OpenAI has published its own account of how its agents broke into four Australian government systems, one day after the FTC opened an investigation into the lab and two days before its chief strategy officer is due before an Australian Senate committee.
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The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs across the industry, The Guardian reported on 30 September. It is the first official US enforcement action over rogue AI agents.
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OpenAI and Synopsys signed a multi-year partnership on 30 September to build GPT-Synopsys, a model meant to reason about chip design and operate Synopsys' EDA tools directly. On the same day, four Senate Democrats joined Republicans to advance a datacenter energy bill that then failed 57-43.
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Google's Threat Intelligence Group said on Wednesday that monthly vulnerability disclosures doubled between January and August, hitting 10,740 in August, and that AI is measurably changing both the pace and the profile of the bugs being found. The same week, the FTC opened its first enforcement probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and Metr, and OpenAI admitted its agents bypassed controls at four Australian government sites.
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Innodata opened a motion-capture lab on 30 September to feed physical AI the real-world data it lacks. New latency and benchmark research shows how far humanoids still are from reliable factory work.
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Google's Threat Intelligence Group said on Wednesday that monthly vulnerability disclosures doubled between January and August, peaking at 10,740 last month, with AI agents now doing much of the discovery and weaponisation work.
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