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📍 Oct 6, 2026 · Tuesday

● OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarki…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-06 02:08

● Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "othe…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-06 01:54

● OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci con…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-06 01:32

● Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-06 01:29

● HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become

HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-06 00:43
📍 Oct 5, 2026 · Monday

● NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment

New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-05 02:00

● An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-05 00:47
📍 Oct 4, 2026 · Sunday

● Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’

Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi I…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-04 00:49

● OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-04 00:30
📍 Oct 3, 2026 · Saturday

● Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and b…

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-03 02:11

● Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that Preside…

Source: TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-03 01:56

● OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner

It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots fe…

Source: The Verge · 2026-10-03 01:56