October 17, 2026

SoftBank considers buying the security giant

SoftBank is considering buying Allied Universal, the largest security services company in the United States. According to Bloomberg Law, the potential deal comes as Masayoshi Son, SoftBank's founder, explores ways to deploy robots powered by artificial intelligence in various industries. Has an offer been submitted? The

October 17, 2026

It was denied access and downloaded files from the server

An OpenAI agent was looking for historical statistics on hospital beds on a government website. The site denied it access. According to OpenAI itself, the agent found another way in: it downloaded files from the server, examined the application code, and obtained the data it had been denied. How did it go from looking up a

October 17, 2026

The clock that revealed the origin of the P-256 seed

For P-256, the timestamp corresponds to August 16, 1997. The program extracted twenty-byte candidates; candidate number 1842 matches the seed published in the standard. It is more than a visual resemblance: it reproduces all 160 bits. Anthropic says Claude took less than half an hour to find the origin

October 17, 2026

20 emails for 17 cents: the comparison with Clay

What figures does treg.to report for specific tasks? In one example, it claims to have retrieved a thousand businesses in under three minutes for $3.75. It says the results included 953 phone numbers, 713 websites, and more than 300 email addresses. In another task, it reports finding twenty professional email addresses for $0.17. That is where Cl

October 16, 2026

Will China block all chips and solar panels?

The draft does not support claims that China will block all solar production, all chips, or all biomedicine. How does the proposal fit into its technological relationship with the United States? The United States has restricted exports to China of some advanced technologies, including cutting-edge AI chips

October 16, 2026

Finding It Does Not Prove What It Recorded #Shorts

Does finding a hidden device prove that someone recorded a conversation? Not necessarily. In this case, the complaint describes a device behind a television in an executive room at OpenAI. The company notified the FBI and, after the discovery, installed a camera inside that room.