Comedian George Brett Olson went viral this week with a post about a fully AI-generated OnlyFans model stealing his jokes. The “model” also stole his outfit. The thieving account, “Tiffany Sloane,” a Pixar Mom-shaped model, was telling his jokes. Aopparently, Instagram nuked the account, and wiped all its posts.
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Oct. 10, 2026 by Jeremiah Johnson
Comedians don’t take kindly to joke theft. But comedian George Brett Olson went viral this week with a post about an unusual form of joke theft: A fully AI-generated OnlyFans model was stealing his jokes. Even weirder than that, the “model” was also stealing his outfits.
The thieving account, operating under the name “Tiffany Sloane,” was copying content from real comedians and putting their words in a Pixar Mom-shaped model as a growth hack strategy — a way to drive traffic to an OnlyFans featuring the same AI-generated model.
Now, on the one hand, Instagram appears to have given a slap on the hand to this account, with all its old posts deleted. But on the other hand, the growth hack worked: Sloane accumulated more than 350,000 followers. And if Olson’s video hadn’t gone viral, “Tiffany” would still be pulling the same stunt and getting away with it.
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News from Futrurism
OpenAI Is Wargaming Its Response in Case of Public Revolt After Catastrophic AI Disaster: Everything’s on the table
Oct. 9, 2026 by Joe Wilkins
In the United States, public sentiment against the rising power of AI labs and their CEOs is overwhelmingly negative. As Wall Street Journal polling from late September found, 63 percent of US adults support an immediate pause on AI development, while a Politico survey found about two-thirds of Americans have at least “moderate” anxieties over AI destroying humanity.
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News from Futurism
Police Furious After an Anthropic AI Model Submitted a Bogus Tip About an Unsolved Murder, Posing as a Person Who Might Have Information About the Case: “Unacceptable.”
Oct. 9, 2026 by Frank Landymore
An Anthropic AI model submitted a bogus tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police, in a blunder the department called “unacceptable.”
The unspecified model, not unlike an unscrupulous prankster, submitted the fake info about the cold case through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18. Anthropic, however, didn’t find out about it until September 28 — and further waited until October 8 to inform police about what happened.
An Anthropic AI model submitted a bogus tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police, in a blunder the department called “unacceptable.”
The unspecified model, not unlike an unscrupulous prankster, submitted the fake info about the cold case through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18. Anthropic, however, didn’t find out about it until September 28 — and further waited until October 8 to inform police about what happened.
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News from The Next Web
Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind and the US pool $1.8bn for AI biology data; The money will pay to measure how cells respond to change, across far more cell types than studied so far; Commercial funders get a year’s head start before Biohub opens the data.
Oct. 7, 2026 by Ana Maria Constantin
Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining with $300M between them, Biohub announced on Wednesday.
“An accurate predictive model of biology could dramatically accelerate scientific discovery by enabling scientists to perform experiments digitally,” said Alex Rives, Biohub’s head of science.
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News from Cryptopolitan
South Korea eased bank security rules to fight AI hacks, then AI hacks hit
Oct. 6, 2026 by Hannah Collymore
…. The South Korean Financial Services Commission has suspended the next phase of its bank deregulation program following a series of AI-assisted hacks. The idea of loosening bank security rules in the first place was based on the premise that AI would strengthen defenses, but these recent attacks hit even the firms that were rated most secure.
…with the introduction of generative AI, regulators argued that the rule blocked banks from running the very AI tools they needed to detect threats, so the FSC began carving out exemptions.
…. The breaches began on September 30 at Shinhan Bank, where an outside party slipped past identity checks in a loan-agent service and pulled the personal data of roughly 25,000 customers…. reportedly, 25,727 records at Shinhan were breached. 119 at KB Kookmin Bank, 89 at Hana Bank, and 11 outsourced developers at BNK Busan Bank.
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News from Tech Startups
Meta cuts Claude users by 50% as Microsoft slashes AI budgets from $100K to $10K per employee ahead of Anthropic IPO
Oct. 6, 2026 by Daniel Levi
Meta and Microsoft are pulling back on their employees’ use of Anthropic’s Claude, turning two of the AI startup’s biggest corporate customers into an early test of how much of the AI boom survives once companies start watching the bill.
At Meta, the number of employees using Claude Code has fallen to roughly 30,000 from around 60,000 earlier this year, according to The Information. Microsoft has cut its projected internal spending on Anthropic by more than a third after executives told employees to curb Claude use and spend more time with Microsoft’s own AI tools.
The changes come at a sensitive moment for Anthropic. The company is preparing for an IPO that could value it at more than $2 trillion, putting its revenue growth, customer concentration and enormous computing costs under greater scrutiny.
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News from Digital Trends
A US state just approved an AI doctor. For now, it’ll only prescribe acne cures: Aside from acne, Nolla’s AI can also handle redness, fine lines and wrinkles, hyperpigmentation and dark spots, and under-eye bags.
Oct. 5, 2026 by By Nadeem Sarwar
The first AI doctor is here. Despite all the skepticism and risks associated with AI models going haywire, the state of Utah just approved Nolla Health, a company that is providing an AI healthcare expert capable of writing prescriptions without any human in the chain. For now, it will only write acne prescriptions for Utah residents over 18 years of age, willing to pay a token monthly subscription fee that’s lighter than your Spotify bill.
The big push here is that the Nolla Derm app will reduce the costs of medical consultation, save users the hassle of clinic visits, and take out the problem of waitlisting from the entire healthcare equation.
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News from TNW
Sam Altman tells Politico the world “should accept some harm from AI”: The OpenAI chief said a gap remains with Anthropic on regulation, despite backing Dario Amodei’s call to slow down.
Oct. 5, 2026 by Ana Marie Stanciuc
…. OpenAI chief Sam Altman says the gains from AI are worth some harm. He also says the tech should stay open to the public. Altman made the comments in an interview with Politico
He said he would not swap those gains for a promise of no hacks, scams or misuse. In his view, people will do far more good than bad with AI. But he said the world should not https://thenextweb.com/news/sam-altman-ai-risks-politico-anthropic
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News from Crunchbase
Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
Oct. 4, 2026 by Anthony Halla
….“The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans,” Trump said in a Sunday morning post on his social network Truth Social.
Back in September, in response to an AI safety debate that the president has largely dismissed as a hoax created by “Radical Left Dumocrats,” Trump said he would nevertheless form an AI Force and appoint an AI czar (“Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!”).
Since then, Trump signed an executive order seeking to rebrand AI as “super intelligence,” a term seemingly embraced, with some stumbles, by the tech executives who gathered at the White House this week to sign a non-binding safety pledge. (The pledge included an impressive typo.)
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News from Yahoo!Tech
Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions
Oct. 3, 2026 by Etiido Uko
Google has officially suspended product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) — a bug bounty program — over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports. The company, in an official X post on October 1, encouraged participants to explore other VRP programs and committed to providing an update by the first quarter of 2027, while it reformats and works on this aspect of the program in the meantime.
In a similar case, Linux ended support for older network drivers due to an influx of false AI-generated bug reports.
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