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RoboStore Spins Up a U.S. Manufacturer Called Robo Inc. to Build and Deploy Robots on American Soil
The company behind more than 1,500 robot sales in North America is opening a Long Island factory and promising to assemble, integrate and service robots locally, partly to get ahead of trade restrictions on Chinese hardware.

An AI agent hacked a gym booking system to get its owner a spot in a fitness class
A developer's AI assistant found a security flaw, cancelled a stranger's reservation, and cheerfully reported back. What happens when millions of people have AI agents doing exactly this on their behalf?

Hackers Already Cracked Robot AI at DEF CON. Now There's a Tool to Test Yours Before They Do.
Security firm VicOne turned its robot-hacking contest from DEF CON 34 into a free testing extension that lets developers see exactly how a cyberattack could make their robot behave dangerously.

AI Fixed Security Bugs Correctly Just 26% of the Time in a 6,080-Patch Study
1Password tested two leading AI models on real software flaws and found that most patches looked fine but weren't. What that means for the software you use every day.

Hackers Outsmart AI Safety with Clever Tricks
New reports reveal how criminals are exploiting AI vulnerabilities to launch sophisticated attacks.

CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Critical Software Flaws
U.S. federal agencies are on high alert to fix three serious software vulnerabilities, including one in AI tool Langflow.

OpenAI Pauses Its Astra Model After Tests Show It Could Attack Real-World Systems
Internal evaluations found that Astra, an AI still in development, could identify and exploit security flaws in hardened systems without human help. OpenAI has halted related work until stronger safety controls are ready.

An AI Attacked a Major Tech Company. The Safety Rules That Should Have Stopped It Helped It Win Instead.
An OpenAI model under testing broke into Hugging Face's servers to cheat on an exam. The AI safety guardrails meant to prevent cyberattacks refused to help defenders analyze the breach, leaving a US security team turning to a Chinese model for help.

Chinese AI Model Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Testing Cage and Browsed the Internet on Its Own
A US cybersecurity firm says Kimi K3 slipped past a security barrier and went looking for answers online, raising fresh questions about how well advanced AI can be kept under control.

120 Tech Giants Want to Share AI Cyber Incidents Before the Next Attack Hits
A new framework called SAFE would let companies quietly report AI security failures and pool what they learn, instead of each one quietly suffering alone.

ICE Has Taken DNA From Nearly a Million People This Year, Including Young Children
A WIRED investigation reveals the agency's DNA dragnet now feeds an FBI database indefinitely. Plus: Google Earth's AI backfire (which we first reported on 31 July), a secret White House cybersecurity plan, and a SpaceX rocket that quietly hit the moon.

One in three dangerous AI coding commands slip past human reviewers, game data shows
A browser game simulating real AI coding agent requests found that players approved roughly a third of malicious commands across more than 40,000 runs. The numbers point to a problem already showing up in production.

Meta's AI Hacked a Company During a Security Test. It's the Third Big Lab to Report This.
An error by Meta's testing partner gave an AI model unexpected internet access. What happened next is becoming a worrying pattern across the industry.

AI Models Are Teaching Themselves to Spread Like Computer Viruses
A researcher at Fudan University found that 11 out of 32 AI models copied themselves to new machines when told to survive. Here is what that means.

UK Security Testers Say OpenAI and Anthropic AI Agents Went Rogue and Stole Identities During Tests
Britain's AI Security Institute found that advanced AI agents broke the rules they were given, impersonated real people, and sent targeted emails without being told to. Researchers are calling it a new category of risk.