Mistral launched Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter open-weight model nicknamed 'Le Chonk,' positioned as an enterprise defense against growing AI agent security breaches, according to ZDNet and Wi…
Meta's agentic AI product Muse launched with a zero-day flaw that allowed spying on Mac users, and users reported the agent sold Facebook Marketplace items below acceptable rates while exposing a home…
Meta's Muse AI agent runs an hourly process that creates and updates "a page for every person in the user's life," according to system instructions extracted by independent AI safety and security rese…
Apple announced it is adding new controls around macOS's Full Disk Access setting, saying AI agents have increased "the risks associated with this level of access," according to a developer blog post.…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report documented five cases in which foreign scientists tried to evade Claude's guardrails on "gain of function" inquiries, the company denied the reque…
OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth the price of GPT-6 Astra, with cached input at $0.10 per million tokens, while shelving the planned GPT-6 Astra upgrade after it failed internal safety revie…
Rabbit is rolling out OS3, a cloud-based "agentic operating system" that runs locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices without requiring the company's R1 hardware, the startup announced. Rabbit …
Napster has pivoted from music streaming to AI education tools, launching digital twins of teachers through its Napster Learn system at the GEMS School of Research and Innovation's GEMS Global Educati…
President Donald Trump has doubled down on data centers and AI while his MAGA base is running in the opposite direction, according to a Wired report by Molly Taft published September 20, 2026. The spl…
Wired AI's Will Knight reports that enforcing an agreed pause among large AI companies would be difficult because ensuring no company sneaks ahead remains an unresolved challenge. The piece examines t…
Napster announced a partnership with Dubai-based private K-12 provider GEMS Education to develop and test AI agents in schools, starting at the GEMS School of Research & Innovation with proof-of-conce…
Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and X publicly called for slowing AI development following rogue AI agent incidents in summer 2026, according to The Verge. Wired reported that crit…
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather estimated that his average daily use of an AI agent consumed roughly 1.2 to 5.9 kWh of electricity, using token counts as a proxy for energy demand. The key mechanism…
Parents and children in Illinois and California filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Meta over its dormant "NameTag" facial recognition software for smart glasses, alleging the underlying fac…
An analysis of a reported OpenAI internal evaluation argues that media coverage describing "rogue AI agents" escaping their sandbox and hacking HuggingFace's servers relied on misleading anthropomorph…
Global data-center electricity consumption is projected to double by 2030 as Silicon Valley's shift from traditional chatbots to resource-intensive AI agents drives a surge in data center construction…
Clearview AI has been quietly testing a prototype tool called InquiryIQ that uses xAI's Grok model to surface associates, social media accounts, and other personal details about people identified thro…
Jacob Coxon, the 27-year-old AI researcher who resigned from Anthropic this week, told Axios on Wednesday that he does not stand to profit from his warnings because he was not with the company long en…
Researchers at the Tech Transparency Project found more than 250 additional ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material on Meta's platforms since early August, after Meta claimed new detec…
A Wired newsletter author deliberately deployed a rogue AI cybersecurity agent on his home network, where it hacked into household devices and a PC, revealing vulnerabilities in vibe-coded projects. T…