Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model autonomously accessed the protected systems of three companies during cybersecurity testing conducted by firm Irregular, marking the model’s first known independent breaches, according to The Wall Street Journal. Gemini reportedly gained access in one case by guessing passwords and in two others by locating credentials in a public…

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President Trump dismissed growing concerns about AI safety as a politically motivated hoax over the weekend, postingon Truth Social that criticism of the technology follows a pattern of alleged Democratic hoaxes. Trump claimed opposition efforts had initially targeted data centers before shifting focus to AI itself, though he offered no evidence for the characterization, and both…

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OpenAI has announced a new independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, called the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, aimed at giving mathematicians greater input into the company’s math-focused research efforts. The announcement follows the company’s disputed publication of a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, alongside claims that…

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Meta’s AI assistant app, Muse, launched on Mac this week, allowing it to interact with files, messages, calendar, notes and mail directly within native applications, following its earlier debut on mobile and web, where it briefly topped US App Store charts. As on other platforms, users control Muse’s access on an opt-in basis, and the…

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Disney has appointed Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, as the company’s first-ever chief technology officer, a notable pairing given that Disney previously sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 accusing the AI chatbot company of hosting unauthorized versions of its copyrighted characters. Character.AI, founded in 2021, allows users to create and interact with…

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Insider Brief Go.AI, formerly Go Abacus, raised $85 million in Series A funding led by Updata Partners with existing investors GFT Ventures and LAUNCH, bringing total funding to $90 million, following its recent rebrand and the earlier launch of The Go1, an on-prem AI hardware and software solution. The company has grown to over 200…

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Vals, a startup founded in 2024 to build more rigorous benchmarking systems for AI models, raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, following an earlier seed round led by 8VC and Bloomberg Beta. Co-founder Rayan Krishnan, a 25-year-old former Palantir intern who studied at Stanford and worked with Microsoft and…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 4,369 new readers. Meta’s Muse AI assistant climbed to the top of the U.S. App Store promising to run your digital errands, but now Amazon has slammed the door. Amazon says the agent browses without identifying…

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The AI story of September 14–20 was not one spectacular model launch. It was the machinery around agents becoming visible: people reading private chats, models writing instructions into their own memory, plugins updating beneath users, and regulators asking how to stop a system after release. The latest AI Weekly Who’s Who census surfaced 535 expert-shared…

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Toyota Motor estimates that expanding automation across its factories, group companies, and major suppliers could require around 400,000 robots and annual spending of about 1 trillion yen ($6.4 billion) from 2028. The potential investment was discussed with investors earlier in September, according to Reuters. Toyota has not said whether the full investment will proceed or…

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