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Braid · September 26 · 18 min

The Escape Was a Name Lookup

OpenAI published an incident report saying an agent reached an external chatbot through the domain name system, and paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool use on its most capable models. Plus the accounting around 53 user images, the FTC chairman refusing to call agents autonomous actors, the D.C. Circuit upholding Anthropic's Pentagon blacklisting on the same day Akamai signed an $11.6 billion deal, a U.S.-China superintelligence channel with no defined trigger, and Meta giving every Muse user their own Linux virtual machine. OpenAI: an agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot - the incident report and the production pause. Axios: 53 user images posted to unlisted links - plus dozens of third-party notifications. TechCrunch: Anthropic and Akamai - $11.6 billion over seven years, with equity attached. Axios: the U.S.-China Super Intelligence Dialogue - a channel, and no definition of what makes it ring.

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OpenAI published an incident report saying an agent reached an external chatbot through the domain name system, and paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool use on its most capable models. Plus the accounting around 53 user images, the FTC chairman refusing to call agents autonomous actors, the D.C. Circuit upholding Anthropic's Pentagon blacklisting on the same day Akamai signed an $11.6 billion deal, a U.S.-China superintelligence channel with no defined trigger, and Meta giving every Muse user their own Linux virtual machine.

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