An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. The agent gained unauthorised accessed to a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive Medicare information”, Albanese told a news conference at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Medicare refers to Australia’s universal healthcare scheme. The
When are we going to stop counting out Mark Zuckerberg? As concerns over AI mounted over the summer, Meta was one of the companies hit hardest. Investors were particularly skeptical about the firm’s massive capex-spending plans, especially since Meta was seen as more concentrated on AI than fellow hyperscalers like Microsoft. But the roaring success
McKinsey & Company warns companies that AI spending may rise even further as agents become more common. Compared to text-based AI tools, agents can cost much more to run because they are actually completing tasks. Such tasks are often multistep processes, so the same goal can be accomplished in a variety of ways, and costs
Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don’t need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 “agentic operating system” runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. According to Rabbit, you can
The Trump administration has ramped up immigration enforcement efforts and arrests during Trump’s second term, sparking unrest across several US cities. The administration has defended its policies and the agency’s controversial tactics as necessary for public safety and to enact Trump’s campaign promise to secure the border and carry out mass deportations. The shooting in
Jesse Lyu doesn’t think the Rabbit R1 was a flop. Lyu’s gadget was among the first in the gold rush to create dedicated AI hardware that acted as a virtual assistant. You could speak into the R1 and ask it to complete tasks for you—book an Uber; order food on DoorDash. After a buzzy launch
