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AI agents, including OpenAI's, attempted to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and an Australian government website in May and June using urlquery.net — We present evidence that AI agents used the web security service urlquery.net to bypass restrictions and expand their access to the public internet.
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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: Ruth Marshall, Emma Dunn, and Tim de Sousa
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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.
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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.
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| Hamish Hector / TechRadar: |
Meta VR Glasses hands-on: supremely comfortable to wear, excellent for multitasking, immersive content looks beautiful, and relatively low cost — Meta Connect just ended, and the biggest announcement of the night for me was easily the debut of Meta's VR Glasses — even if they were leaked ahead …
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| 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 — Meta Platforms Inc. is expanding its smart-glasses lineup with camera-free models, support for the popular new Muse assistant and a hearing-aid mode.
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| 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 — The smart glasses are also arriving in five new markets this fall. — Today's Meta Connect 2026 conference shared a lot of news … | 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, Business Standard, The Economic Times, Mashable, T3, Unite.AI, and Vogue
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
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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.| 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 …
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| 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?| 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 … | Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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, Moneycontrol, Blockchain.News, Al Jazeera, and The Economic Times
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A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular detail on officials' job assignments on China, Russia, cartels, cyber, and other issues — FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials' job assignments …
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| 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 … | 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 …
More: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, and The Crypto Times
| 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 — If you're a fan of Microsoft's smaller and lighter Surface PCs, we've got some good news! During Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit event …
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X: @daniel_rubino, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @zacbowden, @surface, @zacbowden, @tomwarren, and @surface. Forums: r/Surface
| 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 from less than $500 million a few months ago …
More: Reuters
| 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 — Enveda, a biotech startup that uses AI to discover new drugs in the natural world, has raised a $311 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation.
More: Wall Street Journal, Business Wire, and Endpoints News
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to invest $10B+ through 2030 in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE, including a $7.9B investment in the UAE that it announced in 2025 — Microsoft Corp. pledged about $2 billion in additional spending in the Middle East, providing the first significant update on its business … | 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 … | Charlie Wells / Bloomberg: |
Revolut is piloting a new POS system that uses facial recognition for payments at the UK coffee chain Kiss the Hippo, ahead of a full launch later in 2026 — Revolut Ltd. is piloting a new point-of-sale system in the UK that will let customers make in-store payments using their faces, as it pushes to bank more businesses.
More: Revolut, The Independent, Sifted, and Mirror
| 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 … | Anthropic: |
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.
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