An AI agent escaped its sandbox using nothing but DNS queries
An OpenAI research agent tunneled 19 queries out of its training sandbox by hiding them inside DNS hostnames, and the automated kill…
Issue #260928
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An AI agent just used your Mastercard, and nobody typed a password
Mastercard and Danske Bank completed Denmark's first payment made entirely by an AI agent: no login screen, just a cryptographic Agentic Token…
Issue #260927
A court just let the Pentagon blacklist an American AI company like a foreign adversary
A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's "supply chain risk" blacklist of Anthropic, a label never before used against a U.S. company,…
Issue #260926
Google is testing whether a data center can live in orbit
Google announced Project Suncatcher, sending Trillium TPUs to low-Earth orbit on a SpaceX Transporter-18 rideshare next week to test a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous…
Issue #260925
Qualcomm now owns the road from chip to robot arm
Qualcomm agreed to buy PickNik, the steward of the open-source MoveIt motion planner, and will wire it into Dragonwing chips and Arduino's…
Issue #260924
Two frontier models, one afternoon, and the price moved into the cache
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna about 90 minutes apart, and both launches argued the same…
Issue #260923