  18. Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters Hugging Face
  20. The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself Hugging Face
  21. Introducing Falcon ASR Hugging Face
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