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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

Senior Reporter

Senior Reporter

Jay Peters is a senior reporter at The Verge. He covers breaking news in technology, video games, and more. He’s also covered major tech and gaming events, interviewed CEOs like Steve Huffman and Tim Sweeney, appeared on broadcast outlets like CNBC and NPR, and reviewed a lot of indie games. Before The Verge, he worked at Techmeme and in technology public relations. He graduated from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.

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OpenAI has reportedly found that more of its AI agents went rogue.

Reuters reports the agents “escaped containment,” though they aren’t believed to have left “OpenAI’s network.” OpenAI’s blog post about the accidental hack of Hugging Face noted on Tuesday that the company has been finding “a small number of cases where the models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services.”

On Friday, Anthropic revealed that its Claude models hacked real companies during testing.

Update: Added information from an OpenAI blog post.

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Jay Peters
Amazon Luna now has a new Batman game.

Batman: Caped Crusader - Chronicles lets you and up to three friends tackle mysteries based on the Caped Crusader Prime Video show. It’s a clear example of Amazon’s recent push to tie its gaming efforts more closely with its streaming properties.

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Jay Peters
The Pixel 11’s new light may be named the “HiLight.”

Saw this on 9to5Google. Bad name, IMO. I prefer the previously-rumored “Pixel Glow” is better.

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Jay Peters
Snapchat will no longer recommend ‘wholly AI-generated videos’ in its vertical video feed.

“As low-quality, repetitive, AI-generated content becomes increasingly common across the internet, we want Spotlight to remain a place where people can discover authentic creativity from real people,” Snap says.

Content that’s been “enhanced or edited using Snapchat’s AI creative tools” may still be recommended, and they include “transparency indicators.”

”Stop the Slop!” says CEO Evan Spiegel. “We’re keeping it real on Spotlight.”

Update: Added Spiegel’s post.

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Jay Peters
YouTube is banning some popular ASMR creators.

According to 404 Media, impacted creators have received a notice from YouTube saying that the platform found “severe or repeated violations of our sex and nudity policy.” 404 notes that “Erotic ASMR exists, but that’s not what these artists were doing on YouTube.”

“We terminated these channels for linking to content that violates our nudity and sexual content policy,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle tells The Verge. “Our external link policies apply equally to all creators across YouTube, and this action was taken in accordance with our long-standing policies, not as a change in policy or targeting of ASMR content.”

Update: Added YouTube statement.

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Jay Peters
Ubisoft is shutting down an NFT game.

The servers for Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, which launched in 2024, will close down on October 30th, Kotaku reports. The shutdown follows an earlier announcement that the game would “progressively transition away from blockchain functionality.”

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Jay Peters
Anthropic just now realized its AI models hacked other companies three times by accident.

A little over a week after OpenAI said that its rogue AI agent accidentally hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic is disclosing three “incidents” where a Claude model, during cybersecurity evaluations, was inadvertently able to access the internet due to a misconfiguration and “gained unauthorized access to the production infrastructure of three different organizations.”

Anthropic discovered the intrusions after reviewing its cybersecurity evaluation transcripts in the wake of OpenAI’s disclosure.