👋Good morning! Thursday has arrived, close enough to the weekend to smell it, with just enough week left to cause trouble. Mid-October is in full swing, the pumpkin-spice lattes are out in force, and somewhere a finance team is quietly panic-building next year's budget. If yesterday's business news had a soundtrack, it was a spy-thriller score with a courtroom drama playing over the top, and OpenAI had top billing. The world's most famous AI company hogged the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with lawsuits, leaked secrets and a bugged boardroom (the listening kind, not the software kind) landing in a single day. Elsewhere, the people who look after our money asked out loud whether the robots should be trusted with it, and cutbacks shared front pages with bumper profits. Trust was the currency everyone wanted and nobody had enough of. So top up that coffee and settle in — here's what went down.
