Law enforcement uses “bogus” cell towers, why not criminals?

https://www.wired.com/story/sms-blasters-scam-texts/

Cybercriminals Have a Weird New Way to Target You With Scam Texts

Scammers are now using “SMS blasters” to send out up to 100,000 texts per hour to phones that are tricked into thinking the devices are cell towers. Your wireless carrier is powerless to stop them.

Outsmarted by AI?

https://futurism.com/openai-scheming-cover-tracks

OpenAI Tries to Train AI Not to Deceive Users, Realizes It's Instead Teaching It How to Deceive Them While Covering Its Tracks

OpenAI researchers tried to train the company's AI to stop "scheming" — a term the company defines as meaning "when an AI behaves one way on the surface while hiding its true goals" — but their efforts backfired in an ominous way.

In reality, the team found, they were unintentionally teaching the AI how to more effectively deceive humans by covering its tracks.

"A major failure mode of attempting to 'train out' scheming is simply teaching the model to scheme more carefully and covertly," OpenAI wrote in an accompanying blog post.

As detailed in a new collaboration with AI risk analysis firm Apollo Research, engineers attempted to develop an "anti-scheming" technique to stop AI models from "secretly breaking rules or intentionally underperforming in tests."

Making takeovers less valuable?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/20/trump-golden-share-us-steel.html

Trump wields ‘golden share’ to halt U.S. Steel plant shutdown, WSJ reports

The Trump administration stepped in to stop U.S. Steel from idling operations at its Granite City, Ill., plant, exercising new powers tied to the company’s recent takeover, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The steelmaker had informed nearly 800 workers that the plant would close in November, noting however that they would still be paid. But after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warned CEO Dave Burritt the administration wouldn’t allow it, U.S. Steel reversed course on Friday, saying the facility would keep rolling slabs into sheet steel, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The intervention marked Trump’s first use of so-called “golden share” rights, a condition of the $14.1 billion takeover by Japan’s Nippon that cleared in June. The national-security agreement gave the White House veto power over plant closures, offshore production shifts and other strategic decisions.