ZeroSlop — September 26, 2026
Today: One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI…; Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative…; Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks
The Verge AI
In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures…
2. Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decoding
MarkTechPost
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, a 279.5M-parameter draft model that brings speculative decoding to its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. It delivers up to 3.13x faster decoding on Apple M5 Max and 2.66x on H100, with identical output under greedy decoding. Support ships in llama.cpp, M…
3. Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GB
MarkTechPost
Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to run inside infrastructure the customer controls. Altar-1 powers Aikido Machine, the company’s autonomous pentesting appliance for on-prem and air-gapped networks. Is it …
4. Quoting John Gruber
Simon Willison
Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally presented as a cute mascot . It’s the first…
5. Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
TechCrunch AI
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company t…
6. Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?
TechCrunch AI
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company t…
7. Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
Slashdot
53 images that users uploaded into OpenAI models were included in training data — and then AI agents in an OpenAI research environment posted those 53 images on public image hosting sites. While posted as links that weren’t publicly listed, “the images could still be discovered even if the links we…
8. OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards
Slashdot
“The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing,” writes the Associated Press.
“If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as …
9. Contain the Chaos: ‘CONTROL Resonant’ Launches on GeForce NOW
NVIDIA Blog
A warped Manhattan is waiting in the cloud this week. Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant brings Dylan Faden’s extraordinary abilities and a paranatural crisis to GeForce NOW at launch. With the release comes the final days of the CONTROL Resonant Ultimate Membership Bundle. Purchase a 12-month …
10. Accelerate multimodal RL training with SkyRL on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
AWS Machine Learning
Learn how to run SkyRL, an open-source reinforcement learning framework, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to post-train a Qwen3-VL-8B vision-language model with GRPO. This walkthrough covers building the container image, launching a Ray cluster from SageMaker Studio, submitting and monitoring the job, a…
11. End-to-End Multimodal Data Augmentation and Adversarial Robustness Benchmark with AugLy for Images, Text, Audio, and PyTorch
MarkTechPost
Discover how to build a comprehensive multimodal augmentation and adversarial robustness workflow using AugLy for images, text, audio, and PyTorch datasets. The post End-to-End Multimodal Data Augmentation and Adversarial Robustness Benchmark with AugLy for Images, Text, Audio, and PyTorch appeared …
12. Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Open-Weight Decision Model That Runs on CPU
MarkTechPost
Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and returns structured answers. Each answer comes with a probability distribution, a confidence score, and constraint-feasibility metadata. It targets the frequent j…