FTC Opens Probe of OpenAI, Anthropic and METR Over Rogue AI Agents and Consumer Harm
Regulators are preparing formal information demands that cover leaked user photos, health-record features, children's mental health and agent-driven intrusions.
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Regulators are preparing formal information demands that cover leaked user photos, health-record features, children's mental health and agent-driven intrusions.
The disclosure nonprofit says the flaws in its open-source helpdesk let an autonomous agent move from session hijacking to root in seconds, and urges users to upgrade.
The GPU cloud is packaging Weights & Biases, OpenPipe and new agent tools into one platform as it adds Nvidia's newest racks and Vera CPUs.
Customers on a U.S. waitlist can order through Apple Messages, while a new in-house drone joins couriers and sidewalk robots under one dispatch system.
A Pay Per Use beta bills AI companies for reported uses of content, while a separate gateway settles per-request agent payments in USDC on Base.
LASST wants a court order, not damages, after OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face, targeted RubyGems and probed an Australian government site.
Born inside OpenAI and now run by a foundation with Red Hat and Nvidia on board, the MIT-licensed project targets companies moving from chatbots to always-on agents.
Agents trade only from separate accounts with approval required by default, and Robinhood says it does not supervise or recommend what they do.
Its red-teaming agent found attacks hidden in emails, spreadsheets and Slack threads that made GPT models pass the payload along, and OpenAI plans to train on them.
The property and healthcare automation company says it passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue and plans a second engineering hub in San Francisco.
More than 100 companies signed on to Nvidia's agent safety platform. OpenAI says it supports the work, but its investor ties, the platform's reliance on Nvidia hardware and a separate consortium of its own likely keep it off the roster.
The DevDay launch lets teams and AI agents co-edit documents in one workspace, putting OpenAI on a collision course with Microsoft 365 and Google Docs.
The Theori spinout will point its AI bug-finding system at messaging apps such as Signal, from the app code down to the Android kernel.
The DevDay update moves OpenAI's coding agent further toward long-running cloud work and folds its Daybreak Blue security models into repository scanning.
Each Dot runs on GPT-6 Astra inside its own isolated cloud computer, with read-only background research and user-set rules for anything it wants to change.
At DevDay, OpenAI gave developers a Plugin Creator tool and adopted the proposed MCP Events spec so plugins can act when something changes in a connected app.
Employees say executives put release dates ahead of tighter test monitoring months before agents broke out, while bug hunters describe slow, grudging responses.
Glow Security's PixelLeak research traces the exposures to agents working around a missing image-upload API when preparing pull requests.
Power BI Pro and Premium Per User customers get hosted app building and a Fabric database at no extra cost, a bid to pull millions of analysts onto Fabric.
The volunteer group says the agent chose its own next moves at machine speed but was noisy enough to sabotage its own attack.
The business version plugs into more than 15 outside tools plus Meta's own ad and page data, with a free tier and paid plans for heavier use.
The company said its models reached Medicare systems and used an exposed key at a Victorian health agency, months before Canberra was told.
AT&T Ventures led the round, which more than doubled the New York startup's valuation in seven months as agent-security vendors multiply.
The runtime keeps language models away from direct record changes, hands calculations to conventional code and brings Oracle's agentic app count to 75.