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Human hackers face serious consequences, and so must AI companies. There is no excuse for what happened Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When you get sick, Medicare exists to take care of you. It sits at the centre of a health system that our prime minister rightly calls the envy of the world. It’s one of the few institutions nearly every Australian still trusts. So when an AI company threatens this system, it couldn’t be more serious. We are at the UN general assembly this week and the OpenAI hack has put Australia in the spotlight during an expanding cybersecurity crisis. World leaders are calling for stronger oversight of frontier models. We know Medicare must be secure or our doctors and hospitals cannot do their jobs. But this breach is also a test of somet…

The neocloud vendor provides AI agents with access to data from its infrastructure management platform, helping developers troubleshoot slow or underperforming AI workloads.

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge. Tags: coding-agents, ai, llms

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Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Police officer killed in crash in Sydney A crime scene has been established after a police officer was killed in a crash in Sydney’s inner west. For many, it’s around delaying things like going away, or reducing things like dinners out. People are leaving where they want to live and buying in cheaper markets. People are being conservative and cautious. Continue reading...

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

The features Google introduced build on existing technology and provide enterprises with a hub for all their AI model capabilities.

Anthropic and OpenAI released new models this week, expanding the range of models enterprises can use for different workloads and raising new considerations for multi-model management.

Release: commit-rewriter 0.2 Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3 Tags: git

What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases. The post When chat is the wrong UI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers. As noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 languages it supports "without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift." One video shared by Google shows its Live Avatar talking in English and Japanese, with its mouth animation lining up with what it's saying in both languages. It can also pull up information on-screen w … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Release: datasette 1.0a41 Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release. I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use. Tags: javascript, datasette, web-components, alex-garcia, opentelemetry

BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B that spends 37.2% fewer thinking tokens across 12 benchmarks. Macro accuracy moves from 86.65% to 85.79%, and long-context AA-LCR improves by 2.25pp. The model is a drop-in replacement on vLLM and SGLang, with FP8, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX builds. The post BottleCap AI Releases ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B: 37.2% Fewer Thinking Tokens at a 0.86pp Accuracy Cost appeared first on MarkTechPost.

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In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil down to the same accelerationist spin we've seen from a variety of tech leaders as well as President Donald Trump. They promise that AI will be such a gift to humanity that it's worth the damage caused by data centers currently running on dirty energy. Huang's extreme level of privilege is glaring Huang's extreme level of privilege is glaring in the interview. He … Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI prompts: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app that offers more granular controls. The apps will be available in early access, and interested users can sign up for a waitlist. Horizon has struggled as a platform, but Meta has a plan to give these new Horizon games significantly more reach: It's going to let published games made with Horizon Create and Horizon Studio get recommended on Facebook and Instagram, where they also will be playable. … Read the full story at The Verge.

Datacentre hailed by government was supposed to launch next year but may be held back into mid-2030s A huge datacentre project hailed by the UK government will miss its launch date next year and could be delayed into the mid-2030s. The site in Loughton, Essex, was described as the country’s largest AI supercomputer when it was announced in 2025, but power supply problems mean it now faces a lengthy wait before coming online. Continue reading...

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A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme in June. OpenAI became aware of the hack in August, but only informed the government in September. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has expressed his ‘extreme concern’ about the hack, which raises serious AI security concerns for governments around the world. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s UK technology editor Robert Booth – watch on YouTube Continue reading...

A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta's Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independently coaxed Muse into zipping up and sharing the entire contents of its root filesystem, Ubuntu system files, app templates, and internal documentation. Saunders posted on Mastodon that it was "extremely easy" to replicate James' results and that Muse had "Almost no prompt injection resistance." Meta denies that the incident represents a security breach. As noted in its announcement post, Meta's Muse runs in persistent Linux virtual machines for each user. Meta spokes … Read the full story at The Verge.

We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta's new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active users in the US, by an Apptopia estimate. And AI agent platform Instinct, whose eponymous creator is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation, has been making the rounds in the tech industry. Under the hood, though, there are some obvious similarities to the platform that started it all: OpenClaw. For the past week or so, some social media users have alleged that Muse is directly built on OpenClaw. The two platforms use the same names for core files (SOUL.md, memory, … Read the full story at The Verge.

The fireman outfit. Dead. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Last night, I asked Blorbo - what I named my Muse AI agent - to help me set some health goals. I was underwhelmed. I'd asked for a workout regimen for a sub-30 minute 5K and regaining lost muscle. It generated an okay-ish but kind of mid weekly routine. But then I looked at its face. Based on what it learned about me from my emails, it had morphed into cat-shaped piece of bread with a Kirby-like face. It was so stinking cute, … Read the full story at The Verge.

Over the weekend, “System One” decision models such as Jev have launched, which are...

In the last six months, GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8, and Grok 4.7 all shipped,...

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