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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, TechCrunch, BBC, The Verge, Axios, ABC, CryptoSlate, Help Net Security, New York Times, Newser, CyberInsider, SecurityWeek, Cointelegraph, Insurance Journal, Politico, and BleepingComputer
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LinkedIn: David Swan, Mark McGovern, Dickie Currer-Ganguli, and Conrad Stosz
Bluesky: @tristangrayford.scot, @jennie-aussie, and @lukaszolejnik. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/slatestarcodex, 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, Washington Examiner, Engadget, CNET, BBC, CNN, The Daily Wire, The Guardian, Washington Post, Proactive, Global News, The Decoder, TMZ.com, Techpinions, Digital Trends, and Mashable
X: @brianbeutler, @dmartkc, @jonfavs, @ben_j_todd, @sameer_singh17, and @kateconger
Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com and @carlquintanilla
| 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: BBC, Time, Marcus on AI, Fortune, The Hill, Politico, The Independent, The Spectator, TechSpot, The Guardian, and Scientific American
| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Anthony Albanese, Pravin Bansal, Tim de Sousa, Emma Dunn, and Ruth Marshall
Bluesky: @youcaughtscott.com and @raphae.li
| 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: @robertscotthorton, @jessefelder.com, and @petertl
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/technology, r/OracleStock, and r/wallstreetbets
| 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 …
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Forums: r/space, r/technology, and r/PlanetLabs
| 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, IGN, Wired, The Verge, Engadget, Nathie on YouTube, Quartz, Business Insider, Shortlist, TestingCatalog AI News, Phandroid, iThinkDifferent, GamesBeat, WinBuzzer, The Ghost Howls, PC Gamer, Good Virtual Reality, FlatpanelsHD, PetaPixel, Gizchina, GB News, Pulse 2.0, Push Square, 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: D.J. Smith, Nicola Mendelsohn CBE, and Mark Smith
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @joejerome.com
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, PYMNTS, Forkast, CNET, Engadget, Tom's Guide, Axios, Reuters, The Mac Observer, Proactive, Financial Post, The Independent, Anadolu Ajansı …, New York Magazine, GSMArena.com, Daily Mail, iThinkDifferent, Dexerto, iPhone in Canada, Trusted Reviews, indy100, Barron's Online, and Mashable
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: The Verge, Music Ally, Mashable, Engadget, and Business Insider
| Axios: |
Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that “built the AI-doom pipeline” and places Dario Amodei at its foundation — President Trump's allies are targeting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the face of AI “doomerism” and a founding father …
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| Bloomberg: |
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Forums: r/nottheonion, r/TrueAnon, r/worldnews, and r/technology
| 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, Axios, International Business Times, and Quartz
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Bluesky: @tmgibs and @timobrien
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said on Thursday Apple (AAPL.O) has extended its patent-licensing agreement with the chip designer … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
More: Qualcomm, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Guide, Neowin, The Mac Observer, SamMobile, eeNews Europe, Engadget, SammyGuru, HotHardware, and The Shortcut. LinkedIn: Akash Palkhiwala
| 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, New York Times, PCMag, MarketWatch, MobileSyrup, The Guardian, CyberInsider, Digital Trends, and Mashable
X: @quinnypig and @stocksavvyshay
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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X: @benbajarin, @ray_ban, @katienotopoulos, @kimmonismus, @altryne, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Cristina Oliva Patrick. Bluesky: @chadbourn
| 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 … | Politico: |
Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed — The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new artificial intelligence models with the U.K. government's testing agency until … | Jeff Stein / The Washington Sun: |
Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year — The price tag is significantly higher than previously known. — Copy — The National Security Agency told lawmakers … | 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 … | 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: Thurrott, The Verge, Forkast, 9to5Google, and The Decoder
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 …
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| 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.”
More: Android Police, How-To Geek, 9to5Google, Engadget, XDA Developers, The Verge, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, Wired, Android Central, Digital Trends, MakeUseOf, Phandroid, and Droid Life. Forums: r/technology
| 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, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Mashable, Joanna Stern on YouTube, Engadget, NBC News, TechCabal, Dezeen, Yahoo Finance, CGMagazine, Engadget, and Meta on YouTube
X: @daniel_scuteri and @joannastern
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg
| Abigail Hauslohner / 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 — Israeli leader's speech comes on high-profile day for international relations as Donald Trump hosts Xi Jinping at the White House| 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 … | 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
| 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
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Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app's core UX ~3x faster in August using an internal model to ship improvements “in a two-week sprint” — Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster. So we kept finding more things to measure. Raymond Wang, Sam Attard, and Issac G.
More: iPhone in Canada, Help Net Security, and RuntimeWire
| Nicole Carpenter / Aftermath: |
In a default judgment, a US federal judge awards Nintendo of America $4.5M in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games — The court entered a default judgement in favor of Nintendo — Nintendo of America was awarded $4.5 million in damages in its lawsuit …
More: The Verge, Polygon.com, and GoNintendo
Forums: r/NintendoSwitch2, r/nintendo, and r/NintendoSwitch
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses — Amazon is introducing tools to let independent sellers manage their sales on four of its biggest rivals — eBay, Shopify, TikTok and … | New York Times: |
Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ — A24, Sony and The New York Times Company all registered their interest in acquiring the cinephile's paradise.
X: @mikeisaac and @benmullin
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Modal Labs is in funding talks at a ~$15B valuation, up from $4.65B in May; Baseten is in funding talks at a $26B valuation, up from $13B in June — Two startups that provide platforms to help businesses run artificial intelligence models are in funding talks to double their valuations …
More: Axios and Tech Funding News
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Dallas-based enterprise browser security startup Island raised $400M led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $6.4B valuation and plans to grow its staff to 1,500 — The scramble to secure businesses against swarms of rogue artificial intelligence agents is fueling demand for new security tools.| Oliver Barnes / Financial Times: |
Sources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B — Talks between web domain provider and Gen Digital at early stage but could allow acquirer to broaden its business beyond cyber security
More: Barron's Online, Proactive, and Seeking Alpha
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