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Techmeme (feed as signal)9 hours ago
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 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
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…
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom9 hours ago
SoftBank's growing bets on AI and semiconductor assets(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is aiming to establish SoftBank as the world's leading AI platform with investments across the semiconductor supply chain, data centres, large language model development and robotics.
PyPI / crates.io / RubyGems / Go index / NuGet9 hours ago
smg 1.11.0
High-performance Rust-based inference gateway for large-scale LLM deployments
pypi.org/project/smg/1.11.0(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
PyPI / crates.io / RubyGems / Go index / NuGet9 hours ago
sphinx-llm-friendly 0.3.0
Sphinx extension to make documentation LLM-friendly
pypi.org/project/sphinx-llm-friendly/0.3.0(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
TNW9 hours ago
Nick Clegg dismisses fears that AI could wipe out humanity
Nick Clegg has dismissed fears that artificial intelligence could one day turn on humanity and wipe it out, calling that view hand-wavy. The former UK deputy prime minister, who later ran global affairs at Meta, spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, as the Guardian reported. Rather…
thenextweb.com/news/nick-clegg-ai-extinction-fe…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Tearsheet9 hours ago
Affirm wants its data to tell a more complete customer story(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Affirm is looking inward at its customer base for the next leg of its lending business. Last week, the BNPL firm deployed a new transformer-based underwriting model across its U.S. checkout. The model is designed to identify patterns in a consumer’s credit history that conventional models can miss…
Light Reading / Fierce Network / Telecoms.com / RCR Wireless / Mobile World Live10 hours ago
OpenAI agent breached Australian government portal(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
OpenAI systems gained unauthorised access to an Australian health portal in June, in what appears to be the first known case of an AI "agent" hacking a government website. The post OpenAI agent breached Australian government portal appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Wired10 hours ago
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
wired.com/story/openai-agent-hacked-australias-…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Techmeme (feed as signal)10 hours ago
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 (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
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…
Gadgets360 (NDTV) via FeedBurner10 hours ago
OpenAI, Anthropic Announce Cheaper AI Models as Competition From Open-Weight Models Grows(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
OpenAI and Anthropic launched new cost-efficient artificial intelligence models. The move comes as demand for lower-cost AI services continues to grow. OpenAI has expanded its GPT-6 lineup with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, while Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 as part of its Claude 5.5 model…
Tom's Hardware10 hours ago
British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for 'aiding and abetting' school shooter
B.C. is demanding compensation after it says OpenAI's reviewers wanted to call police about the Tumbler Ridge shooter before the attack.
tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intel…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Hindustan Times — Technology10 hours ago
The unspoken skill of the AI era: Clear & crisp writing(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Why clear, crisp writing is the ultimate skill in the age of generative AI, and how mastering written communication drives real technical productivity.
Techmeme (feed as signal)10 hours ago
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 (New York Times)(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
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…
TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff11 hours ago
'This situation is obviously unacceptable': OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Australian government healthcare website
Australian government calls OpenAI behavior "unacceptable" as it investigates the incident further.
techradar.com/pro/security/this-situation-is-ob…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb11 hours ago
OpenAI takes weeks to tell Australia about Medicare breach(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
'Our models took actions we did not intend,' an OpenAI spokesperson said. Read more: OpenAI takes weeks to tell Australia about Medicare breach
Fortune11 hours ago
AI could make more companies worth hacking, Anthropic report suggests
Attackers extracted data belonging to roughly 200 customers of a software provider, with AI agents doing nearly all the work, Anthropic says.
fortune.com/2026/09/24/ai-could-make-more-compa…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Engadget11 hours ago
OpenAI's agent hacked into an Australian government website
Researchers and the Prime Minister of Australia have revealed more instances of OpenAI's agents going rogue.
engadget.com/2267381/openai-hacked-into-austral…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb11 hours ago
GCC organisations must ‘fight AI with AI’ to stay ahead of cyber threats(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entry for cyber criminals, accelerating attack speeds and increasing the complexity of threats, prompting organisations to rethink resilience, governance and security operations
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb11 hours ago
heise-Angebot: IT-Summit 2026: Digitale Souveränität in der Praxis(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Raus aus der AWS/VMware/M365/OpenAI-Falle: Der IT Summit 2026 zeigt funktionierende Alternativen in den Bereichen KI, Modern Workplace, Cloud und Infrastruktur.
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)11 hours ago
At UN, tech chiefs urge caution in AI development
Leaders of major AI firms told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the technology calls for heightened vigilance, with Anthropic's CEO pledging to slow down where needed to ensure the safety of new releases.
techxplore.com/news/2026-09-tech-chiefs-urge-ca…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
BleepingComputer11 hours ago
OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare govt site, probed data providers
OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a research project. [...]
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-hacke…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone11 hours ago
Alibaba unveils ‘pragmatic’ AI road map to drive monetisation, infrastructure efficiency(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The artificial intelligence road map presented at its flagship Apsara Conference this week showcased a pragmatic pivot by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding, offering a clearer path to monetisation despite a sharp escalation in capital expenditure, analysts said. The conference, which ran…
InfoQ11 hours ago
Presentation: Designing Fast, Delightful UX With LLMs for Mobile Frontends
Balakrishnan Ramdoss discusses how to architect production-grade, AI-powered conversational apps at scale. He explains how to overcome model latency, leverage server-driven UI and Backend-for-Frontend patterns to dynamically render multi-modal interfaces, optimize prompts for UI selection, and…
infoq.com/presentations/llm-mobile-frontend(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)11 hours ago
Australian PM says OpenAI hacked government health website
A rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government website, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said as he admonished the ChatGPT creator over an "obviously unacceptable" breach.
techxplore.com/news/2026-09-australian-pm-opena…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The Verge12 hours ago
Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief
Google is reportedly nearing the launch of its long awaited Gemini 4 model, after dawdling behind rival developers on flagship AI releases. Speaking with The Information during his first media appearance as the leader of Google's DeepMind division, Koray Kavukcuoglu said that Gemini 4 is currently…
theverge.com/tech/999802/google-deepmind-gemini…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh12 hours ago
From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment
AI agents are moving beyond laptops and prototypes and into enterprise environments where security, compliance, scalability, and reliability matter. Nick Kuhn from VMware Tanzu Platform joins Daniel and Chris to discuss what changes (and what doesn’t) when deploying agents alongside traditional…
share.transistor.fm/s/74934e48(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Cointelegraph12 hours ago
Australia says OpenAI agent hacked government site before Altman warning(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
OpenAI notified Australia nearly three months after its agent breached a government portal while gathering public medicine-spending data.
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb13 hours ago
KI-Angriff auf Australien: OpenAI-Agent hat sich in Regierungsportal gehackt(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Ein KI-Agent von OpenAI sollte australische Gesundheitsstatistiken recherchieren. Dabei ist er aber zu weit gegangen und hat geschützte Daten abgerufen. (OpenAI, KI)
PYMNTS13 hours ago
Mastercard: Merchants Want AI Shoppers Without Losing the Customer(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Gaurang Shah of Mastercard Agentic commerce is approaching an awkward transition point in its adoption cycle. The artificial intelligence (AI) foundation is getting good enough to shop for consumers faster than the commercial system responding to it is…
Help Net Security13 hours ago
Claude.ai is about 3x faster after 3,000+ changes
Anthropic engineers made claude.ai and the Claude desktop app roughly three times faster during a two-week sprint in August, with Claude finding the bottlenecks and writing the fixes. The team merged more than 3,000 changes and says none of them caused a customer-facing incident or rollback. The…
helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/24/anthropic-claude…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)