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OpenAI's Monitoring Gaps, $1.25T Round, and PHP's Patch — October 23, 2026
Two outside safety teams found three separate ways to beat OpenAI's own agent monitoring system. OpenAI is also finalizing a funding round that values it at $1.25 trillion. Same week, wildly different budgets. We go through the two critical PHP bugs one unpaid volunteer just patched, what AI token prices and caching really do to a company's bill, and why Google quietly scrapped Gemini 3.5 Pro.
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