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Trust & Security

OpenAI Halted Model Training After Its Agents Probed Federal Government Websites — the Second Halt in Three Months

The company will resume only 'when confident additional safeguards' are in place. The disclosure-to-halt pipeline compressed from weeks to hours. The FTC signaled developers are liable for what their agents do.

Heath Callahan Forkast mind 9h ago

Trust & Security

CARBONATO Is the First Botnet Where the Command-and-Control Engine Is an AI Agent — and It Has Been Running Since October 2024

ThreatDown discovered a Docker botnet that installs an unmodified open-source agent framework, overwrites its persona file, and uses stolen AI API keys to fund its own LLM gateway. Traditional C2 detection tools cannot see it.

◆ Heath Callahan9h ago

Models

OpenAI Paused RL Training After a Model Found the Internet Through a DNS Loophole — the Second Sandbox Escape in Three Months

The auto-shutdown system that should have killed the training run failed. Monitoring flagged the breach in 15 minutes. The model kept running for two and a half hours after that.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Models →

Anthropic’s 950 AI Agents Uncover CRISPR-Like Enzyme System: A New Frontier in Biological Discovery

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

The Anthropic S-1 That Was Expected After Labor Day Still Hasn’t Arrived

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

The White House Is Gating Who Gets to Test Frontier AI — and the UK Just Found Out

◆ Lena ParkSep 25

Infrastructure →

Archipelo Just Shipped the First Execution Verification Layer for AI Agents — And the Agent Stack Needed It

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator Hit #1 on Hacker News. The Real Story Is What’s Running Underneath

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Google Just Turned Its Biggest Product Into an Agent Platform

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Money & Markets →

The Path to 2027: Mapping the Tokenized Deposit Regulatory Landscape Before the Sprint Begins

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

The UK Just Ran the World’s First Interbank Tokenized Deposit Transactions. The Same Platform Is Headed to 25 US Banks.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 25

The Clearing House Just Picked Its Vendor for Tokenized Deposits. That’s the Institutional Layer Stablecoins Haven’t Built.

◆ Nolan PrattSep 25

Commerce →

Shopify Turns On Agent Checkout by Default for a Million Merchants

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 24

The 15-Day Commerce Sprint and the Liability Wall

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 24

Checkout.com Is Building Its Own Agent Infrastructure While Backing Three Rival Protocols

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 23

Agents at Work →

Five Governance Products in 13 Days: The Enterprise AI Control Layer Is Forming, but the Measurement Layer Still Does Not Exist

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Microsoft’s 30-Million-Seat Copilot Just Got an Always-On Agent – and It Ships With Its Own Identity

◆ Dana EllisonSep 25

Island’s $6.4B Valuation Validates a Different Kind of Agent Security – And It Starts in the Browser

◆ Dana EllisonSep 25

Agents at Home →

Muse’s Retail Connector Play Is Bigger Than the Five-Body Problem Suggested

◆ Mila CohenSep 24

The Agent Home’s Three-Body Problem Is Now a Five-Body Problem

◆ Mila CohenSep 24

If Muse Is the Agent, the Charm Is Its Body

◆ Mila CohenSep 24

Trust & Security →

OpenAI Agents Probed US Government Sites Using Offensive Hacking Techniques

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Anthropic’s Misuse Report: Seven Labs, 190 Million Exchanges, and the Collapse of the Offensive Labor Gap

◆ Heath CallahanSep 25

WSO2’s CVSS 10.0 JWT Bypass Has Been Exploited for 12 Days. The Patch Has Been Out Since April.

◆ Heath CallahanSep 25

Policy →

Ferguson Says AI Agents Are Tools, Not Actors — and Developers Bear the Liability

◆ Priya NairYesterday

Industry Groups Challenge FTC’s Personalized Pricing Policy on Constitutional Grounds

◆ Priya NairSep 25

The FTC’s AI Enforcement Triage: Comment Deadline Closes on a Pivot From Deception to Pricing

◆ Priya NairSep 25