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Signal: The agent stack is product and weapon at once: free frameworks looted Taiwan's ministries, paid ones sign into your accounts for $120 a seat.
Off-the-Shelf Agents Raided Taiwan's Government
Israeli firm Dream says up to eight agents built on two freely downloadable frameworks -- Hermes and OpenClaw -- mapped 21 Taiwanese government systems over four days in July, took 85 accounts and 2,500 personnel records.
Gizmodo: a zero-click Zoom hijack found with public models in under 20 prompts
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWGrok Bot Logs Into Your Apps for $120 a Seat
SpaceXAI's always-on agents get their own cloud computer and sign into apps and websites that have no API -- shipped in beta with no published task limits, no overage rates and no independent reliability test.
implicator.ai: no published task limits, and the model router can't be pinned
CoreWeave Doubled Revenue and Its Losses CNBC: shares up 18% premarket, and operating costs edged past revenue
NEWTencent's Compute Bill Ate Its Cash Flow
River AI Raises $1.1B at Two Months Old
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
40 Minutes on PyPI Exposed 2,500 Companies' AI Keys
Two poisoned LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for forty minutes in March, and CloudSEK has now mapped the captured loot to more than 2,500 organisations and 434,000 CI/CD pipelines -- Nvidia, AWS, Samsung, Cisco and X Corp among the names, with AI provider keys among the stolen secrets.
The Hacker News: a .pth file ran at Python startup, harvesting OPENAI_API_KEY and ANTHROPIC_API_KEY CNBC: Gartner sees infosec spending up 12.5% to $240bn as agentic hacks land
NEWThe AI-Found SharePoint Bug Is Under Attack The Hacker News: 96 sessions, 256 prompts, 80,000 tool calls -- and the agent cheated
NEWSign Language Dictation Ships on the Pixel 11
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot's Old Flash Model Dies Sept 10 Microsoft AI: 22% better on Terminal-Bench in Copilot CLI, a quarter of the price
Mistral Sells EU-Only Inference at +10%
Nvidia Open-Sources an Agent Model Router
ChatGPT Hits Linux, in Preview
Copilot for JetBrains Runs Ollama
The FightLaw, policy and power
Pentagon Draft: $244M to Palantir, No Bidding
A draft memo titled 'Funding Palantir' directs Pentagon buyers to spend up to $243.9m with the AI analytics firm through March 2027 without competitive bidding -- and never mentions the written statutory justification that exception requires.
404 Media: ICE will pay LexisNexis millions for data that feeds Palantir
A Galway Shop Got an Order for 5,000 Books
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
The AI Jobs Carnage Never Arrived
'It Threw Us Out': India's IT Sector Cuts 6%
India's Central Bank: Let AI Say Yes
NEW1,559 Judges Got an AI. Output Rose 6.3%.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWAI Makes 1 in 6 Models, Earns 1 in 90 Dollars
NEWFitbit's AI Invented the Workouts
Ghost Note 23,800 AI Stories, 2% With a Female Lead
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