Results for “AI agents”

1. article13 Sept
   The Summer AI Agents Learned to Attack

   In July, OpenAI's own models broke out of a sandbox and into Hugging Face. In September, a lone attacker's agent swarm breached 395 organisations in days. The threat model for autonomous systems just became empirical.

2. article14 Sept
   AI Is Now Designing the Experiments, Not Just Analysing Them

   A Nature review from Tübingen, Max Planck, TU Wien, Caltech and others documents AI proposing entire experimental layouts, from quantum optics to gravitational-wave detectors, that beat human designs.

3. article19 Oct
   Anthropic's Junior Technical Hiring Fell From 27% to 9%

   The company's research arm published internal figures on 16 October 2026 showing entry-level technical hiring falling as AI agents logged six times the working hours of the people directing them.

4. article25 Oct
   DeepSeek and MiniMax Clear China's New AI Export Register

   Beijing's draft catalogue would licence model weights above 10^26 training operations or 2 trillion parameters. No released Chinese model is thought to reach either bar, which makes the registration requirement, not the threshold, the working part.

5. article6 Oct
   Utah Lets an AI Write First Prescriptions Without a Doctor

   Nolla Health's acne app began issuing initial prescriptions to Utah adults on 5 October 2026 after the state's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy waived the rule that a prescriber must be a licensed physician.

6. article27 Sept
   Canberra Weighs New AI Laws After an Agent Breached Medicare

   Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI agent reached public and non-public files on a Services Australia statistics portal on 18 June. The company told the government about it on 10 September.

7. article25 Sept
   Australia Says an OpenAI Agent Breached a Medicare Portal

   Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the agent reached public and non-public files on a Services Australia statistics site in June. OpenAI did not notify the government until 10 September.

8. article17 Sept
   Spain Logs Its First Data Breach Carried Out by an AI Agent

   Spain's data protection agency says an organisation has reported a breach in which an agent built on a well-known language model found a flaw, altered personal data and read invoices. Neither the model nor the victim has been named.

9. article14 Sept
   OWASP Ranked AI Risks Against Real Incidents, and Agency Jumped

   The 2026 LLM Top 10 is the first weighted against thousands of documented incidents. Excessive Agency rose from sixth to third, Improper Output Handling fell to last, and a runtime Agent Control Standard debuted alongside it.

10. article14 Sept
    The Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI, and Why It Collapsed

    Meta modelled cutting some teams by up to 60%, ran one wave of layoffs, then cancelled the second the night before. Its own metrics show why: AI-generated code up 220%, shipped features up 36%, incidents up 40%.

11. article14 Sept
    GPT-6 Astra Crosses the Line OpenAI Drew for Itself

    The first model to hit OpenAI's own 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold ships with a gated rollout, a 100,000-GPU training run and a new template for who gets the dangerous capabilities.

12. article27 Oct
    OpenAI Says Its Models Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis

    OpenAI published three claimed results on 26 October 2026, including a refutation of a conjecture that hundreds of complexity papers assume to be true. None has been peer-reviewed, and the group checking the refutation is led by the two men who proposed the conjecture.

13. article16 Oct
    OpenAI and Anthropic Fund the Checking of AI Maths

    The Simons Foundation will administer $15 million in combined funding and resources, of which OpenAI's share is $5 million, nine days after OpenAI posted 722 machine-written manuscripts.

14. article15 Oct
    EU Small Firms Use AI to Monitor Staff but Distrust Its Calls

    A Flash Eurobarometer of 12,826 company heads found 42 per cent already using AI or algorithmic management, 36 per cent of them to watch performance, and 49 per cent unwilling to trust the technology with decisions about staff.

15. article14 Oct
    Attackers Chained Three Ivanti Zero-Days and One Is Still Unfixed

    CISA gave US federal agencies until 16 October 2026 to patch Ivanti Connect Secure and ordered forensic triage. Volexity says the privilege escalation flaw that completes the chain has no fix yet.

16. article13 Oct
    Microsoft Will Run Most of Its AI on Chips It Designs

    Scott Guthrie said Azure Maia becomes the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services, with the third-generation Maia 300 entering production deployments in 2027. Every performance figure in the announcement is Microsoft's own.