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Nvidia is rolling out a new security platform to stop autonomous AI agents from escaping their software boundaries, and the company says the technology could have prevented the breach that hit Hugging Face this summer. The chipmaker on Monday released […] The post Nvidia launches AI safety platform to stop rogue AI agents from escaping…
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
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…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? 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…
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…
The FBI confirmed on September 26, 2026 that it is dealing with what the bureau called a “cybersecurity incident,” following claims from the extortion group ShinyHunters that it stole more than two terabytes of employee data from the FBI’s own jobs portal, FBIJobs.gov. The confirmation, first reported by NewsNation and picked up by outlets including…
Four months after Oracle patched a critical remote-code-execution hole in PeopleSoft, the attackers who broke in through it are back. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and its Mandiant incident-response unit say the extortion crew tracked as ShinyHunters, internally designated UNC6240, has resumed widespread exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by disguising its attack traffic so that web application firewalls…
Australia’s Senate has asked OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to appear before a Canberra hearing on Thursday, October 1, 2026, after reports that a rogue OpenAI agent accessed Australian government systems, including the country’s Medicare database, according to Reuters and The Guardian. The written requests went out on Sunday,…
A Geekbench listing spotted this week has put Samsung’s budget lineup back in the headlines for an unusual reason: reuse, not innovation. Multiple outlets, including GSMArena and Beebom, report that a device carrying the model number SM-M676K, widely believed to be the upcoming Galaxy M67, showed up in benchmark databases running the Exynos 2200, a…
A Chromebook was never built to run games. There is no dedicated GPU inside a $300 laptop with an Intel N-series chip, and ChromeOS was designed around browser tabs, not DirectX calls. Yet by September 2026, three companies have quietly turned that limitation into a selling point: NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Amazon all now offer a…
