California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people

OpenAI cuts ties with three safety researchers, WSJ reports. OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank. Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there.

Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells). Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.

Death penalty bill for forest arsonists clears Algeria lower house. Human rights organisations accused Algiers of using the law to target political opposition groups.

This startup wants to turn idle user car inventory into rental revenue. When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he doesn't see rows of cars — he sees millions of dollars just sitting there, depreciating, while people who only need a car for a few months are stuck paying too much for too little choice, so he built MyMonthlyCar, a platform that lets dealers rent out their idle used cars month to month (with an option to buy), and it's now one of the startups showing off at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt, running October 13 to 15 in.

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web. Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.