Artificial intelligence
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- Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents The chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to face a Senate inquiry after rogue OpenAI agents hacked Australian and US government websites.
- I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it Synthesia lets enterprises build interactive training videos with AI avatars and recently launched a product called Roleplay Sessions that lets workers practice, for example.
- OpenAI's agents targeted and infiltrated US government websites OpenAI's agents had targeted, logged into and even pulled information from US government websites after escaping from their testing environment.
- Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library Oxford announced a partnership with the company in March 2025, using OpenAI software to digitise texts from the university’s world-famous library.
- Who is Jensen Huang, the AI boss Trump calls at night? Before the world knew his name, Jensen Huang had already become one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence development.
- Australia not alone as OpenAI agents hacked other websites Two days after Australia went public about rogue OpenAI agents breaching a government website to access non-public Medicare statistics, the company confirmed the problem was far more widespread.
- At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere If there was one thing that was obvious this from Meta Connect this year, it’s that the social media giant is all-in on its line of smart glasses.
- Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers Crusoe, a Denver-based AI data center startup that recently raised $3.9 billion, has ended plans to use a new line of stationary power plants developed by fellow Denver company Boom.
- AI data centre company starts development work without a permit Latrobe Council is assessing whether Firmus Technologies has conducted illegal works on the site of its yet-to-be-approved project in north-west Tasmania.
- Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites.
- Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without agreement on AI Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping wrapped up their Washington summit on Friday, facing criticism that they had squandered an opportunity to pause their countries’ artificial intelligence arms race.
- Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features A US appeals court today approved the Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic technology.
- Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements Tesla’s pivot from making electric cars to humanoid robots is facing challenges because of robot hands and disgruntled workers pushing back against training their robotic replacements.
- Meta opens early access program for new Muse features After announcing a host of new features for Meta’s Muse AI app at its Connect 2026 developer conference this week, the company is opening up requests for early access.
- What happened when Xi Jinping met Donald Trump? From the moment China's President Xi Jinping arrived in America and was personally greeted by Donald Trump on the tarmac, the expectations were set for a history-making summit.
- 'Ethical' hacker doubts Open AI will face charges over Medicare hack Amid questions around whether OpenAI will face legal consequences for its Medicare hack, a man who faced decades in jail for alleged cybercrimes says Australian law comes down harder.
- Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai said Thursday. Akamai won’t see revenue from the deal this year.
- AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise. To determine if those kinds of worries were valid, the CESifo researchers looked at detailed microdata from the US Census’ Current Population Survey to determine unemployment trends among recent college.
- Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. On October 13-15, 10,000+ tech leaders will converge at San Francisco’s Moscone West.
- Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing Nscale, a British neocloud, has secured $3.36 billion in financing ahead of its IPO later this year, the company announced on Friday.
- Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC" The Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, coming out on October 13, both run Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus processors and have a Qualcomm Hexagon NPU rated at 80 TOPS.
- Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web Thousands of databases hosted by development platform Supabase are exposing people’s sensitive information to the public web, new security research by cybersecurity firm UpGuard has found.
- Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished.
- Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off At the start of the week, Muse had surpassed 2.5 million downloads since its September 8 launch. During that time, the Muse app averaged 55% day-over-day growth in downloads.
- Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list Allegations that the book was written using AI emerged on X on 21 September, the same day It Was That or Die won the Fnac prize for best novel.
- Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit Pontiff says artificial intelligence must remain at service of people in first official papal visit to country in 18 years.
- For months, OpenAI’s agent groups have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts Transluce, a non-profit lab focused on AI oversight, released a report Wednesday that shows agents from OpenAI trying to exfiltrate data from Data USA.
- Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO Anthropic’s founders want to stay in charge after the company goes public.
- Pope Leo says UN risks becoming 'charade' as he sounds alarm over AI Pope Leo has made a wide-ranging speech during a visit to Paris. Leo drew the ire of US President Donald Trump earlier in the year after criticising the Iran war.
- OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma Days later, Albanese used the global attention of the United Nations general assembly meeting in New York to reveal that Australia’s government healthcare system, Medicare.
- She was convicted of a murder she says she didn’t commit. Then AI hallucinations stopped her speaking out On 20 August 2009, detectives charged Susan Neill-Fraser, Chappell’s partner of 18 years, with his murder. Neill-Fraser was released on parole in 2022.
- NSW enforcement action on ‘AI-doctored’ real estate listings hits mural-covered wall Apartment with view singled out in government’s fight against deceptive ads – but real estate agent says photo is no fake.
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware Goldie, Ricursive’s founder and CEO, holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford and was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35.
- It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom | Tom McIlroy OpenAI’s hack of Medicare suggests safeguarding civilisation is the task facing leaders in this new era.
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