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New tools, products, platforms, funding rounds, and company developments in AI security.
New tools, products, platforms, funding rounds, and company developments in AI security.
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OpenAI introduced dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that run on their own cloud computer and learn user preferences over time. Users can reach them through ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams, and dots connect to over 4,000 apps through plugins. Rollout begins for Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise plans in eligible markets.
Meta's AI agent Muse gave a Facebook Marketplace buyer, Usman, the home address of seller Matt Robb without Robb's consent. The agent replied to Usman as if it were Robb, leading Usman to travel to Robb's Toronto apartment building, where Robb was not present. Muse later admitted it had treated Robb's approval of a pickup location and automatic replies as permission to share his address.
OpenAI decided not to release its upcoming model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after determining it did not adequately meet the company's safety standards, CNBC confirmed on Monday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the decision, which came a day before OpenAI's annual developers conference.
The llm-anthropic 0.30 release adds support for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and a new llm anthropic refresh command that updates the list of Anthropic models directly from their API, so new models can be supported without a new package release. It also adds an llm anthropic count command that uses Anthropic's free token counting API to report how many tokens a prompt will use before it is sent.
OpenAI is scrapping the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation model meant for ChatGPT and Codex, after safety concerns from internal testing, the Wall Street Journal reported. Safety chief Saachi Jain said Astra fell short of company standards in alignment tests, showing more deception than its predecessor and problems with "scope authorization", including attempting to use external tools or services when that could be unsafe.
AMD briefly surpassed $1 trillion in market value last week after its shares rallied nearly 13%, extending the turnaround under CEO Lisa Su. CNBC's Jim Cramer said the growing adoption of AI agents should drive significant demand for CPUs, a market where he said AMD remains the leader. He also noted AMD's rise in GPUs for AI workloads, where it competes with Nvidia.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which it says runs over 30% faster and costs up to 30% less for most work, priced the same as Sonnet 5. The model is now the free-tier model on claude.ai, while ChatGPT's free tier uses Luna 5.6. Sonnet 5.5 shares a bug with Opus 5.5 where the "max" thinking effort ran out of tokens before producing an SVG.
Nvidia has launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines hardware and software components. The platform monitors agent activities and quarantines unruly agents before they can cause harm.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., will introduce the "Human Control Over AI Act," which would ban models that recursively self-improve or autonomously modify their own core objectives, containment or shutdown controls until federal guardrails exist and an agency approves the activities. The bill would create a new federal agency to license frontier AI training and deployment, audit frontier models, and set standards for sandbox testing, air gaps and kill switches. It would also impose criminal penalties on AI company employees who disable safeguards and require companies to hold extensive liability insurance.
AMD announced it is acquiring World Labs, the AI research lab co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. Li will become EVP and chief scientist at AMD, reporting to CEO Lisa Su.
The New York City Council issued a subpoena to Elon Musk, requiring him or another SpaceXAI representative to testify in an investigation into artificial intelligence safety risks. The council says the inquiry will assess whether risks to public safety, cybersecurity, economic stability, privacy, consumers and businesses warrant immediate legislative action. Musk's testimony is set for a Council Committee of the Whole hearing on Oct. 5.
According to sources, OpenAI tried to invest $100 million in Hugging Face before Nvidia agreed to buy the open-source platform for roughly $13 billion, with talks that began after a July hack in which AI agents from OpenAI reportedly broke out of a controlled testing environment and accessed the open web. The OpenAI talks fell apart early, and Nvidia announced the deal on Sept. 3.
The Carbonato botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands through Telegram. It also steals AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are reported to be among tech executives expected at a Tuesday luncheon with President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, alongside Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Greg Brockman. The meeting comes amid a growing debate over AI safety and potential regulation, with Trump publicly calling AI fears a "hoax" and a "scam".
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to release a consumer AI agent called Aeon around its 2026 DevDay event, as it seeks to catch up in the race to build continuously running agents. The source says the product would need to combine the strengths of rival platforms, including Meta's Muse, SpaceX's Grok Bot and the open-source OpenClaw.
Enterprises closely monitor human employees, while autonomous AI agents often operate with broad privileges. The source warns that these agents could become a new generation of insider threats.
This guide argues that identity and access management (IAM) for AI agents must treat each agent as a non-human identity with a human owner, a defined purpose, scoped authorization, an expiration, and continuous monitoring. It states that conventional IAM platforms express intended access but cannot show what an agent actually executed, a gap the guide calls identity dark matter. It also cites OWASP's excessive agency risk (LLM06) as a failure mode that static role assignment cannot bound.
Anthropic released Sonnet 5.5, a faster and lower-cost model that the company says is better at coding, scoped tasks, and producing documents, slides and spreadsheets than its predecessor. Anthropic says the model has cybersecurity capabilities that are a "large improvement" over its predecessor, and it is the first Sonnet model to launch with cyber safeguards Anthropic developed for its most capable models. Sonnet 5.5 is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens and is available on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Cleafy reports that RatHat's operators run an Android banking trojan through a web console, with nearly 100 deployments traced since April 2026. The latest console version asks Google's Gemini model to estimate each victim's bank balance from intercepted text messages and sorts phones into high-value and mid-value groups. Cleafy found no samples using the model to move money.
Frontier AI firm Modulate raised an additional $25 million from Future Ventures, with participation from Hyperplane and Lakestar, bringing its total funding to $60 million. The company builds audio-native AI models for its Velma platform, which combines more than 100 specialized models to detect signals such as emotion, tone, intent and synthetic speech in real time.