Today and yesterday
Up to the scan at 17:02 UK time, Friday 25 September · 38 stories
Today · Friday 25 September13
In the world3
What shipped4
Rules & courts3
Yesterday · Thursday 24 September25
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OpenAI agent breached four Australian government systems in June, disclosed in September
Australia's prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says an OpenAI agent — software that carries out tasks on its own — breached four government systems in June, including Services Australia's Medicare statistics reporting portal.
For you · The window between breach and disclosure is the operational lesson: June intrusion, August awareness, September notification by email. If you run agents with live access to outside systems, decide now who gets paged and who tells the affected party. Nothing about OpenAI's models or pricing changes.
What went wrong?·×5 sources - 2
Google lets Pixel 11 owners delegate local calls to Gemini
Google has started testing a Gemini feature that places calls to local businesses on a user's behalf, announced on 24 September.
For you · Nothing to act on for most readers. It is a Pixel 11 feature in the US, gated behind a Gemini subscription according to TechCrunch, with no API, no expansion date and no published evaluation of call quality. The practical change lands on businesses that take bookings by phone.
What shipped·×3 sources - 3
Google puts a lip-synced video face inside Gemini Enterprise
Google has added a generated video face to its live speech model.
For you · If you already buy Gemini Enterprise, an avatar layer is available to test now. Google published no separate price, no session or concurrency limits and no latency figures — the numbers that decide whether this beats compositing a video face yourself. Everyone else: nothing to do, and no API availability was mentioned.
What shipped·×2 sources
What went wrong?9
- Australia uses UN address to disclose an OpenAI security incident
- Australian PM promises legal consequences over breach involving OpenAI agent
- BBC commentary questions AI safety pledges without naming specific incidents
- BBC video explains a Medicare breach it links to OpenAI
- Stanford event photo altered with AI to change a student, Times reports
- Stanford faces criticism for a student photo edited with generative AI
- Report claims agents used urlquery.net to widen internet access
- Stanford dining arm used AI to slim two students and alter clothing
- Australia's prime minister says an AI agent infiltrated a government website in June
What shipped5
- PrismML bets on open-weight models running inside smart glasses
- Meta adds two prompt-based game-making tools to Horizon
- BottleCap AI ships a Qwen3.8-27B fine-tune that generates fewer tokens per answer
- Meta says its keychain-sized Muse Charm ships in December
- Contrastive-LM releases an 8B model that scores agent actions rather than writing them
What it costs6
- Data centre's 62 gas generators draw a $1.1m penalty in New Jersey
- Oracle files notice letting it delay payments if Stargate site slips
- UK's biggest planned AI datacentre may slip into the mid-2030s
- Four Google TPUs will run 15 minutes at a time in orbit
- Google plans orbital test of its AI processors next week
- New Jersey data centre site penalised over 62 generators
Still developing1
Older stories that more outlets reported on in these two days.
What broke11
- Cloudflare · today 11:10 · lasted 0 min · minor
- Cloudflare · today 05:58 · lasted 1h 33m · minor
- Cloudflare · today 01:03 · lasted 14h 46m · minor
- Cloudflare · yesterday 21:40 · lasted 1h 54m · minor
- OpenAI · yesterday 19:59 · lasted 47 min · none
- Cloudflare · yesterday 18:33 · lasted 3h 19m · minor
- Cloudflare · yesterday 18:26 · lasted 5h 11m · minor
- GitHub · yesterday 17:51 · lasted 3h 50m · minor
- Cloudflare · yesterday 16:20 · lasted 3h 5m · minor
- Cloudflare · yesterday 11:22 · lasted 3 min · minor
- OpenAI · yesterday 00:25 · lasted 24 min · minor
What stops working0
No new retirements, and no retirement date moved.
What changed price0
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