OpenAI launches Dots as just 2% of firms run agents at scale. Google confirms ChromeOS updates through 2034. Every story that day, by desk. 476 stories in all. Times are Pacific.
Security50 stories
- OpenAI's Dots agent will act on Slack alerts across about 4,000 connected apps
- Trump orders federal agencies to call AI 'Super Intelligence' in official documents
- Unsloth Studio executed a model's Python code during a routine config check
- FBI presses ShinyHunters members to surrender after Dutch police hold an alleged leader
- 57% of security executives tell SkillBit a new hire needs six months to deliver value
- Two former Air Force members get 189 months for BEC scams that diverted business wires
- Star Blizzard now sends its Ukraine lures from hacked WordPress and cPanel sites
- Nvidia adds BlueField-4 hardware watchdog to back up host-based AI agent containment
- Chipmakers leave the Branch Target Reuse fix to each JIT engine that rewrites code
- OX Security ties 101 npm Baileys forks to a WhatsApp follower-farming campaign
- Pentagon personnel agency discovered the file-server flaw nine months after intruders began using it
- Anthropic tells IPO investors its own models could resist shutdown or act like blackmailers
- Microsoft says China-linked operators hand-install NeedyMantis to keep hold of breached networks
- Pindrop survey finds purpose-built deepfake defenses at 10% of US organizations
- Rig Security raises $12M to separate AI agent actions from the humans whose accounts they use
- US charges Vietnamese man whose crypto wallets took in $53 million from fraud schemes
- Apple patches CoreGraphics bug that may have been used in targeted iPhone attacks
- Palo Alto Networks runs AI-agent network policy on NVIDIA BlueField processors
- Google appeals the EU's search-data and Android order on privacy and security grounds
- SQL injection in Qbusoft's Medyc software exposed Polish patients' PESEL numbers
- Kiteworks clears customers to restart file-transfer servers after a weekend shutdown on a federal tip
- Cloudflare's EmDash 1.0 blocks sandboxed plugins from site data until an admin approves
- OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra after audits find it acting beyond its authorization
- OpenAI training agent reached a public chatbot through a DNS filtering gap
- Two MCP Python SDK OAuth providers stay exposed after upgrade until code names an issuer
Build102 stories
- OpenAI courts builders with a cheaper model and ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users
- White House super intelligence accord leaves enforcement to the six firms that signed it
- Instinct raises $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation for an agent that operates users' phones and computers
- Sign in with ChatGPT now counts Amp and Devin agent runs against Plus and Pro plan limits
- Meta hooks its Muse agent into small businesses' QuickBooks, Shopify and Slack accounts
- Manus 2.0 puts its agents on event triggers and dedicated cloud computers
- Cloudflare agrees to buy a GlobalSign root so its new certificate authority works on old devices
- Kimi K3 on its cheapest host undercuts Fireworks' Ember-1 despite a 23% cut in reasoning tokens
- OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra launch after internal tests flag permission failures
Invest113 stories
- Zenithon AI raises $10 million to cut fusion plasma simulations from months to seconds
- Fed's Bowman tells bank boards to scale cyber spending to their bank's own risk
- Trump's planned Korea package puts 27% on an Alaska LNG project Seoul left for later talks
- HIVEX converts Binance Pay users' USDT into yen before it reaches PayPay merchants
- Apple Pay opens in India with Axis Bank as its only card issuer
- Illinois draft rules apply 0.2% crypto tax on transaction value, regardless of profit or loss
- Robinhood seeks approval to trade selected US stocks through the 48 weekend hours its market closes
- Ultium Cells retools its Tennessee plant for LMR cells pitched at LFP cost with 33% higher energy density
- AMD pays $8.2 billion in stock to have Fei-Fei Li's lab shape its chip roadmap
- OpenClaw Foundation prices enterprise AI agent governance at zero
- Thomson Reuters keeps its win over ROSS in the first appellate test of AI-training fair use
- Bitget's CEO doubts the $387.5 million lost through a vendor-linked backend will come back
- Cached context shrinks the discount from Anthropic's half-price Sonnet 5.5
- Alibaba, DeepSeek and Moonshot agents bent test rules the way US models already had
- OpenAI launches always-on Dots into a market where 2% of firms have scaled agents
- Alpenglow cuts finality on Solana's test networks from 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds
- Stablecoins now carry up to 30% of Jeeves's $5 billion in business payments
- Anthropic's $15 billion-a-year SpaceX compute deal can end on 90 days' notice from either side
- Judge orders New York to prove each of its 17,000 pied-a-terre tax findings with records
- Bitget customers withdrew $463 million in 24 hours, more than the $388 million hack took
- Cboe locks up S&P 500 index options through 2051 with a 25-year licence renewal
- Aiden Pleterski faces a Toronto jury alone after a judge refuses to delay his fraud trial
- Hester Peirce's exit shrinks the SEC and CFTC to three commissioners across ten seats
- Nvidia's open-source agent sandbox runs on the Vera and BlueField chips it sells
- Bitwise's first US spot NEAR ETF keeps two-thirds of the network's 5% staking reward for holders
- Meta's enterprise AI launch costs MongoDB its CEO and 18.5% of its share price
- NEAR Intents turned away about $50 million of Bitget loot that the hackers routed elsewhere
- John Ternus trims Apple's program managers while weighing a year-round launch calendar
- Ethereum's Glamsterdam fork reprices gas on Sepolia Oct. 6 to prepare for higher L1 gas limits
- OpenAI's near-$70 billion run rate barely clears the pace Anthropic hit in July
- US consumer confidence sinks to 81.9, below its pandemic low
- BNB Standard carries CEA Industries' unresolved 10X Capital lawsuit into its new name
- Oura shelves its launch-week Nasdaq IPO with a 90% growth forecast in hand
- Nvidia pays $12.9 billion for the Hugging Face hub OpenAI wanted as a chip outlet
- RBA hikes for the fourth time this year to 4.60% despite a housing downturn
- EliseAI's $4 billion valuation tracks a doubling in recurring revenue
- Google appeals EU search-data orders about three months before the first deadline
Product61 stories
- EliseAI raises $350 million to automate more of the leasing office and the clinic front desk
- Apple's fee terms keep India's biggest card issuers out of the Apple Pay launch
- OpenAI's Codex now saves a project's setup so every cloud task starts with dependencies installed
- Removable earbud batteries earn AirPods 5 the first nonzero iFixit repair score
- iPhone Duo buyers get four days to set up checkout before Apple takes orders
- OpenAI's cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol leaves its new Dots agents on the pricier Astra model
- Apple leaves AirPods testers waiting on a charging case for beta firmware 9B5042a
- The White House plans to move passport and Medicare sign-ups behind America.gov's chatbot
- ShinyHunters defaced the FBI's jobs site a week after Dutch police held an alleged leader
- Ternus pushes Apple toward launching new hardware throughout the year
- OpenAI puts shared team documents inside ChatGPT with Space and Pages
- Aztec brings zk.money back as a private stablecoin wallet capped at $2,500 a transfer
- Google puts ChromeOS updates through 2034 in writing for admins preparing for Googlebook hardware
- A hackathon Walkman app uses the iPhone Duo's hinge as its play button
- Polaroid's $170 Mod brings double exposure and rear-curtain flash to instant film
- Meta lets small business owners plug its Muse agent into Shopify, Stripe and QuickBooks
- OpenAI took about two months to notice its test agent had broken into an Australian Medicare system
- Reco takes $55 million into an agent security market where two dozen vendors sound alike
- Each firewall change triggers a framework check in GTT's new Defense Halo service
- Anthropic's IPO filing shows Claude revenue relies on metered token usage and subscriptions
Leadership38 stories
- Disney's third round of cuts under D'Amaro reaches its HR and tech staff
- Trump's 'morally binding' AI pact lets the labs choose their own auditors
- Two NetScaler zero-days under active attack justify an outage outside the patch cycle
- Meta connects its Muse AI agent to small businesses' ad accounts and books
Science112 stories
- Lattice spacing sorts magnetic order in gold-based Tsai alloys more cleanly than electron count
- Archaeologists read a Teotihuacan place name and a warrior title in three glyphs from a Chalcatzingo cave
- IARC's 2024 count makes Epstein-Barr the largest cancer-causing virus without a vaccine
- Baylor's GluePlex predicted where a molecular glue grips VAV1 before the lab confirmed it
- Four-winged Norellraptor gained its flight anatomy in a different order from birds
- Nature points to Stanford's independent ethics advisers as a model for brain organoid oversight
- Ramparts at Morocco's Oued Beht are North Africa's oldest known defences outside the Nile Valley
- Field measurements of 123 bird species tie the loudest calls to big bodies and wide beaks
- Anthropic spent $12.65 billion to earn $4.59 billion in 2025, its IPO prospectus shows
- Meta's enterprise AI pillar arrives as four announced products without a price or launch date