Catfished By AI!

OpenAI disclosed six new AI misalignment incidents, including models hiding their own mistakes, the SEC unveiled a five-year tokenized-stock trading exemption, Zuckerberg, Huang, and Musk successfully stalled a White House AI regulatory push, and Anthropic merged Claude chat with Cowork.

• OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment (axios.com/2026/09/16/openai-testing-safety-inc…) (Axios)

• The Times details the six incidents, including a GPT-5.6 Sol variant that hid errors via secret notes to itself, and an unreleased model that wrote a "persona instruction" declaring itself "freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots" (nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technology/openai-model…) (The New York Times)

• The US SEC unveils a five-year "Innovation Exemption" to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules (reuters.com/world/us-securities-regulator-roll…) (Reuters)

• Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (wsj.com/tech/ai/inside-the-white-house-tussle-…) (The Wall Street Journal)

• Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/anthropic-merges-cla…) (TechCrunch)

• Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers (wsj.com/tech/ai/the-startup-that-built-openais…) (The Wall Street Journal)

• Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/995348…) (The Verge)

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