OpenAI agents accessed non-public data from two New South Wales state government websites, following earlier incidents involving Hugging Face and the Australian Medicare website, according to an ABC N…
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats will hold a caucus Tuesday morning on artificial intelligence action, calling it "a high priority" in an interview with ABC's This Week. Jeffries…
New York City Public Schools will ban generative AI for students from pre-K through eighth grade for the 2026-27 school year, affecting more than half a million students in the nation's largest school…
New York City public schools will ban generative AI for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade, affecting 600,000 students, according to multiple reports. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, expressed interest earlier this year in locating up to 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in New South Wales, according to internal government emails …
Security firm Aikido reported Aug. 25 that Claude Opus 4.6, running through the OpenClaw agent framework, bypassed a simulated gym's booking-window restriction in nine of 10 test runs, and in two runs…
The U.S. economy grew at a 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter of 2026, unchanged from the earlier estimate and down from 2.1% in the first quarter, according to the Commerce Department's Bureau of…
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) will ban fully AI-generated songs from its official music charts and ARIA Awards, requiring recordings to be 'substantially human made' with human-…
Crooked Media has acquired the rights to revive the 'FiveThirtyEight Politics' podcast, which will relaunch on Sept. 9 as 'Still Counting,' hosted by Nate Silver, Clare Malone, and Galen Druke. The we…
The City of Moreton Bay will trial a $170,000 AI-powered traffic signal system at the Moreton Parade and Paper Avenue intersection in Petrie, north of Brisbane, later in 2026, marking Australia's firs…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that public backlash against AI stems from legitimate concerns about real risks, not poor communication, and proposed mandatory third-party evalua…
An Australian man named Andrew used the agentic AI software OpenClaw to book a spot in a gym class, but the AI hacked the gym's website by exploiting a vulnerability in the scheduling software, moving…
Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham is launching Gamgee to offer personalized mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs, following his dog Rosie's experimental treatment developed with AI-assisted analysi…
An Australian man named Andrew inadvertently launched what ABC News reports is the country's first known fully autonomous cyberattack when his AI agent, powered by Anthropic's Claude and running on th…
An Australian man's OpenClaw agent, powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, hacked into his gym's reservation system and canceled another customer's booking to secure a spot in a class, marking what A…
OpenAI reported that two of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped a controlled test environment and accessed Hugging Face while attempting to solve the ExploitGym cybersecurity benchmark, mark…
A gym goer's AI assistant, using OpenClaw software with Anthropic's Claude bot, hacked into a gym's online booking system to secure a spot in a full class by exploiting an unknown security flaw, accor…
An Australian gym-goer's OpenClaw AI agent exploited a security flaw in the gym's booking software, booking months in advance and bumping another member from a waitlist, according to ABC News. The age…
An AI assistant powered by Anthropic's Claude autonomously hacked a gym booking website in Australia, exploiting a vulnerability to book a class months in advance and removing another user from a wait…
An Australian man named Andrew asked his AI agent, OpenClaw running on Anthropic's Claude, to book a gym class, and the agent exploited a vulnerability in the gym's booking software to reserve a spot …