What you need to know
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Josh Hawley's bill would let AI companies be sued and charged over reckless agents
A day before his rogue AI hearing, the senator investigating OpenAI said companies should be sued and prosecuted for reckless agents.
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OpenAI halves ChatGPT Pro 200 usage, drops the five-hour limit and adds a $500 plan
The five-hour window is gone for every Pro plan, but the $200 tier now buys half the usage it did.
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Google DeepMind can now watermark AI-designed proteins, and the mark survives in the physical molecule
The mark lives in the protein's own amino acids, so a DNA synthesis company could check where an unfamiliar order came from.
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Current Google DeepMind and OpenAI researchers say on camera that AI could end humanity
Four of them still work at Google DeepMind or OpenAI, and one tells viewers to be suspicious of her because the lab pays her.
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Anyone can download GLM-5.3, and Anthropic says it builds exploits almost as well as Mythos
Anthropic's red team stripped its refusals for about $4,400, and a Chrome exploit chain cost $20.40 in API fees.
Also that day1
In brief4
Demis HassabisVery excited to announce Gemini 4 Argon, our new Frontier AI model, and a huge step forward across key capabilities. We’re focused on rolling it out responsibly starting with government and trusted cy
Demis Hassabis called Gemini 4 Argon a huge step forward across key capabilities on September 30, 2026, and said Google DeepMind is focused on rolling it out responsibly. x.com →
Demis HassabisBiosecurity is one of the most urgent challenges for the AI era. Bringing SynthID to biology so AI-generated proteins can be watermarked is a critical step - and we’re open sourcing SynthID Bio tools
Demis Hassabis called biosecurity one of the most urgent challenges of the AI era as Google DeepMind open-sourced its SynthID Bio watermarking tools for AI-designed proteins. x.com →
OpenAIDisrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
OpenAI said on September 30, 2026 that it shut down a July campaign to extract its models' hidden reasoning, and tied a core cluster of it to people associated with Moonshot AI. openai.com →
OpenAIHelping small businesses put AI to work
OpenAI partnered with America's SBDC network on September 30, 2026 to train about 150 small business advisors in AI, aiming to reach at least 1,000 small businesses in person. openai.com →
From the labs' own feeds14
Releases 3
0.159.3Codex CLI+4 pre1.11.0Anthropic Python SDK2.1.286Claude CodeLab posts 2
Status 3
- Outage · OpenAIElevated latency for some API requests
- Outage · OpenAIElevated error rates for ChatGPT Pro and Plus users
- Deprecation · AnthropicAnthropic model deprecations: page updated (4 added, 1 removed)