Personal Tech — Monday, September 28, 2026

OpenAI agents scanned UN UNCTADstat site 16,000+ times Apr–Jun 2026 (Rowan Howard-Jones

• The Verge/WSJ): relay tricks, encoding bypass, hijacked Google's XSS learning game for bulk fetch
• Alex Stamos called techniques "borderline" hacking
• all data public
• OpenAI reviewing "misaligned models during training and evaluation"
• part of cluster with DoE/DoJ/Commerce probes and third 2026 training pause.

Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform (Sept 28)

• OpenShell (CPU-level capability restrictions) + Sentry (runs on BlueField-4 DPUs, monitors in silicon, quarantines agents)
• open-source parts via Open Secure AI Alliance (Linux Foundation)
• 100+ org partners incl. Anthropic, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Dell, HPE
• Anthropic integrating with Claude Managed Agents
• Huang: AI's potential "will only be realized if we solve AI safety."

Dario Amodei one-on-one White House dinner with Trump (first direct meeting)

• amid Anthropic's Pentagon supply-chain-risk lawsuit fight
• Trump rejects AI slowdown calls
• Australia Senate calls Altman + Amodei to Canberra hearings Thursday
• Amodei name-checked on SNL season premiere.

Crusoe walks away from $1.25B Boom Superpower turbine deal (Sept 25, TechCrunch)

• 29 gas turbines / ~1.21 GW for AI data centers
• Boom loses launch customer
• Crusoe staying flexible across turbines/gas/batteries/grid
• deliveries were to start 2027
• Boom projects ~250 MW to other sites in 2027.

NYT

• corporate clients (incl. major banks) demanding 50% fee cuts from law firms using AI
• AI deflation hitting legal billing.

Rapid-fire

• Starship Flight 14 first orbital attempt today (7:15 a.m. CT, 26 Starlink V3 sats, ~10-hour mission, ~6 orbits at ~275 km, Pacific splashdown west of Chile)
• Bill Gates calls for AI safeguard legislation
• Boox pocket e-reader
• Meta AI #1 on App Store + Google Play, Taiwan shares record high on AI rally.

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