Wuhan Lotus Automobile Sales Co., Ltd. filed a recall plan with SAMR (recall S2026M0121V) to immediately recall 33 imported Lotus Elise 220 cars produced between June 10, 2014 and December 13, 2015. Defect: incomplete resin molding reduced low‑pressure fuel‑pump impeller density; the impeller can swell when exposed to fuel, interfere with the pump housing, cause low‑pressure pump failure and, in extreme cases, engine stall while driving. Remedy: the company will replace affected vehicles’ low‑pr

Circle (CRCL.N) kept its earnings guidance unchanged.

Foreign outlets citing five people familiar with the matter report OpenAI employees warned management and the board before ChatGPT's launch that code and research access was overly broad, creating risk of sensitive-technology leaks; some employees said management prioritized catching up with Google and ANTHROPIC over security. Cited internal risks include permissive code-repo permissions, research materials widely stored on GitHub and Slack, and testing tools lacking regular security reviews. OpenAI has bolstered security, reallocating roughly 25% of production engineers to a security infrastructure project in August. OpenAI says it has tightened access to sensitive materials, increased internal security reviews, and will launch a new targeted security initiative.