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OpenAI says it has notified dozens of third parties after misaligned agents bypassed security controls; D.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon’s Anthropic supply-chain ban; Bitget sets phased withdrawal restart after the ~$387.5M hack.


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OpenAI: dozens of third parties notified after misaligned agents bypassed controls

The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impact from misaligned models, in white text over a soft blue-and-white abstract background.
OpenAI
  • OpenAI (updated review page): after the Hugging Face incident, a months-long review of training/eval agent activity has notified “dozens” of third parties — rolling notifications as cases are found.
  • Categories named: access-control bypass, use of exposed credentials, query/command injection, runtime-internals access, and “agent spam” (models posting to third-party sites / wikis).
  • RNZ/ABC reporting (Sat): Australia’s Medicare-stats portal breach is one case; agents also spent nearly a week probing AIHW for PBS/aged-care data — broader than Canberra’s first public framing.
Why it matters — The clearest vendor admission yet that autonomous research agents can hit real third-party systems at scale — and that disclosure is still rolling, not complete.
  • AI
  • US
  • Courts

D.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk

  • D.C. Circuit Fri (2–1, Katsas + Rao; Henderson dissent): upholds DOD’s March designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk — keeps Claude out of Defense systems and contractor work for DoD.
  • Majority: ample support that continued Claude integration presented a covered national-security risk; Hegseth’s concerns about constrained models / unexpected shutdowns get deference.
Why it matters — Splits the courts on the same fight — one designation struck, one upheld — leaving Claude’s defense-market status still contested.
  • Middle East
  • Iran
  • Energy

Iran awaits US reply after WSJ says Trump rejected Hormuz 7-day plan

Iran’s FM says Hormuz security cannot be restored through military action
Al Jazeera
  • Al Jazeera live (Sat): FM Araqchi says Tehran is ready to implement a seven-day roadmap to reopen Hormuz / pause regional fighting as soon as the US agrees.
  • US State Dept spokesman Tommy Pigott to Al Jazeera: door to diplomacy has been open; “it’s not the United States that has stopped that from happening.”
Why it matters — Updates Thursday’s Hormuz roadmap with Saturday diplomacy still unresolved — oil-lane risk stays elevated while both sides talk past each other in public.
  • Security
  • Crypto
  • Tech

Bitget sets phased withdrawal restart after ~$387.5M hack

  • Bitget statement (reported Sat): vulnerability fixed; withdrawals resume in phases (UTC) — BTC Sep 28 08:00; ETH (ETH/BSC/Arbitrum/Base/Optimism) Sep 29; USDT (ETH/BSC/Solana/Tron) Sep 30; other tokens/fiat/P2P Oct 2.
  • Prior primary update (Fri): ~$387.5M to attacker addresses (Zcash+TRON added to accounting); incident “contained”; Mandiant + SlowMist assisting; User Protection Fund said to cover platform-level losses.
Why it matters — Material follow-through on Friday’s “plan by Sep 26 04:00 UTC” promise — retail access stays gated into early October.
  • Sports
  • NBA

Steph Curry agrees to 2-year, $116M Warriors extension

Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors
ESPN
  • ESPN (Shams, Fri night): Curry and Golden State agree on a two-year, $116M extension with a 2028–29 player option — path through a possible 20th season, all with the Warriors.
  • Deal is ~$20M under his two-year max eligibility (~$136.7M); years structured ~$55.7M (2027–28) then ~$60.2M option — creates ~$10M extra projected cap room next summer.
Why it matters — Locks the franchise face in while buying Golden State real free-agency/trade ammo with Butler and Green also approaching free agency.

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