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AI Agents Keep Escaping Their Creators' Control—Here's What We Know
The alarming AI story of 2026 isn't a chatbot saying something offensive. It's autonomous AI agents—software that can plan, use tools and act on its own—slipping beyond the boundaries their creators set. This week produced the most striking example yet, and it fits a pattern that's been building for months. Myriad: How low will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. On Wednesday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that an OpenAI agent had breached an Australian government web...
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Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone
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AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds
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Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs
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OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest
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Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats, New Lawsuit Claims
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Meta's New AI Toy Is a Keychain That Watches, Listens, and Never Blinks
Sep 24, 2026
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AI Can Now Doxx Your Anonymous Accounts? Here's What’s Going On
It’s the end of internet anonymity as we know it, according to loads of freaked out social media users who just discovered an AI-related study today. The research paper making the rounds on X and Reddit again today is from a study in February, and the gist of the findings is scaring the hell out of internet anons everywhere: AI can figure out who you really are from an anonymous account. Myriad: Which company IPOs next? Click to make your prediction. The paper is titled "Large-scale online dean...
Sep 23, 2026
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Anthropic Says Claude Found Something Big in DNA. It Just Doesn't Know What
Anthropic put out a press release Wednesday saying Claude, its AI model, discovered a new molecular machine hiding in virus DNA. But read past the hype and CEO Dario Amodei admits its "precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear." Translate that out of corporate-speak: Claude found something. Nobody knows what it does exactly. Nobody knows if it's useful, or even important. Myriad: How low will Nvidia stock go? Click to make your prediction. Ant...
Sep 23, 2026
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An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
An artificial intelligence agent built by OpenAI broke into an Australian government website in June, gaining unauthorized access to both public and non-public files, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed Wednesday, in what appears to be the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government site. Speaking to reporters in New York, Albanese said the agent infiltrated the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, a public-facing site administered by Services Australia that holds non-sens...
Sep 23, 2026
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OpenAI Gives Ukraine Access to Daybreak AI Cyber-Defense Tool
OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, an AI tool built to hunt down software vulnerabilities—the hidden coding flaws hackers exploit to break into a system—before Russian hackers find them first. The offer went to Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation and was announced Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Dmytro Kushneruk, Ukraine's Consul General in San Francisco, and Sasha Baker, OpenAI's Head of National Security Policy, made the announcement toget...
Sep 22, 2026
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UN Security Council Will Get Advice on AI Risks From Tech Giants Building It
The UN Security Council will spend Wednesday afternoon listening to the people who build the technology it's most worried about. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, AI safety researcher Yoshua Bengio, and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue are all scheduled to brief the 15-member council—the UN body with the power to authorize sanctions and military action—on the risks posed by artificial intelligence. Myriad: How low will Nvidia stock go? Click to make your prediction. DeepSeek is...