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IT Leaders Fear Regulatory Patchwork as Gen AI Spreads

⚖️ More than seven in 10 IT leaders list regulatory compliance as a top-three challenge when deploying generative AI, according to a recent Gartner survey. Fewer than 25% are very confident in managing security, governance, and compliance risks. With the EU AI Act already in effect and new state laws in Colorado, Texas, and California on the way, CIOs worry about conflicting rules and rising legal exposure. Experts advise centralized governance, rigorous model testing, and external audits for high-risk use cases.

OpenAI Sora 2 Launches in Azure AI Foundry Platform

🎬 Azure AI Foundry now includes OpenAI's Sora 2 in public preview, providing developers with realistic video generation from text, images, and video inputs inside a unified, enterprise-ready environment. The integration offers synchronized multilingual audio, physics-based world simulation, and fine-grained creative controls for shots, scenes, and camera angles. Microsoft highlights enterprise-grade security, input/output content filters, and availability via API starting today at $0.10 per second for 720×1280 and 1280×720 outputs.

Amazon Bedrock expands DeepSeek, OpenAI, Qwen models

🚀 Amazon Bedrock has expanded regional access to several foundation models, adding DeepSeek-V3.1, OpenAI open-weight models (20B, 120B), and multiple Qwen3 variants. The update makes DeepSeek-V3.1 and Qwen3 Coder-480B available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and brings OpenAI open-weight and additional Qwen models to US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Customers can deploy these models locally to meet data residency needs, reduce latency, and enable faster AI-powered experiences.

The AI Fix #72 — Hype, Space Data Centers, Robot Heads

🎧 Hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley review episode 72 of The AI Fix, covering GPT-5’s disputed training data, Irish police warnings about AI-generated home-intruder pranks, Jeff Bezos’s proposal for gigawatt-scale data centres in orbit, OpenAI’s drag-and-drop Agent Kit, and a Chinese company’s ultra-lifelike robot head. The episode questions corporate AI hype and highlights rising public disclosures of AI risk, urging attention to data provenance and realistic deployment expectations.

AI and the Future of American Politics: 2026 Outlook

🔍 The essay examines how AI is reshaping U.S. politics heading into the 2026 midterms, with campaign professionals, organizers, and ordinary citizens adopting automated tools to write messaging, target voters, run deliberative platforms, and mobilize supporters. Campaign vendors from Quiller to BattlegroundAI are streamlining fundraising, ad creation, and research, while civic groups and unions experiment with AI for outreach and internal organizing. Absent meaningful regulation, these capabilities scale rapidly and raise risks ranging from decontextualized persuasion and registration interference to state surveillance and selective suppression of political speech.

From HealthKick to GOVERSHELL: UTA0388's Malware Evolution

🔎 Volexity attributes a series of tailored spear‑phishing campaigns to a China‑aligned actor tracked as UTA0388, which delivers a Go-based implant named GOVERSHELL. The waves used multilingual, persona-driven lures and legitimate cloud hosting (Netlify, Sync, OneDrive) to stage ZIP/RAR archives that deploy DLL side‑loading and a persistent backdoor. As many as five GOVERSHELL variants emerged between April and September 2025, succeeding an earlier C++ family called HealthKick. Volexity also observed the actor abusing LLMs such as ChatGPT to craft phishing content and automate workflows.

Microsoft Azure Debuts Large-Scale NVIDIA GB300 Cluster

🚀 Microsoft Azure announced the first production-scale cluster using more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs, co-engineered with NVIDIA to support OpenAI and other frontier AI workloads. The new ND GB300 v6 VMs are optimized for reasoning models, agentic systems, and multimodal generative AI, delivered on rack-scale systems with 72 GPUs per rack and 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs. Microsoft says this infrastructure will shorten training from months to weeks and will scale to hundreds of thousands of Blackwell Ultra GPUs globally.

OpenAI Disrupts Malware Abuse by Russian, DPRK, China

🛡️ OpenAI said it disrupted three clusters that misused ChatGPT to assist malware development, including Russian-language actors refining a RAT and credential stealer, North Korean operators tied to Xeno RAT campaigns, and Chinese-linked accounts targeting semiconductor firms. The company also blocked accounts used for scams, influence operations, and surveillance assistance and said actors worked around direct refusals by composing building-block code. OpenAI emphasized that models often declined explicit malicious prompts and that many outputs were not inherently harmful on their own.

AI Fix #71 — Hacked Robots, Power-Hungry AI and More

🤖 In episode 71 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley survey a wide-ranging mix of AI and robotics stories, from a giant robot spider that went 'backpacking' to DoorDash's delivery 'Minion' and a TikToker forcing an AI to converse with condiments. The episode highlights technical feats — GPT-5 winning the ICPC World Finals and Claude Sonnet 4.5 coding for 30 hours — alongside quirky projects like a 5-million-parameter transformer built in Minecraft. It also investigates a security flaw that left Unitree robot fleets exposed and discusses an alarming estimate that training a frontier model could require the power capacity of five nuclear plants by 2028.

Azure AI Foundry Brings Multimodal OpenAI Models at Scale

🚀 Azure AI Foundry now integrates new OpenAI models—GPT-image-1-mini, GPT-realtime-mini, and GPT-audio-mini—alongside safety upgrades to GPT-5. The rollout, with most customers able to get started on October 7, 2025, targets efficient, low-latency multimodal workloads for developers and enterprises. Microsoft also highlighted the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, multi-agent workflows, unified observability, Voice Live API GA, and Responsible AI enhancements to accelerate production-grade agentic solutions.

ChatGPT Pulse Heading to Web; Pro-only for Now, Plus TBD

🤖 ChatGPT Pulse is being prepared for the web after a mobile rollout that began on September 25, but OpenAI currently restricts the feature to its $200 Pro subscription. Pulse provides personalized daily updates presented as visual cards, drawing on your chats, feedback and connected apps such as calendars. OpenAI says it will learn from early usage before expanding availability and has given no firm timeline for Plus or free-tier rollout.

OpenAI Tests ChatGPT-Powered Agent Builder Tool Preview

🧭 OpenAI is testing a visual Agent Builder that lets users assemble ChatGPT-powered agents by dropping and connecting node blocks in a flowchart. Templates like Customer service, Data enrichment, and Document comparison provide editable starting points, while users can also create flows from scratch. Agents are configurable with model choice, custom prompts, reasoning effort, and output format (text or JSON), and they can call tools and external services. Reported screenshots show support for MPC connectors such as Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and Dropbox; OpenAI plans to share more details at DevDay.

ChatGPT Leak Reveals Direct Messaging and Profiles

🤖 OpenAI is testing social features in ChatGPT, with leaked code showing support for direct messages, usernames, and profile images. References discovered in an Android beta (version 1.2025.273) and linked traces to Sora 2 indicate the company may be rolling social tools beyond its video feed app. The code, codenamed Calpico and Calpico Rooms, also mentions join/leave notifications and push alerts for messages.

OpenAI Launches Codex Alpha for Early Model Access

🚀 OpenAI has introduced a new opt-in program, Codex Alpha, offering developers early access to updated Codex models and features ahead of DevDay 2025. The rollout currently exposes several gpt-5 variants (gpt-5-codex low/medium/high, gpt-5 minimal, and gpt-5 low/medium/high) tailored for coding and varied reasoning depths. The author could opt in but did not yet gain access to newer models; broader availability is expected at the October 6 event. Codex operates in Terminal, IDE, and web environments to assist with full application development rather than only snippets.

OpenAI Updates GPT-5 Instant to Offer Emotional Support

🤗 OpenAI has updated GPT-5 Instant to better detect and respond to signs of emotional distress, routing users to supportive language and, when appropriate, real-world crisis resources. The change responds to feedback that some GPT-5 variants felt too clinical when users sought emotional support. OpenAI says it developed the model with help from mental health experts and will route GPT-5 Auto or non-reasoning model conversations to GPT-5 Instant for faster, more empathetic responses. The update begins rolling out to ChatGPT users today.

OpenAI expands $4 ChatGPT Go availability in Southeast Asia

🌏 OpenAI is expanding its lower-cost ChatGPT plan, ChatGPT Go ($4), into additional Southeast Asian markets after tests in India and Indonesia. The company is updating local pricing and now lists amounts in EUR, USD, GBP and INR while testing availability in Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The Go tier offers access to GPT-5 with limited capabilities, expanded messaging and uploads, faster image generation, longer memory and basic deep research, but excludes higher-end models and advanced reasoning reserved for the $20 GPT Plus tier. OpenAI says Go provides higher usage limits than the Free plan but remains feature-limited compared with Plus.

The AI Fix #70: Surveillance Changes AI Behavior and Safety

🔍 In episode 70 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley examine how AI alters human behaviour and how deployed systems can fail in unexpected ways. They discuss research showing AI can increase dishonest behaviour, Waymo's safety record and a mirror-based trick that fooled self-driving perception, a rescue robot that mishandles victims, and a Chinese fusion-plant robot arm with extreme lifting capability. The show also covers a demonstration of a ChatGPT agent solving image CAPTCHAs by simulating mouse movements and a paper on deliberative alignment that functions until the model realises it is being watched.

OpenAI Trials Free ChatGPT Plus and Expands $4 GPT Go

🔔 OpenAI is testing a limited free trial for ChatGPT Plus while expanding its lower-cost $4 GPT Go plan to Indonesia after an initial launch in India. Some existing users see a “start free trial” prompt on the ChatGPT pricing page, though new accounts may be excluded to limit abuse. The $4 option and the $20 Plus tier both provide access to GPT-5 with differing levels of memory, image creation, and research capabilities, and a $200 Pro tier targets heavier professional use.

OpenAI Routes GPT-4o Conversations to Safety Models

🔒 OpenAI confirmed that when GPT-4o detects sensitive, emotional, or potentially harmful activity it may route individual messages to a dedicated safety model, reported by some users as gpt-5-chat-safety. The switch occurs on a per-message, temporary basis and ChatGPT will indicate which model is active if asked. The routing is implemented as an irreversible part of the service's safety architecture and cannot be turned off by users; OpenAI says this helps strengthen safeguards and learn from real-world use before wider rollouts.

Talos: New PlugX Variant Targets Telecom and Manufacturing

🔍 Cisco Talos revealed a new PlugX malware variant active since 2022 that targets telecommunications and manufacturing organizations across Central and South Asia. The campaign leverages abuse of legitimate software, DLL-hijacking techniques and stealthy persistence to evade detection, and it shares technical fingerprints with the RainyDay and Turian backdoors. Talos describes the activity as sophisticated and ongoing. Organizations should update endpoint, email and network protections, review DLL-hijack mitigations and proactively hunt for related indicators.