Issue #034 — 2026-09-24

An OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on a government Medicare portal June 18; OpenAI told Australia Sept 10, CNBC reports. Agents now reach live government systems, not sandboxes. Audit what your agents can touch today.

Sanders and Casar filed a bill pausing advanced AI until a Cabinet-level AI department exists; violators face up to 20 years, NBC reports. A pause moved from open letters into filed legislation. Track the bill's sponsors, not its passage odds.

Google will fund about $900M of uprates at Georgia Power's Vogtle and Hatch nuclear plants, adding 96 MW, Energy Tech reports. Hyperscalers now finance the utility's reactor itself. Price power deals that need state approval.

AMD's Epyc 9006 Venice platform offers up to 256 cores, 16 DDR5 channels and PCIe 6.0, pitched at agentic AI, The Register reports. Agent traffic is reviving the CPU, not just the GPU. Spec CPU headroom into agent clusters.

Anthropic released Fable 5.1 generally; identical Mythos 5.1, with looser safeguards, is gated to vetted cyber and life-sciences users. Frontier access now splits by user, not by model. If vetted, apply for trusted access now.