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New research finds that employees worried about losing their jobs to artificial intelligence are increasingly acting out at work, including slacking off, arriving late, and even taking coworkers' lunches. The study ties this behavior directly to anxiety over AI adoption spreading across businesses.
A Government Accountability Office report released in late September found that several federal agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, did not fully cooperate with investigators examining what data and systems Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency accessed. The CFPB disputed the findings, calling the report biased and misleading, while Democratic lawmakers are preparing to intensify oversight efforts if they regain control of Congress.
Tiny Little Office is a web-based office suite that encodes entire documents as shareable links rather than storing them on a server. It requires no accounts, saves nothing remotely unless a user chooses to keep a copy on their own device, and runs in the browser using JavaScript. The site also publishes an llms.txt file explaining how documents can be constructed as links and nested within one another using app-named fences.
ArtCraft, the startup behind free Adobe Creative Cloud alternatives built using Anthropic's Claude AI, has released open-source clones of Microsoft Office apps called GridCraft, DeckCraft and WordCraft. The tools are available as free downloads on ArtCraft's website, with optional paid AI image and video generation credits powered by Google's Nano Banana Pro.
Federal prosecutors have charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national who worked as an OpenAI engineer since July 2025, with planting a hidden recording device in an executive meeting room at the company's San Francisco office. OpenAI's security team discovered the encrypted device, built from a $13.99 Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3 board, around September 30, and later found a second similar device along with Alfozan's wallet in a bag he left behind. He was arrested on October 9 and appeared in federal court on October 13 facing charges of attempting to intercept oral communications.
Federal prosecutors allege that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer, hid an audio recording device wrapped in toilet paper behind a monitor in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office. He allegedly used internal AI chatbot tools to research the room's meeting schedule and to get technical guidance on building the covert device, and a second recording device was reportedly found in his bag. OpenAI fired Alfozan last Friday, and he faces a federal charge of illegally intercepting oral communications, which carries up to five years in prison.
OpenAI says it discovered a hidden surveillance device planted in an executive conference room by employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was fired and arrested by the FBI on October 9. Federal prosecutors charged him with illegally intercepting oral communications after the device, found hidden behind a TV's USB port, was linked to him via a camera OpenAI had installed. OpenAI says it has found no evidence the employee accessed or exfiltrated model weights, source code, or customer data.
Anthropic posted a job opening in its London office for an executive assistant, describing the role as requiring someone 'highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-starting.' The listed salary is reported at around €145,000, roughly $190,000.
The UK Housing Ombudsman Service is investigating a security incident at a third-party IT provider that disrupted its case management system on Tuesday. The body, which resolves disputes between social housing tenants and landlords, says new complaints cannot currently be filed online, and residents must instead call or email the service directly. It has notified the Information Commissioner's Office and is still assessing whether personal data was compromised.
Developer Brandon Thomas, who previously built free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud apps using Claude AI, has now created WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft—open-source replicas of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The apps are written in Rust with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 and released under MIT or Apache 2.0 licenses, running natively across Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, and the browser via WebAssembly. WordCraft already supports .docx and other formats with offline spelling and grammar tools, while GridCraft reportedly implements 89% of Excel's ribbon commands and 98% of its worksheet functions.
Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network earned only $5.5 million in its opening weekend, according to Variety, against a production budget estimated between $30 and $42 million. The film currently holds a 55% Rotten Tomatoes score and has drawn criticism on social media, a sharp contrast to The Social Network's $22 million debut.
Universal Pictures released the horror film 'Other Mommy' to largely negative critical reception, yet the movie still drew a sizable opening audience, according to reporting on its box-office performance. Exact figures were not detailed, but the film is described as a significant commercial success for the studio despite the backlash.