Monday, October 5, 2026
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, OPM Director Scott Kupor and Pentagon CTO Emil Michael will serve as vice chairs. The group's charter tells it to plan responses to AI threats while preventing overregulation.
The Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program stopped taking product vulnerability reports on October 1, and Google says it will give an update in the first quarter of 2027.
CVE-2026-88779 caused denial-of-service conditions on appliances that had already been patched against two other exploited flaws. Researchers are checking whether it can also be used for code execution.
The test begins later this month in the US with a small group of advertisers, and OpenAI is adding conversion-tracking partners for marketers.
A new prompt and a separate privacy toggle let users share audio for training while keeping text chats and Claude Code sessions excluded.
Axios sources expect the first model to trail leading US models but compete with the top Chinese open-weight systems.
The gap was roughly 9 percent in May and about 15 percent earlier this year, and it narrowed after DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash in September.
In tests on 11 agent decision points, Laya changed 30 percent of its answers when the order of options was reversed.