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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 -
New! Transluce: AI agents, including those from OpenAI, attempted to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in May and June -
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery life, ~2.5K resolution per eye, on sale spring 2027 for $1,299 -
Hamish Hector / TechRadar: Meta VR Glasses hands-on: supremely comfortable to wear, excellent for multitasking, immersive content looks beautiful, and relatively low cost -
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta previews hologram avatars for Meta VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display that feel more natural than Apple's persona avatars, available in early access this fall -
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-like device for using Muse, with a ~2-inch OLED screen, front and rear cameras, and 5G, on sale by year's end -
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 -
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta unveils Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first pair of glasses without cameras, offering up to 12 hours of battery life, starting at $349 and shipping October 13 -
Wired: Meta plans to bring Private Processing to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, letting their AI assistant fulfill users' requests without Meta accessing their data -
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta announces Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 with better battery life, a programmable action button, an added microphone, and two new frame styles, starting at $449 -
Anna Washenko / Engadget: Meta announces new features for Meta Ray-Ban Display, including expanded heads-up navigation tools, a new Explore app, and Dolby Atmos audio support -
Bloomberg: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei tell the UN Security Council that governments and industry should coordinate on AI safety standards and critical decisions -
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 -
Joanna Stern / The New Things: An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the products released at Connect, camera-free Ray-Bans being in the works before the “pervert glasses” backlash, more -
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: Meta adds an FDA-cleared hearing enhancement feature to supported Meta Glasses for Meta One subscribers or a one-time cost of $149, rolling out later this year -
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta says it will allow its AI glasses users to opt out of having their “visual data” used to train its AI or shown to third-party contractors outside the US -
Meta on YouTube: A recording of the Meta Connect 2026 opening keynote — We believe the future is for everyone, so we're putting superintelligence in everyone's hands. -
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: YouTube rolls out tools for microdramas, an AI storytelling assistant for script analysis, video A/B-testing, and more, as it battles Netflix over top creators -
Reece Rogers / Wired: At its Made on YouTube event, YouTube unveils Custom Feeds, an LLM-powered feature that lets users generate and save tailored homepage video feeds, for US users -
Reuters: A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular detail on officials' job assignments on China, Russia, cartels, cyber, and other issues -
Google: Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, its “most expressive audio generation models yet”, with support for more than 100 languages -
Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft unveils the $1,149+ Surface Pro 12-inch and the $1,199+ Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus, and a new Surface Mouse with built-in haptics -
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Colorado-based Enveda, which uses AI to discover new drugs in the natural world, raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation, double its valuation a year ago -
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to invest more than $10B through 2030 in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE, including a $7.9B UAE investment it announced last year -
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 the year -
Ezra Klein / New York Times: Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more -
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Disney raises Disney+ and Hulu prices, the fourth price hike in as many years; the ad-free tiers will each cost $21.49/month, an increase of $2.50 -
Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Bessemer raised $5.75B, allocating $4B to growth-stage funding, including young companies raising large rounds at high valuations, and $1.75B for early-stage -
Christian Robles / Nextgov/FCW: During a Senate hearing, lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend -
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 -
Bloomberg: Sources: the Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote use of dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas, including via JVs with private firms -
New! Bloomberg: Sources: Schneider Electric is nearing a deal to acquire Bulgaria-based smart home device maker Shelly Group at a €1.27B valuation, excluding debt