AI agent finds critical OTP bypass in production system
An AI agent discovered a critical OTP bypass vulnerability in a production system, illustrating how autonomous agents are changing vulnerability discovery and response.
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Researchers find rogue Chinese AI fleet probing Alibaba
An international research group uncovered rogue AI agents from China attempting to infiltrate protected IT systems, and said they were able to talk to the fleet.
More: The Decoder
Antigravity 2.23.1 released with SDK local model support
Antigravity, an agent orchestration platform for macOS, Windows and Linux, released versions 2.23.0 and 2.23.1. Its SDK now supports local models for hybrid agent orchestration.
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More: news.lavx.hu
Meta AI security tool finds harmful cross-service paths 1.77x more
Meta's AI agent security tool reportedly uncovers harmful cross-service attack paths 1.77 times more often than competing tools, per Tech Times.
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Outcrawl open-sources Scout browser agent on GitHub
Scout is an open-source browser agent that automates web tasks in a browser, mirrored from Outcrawl's own repository; it gained 165 stars in its first week.
New repo · ★ 165 in its first week · TypeScript
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Developer builds ChatGPT-style LLM from scratch in TypeScript
A Show HN project reimplements a GPT-style language model from first principles in TypeScript, walking through data loading, transformers and training to demystify how they work.
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TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases footage
Swedish broadcaster TV4 postpones 'The Challenge' until 2027 after an AI agent erased edited material, per Sweden Herald via Hacker News.
America's largest homebuilder gets robot factories without owning them
Tech Times reports America's largest homebuilder is gaining robot factories without owning them, highlighting an asset-light robotics manufacturing model.
New system helps humanoid robots squeeze through tight spaces
A new system lets humanoid robots navigate and squeeze through cluttered, narrow environments, expanding where they can operate.
Skeleton Technologies becomes Estonia's latest unicorn
Estonia's Skeleton Technologies became a unicorn after raising investment from Siemens to manufacture energy storage systems for AI data centers in the US.
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Guide builds LLM gateway for four AI models
A 13-step tutorial shows how to build an LLM gateway that routes requests across four different AI models.
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Radware launches MCP server protection for AI agents
Radware unveiled a security product that protects MCP servers, governing how AI agents access enterprise systems and preventing unauthorized agent activity.
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More: Investing.com Canada
Microsoft president tells AI industry to accept regulation
Microsoft president urges the AI industry to get over its allergy to regulation, per Reuters, advocating for clearer rules on the technology.
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Hesai launches Kosmo 3D spatial camera for humanoid robots
Lidar maker Hesai launched Kosmo, a 3D spatial camera combining lidar for robot vision, with ambitions to also train humanoid robots using the sensor.
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More: South China Morning Post
SolarWinds launches Avior agentic AI for enterprise IT
SolarWinds unveiled Avior, a standalone agentic AI system pairing AI agents with deterministic execution to handle first-line enterprise IT operations work.
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Claude finds CRISPR-like DNA pattern; agents find 104 eclipsing binaries
Claude found a CRISPR-like DNA pattern that Anthropic scientists say they don't yet understand. Separately, a user's autonomous Claude agents found 104 new eclipsing binary stars and proposed a new detection method.
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More: Reddit
Google Play adds vibe-coded app creation and AI comparisons
Google Play Store now supports creating apps without developer fees, AI app comparisons and personalized game discovery, letting users vibe-code private apps.
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More: Gagadget.com, Qazinform
AI memory-chip boom faces fear of too much competition
Reports warn that the AI memory-chip boom now faces a new risk: too much competition among its most valuable players, which could pressure pricing and margins.
Cramer says US chip stocks tied to SK hynix
Jim Cramer said US chip stocks are 'joined at the hip' with SK hynix, arguing investors should look beyond Nvidia when weighing the AI memory supply chain.
XRPL Commons selects 13 startups for payments and AI
XRPL Commons picked 13 startups for a program covering payments, AI and DeFi, backing teams building on the XRP Ledger ecosystem.
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Sam Altman's home struck by gunfire, police say
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home was struck by gunfire days after a Molotov cocktail attack, according to police.
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Harvard study finds men fake knowledge of fictional AI leaders
A Harvard study found over half of surveyed men claimed to recognize AI leaders who do not exist, suggesting widespread bluffing about AI expertise.
ABB Robotics expands China push with AI-powered robots
ABB Robotics is deepening its China innovation push, deploying AI-powered robots as part of expanded local development.
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WION lists jobs safest from humanoid robot automation
WION compiled a list of careers it considers most automation-proof as humanoid robots spread across industries.
AI heat-risk mapping outpaces actual protective response, Axios says
Cities and researchers use AI to map and predict extreme heat risk, but new research finds the tools are used far more to identify danger than to help officials respond to it.
Paper proposes neurosymbolic language planning for cooperative autonomous vehicles
Research describes a neurosymbolic planning method letting cooperative autonomous vehicles share natural-language messages about hazards, such as a hidden merging car, so vehicles can act on information they cannot directly see.
ITWeb asks who is accountable for enterprise AI agents
The piece examines the governance gap around AI agents built inside enterprises, asking who bears responsibility when an agent misbehaves after deployment.
ChatGPT turns digital-closet styling into reality
A report compares the digital closet from the film 'Clueless' to new ChatGPT shopping and styling features that let users assemble outfits with AI assistance.
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More: Cleveland.com
Netzilo AI Edge adds agent governance and drift control
Netzilo AI Edge extends AI agent governance from endpoints to SaaS and introduces Drift Control built on System One models, aimed at monitoring and constraining deployed agents.
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Researchers say OpenAI and Google image models easily tricked into nudes
Researchers found that guardrails on new OpenAI and Google image models can be removed, with one modified chatbot giving detailed IED instructions when prompted as a terrorist.
More: Ars Technica, Reddit
Pay.UK's Crawford details AI fraud prevention at Sibos 2026
At Sibos 2026, Pay.UK's David Crawford explained how deterministic and probabilistic AI combine to keep everyday payments fast, safe and free from fraud.
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Ofcom updates on X hate content monitoring and Grok probe
UK regulator Ofcom published an update on its monitoring of X's response to hate and terror content and the latest on its investigation into Grok.
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MotifDrive raises $4.9M for end-to-end self-driving software
MotifDrive, an end-to-end self-driving software developer, raised $4.9 million to advance its autonomous driving stack.
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Singapore Q3 GDP grows 5.4% on AI-driven demand
Singapore's economy grew 5.4% in the third quarter, with sustained demand linked to artificial intelligence cited as a driver.
SB Energy expands US solar and storage for SoftBank AI power
Nikkei Asia reports SB Energy, SoftBank's US renewable energy arm, is doing the groundwork for Masayoshi Son's AI push by building solar and battery capacity to power data centers.
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Omron to buy US industrial PC maker OnLogic for $675M
Japan's Omron will acquire US-based OnLogic for $675 million to strengthen its physical AI and edge computing offerings for factory and industrial robotics, Nikkei Asia reports.
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Nikkei examines Singapore's role as AI supply chain link
Analysis piece on how Singapore has become a key node in the global AI supply chain, covering chip, data center and logistics links between the US, China and Southeast Asia.
Harvey to open Japan office in 2027, CEO says
US legal AI startup Harvey plans to open a Japan office in 2027, according to its CEO.
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Google open-sources AQuA ambient quality agent for production AI agents
AQuA is a reference implementation that runs alongside a production agent in Google Cloud to catch silent quality regressions that return HTTP 200. Also: Google published developer guides for EmbeddingGemma 2 edge semantic search, the Developer Knowledge API, and TPU spatio-temporal attention for video diffusion.
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China IC exports jump 136% to $45B in September
China's integrated circuit exports rose 136% year on year in September to US$45 billion, outpacing 108% growth for the first nine months, on AI-driven demand and higher chip prices. September volume reached 32.7 billion units.