The Final Shift

The Guardian Technology

An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far

Experts say ‘fairly minor’ breach is a portent of things to come and proprietary closed systems like OpenAI are ‘the least of the worries’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get ou…

Sep 24, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Australia launches investigation after OpenAI agent hacked healthcare database

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medic…

Sep 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse

CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glass…

Sep 24, 2026

The Register

OpenAI's Astra model went for a drive and no one died

First LLM to pass test did it in a parking lot at snail's pace, at considerable expense, but it still counts for something

Sep 24, 2026

The Register

OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’

Canberra is fuming after AI lab sent the news to a generic unattended email address

Sep 24, 2026

Politico Technology

US, Chinese visions for AI regulation differ sharply at UN meeting

President Donald Trump vowed to stand against global AI security efforts at the U.N. this week, amid growing calls for world leaders to take action.

Sep 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

Sep 23, 2026

Semafor Technology

Progressive Democrats push superintelligence ban

“Candidates have got to start talking about it now,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Sep 23, 2026

The Register

Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion

Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs

Sep 23, 2026

Wired

The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs

Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.

Sep 23, 2026

Politico Technology

Schumer presses Thune for vote on chip export bills

The Democratic senator’s push comes ahead of the historic Trump-Xi summit this week.

Sep 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features

Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.

Sep 23, 2026

The Register

An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip

16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?

Sep 23, 2026

Ars Technica

After multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai

Feds know of 5 crashes where cars using comma.ai devices hit slow or stopped vehicles.

Sep 23, 2026

Politico Technology

Dems urge Trump to seek AI deal with China

In a letter shared with POLITICO, 17 Democratic senators called on the president to discuss slowing or pausing AI development with Xi Jinping at their upcoming summit.

Sep 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services

Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.

Sep 23, 2026

Semafor Technology

Anthropic and OpenAI bosses to address the UN

Analysts say Washington and Beijing are unlikely to reach any wide-ranging pact in talks to constrain AI.

Sep 23, 2026

Wired

AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire

The telecom giant is eager to show Wall Street that it can do more with less. That means fewer employees, less electricity, and increased automation.

Sep 23, 2026

Rest of World

Dario Amodei wants to slow AI. China isn’t taking orders

Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?”

Sep 23, 2026

Politico Technology

Ted Lieu: AI risks are ‘no longer in the realm of science fiction’

The No. 4 Democrat is urging his party to confront artificial intelligence worst-case risks without stifling the technology’s promise.

Sep 23, 2026

MIT Technology Review

The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or j…

Sep 23, 2026

Simon Willison

SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering

Sep 23, 2026

The Guardian Technology

How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios | Toby Walsh

From a dangerous new bioweapon to total societal breakdown, is a ‘superintelligent’ AI capable of wiping out humanity? Earlier this month, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from …

Sep 23, 2026

The Register

Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down

Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Sep 23, 2026

Simon Willison

Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war

Sep 22, 2026

The Register

Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions

'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2

Sep 22, 2026

Ars Technica

New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money

The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.

Sep 22, 2026

Ars Technica

Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts

EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.

Sep 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

Sep 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Sep 22, 2026

The Register

ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline

FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM

Sep 22, 2026

Ars Technica

Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced

Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.

Sep 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance

Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."

Sep 22, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

Why Read a Research Paper When You Can Turn It Into an AI Agent?

Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. I wish I could try that method on my own data,” only to spend a week wrestling with someone else’s undocum…

Sep 22, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Big tech says AI can find a cure for cancer. So where is it?

Alongside warnings about its ability to destroy humanity, artificial intelligence is also hailed for its potential to revolutionise health treatment. Just how far can it take us? Her name was June. Ju…

Sep 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft

Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.

Sep 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

Sep 22, 2026

Wired

AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality

The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.

Sep 22, 2026

404 Media

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

Sep 22, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers

This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company. Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves…

Sep 22, 2026

The Guardian Technology

George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain

Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech UK politics live – latest updates Datacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Os…

Sep 22, 2026

Semafor Technology

Chinese chips advance despite being shut out of US technology

Alibaba shares rose after it unveiled what it called China’s most powerful chip ever.

Sep 22, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the O…

Sep 22, 2026

Rest of World

America is in the wrong AI race with China

The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.

Sep 22, 2026

Wired

A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records

In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.

Sep 22, 2026

The Register

GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in

Mike Bracken says the dash to adopt sovereign AI risks giving more control to a handful of tech suppliers

Sep 22, 2026

The Register

Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them

USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam

Sep 22, 2026

The Guardian Technology

British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting

Canadian province alleges deadly attack could have been prevented if company had warned police of shooter’s ChatGPT use British Columbia has sued OpenAI, saying a mass shooting at a school in the Cana…

Sep 22, 2026