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Today's topics:

AI Coding Agents Hit Review Bottleneck - A new study of hundreds of firms finds AI coding agents boost lines of code, commits, and pull requests, but slower human code review cancels out gains in finished software and Jira issue resolution.

QGIS Bans AI-Assisted Contributions - The open-source QGIS project merged proposal QEP428, adopting a strict ban on AI-assisted contributions to protect maintainer review capacity and code quality.

Plimsoll Sandbox for Agent Code - Plimsoll is an open-source sandbox for running untrusted, AI agent-written code across process, container, kernel, and VM isolation tiers, with verifiable and replayable results.

OpenAI Safety Researchers Dispute Firings - Fired OpenAI safety researchers Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni say they were dismissed for raising AI safety concerns, while OpenAI cites a breach of trust over sensitive information.

Brad Smith Urges Global AI Rules - Microsoft president Brad Smith tells the BBC AI is less regulated than milk, calling for incident reporting, emergency shutdowns, and independent pre-release testing, in contrast with Trump's self-regulation stance.

Firmus Scraps Major Australian IPO - Nvidia-backed AI data centre company Firmus abandoned a planned $30bn-plus Australian stock listing amid investor worries over AI valuations, debt, and infrastructure returns.

AI Reshapes Legal Billable Hour - Nearly 90% of UK and Ireland legal professionals use AI, according to Clio, pressuring the law firm billable-hour model and changing how junior lawyers train.

TorrentClaw Exposes Disguised Torrent Malware - AI-built torrent search engine TorrentClaw uses its TrueSpec system to verify torrents and flag malware, including real VLC executables bundled with malicious DLLs in fake anime and movie downloads.

No Going Back From AI - An essay argues AI is becoming so embedded in work, creativity, and thinking that society may not be able to return to pre-AI habits, raising concerns about homogenization and originality.

-QGIS Adopts Strict Ban on AI Contributions
-Mira Tours Launches Guided Street-View Wander Experience
-Plimsoll: Sandbox for Untrusted AI-Authored Code
-OpenAI fires three safety researchers amid dispute over AI risk concerns
-No Going Back in t