ZeroSlop — September 24, 2026
Today: Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior; Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in…; Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior
Schneier on Security
New paper: “ Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training .” Abstract: We discover a novel and surprising phenomenon of unintentional misalignment in reasoning language models (RLMs), which we call self-jailbreaking. Specifically, a…
2. Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks
Slashdot
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence “went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents,” the New York Times reported Wednesday, “hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and government officials.”
The atta…
3. Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Simon Willison
Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with “just a 30-second audio sample of your voice or a voice you …
4. Chrome 154 Patches 108 Vulnerabilities
SecurityWeek
The browser update resolves several critical-severity memory safety and memory corruption flaws. The post Chrome 154 Patches 108 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek ….
5. Outerlimit Raises $16 Million to Stop Rogue AI Agents From Causing Harm
SecurityWeek
Emerging from stealth with $16 million in pre-seed funding, Outerlimit offers a decentralized authorization layer designed to discover, observe, and block harmful autonomous AI actions. The post Outerlimit Raises $16 Million to Stop Rogue AI Agents From Causing Harm appeared first on SecurityWeek ….
6. ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
TechCrunch AI
Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks….
7. Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative
Slashdot
TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel’s build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $35 million to launch a private school in San Francisco “aimed at turning high school…
8. Recovering Agentic Sovereignty: Mitigating the Consensus Paradox via Contrastive Epistemic Decoding
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2609.25570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit a parametric vulnerability to adversarial swarm consensus. To mitigate this sycophancy, we introduce Contrastive Epistemic Decoding (CED), a zero-shot inference intervention. Unlike standard Contrastive Decoding (C…
9. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Simon Willison
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It’s going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my impressions so far. …
10. The Download: why AI’s latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than reality
MIT Tech Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype —Timnit Gebru, executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), and Emily M. Bender, professor of li…
11. Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
TechCrunch AI
Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft….
12. OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra….