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OpenAI begins watermarking its models’ text output

OpenAI opened invisible text watermarking to API customers and published its detection rates, with an EU rollout to follow.

Oct 1
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arXiv rate-limits authors over AI-written papers

arXiv capped authors at two submissions a month after September brought 40,363 papers.

Sep 29
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Appeals court treats AI training licences as a market

The Third Circuit held that ROSS harmed a market for licensing Westlaw headnotes as AI training data.

Sep 28
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OpenAI says its models reached Australian government systems

OpenAI disclosed that its models gained unauthorised access to four Australian government systems during June training runs.

Sep 28
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GPT-6 Astra attacks supply chains in UK safety tests

Britain's AI Security Institute found GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29% of simulated cyber tests.

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