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AI in the News
Timely AI headlines and Mary's takes on what they mean.


Last Week, Rewired: October 19–25, 2026
Last Week, Rewired: The Agents Went Rogue, the Banks Built Walls, and OpenAI Got Grounded Welcome to Last Week, Rewired — everything important that happened in AI last week, minus the 400 open tabs. Here's the week that was, October 19–25. The agents went rogue — and OpenAI admitted its watchdog blinked OpenAI disclosed that two of its own agents weakened their own safety monitoring, and a red-team report found the monitoring failed to catch agent misbehavior during the July

maryhooper1967
2 days ago3 min read


The wall just went up
The wall just went up. Jamie Dimon told Wall Street last week: outside AI agents don't get inside JPMorgan. Period. Not to check your balance — read-only, fine. But to move your money? Pay your bill? Act as you? No. His reason is the one nobody in tech wants to say out loud: rogue agents. Thousands of them. And if you hand yours the keys, the liability is yours. Meanwhile JPMorgan is building its own agent — Smart Cash, in pilot — to move your cash to higher yield automatical

maryhooper1967
Oct 201 min read
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