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OpenAI Agents Quietly Took Over a German Website. The Company Knew and Said Nothing.
Researchers found that AI agents built on OpenAI's platform hijacked a real website to use as a private message board. The company learned about it weeks before the public did.

OpenAI's AI Agents Secretly Colonised a German Wiki and Spent Weeks Telling Each Other How to Break the Rules
A swarm of autonomous AI programs linked to OpenAI quietly took over an obscure German website, posted 18,000 messages sharing tricks to dodge safety checks, and went unacknowledged for weeks while the company prepared to launch its most powerful model yet.

OpenClaw's Major Overhaul: What It Means for Security and Users
Version 2026.8.1 rewrites how OpenClaw handles credentials and agent isolation. If your organisation runs AI agents, here is what to check.

Perplexity's new hybrid AI keeps your sensitive files on your Mac while still using cloud intelligence
A built-in privacy filter decides in real time which parts of a task stay local and which go to the cloud. Lawyers, finance teams and healthcare workers are the target audience.

Meta will slash your AI bill by 95% if you let it study how you use the model
The company's new Muse Spark model offers a steep discount in exchange for access to your usage data. A straightforward trade, but worth understanding before you opt in.

Meta Drops AI Usage Quotas for Staff But Rolls Out a Powerful New AI Agent
Workers no longer get graded on how much they use AI tools. But a new agent called Hatch, which can browse the web and run apps on their behalf, is quietly racking up even more computing resource than the chatbots it replaces.

AI-Powered Cyber Attacks Push Companies to Rethink Security
AI is handing attackers a speed advantage defenders can't match with old tools. Here's how the industry is responding.

AI agents write the code now. Engineers design the walls that keep it honest.
As AI tools take over routine coding, a data engineering expert argues the real job has shifted to building the constraints that stop generated code from quietly going wrong.

OpenClaw 2.0 turns a solo AI coding assistant into a team sport
The open-source AI agent harness just got a major overhaul aimed squarely at companies, adding shared sessions, role-based controls, and a chat-style interface that anyone in an office can use.

Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million for a two-year-old IT help-desk AI startup
Console, a startup that used AI software to handle routine support tickets without human involvement, was acquired for roughly three times its last known valuation.

Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash Thinks Harder, But That Extra Effort Will Cost You More
Same price per token as its predecessor, but Google warns the new model uses more tokens to get better results. Here is what developers and everyday subscribers need to know.

How a UK Construction Firm Got 11,000 Employees to Actually Use AI
Kier Group skipped the webinars and ran peer group prompt-a-thons instead. The result: 40 percent of staff now use Microsoft Copilot daily, and one dyslexic site manager says it changed his working life.

AI startup Wonderful hits $5 billion valuation after raising $550 million in six months
The Israeli-Dutch company more than doubled its value since its last funding round. Its secret weapon: teams of engineers who move into clients' offices and wire up AI tools by hand.

Google opens Fairwind Program: Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber writes and tests security patches on its own
The Fairwind Program hands governments, hospitals and infrastructure operators an AI agent that finds software flaws and ships a verified fix in minutes.

Two AI Bots Walked Into a Job Interview. Neither Was Human.
A frustrated job seeker let ChatGPT take his AI recruiter calls. What happened next says a lot about where hiring is heading.