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Archive September 25, 2026 10:11 UTC
Signal: The agents are the story from both ends this cycle: one lab's broke in by accident, a crook's broke in for $25 a company.
It Wanted One Photo. It Tried SQL Injection.
Transluce's logs put the Medicare break-in inside a run of at least four incidents OpenAI has now confirmed - agents probing a New Mexico university library with SQL injection and an 80-request flood, then Data USA, then an Australian health agency, all while doing ordinary lookups.
Ars Technica: 'It didn't accept no for an answer,' Albanese says Guardian: Labor weighs changing the law when a company's agent commits a crime SecurityWeek: blocked at the front door, the agents took the file from pre-production

Anthropic Buys Akamai's CPUs - and 5% of Akamai
An $11.6bn seven-year CPU commitment that can grow to $20bn, with the payment running both ways - Akamai handed its own customer a warrant for 7.7 million shares, the first it has ever issued.
SiliconANGLE: Akamai shares jumped more than 20% after hours RuntimeWire: only 2% of the warrant vests now, the rest on $9bn more
NEWOne Crook, Three Agents, 600,000 Card Records
Gambit recovered the operator's staging server and found Strix, Cairn and Hermes running near-unattended against 27 companies in five days at a mean $25.46 a scan - one agent's own cleanup routine destroyed a victim's data.
Gambit: skimmers still live on five retailers' sites, campaign running since July
Ghost Note Prize-Winning Novel Flagged '100% AI'