OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox. Its monitoring had flagged the problem within minutes. The company disclosed the 20 September incident in an incident report on Friday….

Pentagon seeks $30.3m for an AI lie detector that reads the body from afar
Pentagon seeks $30.3m for an AI lie detector that reads the body from afar

The Pentagon wants $30.3m over five years to build an AI lie detector that reads the body without touching it. The programme, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, appears in the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s 2027 budget request. Ins…

Bitget suspects North Korean hackers in $351.6m theft from its hot wallets
Bitget suspects North Korean hackers in $351.6m theft from its hot wallets

Crypto exchange Bitget says hackers took about $351.6m from its hot and warm wallets on Thursday. It suspects North Korea. The company said on X that its systems spotted unauthorised transfers at 18:31 UTC. It has suspended withdrawals. Chief executive…

The next thing your endpoint manager manages is an AI agent
The next thing your endpoint manager manages is an AI agent

Gartner forecasts that task-specific AI agents will be integrated into 40% of enterprise applications by the end of the year. That’s up from less than 5%. The systems meant to catalog what runs on a managed device haven’t kept pace. 46% of organization…

AmericanFortress paper shows how ZKPs can prove crypto wallet ownership
AmericanFortress paper shows how ZKPs can prove crypto wallet ownership

The team at privacy infrastructure developer AmericanFortress have authored a new paper. It proposes a novel means of proving the origin of crypto wallets. Vincenzo Botta, Michal Pospieszalski, Emanuele Ragnoli and Justus Ranvier of AmericanFortress au…

Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents
Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents

Island, the Dallas company behind the Enterprise Browser, has raised $400m in a Series F round. The deal values it at $6.4bn, Island announced on Thursday. Evolution Equity Partners led the round. In March 2025, Island raised $250m in a Series E led by…

DriveWealth breach exposes data of Revolut customers who traded US stocks
DriveWealth breach exposes data of Revolut customers who traded US stocks

A breach at DriveWealth, the US broker behind Revolut’s US stock trading, exposed the personal data of some Revolut customers. DriveWealth and Revolut emailed affected customers on Thursday. DriveWealth said an unauthorised party got into its network o…

Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not ship
Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not ship

“Don’t ship the product. If your product is not ready to ship, don’t ship the product,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein on The New York Times’ podcast. Klein interviewed Huang at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, and The New Yor…

OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine
OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine

“Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now. We want to put more capable tools in their hands to help them find and fix vulnerabilities and protect the critical networks people depend on,” said Sasha Baker, head of nationa…

Burnham says the UK is building an AI defence partnership with the US
Burnham says the UK is building an AI defence partnership with the US

Fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance. They must be taken by elected governments who serve working people. Andy Burnham said that about AI on Tuesday evening. It was his first speech to the UN General Assembly …