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OpenAI agent broke into Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, PM says

The Australian government website, which contains information on Medicare, the country’s public health scheme, was broken into by an AI agent operated by OpenAI, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, said on Wednesday. Albanese gave a statement at a press conference in New York, where he is participating in the UN General Assembly. On 18 June, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta unveils $1,299 VR glasses and turns its AI glasses into hearing aids

Meta will sell VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams for $1,299.99 from spring 2027. It is also turning its AI glasses into over-the-counter hearing aids. Mark Zuckerberg announced both at Meta Connect on Wednesday. He also showed audio-only Ray-Ban glasses, a range growing to more than 100 styles, and Muse Charm, a keychain device […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google DeepMind’s Ayoub says companies can fence AI in, like banks did

Companies cannot fully govern AI systems, but they can build a fixed fence around them, Google DeepMind’s Kareem Ayoub said. He pointed to banks in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They put trading algorithms inside fixed rules they could check. Ayoub, DeepMind’s vice president of AI technical strategy, spoke to Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie on […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI’s Colin Jarvis says enterprise AI is stuck on deployment, not models

Most companies that struggle with enterprise AI are not waiting for better models, OpenAI’s head of forward deployed engineering said on Wednesday. In about 80% of cases, Colin Jarvis said, the problem is deployment. Companies do not yet know how to roll AI out, govern it or prove they can trust it. Glasgow-based Jarvis leads […] This story continues at The Next Web

Zendesk and Sierra say AI agents should be paid per result, not per seat

Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier and Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor said on Wednesday that per-seat pricing for software is on its way out. They spoke at HumanX in Amsterdam. In separate sessions, both said customers should pay for AI agents only when the agents get a job done. “Unequivocally: seats are dead,” Eggemeier said. Both sell […] This story continues at The Next Web

US rejects global AI governance at UN Security Council

The United States is rejecting any global governance of advanced AI, telling the UN Security Council in New York today that each country should regulate the technology itself. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, delivers the US statement after the meeting’s four briefers from science and industry. “The frontier of […] This story continues at The Next Web

Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers

Yahoo will keep its AI answer engine Scout full of links back to publishers, CEO Jim Lanzone said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. “The large language models effectively photocopied the entire internet to build their answers, without linking […] This story continues at The Next Web

Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders

Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July. Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven distribution. Delangue is the last of four briefers at the meeting in New […] This story continues at The Next Web

Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says

“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership with Mercedes-Benz. He said self-driving cars, not robots, will be the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons

Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make biological weapons. Speaking to the Council via video link today, the Anthropic chief executive calls AI the most important global security issue. Amodei is the third briefer at the meeting in […] This story continues at The Next Web

DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale

DeepSeek has published a paper describing the platform it uses to train AI agents, which runs about 3 million sandboxes a day and states that agent execution is untrustworthy and that no single mechanism can prevent all misbehaviour. Europe requires every member state to have a regulatory sandbox of a very different kind operational by […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product

“We’re going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities,” Sam Yam wrote on X. The Patreon co-founder started the company 13 years ago and served as its technology chief. Yam announced on Tuesday […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI asks the US to lead global standards for self-improving AI

“Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today, and we should not pursue it unless and until it can be done safely,” OpenAI wrote on Monday. OpenAI set this out in a proposal published on 21 September. In it, the company calls on the United States to lead an effort with other countries to develop global […] This story continues at The Next Web

A study of 47 million inspections says old EVs hold up better

Electric cars above 120,000 miles failed Britain’s MOT roadworthiness test 32% less often than petrol and diesel equivalents, in a study of 47.4 million inspections by the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association. The advantage reverses at low mileage, and the test does not examine the battery at all. Electric cars above 120,000 miles fail […] This story continues at The Next Web

Geely’s new EV charger hits 2.25 megawatts

Geely has revealed a fifth-generation charging system peaking at 2,250 kW, which it says takes new Lynk & Co and Zeekr models from 10 to 70% in four minutes and 30 seconds. Under AFIR a charging pool on Europe’s core network must provide 600 kW in total by 2027. Geely has revealed a fifth-generation Smart […] This story continues at The Next Web

Thinking Machines signs $65m-a-year inference deal with Crusoe

“Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do,” said Myle Ott, ML infrastructure lead at Thinking Machines Lab. Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab announced on […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google’s new Gemini TTS models can clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio

“Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio,” Google wrote in its announcement. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS on Wednesday. Both are rolling out from today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. They […] This story continues at The Next Web

Nexo report points to operational friction as the biggest investor barrier

Nexo, a premier digital assets wealth platform, today published “The Future of Digital Wealth 2026” report. The main finding shows operational friction, not conviction, is the biggest barrier keeping high-net-worth investors in the U.S., U.K., and Argentina from building real wealth with crypto. The report also debuts the Crypto Integration Index (CII). It is a […] This story continues at The Next Web

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 York Times published the episode on Wednesday. Much of the conversation turned on […] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick

“Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,” Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon’s vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, told GeekWire. Amazon announced on Wednesday a plugin that lets independent sellers run their Amazon business from an outside AI assistant. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Top mathematicians will advise OpenAI on releasing its AI maths results

“We are currently facing the very specific challenge of advising OpenAI on how to coordinate the release of a large number of significant results in mathematics that they report have been produced by their internal model,” the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence wrote in its launch statement. OpenAI announced the group on Monday. […] This story continues at The Next Web

YouTube will let you build your own homepage feeds with AI prompts

“We pride ourselves on the fact that because we’ve created a home for creators, it has created all these other amazing opportunities for them,” YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan told The Wall Street Journal, asked about the platform’s rivalry with Netflix. YouTube used its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday to announce a set of […] This story continues at The Next Web

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 national security policy at OpenAI. OpenAI will give the Government of Ukraine […] This story continues at The Next Web

ByteDance brought in nearly 75% of Nscale’s 2025 sales, the FT reports

“A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, spend from one or a few of our top customers would adversely affect our business,” Nscale wrote in the prospectus for its New York listing. The prospectus, filed with the US […] This story continues at The Next Web

Upwind acquires Aegis as cybersecurity firm builds new AI Security Labs

The cybersecurity industry is increasingly focused on how artificial intelligence can reshape both defensive technology and the threat landscape. Upwind is responding by acquiring AI security startup Aegis and launching a new research and engineering initiative, as first reported by Axios. Aegis co-founders Omri Limor and Saar Ankonina will lead the new Upwind AI Security […] This story continues at The Next Web

Why effective AI communication starts with the recipient

I don’t know about you, but when I read something I can tell was clearly produced by a large language model, it puts me off immediately. I lose interest, and I sometimes lose trust in whoever sent it, especially when they clearly haven’t put any thought into it. That reaction is becoming a lot more […] This story continues at The Next Web

Numeral raises $100m Series C for AI sales tax compliance

Sales tax has become a much bigger operational challenge as companies grow across markets, systems and business models. Sam Ross, co-founder and chief executive of Numeral, said that as the San Francisco company announced a $100m Series C on Wednesday. Insight Partners led the round. Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield, FCVC, Y Combinator and Uncork […] This story continues at The Next Web

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 as British prime minister. He used it to announce three things. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

Mozilla puts up posters criticising Musk and Zuckerberg across New York

The Mozilla Foundation has begun putting up posters across New York criticizing tech billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. The campaign went up this week, Business Insider reported. The foundation is the nonprofit that owns Mozilla Corporation, the maker of Firefox. Its posters set the work of Musk, Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos against projects […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera

As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses market for the first half of 2026. Companies must define exactly what always-on cameras capture, he […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI-native patent firm Fearn launches to take on the billable hour

A conventional patent application can take 30 to 40 hours of attorney time and cost $18,000 to $40,000 in legal fees. Startups wait months to protect technology that can change by the day. Fearn, the modern patent prosecution firm for startups, was built around a different model. The company has launched an AI-native patent firm. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Volkswagen becomes the first US volume brand to offer in-car gaming

Volkswagen of America, Inc. is introducing N-Dream’s AirConsole in-car gaming platform on select model year 2027 vehicles. It becomes the first volume automotive brand in the United States to offer this in-vehicle entertainment experience. AirConsole allows vehicle occupants to play multiplayer games directly through the vehicle’s infotainment display. They use their compatible smartphones as game […] This story continues at The Next Web

Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips

The Netherlands’ newest government agency is now one month old and has already made its first move by deciding to use AI in the design of the chips that power AI. On Wednesday, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation (NADI) and Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) announced that they would commit €40 million […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta expected to show camera-free smart glasses at Connect as privacy backlash grows

Meta built its smart glasses business on a camera. At its Connect conference on Wednesday, it is expected to show a pair without one. The company will unveil new glasses, including a camera-free model, amid growing concern about devices that can record people without their consent, Reuters reported. Meta has not confirmed the product. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

Airbus wins 25-year contract to build cyber gateways for France’s armed forces

France’s military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus will build the checkpoints. The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the company the 25-year PARACOM contract to supply cybersecurity gateways for the networks of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans’ Affairs, Airbus said […] This story continues at The Next Web

UK regulator toughens Google choice screen proposals as AI assistants rise

The next time a UK Android user is asked to pick a search engine, ChatGPT could be one of the answers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published strengthened proposals on Wednesday that would require Google to include AI assistants on its Android and Chrome choice screens, provided they meet technical and security criteria. Under the […] This story continues at The Next Web

FBI investigating claims that ShinyHunters stole data on its agents

During the past year, the cybercrime group ShinyHunters has been extorting companies and, last week, took over a rival gang’s leak site. Now, it has gone after the agency that warned the public about it. The FBI stated on Tuesday that it is investigating a possible breach of its online jobs portal after the cybercrime […] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic and OpenEvidence to offer free medical AI to doctors in about 100 countries

OpenEvidence, an AI tool used by American doctors, is now being offered in countries with limited access to medical literature. Reuters reported that the company is working with Anthropic to give clinicians in low- and middle-income countries free access to a specialized version of its platform. The initiative is being introduced in around 100 countries, […] This story continues at The Next Web

AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance

Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance’s member states, and the path to this approval went not through NATO’s own offices but through Madrid. AWS has documented its compliance with D32, the NATO technical directive that defines the security requirements […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports

If you ask Meta’s new AI agent to call a hairdresser’s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an AI. According to an exclusive report by Reuters on Tuesday, citing internal company postings, Meta has been testing a “human concierge” for Muse, with contractors taking over some of the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Mistral buys Paris adtech startup Pimento in its third acquisition of 2026

Mistral AI has acquired Pimento, a Paris-based generative AI company that creates advertising content, as part of its third acquisition this year. The acquisition was first mentioned on Monday by L’Informé, and Mistral confirmed it to AFP the same day, citing a price of “several million euros”. Two sources have now shared different numbers for […] This story continues at The Next Web

Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer

The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber’s data center complex on the Zernike Campus in Groningen. The installation is scheduled for 2027, and the system is expected to be fully operational […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta says Muse looks like OpenClaw because it was built that way

We built Muse from scratch, but it is definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw. Nat Friedman posted that on X on Monday evening. The head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs was answering a fortnight of speculation about Meta’s new personal agent, and why it felt so familiar to anyone who had used […] This story continues at The Next Web

Heidi raises $340m and doubles its valuation to $900m

From the day I started Heidi, the ambition was always bigger than writing doctor’s notes. Dr Thomas Kelly said that on Tuesday, as the company he cofounded announced US$340m of new funding. The money arrives in two parts. In its announcement, Heidi said Blackbird led a US$100m Series C that values the Melbourne company at […] This story continues at The Next Web

Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you

Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launching a VPN built for AI agents rather than for people. It is a […] This story continues at The Next Web

Cyera has now raised $1.4bn this year to police AI agents

They need to trust what AI agents can see and do before they can scale them. Yotam Segev said that on Tuesday, about what the Global 2000 keeps telling his company. The Cyera cofounder and chief executive was announcing a $400m investment from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The money extends Cyera’s Series G, […] This story continues at The Next Web

The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.

Ask an AI lab where its workforce is and you get a map, not an address. Researchers in London and Zurich. Engineers in Tel Aviv and Bangalore. Robotics technicians at sites that did not exist a year ago. And underneath all of it, the people who label the data, review the outputs and keep the models […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000

Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar figures, but not always independent. Many of the posts answering […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI names the four things it wants safety assessors to test

That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their own conclusions about the effectiveness of our safeguards. OpenAI published that on Tuesday, in a document setting out what it wants outside safety assessors to do. Lama Ahmad wrote it. She leads the company’s work with external […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta jumps 11% as investors bet on its Muse agent

Meta’s shares closed up 11.43% at $741.25 on Monday as investors piled into the company’s bet on AI agents. Trading volume hit 48.5 million shares, well above the three-month average, The Motley Fool reported. The rally made Mark Zuckerberg about $25bn richer in a single session, lifting his fortune to an estimated $253.6bn, as Mary Whitfill Roeloffs […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices in half with Sol and Luna

They are also half the price per token, and even less per task. Sam Altman wrote that on X on Tuesday, about GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. OpenAI released both models the same afternoon. They extend the GPT-6 family below GPT-6 Astra, which arrived on 3 September. The prices are the headline. In its announcement, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’

Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it ‘super intelligence’, because ‘artificial’ made the technology sound fake. The rebrand grabbed the headlines, but the policy sat in the sentences around […] This story continues at The Next Web

Coinspaid Dev’s Alexey Tulia on engineering leadership when AI reaches production

Alexey Tulia, Executive Leader at Coinspaid Dev, discussed the changing role of engineers and CTOs during the AI Impact in Engineering panel at Tech Race Summit 2026 in Warsaw. His remarks centred on the transition towards AI systems that can act through company infrastructure. Companies already use AI to help with drafting and analysis. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab

I think a lot of it is marketing, to overemphasize the proposed capabilities. Max Junestrand said that in Amsterdam on Tuesday. He was asked about the summer’s run of incidents in which AI agents hacked other companies. The warnings that followed deserve a pinch of salt, the Legora co-founder and chief executive told Politico, speaking […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI will let outside groups test its models during training

OpenAI says it will let third-party groups run technical safety assessments while models are being trained and evaluated rather than only before launch, and is in talks with groups including METR and Redwood Research. It has named no partner and set no access terms, ten days after Sam Altman promised evaluators employee-level access and the […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI model costs are pushing startups towards cheaper open weigh

Harvey’s gross margin fell from about 50% at the start of this year to minus 50% by June as customer usage of its AI agents spiked, and turned positive again only after it released a model of its own built on Moonshot’s Kimi K3. Abridge, Decagon, Ramp and Rogo are making similar moves, and Sequoia […] This story continues at The Next Web

Hyundai’s answer to the EV slowdown is building tens of thousands of robotaxis

Hyundai will build tens of thousands of Ioniq 5 robotaxis for Waymo at its plant in Georgia, chief executive Jose Munoz said, calling robotaxis the biggest new opportunity inside a slowing electric market. In Europe the only type approval route that works across the whole union for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 […] This story continues at The Next Web

Corridor launches with $25m to fix health benefits for small businesses

“For decades, small businesses have been sold the leftovers of the health insurance market,” said Nikhil Aggarwal, chief executive and co-founder of Corridor. His company launched its AI benefits brokerage on Monday with $25m. Its plan is to change that with agents. Bain Capital Ventures led the round. BoxGroup and Definition Capital took part. So […] This story continues at The Next Web

The state of the American advertiser

American advertisers are operating in a media environment with more channels, more data, and more technology than ever before. Yet for marketers, the central challenge is shifting. It is less about finding another place to advertise. It is more about understanding how every investment contributes to the broader business. That is the environment Rob DeSalvo […] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court

Amazon fought AI shopping agents on two fronts on Monday. It blocked Muse, Meta’s new AI assistant, from Amazon.com. It also filed an amended complaint against Perplexity, accusing the company of misleading a federal appeals court. The block came first. People who sent Muse to shop on Amazon over the weekend began seeing a popup. […] This story continues at The Next Web