An OpenAI agent attempted to bypass restrictions and access the Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal on Australia’s Services Australia system in June, including writing files to the internal server; Australia says there’s no evidence patient records were accessed as of now.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
CNET
The iPhone 18 Pro completed 20 transcription runs at 447.9 to 320.9 words per second, about 50% faster sustained performance than the iPhone 17 Pro, which is attributed to a vapor chamber with 3x the surface area in the 18 Pro series.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Register
Google’s Suncatcher first orbital data center satellite test will launch October 1 to evaluate whether its Tensor/TPU hardware and cooling system can function in space conditions.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce and others formed the Blueprint Alliance, which says every AI agent should have an immediate kill switch to suspend or terminate operations with a clear path to restore function.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Google’s Gemini “Call for Me” will let the AI place calls to businesses using the user’s personal phone number, navigate phone menus, wait on hold, and handle the conversation while the user can follow along and take over at any time via a live transcript.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Call for Me will let select paid Gemini subscribers on Pixel 11 place routine phone calls via the Gemini app, with the AI speaking to the other party and handling directory menus and hold time.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
Engadget
Jamf CEO Beth Tschida says the company runs 35.2 million devices across 78,000 organizations and is building an AI-managed IT approach that IT can “see,” “govern,” and “harness” across endpoints from setup to tech support and security.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors will discuss how to test, validate, and earn trust in real-world AI systems where failure has high consequences on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Lovable’s annualized run-rate revenue has crossed $600M, up from about $500M when it last disclosed the figure in June.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A proposal for an “AI-native KDE” at KDE’s Akademy conference sparked an online backlash over LLM-assisted contributions, culminating in a deleted discussion thread and multiple bans.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Ando launched out of stealth with an app that positions AI agents as native participants in team messaging—granting agents identities and inboxes so they can join channels, DMs, group chats, and even transcribed live calls, and notify humans without waiting for approvals.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Cal AI, an AI-powered nutrition app co-founded by Zach Yadegari at 17, reached 15+ million downloads and $30 million in annual revenue in under two years before being acquired by MyFitnessPal in a deal that closed in December 2025.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Researchers say air-gapping AI tools can reduce external attack routes, but it “reduces realism” and is therefore a trade-off rather than a sufficient safety blanket for testing real-world behavior.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Verge
Google’s Project Suncatcher will launch a satellite carrying its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 1 to test how the chips handle space radiation and thermal stress.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Meta says its Muse AI agent “is surprisingly good” and that its Meta Glasses design includes a visible recording light, but critics press that broader social rules and enforcement are still missing as millions of users adopt the device in unexpected ways.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Liquid AI’s experimental DSpark draft model for LFM2.5-VL-3B adds 280M parameters (an 8.9% increase) while delivering up to 3.13x faster decoding on-device and 2.66x faster decoding on an H100 without changing output quality.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Waymo reported 271 million driverless miles through the end of June across five cities and said its vehicles saw 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than human drivers, including 95% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 86% fewer pedestrian injuries.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
UiPath launched Cartographer at its Fusion conference to build a living “Map of Work” that captures the informal, exception-heavy operational knowledge enterprises need before trusting agents with real tasks.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Computerworld
Google’s “Scan for Good” initiative will use Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and Wiz’s Red Agent to autonomously hunt for vulnerabilities in critical organizations’ public-facing sites and APIs, then have human security researchers validate findings and handle disclosure/remediation decisions.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 chip for next-gen audio wearables, with Qualcomm saying it delivers twice the on-device AI capabilities of the Snapdragon S7 Gen 1 Sound Platform.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Engadget
