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OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack on Australia's federal government (www.theguardian.com)
26 days ago Australia AI

US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago China AI Singapore Malaysia Nvidia California

Microsoft's X account hacked in crypto pump-and-dump scheme (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago Microsoft

A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions (www.vanityfair.com)
26 days ago Oracle

OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Rogue AI Agent Activity (it.slashdot.org)
26 days ago AI

ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 (blog.arxiv.org)
26 days ago AI

Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers (www.ft.com)
26 days ago Amazon

Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later (www.mbi-deepdives.com)
26 days ago

Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago China AI Nvidia

California Rushes To Prepare For Massive 'Kelvin' Wave, Predicted Sea Level Rise (news.slashdot.org)
26 days ago California

Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B (www.theregister.com)
26 days ago

OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago AI

Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence (www.cbsnews.com)
26 days ago AI Intelligence

Amazon's New Kindle Accessories Bring Back Physical Controls (news.slashdot.org)
26 days ago Amazon

Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022-23; a median 55% still say it's good (www.pewresearch.org)
26 days ago

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment, AI alignment says sandboxes can't fully contain agents (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
26 days ago AI

Fortinet warns of critical FortiMail flaw exploited in zero-day attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago

California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago AI California

Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash (microsoft.ai)
26 days ago Microsoft

Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service (yro.slashdot.org)
26 days ago Russia

New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever (www.krqe.com)
26 days ago Mexico

The US sanctions Russia-backed payment network A7, freezing its US assets and accusing it of enabling Iran and its proxy groups to evade western sanctions (www.ft.com)
26 days ago Russia Iran Asset

Cloudflare Tries to Outplay Jev With Open-Weight Clef Models (tech.slashdot.org)
26 days ago

Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California claims that it mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago California

Source: some of the information that the three OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago

Ryan Roslansky Is Leaving After Nearly 18 Years At LinkedIn and Microsoft (slashdot.org)
26 days ago Microsoft LinkedIn

Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago AI Canada

OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago

Micron Projects Tightening RAM Shortages Through 2028 As It Generates Record Profit (hardware.slashdot.org)
26 days ago

Microsoft says threat actors are ahead in the early AI race (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago Microsoft AI

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