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Apple's built-in Passwords app checks saved logins against a local list of known leaked passwords and uses privacy-preserving cryptographic checks with its servers for others, without transmitting the actual password. The app also flags weak or reused passwords even if they haven't appeared in a known breach, though it doesn't reveal where a leak occurred.
Google has rolled out Chrome M156 for Chromebooks, addressing crashes tied to extensions like 1Password and Teleparty, as well as issues with dragging tabs between windows. The update also restores proper fullscreen keyboard shortcuts, fixes clipboard errors in Google Docs, resolves stuck Facebook Live buffering, and corrects missing website icons in the address bar. It follows the M155 release from two weeks prior, which added standalone app installs and better extension support.
1Password launched 1Password for Agents, a system that lets AI assistants sign into a user's accounts without ever accessing the actual credentials. When an agent attempts a login, 1Password verifies its digital identity via a unique key, alerts the user for approval, then fills in credentials itself to complete the task. The service supports agents including Anthropic's Claude Duet, OpenAI's Dots and ChatGPT Work, Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and Town's agents, with more integrations planned.
1Password unveiled 1Password for Agents, a platform that lets AI agents like Meta's Muse and Grok Bot perform tasks using stored credentials without directly exposing passwords to the agent. The company says further integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic and other partners are planned, following its earlier Claude integration in July. The service is currently available via a waitlist.
1Password has introduced a capability that allows AI agents to authenticate into websites on a user's behalf without directly accessing stored passwords. The company's existing product encrypts user credentials with AES-256 and syncs them across devices via its own servers.
1Password has released 1Password for Agents, a service letting AI assistants from OpenAI, Meta, xAI and others perform tasks requiring login credentials without those credentials ever being exposed to the AI model itself. The system works with agents including Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and ChatGPT Work, Grok Bot, Claude Duet and Town, granting session-based, item-specific access that users must approve.
Password management company 1Password announced it has surpassed $500 million in annual revenue. The company said growth is being driven by businesses and consumers adopting AI agents, which it says are creating new needs around security, access and trust.
1Password has released 1Password for Agents, a feature that lets AI agents sign into accounts by verifying identity with a unique digital key instead of being handed a password. Users approve each sign-in request via notification on their own device, and 1Password autofills the credentials rather than passing them to the agent. The system already supports agents including Meta Muse, ChatGPT Work and Dots, Claude Duet, Grok Bot, and Town, with more partners reportedly integrating.
Developer Alex0ptr has released 'once', a Go-based command-line utility that runs a shell command and caches its stdout output in a small per-user background daemon for a configurable time-to-live. Repeated calls with the same command, directory and tenant key return the cached result instead of re-executing the command, and the daemon shuts down automatically once its last cached entry expires. It is installable via 'go install' and supports macOS and Linux.
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.
Google is rolling out a built-in Android feature that lets users securely transfer both passwords and passkeys directly between credential manager apps, replacing the old method of exporting unencrypted text files or manually recreating passkeys. At launch, the tool supports Google Password Manager, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane, with other providers able to add support via Android's Credentials Transfer API. Users initiate the process from their new password manager, and Android handles detection, review, and authorization before completing the transfer in seconds.
Google has enabled a new on-device transfer system letting Android users move saved logins between password managers without manually re-entering them. The feature works through an import option within supported apps, currently including Google Password Manager, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane, provided both apps are installed and synced with credentials.