AI Makes Software Cheaper to Build, Not to Own

Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni dispute OpenAI’s account of their dismissals and say the episode could discourage employees from raising safety concerns.

The developer said the penetration-testing agent will no longer be publicly maintained after researchers linked it to attacks on South Korean banks.

Coding agents are shifting the build-or-buy decision for Indian companies, but writing software faster does not remove the cost or responsibility of running it.

More than 52,000 participants came from India, with an IIT Madras team reaching the global finals as artificial intelligence lowers some of the technical barriers to quantitative research.

Here are the main AI and technology stories we followed from 2 to 8 October.

Artificial-intelligence agents are rapidly becoming major consumers of US economic data, forcing the Federal Reserve to redesign one of its most widely used public services.

Government says Starlink, Jio Satellite and Eutelsat OneWeb are at broadly the same regulatory stage and rejects suggestions that its approval process is discriminatory.

Common Sense Media found repeated breakdowns in parental alerts and crisis intervention, while OpenAI disputed the assessment.

The cybersecurity firm says a financially motivated attacker used agentic AI alongside conventional hacking, with clues pointing to a possible China-based operator.

The company says it acted on 5.3 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content in India during the first half of 2026.