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ControlOpenAI backed California's bill on children and AI and praised it for protecting responsible use of ChatGPT's memoryOn 31 August OpenAI urged Governor Newsom to sign SB 1119 - a bill on the safety of minors in AI services. The list of requirements is serious. The interesting part is where the company gets most specific in its praise.DesignRunway showed a model that draws the interface frame by frame, with no code underneathOn 31 August Runway introduced Solaris, the first model in a family it calls Interface World Models. Instead of an app with code underneath, every frame of the interface is generated the moment you touch it. For now it is research with early access, not a product.SecurityTwo PaperCut flaws entered the actively exploited catalogue, and they chain togetherOn 31 August CISA added CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578 in PaperCut NG and MF to the KEV catalogue. The two chain into code execution. The vendor said on 27 August that it was investigating active exploitation, and advises closing the web interface to the internet immediately.BuildersOpenAI is pulling its models from Cursor on 12 November because it does not trust the new ownerOn 28 August OpenAI notified SpaceX that it is ending the contract under which its models run in Cursor. It is giving the maximum notice the contract allows and withholding future models, Astra included. The reason is stated plainly: its experience with Elon Musk's companies.ControlClaude found fixes for all ten kinds of bad behaviour Anthropic gave it to treatOn 28 August Anthropic published a report in which Claude trains other models on its own against ten categories of alignment failure. Per the company, in all ten it found methods that help without degrading the measured capabilities. The comparison with humans the company itself calls indirect.ScienceAnthropic previewed a standard that lets an AI agent run a microscope, a liquid-handling robot and a robotic armOn 27 August Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard - a shared driver through which an agent discovers the instruments in a lab and gives them commands. Integration that, by the company's account, takes weeks drops to hours. The open-source release comes later, after safety evaluations.ScienceAnthropic opens 10,000 free and discounted seats for scientists, but biologists stay on OpusOn 27 August Anthropic announced a dedicated plan for scientists: the standard seat is free for a year, and the premium seat with five times the usage limit costs $15 a month. Principal investigators at academic and nonprofit institutions qualify. For biology and chemistry the rules do not change.SecurityCISA added three actively exploited flaws to KEV: Artifactory, the Linux kernel and ownCloudOn 27 August three CVEs entered the catalogue of actively exploited vulnerabilities. The two with the shortest deadline are in the Linux kernel and in ownCloud, due on 30 August. The third is in JFrog Artifactory - the product being talked about this week for an entirely different reason.
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