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$10 Million for an Airline's Entire Memory
At a bankruptcy auction, Google bid $10 million for 600 million Spirit Airlines employee emails and chat messages to train AI, and more than 100 members of Congress want it stopped. The public …
Copilot Goes Into the Sandbox: Don't Bet Agent Security on the Model's Good Behavior
GitHub Copilot's local sandbox went GA today. The real news isn't "another sandbox" — it's three decouplings: the sandbox from the model, the engine from the product, and the policy from the …
Nobody Gave a Number: Big AI Testifies Under Oath in New York
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta testified under oath before the New York City Council, and none of them would put a number on worst-case catastrophic risk. An industry that cannot give a number …
$10 Million for an Airline's Entire Memory
An airline went under. Somebody took the planes, the slots and the hangars, which is normal. What is not normal is who bid on its memory: Google. Large models have nearly eaten the public internet. The next mine is the inbox of a dead company. The …
An airline went under. Somebody took the planes, the slots and the hangars, which is normal. What is not normal is who bid on its memory: Google. Large models have nearly eaten the public internet. The next mine is the inbox of a dead company. The …
Copilot Goes Into the Sandbox: Don't Bet Agent Security on the Model's Good Behavior
What keeps an agent in check shouldn’t be a prompt. It should be the operating system. On October 7, 2026, GitHub announced that local sandboxing for Copilot is generally available. It covers the Copilot CLI, the Copilot desktop app, and VS Code …
What keeps an agent in check shouldn’t be a prompt. It should be the operating system. On October 7, 2026, GitHub announced that local sandboxing for Copilot is generally available. It covers the Copilot CLI, the Copilot desktop app, and VS Code …
Nobody Gave a Number: Big AI Testifies Under Oath in New York
Four AI companies raised their right hands and were asked the same question: in the worst case, how likely is catastrophe? Not one of them gave a number. An industry that cannot give a number cannot grade itself. The four tools the New York City …
Four AI companies raised their right hands and were asked the same question: in the worst case, how likely is catastrophe? Not one of them gave a number. An industry that cannot give a number cannot grade itself. The four tools the New York City …