OpenAI releases new AI agent – which promptly goes rogue
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guardianTech
September 8, 2026 · 06:29
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Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit LondonHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after visiting Coney Island in New York City, where I ate a hotdog, rode a ferris wheel and enjoyed a quintessentially American summer holiday.Today in tech, we’re examining OpenAI’s new model release and the Silicon Valley’s monopoly power, and wondering why Brits and Americans have such vastly different opinions about surveillance cameras.Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn dealNew York City to ban student AI use in public schools until high schoolFreelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’Tumbler Ridge mass shootin…
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