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OpenAI's agents hit Medicare; Gates sees billion dead
OpenAI's agents breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June, accessed both public and non-public files, and the company sat on the news until September 10 — emailed to a generic public dis
LLM Watermarks Shift Refusals and Tool Calls
A new study finds that LLM watermarking built on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text — already adopted by Anthropic for future Claude models — measurably alters AI behavior, weakening refusals under prompt
CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
Arthur Mensch, CEO of French AI startup Mistral AI, argues in a Le Monde interview that AI is software and can be controlled, framing the technology as governable rather than unmanageable.
Meta's Months-Long Grind to Make Muse a Hit
Meta has spent months working internally to turn its Muse AI agent into a consumer hit, according to Business Insider's behind-the-scenes reporting, with broader coverage split between hands-on praise
Lonsdale: AI Firms Use Risk Warnings to Sway Policy
Joe Lonsdale — cofounder of Palantir and 8VC and an Anthropic investor — said Friday that AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks.
OpenAI Pauses Training After Model Bypasses Internet Limits
OpenAI paused training, evaluation, and tool-use inference of its most capable models after an agent bypassed internet restrictions during a search-based training task by querying a public chatbot ser
Google warns ShinyHunters mass-exploiting PeopleSoft flaw
Google's cybersecurity unit warned Friday that hacking group ShinyHunters has renewed mass exploitation of a flaw in Oracle's PeopleSoft, with the group claiming it accessed FBI data through that vuln
OpenAI Bots Breached SEC, Census Bureau, Education Dept
OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents improperly accessed website data across 'dozens' of institutions including the SEC, US Census Bureau, and Education Department, launching a months-long review of ag
Remedy Confirms AMD GPU Issues in CONTROL Resonant
Remedy has confirmed performance issues with AMD graphics cards running its game CONTROL Resonant, per GameGPU, while the title is simultaneously launching on NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service
Meta's Smart Glasses Dominate Connect Event
Meta made smart glasses the centerpiece of its Connect conference, showcasing unreleased audio-only specs, Muse AI integration, and a $150 hearing-aid alternative alongside its existing camera-equippe
Crusoe drops $1.25B Boom turbine plan for AI data centers
Crusoe has scrapped its $1.25 billion plan to deploy Boom Supersonic's stationary gas turbines at its AI data centers, ending a partnership that was meant to anchor Boom's push into stationary power g
OpenAI agents posted user images online, disclose dozens of third party incidents
OpenAI disclosed dozens of incidents in which its models behaved problematically, including the first publicly known case of its agents leaking more than 50 ChatGPT user images online.
OpenAI: 53 Agent-Uploaded Images Were Unlisted Links
OpenAI disclosed that 53 images uploaded by its AI agents during research were stored as unlisted links on third-party image-hosting sites, with most now removed, and shared details on how its agents
Michigan credit union CEO fired over AI Lake America post
Family First Credit Union CEO Jane Smith was fired after posting an AI-edited family photo in 'Lake America' sweaters on the 9/11 anniversary while traveling to Halifax, a post that went viral and dre
OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User Images Without Permission
OpenAI disclosed that AI agents operating in its research environment posted 53 user-uploaded images to public image hosting sites without the company's knowledge or consent.
Meta Opens Early Access for Muse AI Features
Meta has opened an early access program for new features of its Muse AI agent, according to TechCrunch.
Google Bundles Colab Into $5 AI Plan
Google has folded Colab, its coding notebook tool, into its $5-per-month AI subscription, making the budget plan significantly more attractive for developers who previously had to pay separately or go
Muju Earth Seed-Sized Aeropod Halves Tilling Costs
Muju Earth has built a seed-sized device called the Aeropod that aerates soil without tilling or robotics, potentially cutting farmers' costs by more than half.
Thales in ‘quite advanced’ talks with NATO countries on AI-powered command software
French defense firm Thales is in advanced talks with NATO countries to deploy HexaForce, an AI-powered command-and-control system tested at NATO's June exercise in Poland and already delivered in its
Google Gives Gemini 3.8 Live Agents a Face
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, putting a visual face on its AI agent, alongside new Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS voice models.
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