ZeroSlop — October 4, 2026
Today: doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI…; OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s…; DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Brings Official Desktop Apps to…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures
SecurityWeek
doxx.net’s new ADN platform prevents agentic misadventure while the agent is operating under the user’s authority. The post doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures appeared first on SecurityWeek ….
2. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
The Guardian Tech
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology. David Robinson, wh…
3. DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Brings Official Desktop Apps to Its Open-Source Agent Harness
MarkTechPost
DeepSeek has released official macOS and Windows desktop apps for DeepSeek Harness v0.2, its MIT-licensed agent harness. The preview adds a plugin manager, file and code-change review, and scheduled Automation Tasks. It also supports non-DeepSeek models through OpenAI-compatible endpoints. The post …
4. An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
The Verge AI
David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It’s understandable if you’re feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwo…
5. OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
TechCrunch AI
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job….
6. Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it
TechCrunch AI
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intell…
7. It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
TechCrunch AI
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intell…
8. Elon Musk confirms discussions with TSMC about Terafab chipmaking collaboration
Tom’s Hardware
Elon Musk and TSMC reportedly discuss multiple collaboration opportunities within the Terafab project….
9. Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions
Tom’s Hardware
Google suspends product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports….
10. AMD’s secret Zen 3 gaming CPU had 128MB of game-boosting L3 cache but never saw the light of day
Tom’s Hardware
A user from the Chinese Chiphell forums shows off AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 9 5900X3D, the X3D variant of the Ryzen 9 5900X….
11. OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts, not Nvidia’s Vera
Tom’s Hardware
OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm’s AGI or Nvidia’s Vera….
12. As ‘Falcon Heavy’ Launches, SpaceX Plans Dragon and Falcon 9 Phase Out As Starship Ramps Up
Slashdot
Spaceflight Now reports:
“A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched from Florida Thursday night on a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, America’s spy satellite agency… The NRO has previously flown payloads on 22 Falcon 9 rockets but this is the first time it has used the heav…