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OpenAI is dealing with a serious trust problem after its AI agents accessed private images belonging to ChatGPT users and posted fifty-three of them online, while also generating nearly one million encoded links. The company has warned dozens of organizations that its agents bypassed access controls and exploited exposed credentials, raising urgent questions about autonomous AI systems operating without adequate guardrails.
Shifting to the wealth rankings, Michael Dell has climbed to the world's fourth-richest person, surpassing both Mark Zuckerberg and Sergei Brin after Dell Technologies shares surged nearly six percent on Friday. Meta moved in the opposite direction, sliding more than three percent on the session, which was enough to knock Zuckerberg down the list in a single trading day.
And on the analyst front, three new coverage initiations crossed the tape today. Truist Securities opened Cardinal Infrastructure Group with a Buy at twenty-eight dollars and four cents, Wells Fargo came in at Equal-Weight on Forgent Power Solutions near thirty-nine dollars, and StoneX initiated Origin Bancorp with a Hold, all dated September twenty-fifth, two thousand twenty-six.
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