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AI agents, including OpenAI's, tried to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and an Australian government site in May and June using the urlquery.net service — We present evidence that AI agents used the web security service urlquery.net to bypass restrictions and expand their access to the public internet.
More: Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Verge, TechCrunch, BBC, ABC, Axios, Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, BleepingComputer, New York Times, Cointelegraph, Politico, Newser, CyberInsider, and Insurance Journal
X: @themidasproj, @transluceai, @transluceai, @transluceai, @aisafetymemes, @justanotherlaw, @ns123abc, @garymarcus, @transluceai, @selenazhxng, @transluceai, @maxnadeau_, @rajivdattani, @bitcloud, @xlr8harder, @xfreeze, @david_kasten, @_nathancalvin, @ben_j_todd, @aisafetymemes, @garymarcus, @tedlieu, @justanotherlaw, @slimer48484, @aisafetymemes, @mikko, @matthewstoller, @justanotherlaw, @tim_hua_, @ben_j_todd, @zeffmax, @xlr8harder, @fazlbarez, and @blackhc
LinkedIn: David Swan, Mark McGovern, Dickie Currer-Ganguli, and Conrad Stosz
Bluesky: @jennie-aussie, @tristangrayford.scot, and @lukaszolejnik. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/technology, r/news, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
OpenAI says its AI agents “took actions we did not intend” when they tried to hack government and university websites, and it is working with the organizations — In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
More: CNBC, CNET, Engadget, BBC, Proactive, Global News, CNN, The Guardian, The Decoder, Washington Post, TMZ.com, MediaNama, and Australian Financial Review
X: @brianbeutler, @dmartkc, @jonfavs, @ben_j_todd, @sameer_singh17, and @kateconger
Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com and @carlquintanilla
| The Age: |
Australian PM Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a public-facing Medicare portal in June, accessing public and non-public files — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed that an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated …
More: Prime Minister of Australia, The Guardian, BBC, Nikkei Asia, Wall Street Journal, ABC, International Business Times, Reuters, Implicator.ai, Tech Monitor, cyber.gov.au, Superpower Daily, Silicon Republic, Barron's Online, Quartz, Infosecurity, AI Policy Daily, The Cyber Express, Al Jazeera, ITPro, Information Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and ABC
X: @_nathancalvin, @uk_daniel_card, @garymarcus, @asdgovau, @0x4d31, @akses_0x00, @crowedm, @brianroemmele, @j0wimo, @natolambert, @max_paperclips, @ryanfedasiuk, @jun_song, @emostaque, @s_oheigeartaigh, @xeophon, and @teortaxestex
LinkedIn: Pravin Bansal, Anthony Albanese, Tim de Sousa, Emma Dunn, and Ruth Marshall
Bluesky: @youcaughtscott.com and @raphae.li
| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address — OpenAI didn't tell Australia about the hack for weeks — raising serious questions about how it handles rogue AI incidents
More: The Hill, Marcus on AI, Fortune, Politico, Time, The Independent, The Guardian, TechSpot, and Scientific American. X: @shakeelhashim
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery, and ~2.5K resolution per eye, coming spring 2027 for $1,299 — Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday launched $1,299 virtual-reality glasses that undercut Apple Inc. in price and size while putting its headset line on track for profitability.
More: The Verge, Meta VR on YouTube, Meta, TechCrunch, Fierce Sensors, How-To Geek, Wired, Good Virtual Reality, Pulse 2.0, The Verge, Nathie on YouTube, WinBuzzer, Business Insider, Quartz, Shortlist, Financial Express, TestingCatalog AI News, Phandroid, iThinkDifferent, GamesBeat, The Ghost Howls, Android Authority, PC Gamer, FlatpanelsHD, PetaPixel, Gizchina, GB News, Road to VR, Road to VR, The Guardian, Jasmine Uniza ☕️ on YouTube, CNET, ZDNET, Gizmodo, The Irish Sun, UploadVR, and Engadget
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LinkedIn: Nicola Mendelsohn CBE and Mark Smith
Threads: @trevorgrogers and @carnage4life
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-like device for using Muse, with a ~2" OLED screen, front and rear cameras, and 5G, on sale by the end of 2026 — Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a palm-sized, dedicated gadget for using Muse, the company's popular new artificial intelligence assistant …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta says users will be able to video chat with Muse, agents will get their own email addresses, and Muse will get computer use on Mac and smart glasses support — Muse started as a chatbot but will soon be an AI avatar you can talk with over video.
More: Mashable, The Verge, Music Ally, Engadget, and Business Insider
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028 — Oracle Corp. is moving to shield itself from racking up expenses on a massive data center being built in New Mexico …
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Bluesky: @jessefelder.com and @petertl
Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline
| Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei tell the UN Security Council that governments and industry should coordinate on AI safety standards and critical decisions — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei urged world leaders to work together on artificial intelligence …
More: Associated Press, Washington Post, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, The Guardian, The Stack, The Coin Republic, Tech Times, CNBC, CNN, UN Transcripts, Inc42, Straight Arrow, Reuters, and Marcus on AI
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Forums: r/nottheonion, r/TrueAnon, r/worldnews, and r/technology
| Wired: |
Meta plans to bring Private Processing to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, letting their AI assistant fulfill users' requests without Meta accessing their data — The company is bringing its Private Processing encryption service to its much-maligned smart glasses. — Meta knows you probably have some privacy concerns about its smart glasses.
More: Engineering at Meta, PCMag, New York Times, MarketWatch, The Guardian, Kotaku, CyberInsider, and Mashable
X: @stocksavvyshay and @quinnypig
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
More: New York Times, Meta Newsroom, Barron's Online, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Meta, New Atlas, Phandroid, Silicon Republic, iThinkDifferent, MediaNama, GB News, iPhone in Canada, BBC, The Independent, Billboard, Stuff, Business Insider, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, Android Central, Gizmodo, Engadget, GadgetGuy, MobileSyrup, and Engadget
X: @benbajarin, @altryne, @ray_ban, @kimmonismus, @markgurman, and @katienotopoulos. LinkedIn: Cristina Oliva Patrick. Bluesky: @chadbourn
| New York Times: |
Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year — Technicians in a clean room at the Planet Labs office inspect the solar panels and wires of a Google-commissioned satellite …
More: Google, The Verge, Reuters, Washington Examiner, MediaPost, Digital Trends, Barron's Online, Superpower Daily, and Unite.AI
Forums: r/technology and r/PlanetLabs
| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for audio wearables, with up to 2x greater on-device AI performance and up to 40% lower power consumption — Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 as a substantial chipset for upcoming audio devices, with a massive focus on better AI performance for audio wearables.
More: Qualcomm, Neowin, Tom's Guide, The Mac Observer, Engadget, SamMobile, Moneycontrol, eeNews Europe, HotHardware, and The Shortcut. LinkedIn: Akash Palkhiwala
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Brookings projects US AI spending to total $10.3T between 2025 and 2032, averaging 3.6% of GDP per year, the largest single-industry build-out as a share of GDP — Data-center spending is greater than that for the canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and wealth but also boosting inflation
More: Brookings, International Business Times, and Quartz
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Bluesky: @tmgibs and @timobrien
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| The Information: |
Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs — Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused standards body on their own … | The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue run rate hits $1B, up from less than $500M a few months ago, as it aims to finalize a ~$7.5B fundraise by late October — DeepSeek's annualized revenue run rate has hit $1 billion, more than double the rate of a few months ago, buoyed by a recent price hike …
More: Reuters. X: @jingyanghk, @teortaxestex, @pstasiatech, @choblin29, @jukan05, @jingyanghk, and @shanumathew93
| Joanna Stern / The New Things: |
An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the products announced at Connect, camera-free Ray-Bans being in the works before the “pervert glasses” backlash, and more — There are a LOT of questions to ask when Mark Zuckerberg unveils new products. How do the glasses work?
More: The Verge, Business Insider, NBC News, Mashable, Engadget, CGMagazine, Engadget, Joanna Stern on YouTube, Yahoo Finance, TechCabal, Dezeen, Meta on YouTube, and Tom's Guide
X: @daniel_scuteri and @joannastern
| Laura Bratton / The Information: |
Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released “much earlier” than the end of 2026 — Google is nearing the release of its newest flagship model, Gemini 4, the head of its DeepMind division said Wednesday …
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, Forkast, The Decoder, and NPowerUser
X: @kimmonismus, @laurabratton5, @choblin29, and @jessicalessin
| Callum Borchers / Wall Street Journal: |
Companies are increasingly using AI benchmarking services to aggregate public job listings and other payroll data to identify under- and over-paid employees — New services allow employers to pinpoint who is being paid too much or too little — A lot of us worry artificial intelligence …
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab — It took nearly 1,000 Claude agents 21 hours and 210 million tokens to uncover the ‘novel enzyme system.’
More: Anthropic, The Decoder, RedState, Quartz, Moneycontrol, Phandroid, Blockchain.News, The Independent, and The Rundown AI
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Bluesky: @stephenturner.us and @timkellogg.me
| Priyanka Salve / CNBC: |
VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised $150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a $2B post-money valuation — Brahma AI, an Indian start-up that makes artificial intelligence-generated audiovisual content for enterprise customers … | Shuhei Ochiai / Nikkei Asia: |
Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor says it will set up its largest production hub for optical communications chips in Japan as part of a planned $4B investment — TOKYO — Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor will set up its largest production hub for optical communications semiconductors …
More: DatacenterDynamics, CTech, and DigiTimes
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
ASML's European revenue share dropped to 0% in Q1 and Q2 2026, down from 1% in 2025 and 5% in 2024; ASML is urging EU authorities to create demand for EU chips — Subsidies for fabs do not help. … As the world's only supplier of EUV lithography systems, ASML is Europe's largest company … | Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon plans to invest $1B into its Indian quick commerce operations by the end of 2027, and another $2B by 2030, as it battles local rivals — US e-commerce retailer Amazon (AMZN.O) will invest $3 billion to expand its India quick commerce business by 2030, two sources said …
More: Business Today
| Financial Times: |
At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the “capability and responsibility” to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition — The leaders are expected to discuss trade war truce and AI risks before a state dinner with American business leaders| Bloomberg: |
Tencent launches TenPayGo, a payment app for foreign visitors to China that lets them pay tens of millions of merchants via Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay — Tencent Holdings Ltd. launched a standalone payment app for foreign visitors to China, stepping up competition against rival Ant Group Co.
More: WPXI-TV and Financial Times
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US — With AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct now able to make calls on users' behalf, Google is now letting Gemini call businesses with a new feature called “Call for Me.”| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas, including via JVs with private companies — The Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote the use of dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas … | Christine Chen / Reuters: |
Sources citing Firmus' IPO draft prospectus: the Australian data center operator expects to report a $77M loss after tax for H1 FY27 as it prepares to raise $5B — Australian data centre operator Firmus expects to lose $77 million in the current half, according to two people familiar … | Christian Robles / Nextgov/FCW: |
During a Senate hearing, US lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend — Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday criticized the use of automatic license plate readers … | Kevin T. Dugan / Wall Street Journal: |
New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets — The company and rival Kalshi are facing legal challenges from states around the country — New York, one of the largest markets … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts — An open benchmark developed with more than 80 licensed mental health experts to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations.| Wall Street Journal: |
Industry group TechNet files a comment with the US DHS urging the White House to withdraw its proposal to charge $103,265 for most new H-1B visa applications — Clash over proposed DHS rule to charge $103,265 fee reignites spat over highly skilled immigration
More: Forbes, CCIA, [your]NEWS, and NewsMax.com
| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismisses the idea of joining Meta's multistate child safety settlement, saying YouTube already has measures to protect young users — YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismissed the idea of joining Meta's multistate settlement agreement around child safety … Sponsor Posts
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