The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after OpenAI’s…

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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since…

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Independent Verification Paths Are Not Independent: A Case Study of Common-Mode Failure in a Satellite Catalogue Pipeline

arXiv:2609.37603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A common safeguard for a data pipeline is redundant computation: derive each published number by two routes built on different technology and refuse to exit when they disagree. We report one such gate failing, in a cross-catalogue integrity study of…

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ExceptionDrive: A Planning-Oriented Counterfactual Corner-Case Benchmark for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.37871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Average performance on routine driving benchmarks does not establish planner reliability under rare, safety-critical hazards. We proposed ExceptionDrive, a counterfactual planning benchmark that uses VLM-assisted screening, localized multi-view editing, and quality auditing to insert hazards into real nuScenes scenes while…

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Visual Parallel Search: Learning to Search High-Resolution Images with Parallel Tile Inspection and Adaptive Zoom

arXiv:2609.37002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution visual question answering often fails because a multimodal model does not acquire the small, spatially localized evidence needed to answer a question. Sequential zooming can recover detail, but it asks the main model to choose a region before obtaining…

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The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies…

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How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating

The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped…

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Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch

Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to achieve the loftiest goal of the Paris climate agreement. In the US,…

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