9 October 2026

AI companies are rehearsing scenarios for the "day after" a catastrophic AI incident

Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately analyzing scenarios of public and political backlash after a catastrophic AI incident, most likely a cyberattack that cuts off access to financial services, the internet, or power or water, Axios reports, citing industry sources. Many of them expect such an event within 6-12 months; the preparations involve analyzing worst-case scenarios and educating members of Congress in order to influence the rules authorities will reach for after the first disaster. OpenAI confirmed it runs such exercises but "does not treat these scenarios as inevitable"; Anthropic declined to comment.

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Stack Overflow: six in ten developers try to avoid AI, even though 65 percent use coding assistants

That is the finding of a Stack Overflow survey of 30,000 developers from 169 countries, whose results CNN saw ahead of publication scheduled for Tuesday, October 6. 74 percent of respondents find AI useful for writing code and 72 percent for finding bugs, but only 34.4 percent for other tasks, and 6.6 percent would trust it with important decisions. Nearly a third are unhappy at work (28.4 percent a year earlier), while 22.3 percent are "happy." Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar points to burnout and uncertainty about how much of the work will be automated.

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Breach of Pentagon personnel database exposed data of 2.76 million living service members and civilian employees

Unauthorized parties had access from October 2025 to July 2026 to the Defense Manpower Data Center system, the Pentagon's main personnel database, and through it to data on 2.76 million living and 294,000 deceased people, ABC News reports, citing a Defense Department official. The exposed information includes Social Security numbers and descriptions of positions held by service members and civilian employees. The Pentagon says it patched the flaw immediately after discovering it and that there is no evidence the data has been misused.

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Ryan Roslansky, the former head of LinkedIn, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026

Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn for six years, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026, CEO Satya Nadella told employees on Thursday. Dan Shapero took over the service this year, and Roslansky has since been responsible for Microsoft 365 apps and the Copilot platform together with two other executives. He explains his departure by saying the next phase of the job would require a permanent presence at the company's headquarters in Redmond, while he and his family live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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