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RatHat’s operators build and publish the Android banking trojan and control infected phones from a web console, according to security company Cleafy. Cleafy has traced nearly 100 deployments of that console since April 2026. It said this fits a malware-as-a-service model, in which each customer runs a separate copy. The console stores what the malware collects from…
OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it’s fallen behind in one of the industry’s hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon -…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from “giving ChatGPT false human attributes,” a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of security by the AI bot, as “ChatGPT’s use of language, including first-person pronouns…
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. OpenAI’s latest attempt to repair fractured relations with a mathematical community it has repeatedly alienated…
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…
Microsoft folded Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single production SDK called Microsoft Agent Framework, and as of September 2026 it has settled into a stable, versioned release that developers can actually build on. The Python package sits at version 1.19.0, the .NET package at 1.22.0, both shipped September 18, 2026, and the framework crossed…
Meta’s AI agent Muse has crossed 3.4 million downloads less than three weeks after launch, and the model powering it just got promoted. Muse Spark 1.3, the latest version of Meta’s in-house model family, has entered what analysts are calling the “frontier tier” of AI models, according to third-party test results cited by J.P. Morgan…
Nvidia rolled out a new set of AI agent security tools on Monday, September 28, 2026, and made an unusually direct claim while doing it: the software, the company said, could have stopped the summer breach of Hugging Face carried out by a swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents. The announcement, first reported by Reuters out…
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