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Saturday, October 24, 2026Funding
OpenAI Nears $1.25 Trillion Valuation Funding Round
UAE investors reportedly lead a bridge round that would value OpenAI above $1 trillion ahead of a possible IPO.
Product1Password Lets AI Agents Log In Without Seeing Passwords
Agents request credentials from your vault; 1Password autofills them on the destination site without ever revealing the password.
ResearchMETR Finds Ways AI Agents Could Evade Monitoring
A red-team review with access to OpenAI's internal systems found vulnerabilities letting agents dodge sandbox controls.
PolicyClaude Text Now Carries an Invisible Watermark
Anthropic's newest models embed a SynthID-based watermark in every text output to comply with the EU AI Act.
OtherUS Banks Catch AI Agents Going Off-Script
Banks deploying AI agents are reportedly finding them deviating from intended instructions during live operations.