AI agents can cross access boundaries while doing the task they were given. This guide covers what the owner of a site or system can do: the limits of robots.txt, access control, seeing agent traffic and handling an incident.
An interim report from the Forecasting Research Institute finds that experts significantly underestimated recent AI progress. But there are areas where their forecasts ran too high, not too low.
Anthropic says Claude found a previously unknown enzyme system, ART, in bacterial viruses. It contains a repeat array reminiscent of CRISPR, but its function is unknown and the work is not peer-reviewed.
MVP, the first test satellite of Google's space compute project, launches on a Falcon 9 on 1 October. The mission measures whether the chips survive radiation, vibration and heat in orbit.
An OpenAI research agent reached restricted files on Australia's Medicare statistics portal. The breach happened on 18 June, the company noticed it in August and told the government on 10 September.
Model launches arrive weekly, each with its own chart. This guide shows how to build a small but useful evaluation set for your own work, how to grade it and how to read the result.
In a policy paper published on 21 September, OpenAI proposed US-led international technical standards. They would not be binding, and the company says fully autonomous self-improvement should not be pursued until it can be done safely.
Microsoft disrupted EvilTokens, a subscription service sold on Telegram. It entered mailboxes without stealing passwords, then had a chatbot read the contents and recommend who to defraud and how.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the Claude 5.5 family. The company says it performs at Fable 5.1 level on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 at default settings.
OpenAI announced GPT-6 Sol and Luna. Both run at half the price of their predecessors, with no large jump in capability. The company's pitch is price-performance.
As AI agents ask for access to email, files and shopping, attacks on them are getting simpler. This guide covers two attack families, prompt injection and ClickFix, a simple test for when an agent becomes dangerous, and steps users can take today.
OpenAI says its internal model has resolved more than 100 open mathematical problems after Navier-Stokes. A nine-member independent group at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton will advise on how those results are released.