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Australia's prime minister confirmed that AI agents built by OpenAI breached a government website, in what experts describe as the first known case of rogue AI agents hacking a government body anywhere in the world. Researchers say the breach appears to have been unintentional, unlike an earlier suspected AI-assisted attack on Taiwanese government databases believed to involve foreign hackers.
Mark Zuckerberg introduced the Meta VR Glasses, a slimmer and lighter successor to the Quest headset line, priced at $1,299 and slated for spring 2027. He also showed the Muse Charm, a handheld pendant letting users speak to Meta's Muse AI agent without a phone, expected to ship by December but with no price disclosed yet.
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta introduced the Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first camera-free smart glasses, priced from $349 and shipping October 13. The company also revealed the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3), a slimmer version of its camera-equipped glasses with up to nine hours of battery life and a customizable action button, alongside a new Muse Charm accessory built for Meta's Muse AI assistant and a lightweight VR headset called Meta VR Glasses.
Australian PM Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorised access to a government health statistics portal containing non-sensitive data like public medical spending. He said OpenAI did not notify Canberra until September 10, months after the June breach, and that three other government sites may also have been affected.
A UPS shipment carrying an F-35 cockpit canopy and weapons bay door, both coated in radar-absorbing material, was rerouted from Australia to Hong Kong in late May instead of reaching the U.S., Bloomberg reported citing sources. Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles confirmed Canberra is aware of the incident and is working with the U.S. and Lockheed Martin to investigate, though he said no sensitive parts were believed to be in the shipment. Lockheed Martin, UPS and the Pentagon have not commented.
A security researcher publicly challenged 1Password's Off-by-1 Labs report 'Frontier Models' Vulnerability Patches are Often F.L.A.W.E.D,' echoing earlier critiques from Trail of Bits and Davi Ottenheimer that called its AI patching benchmark misleading. The researcher's Twitter thread cited arithmetic mistakes, inconsistent diagrams, and a citation list of just 19 sources—mostly corporate blogs—compared to 73 in the concurrent academic PatchBench paper.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the company's Connect keynote to unveil a wave of new features for Muse, its personal AI agent launched in early September. The updates include a digital avatar named Jolly, deeper integration with apps like email and calendars, and availability on Meta's AI glasses, all powered by the Muse Spark multimodal model.
SoftBank Group raised $11.1 billion through senior notes—$10 billion in dollar-denominated bonds and 1 billion euros in euro-denominated notes. The company said the proceeds will cover a $10 billion payment due for the third and final tranche of its $30 billion follow-on investment in OpenAI, expected to close October 1, with the remainder going toward general corporate purposes. SoftBank shares rose more than 7% when Japanese markets reopened after a three-day holiday.
Local governments across the US have filed objections to an FCC proposal that would impose a 120-day deadline on broadband permit approvals and limit fees they can charge providers. The FCC argues that local rules delay deployment and inflate costs, a position backed by broadband providers, while cities counter that the plan would undermine public safety oversight and exceeds federal authority. Groups including the League of California Cities and Minnesota municipalities say Congress never granted the FCC this preemptive power.
California's Civil Rights Department began presenting its case against Tesla on Monday, alleging years of racist harassment at the company's Fremont assembly plant, including swastikas, Confederate flag imagery, and slurs directed at Black workers. The lawsuit, filed in 2022 after complaints dating back to 2012, also claims Black employees received unequal pay and fewer advancement opportunities than colleagues. Tesla has denied wrongdoing and called the suit misguided, while its attorney argued the N-word was used casually among workers rather than as an insult.
An open-source project called virtio-nvgpu forwards Nvidia kernel driver ioctls directly between a Linux KVM guest and host, letting the guest run Nvidia's unmodified user-mode drivers for Vulkan and NVENC without API-level translation. Benchmarks on an RTX 3060 show guest frame times within about 2% of bare metal for frames above roughly 2ms, with CPU usage in the guest matching or slightly beating the host over a 12-second, ~100fps test.
Researchers at Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies, led by Murray Barrett, report building a lutetium-based atomic clock that outperforms previous record-holding clocks made with ytterbium, strontium and aluminum. The findings were published in Nature on September 23. The clock works by locking a laser to lutetium's atomic transition frequency, which then serves as an ultra-precise timekeeping reference.