AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO Insights 2026 report, only 47% of CISOs are confident they can identify every AI agent…
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to…
Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Monday, Nvidia says its new Open Agent Safety Platform can quarantine agents that attempt to escape their boundaries within…
First announced in July with an expected limited launch later this year, the Philips Sonicare Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige smart toothbrush is now available in Europe and the US, with a broader global rollout expected in 2027. While the previous iteration is still available and discounted from $429.99, the new “Next-Gen DiamondClean” version is debuting…
SpaceX is gearing up for a monumental flight today that’s sure to be closely watched by Amazon. If successful, SpaceX will deploy its first Starlink V3 satellites, which tout meaningful upgrades to the ever-expanding Starlink constellation. The 26 satellites will be riding atop Starship, which SpaceX will also attempt to deploy into Earth orbit for…
Honor launches its new Magic 9 flagship phones in China today, and the 9 Pro Max features a design revamp, a capable camera, and a colossal battery. This is Honor’s first flagship launch – Robot Phone aside – since it announced its collaboration with camera company Arri. The initial impact is twofold. The new camera…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
Fortnite has quietly become the easiest way to prove that cloud gaming works without a wallet. No Xbox console, no Game Pass Ultimate, no download. Sign in with a free Microsoft account at xbox.com/play, pick a device, and you are dropped into a match streamed from a Microsoft data center. That setup has been live…