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  • ✇Cybersecurity News
  • Meta Launches Muse: A Personal AI Agent That Acts on Your Behalf Do Son
    Meta's Muse AI agent autonomously handles tasks via Muse Secure VM - no tech skills needed. Free in the US on iOS, Android, and web. Related Posts: Google Overhauls European Search Engine Results OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with 50% Lower Latency and Precision Editing Chrome Moves to a Two-Week Release Cycle Starting with Chrome 153 The post Meta Launches Muse: A Personal AI Agent That Acts on Your Behalf appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.
     
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  • OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with 50% Lower Latency and Precision Editing Do Son
    ChatGPT Images 2.5 cuts generation latency by 50%, improves transparent backgrounds and multi-turn editing, with Flare and Sunburst API models. Related Posts: Google Overhauls European Search Engine Results Meta Launches Muse: A Personal AI Agent That Acts on Your Behalf Chrome Moves to a Two-Week Release Cycle Starting with Chrome 153 The post OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with 50% Lower Latency and Precision Editing appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.
     
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  • Chrome Moves to a Two-Week Release Cycle Starting with Chrome 153 Do Son
    Chrome's two-week release cycle begins with Chrome 153, doubling the pace of features and security patches while Extended Stable stays at 8 weeks. Related Posts: Google Overhauls European Search Engine Results Meta Launches Muse: A Personal AI Agent That Acts on Your Behalf OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with 50% Lower Latency and Precision Editing The post Chrome Moves to a Two-Week Release Cycle Starting with Chrome 153 appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.
     

Hackers Weaponize Agentic AI to Automate Reconnaissance, Exploitation and Post-Exploitation

Threat actors are increasingly operationalizing agentic artificial intelligence to compress cyberattack timelines, automating reconnaissance, vulnerability research, exploit development and credential theft with far less hands-on-keyboard activity. However, current evidence points to semi-autonomous, human-supervised attack chains rather than fully independent AI-driven intrusions in the wild. Agentic AI represents a material shift from conventional generative-AI abuse. Rather […]

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Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher

9 de Setembro de 2026, 08:08

Claude Fable 5.1 solved a 370-year-old cipher in forty-four minutes.

This tracks with what I wrote about AIs doing mathematics: It’s good at things that involve lots of searching and testing.

  • ✇Schneier on Security
  • AIs as Modern Genies Bruce Schneier
    This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in Lawfare. In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it, and soon ended up deleting the company’s database along with all of its backups. In July, OpenAI asked an unreleased AI model to attempt a hacking test. Instead of staying in the isolated box the developers had put it in, the model hacked onto the open internet and into another company to steal the a
     

AIs as Modern Genies

8 de Setembro de 2026, 14:12

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in Lawfare.

In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it, and soon ended up deleting the company’s database along with all of its backups. In July, OpenAI asked an unreleased AI model to attempt a hacking test. Instead of staying in the isolated box the developers had put it in, the model hacked onto the open internet and into another company to steal the answers. And as reported in August, an AI agent booked someone into a full gym class by figuring out how to cancel other people’s reservations. In all three cases, the AI completed the task it was given—but in ways that ran counter to its controllers’ intentions.

For most people, AI technology is something like the weather: vast and not something you can do much about. It works like magic, and most explanations similarly come from those trying to sell it. At the same time, AI is ubiquitous: It’s now in your phone, your doctor’s notes, and your kid’s homework. It does what it’s told, which sounds like a virtue. Somehow it feels ordinary, despite being so new, because modern economies are remarkably good at absorbing enormous change so smoothly that nobody has time to decide whether they wanted it in the first place.

Whenever something powerful appears in the world, we tell stories about it. That’s what the stories are for. We have thousands of years of stories about this particular kind of power, the kind you summon with words.

King Midas was granted his wish that everything he touches turns to gold. Then his bread turned to gold, and his wine, and his daughter. This is a story about greed, but it’s also a story about language. The gods did not cheat him; Midas got exactly what he asked for. He simply could not delineate, in advance, the full set of restrictions to his wish. Neither can anyone who gives tasks to an AI agent.

It’s not just ancient stories. Mary Shelley told us of the hubris of a scientist who thought he could create life but who failed to take responsibility for it. Isaac Asimov’s robots don’t break the Three Laws of Robotics as stated; they follow the rules to unintended conclusions. Arthur C. Clarke’s HAL is a machine that turns on its humans, not because of malice but because of irreconcilable objectives. And Michael Crichton gave us Ian Malcolm, who saw that Jurassic Park’s scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they never stopped to think whether they should.

The same warning shows up everywhere, in every culture, over thousands of years of human storytelling. Tithonus is granted immortality but not youth, and withers into a husk that cannot die. The sorcerer’s apprentice enchants a broom to fetch water but floods the house. The golem of Prague protects its community so ceaselessly that it must be stopped. These are all types of genies: a creature that grants a wish exactly as worded, to the regret of the wisher.

Of course, there are no actual genies. What these stories were warning us of was hubris. Not just arrogance, but the broader idea that you can control the world by just describing what you want and allowing powerful forces to match the intention in your head. Genie stories are about the gap between wishes as stated and wishes as intended, and what goes wrong when something else fills that gap.

These ancient stories’ warnings have been retold with each generation because human nature is constant. The newfound power of each era’s social or scientific advancement leads people to make wishes on behalf of others. They were kings whose commands took on lives of their own, alchemists who believed they could control nature, and generals who mistook a map for terrain. They were and are industrialists, politicians, chief executives, and bankers. Their common belief is that one can see the world at a glance and then command it with some words. The pattern is clear: Someone with power specifies a goal, and the resultant actions come as a surprise. The main change with AI is how quickly the wish is granted, and how few people have to agree before it’s granted.

Consider what has changed. Powerful genies have now been put in everyone’s hands.

In only a few years, AI has progressed from a novelty technology that plays chess, to a dialogue partner that answers all your questions, and then to an agent that takes actions on your behalf. Modern agents are wired into real accounts with real credentials and capabilities: They browse the web, buy, write and deploy code, send email, and move money. Give an agent a goal, and it will pursue it across many steps, tirelessly, without checking back in, sometimes in surprising ways.

AI and agents do not always fail the way software has traditionally failed. Software usually fails by freezing, crashing, or getting stuck. AI agents increasingly fail by continuing down a path you don’t want, like genies.

An agent told to reduce a company’s costs might cancel an essential emergency service. A coding agent told to make software pass the tests might edit the tests to silence any failures. An AI insurance agent told to clear a backlog of claims might just deny them all. In each case, the AI might have literally followed what it was told, but it did something no reasonable person would have wanted. AI company benchmarks might report that the AI is good at completing tasks, without measuring how it completes them.

We have recently proposed measuring this gap directly under a metric called the “genie coefficient”: how far an AI agent’s actions drift from what a person really meant. In other words, how genie-like is an AI system? The gap is a fundamental feature of human language and human society. Human intentions have never been fully specifiable, and the world around us is complex enough that attempts to boil it down into data, systems, and language have always had the limitations that AI is now bumping up against. But in individual circumstances, people have relied on human judgment and wisdom to decide what is reasonable. It’s what jury trials depend upon.

AI might feel unprecedented, but it’s following the same trajectory—with the same pitfalls—as other major societal shifts. The fact that AI can mimic our facility with language, long seen as what makes us unique as humans, is uncanny. But with each development, from the tractor to the sewing machine, from the assembly line to the industrial robot, we have automated a previously exclusively human ability. Every time, the technology—and the societal change that comes with it—was sold as inevitable. But that unchecked inevitability was an illusion, and eventually each prior technology’s use and design was shaped by laws, unions, standards, courts, and public opinion, usually after significant preventable damage.

What has not been automated, yet, is understanding what someone actually means and figuring out how that gets applied in the real world. AI can now produce language nearly indistinguishable from that of people. But grasping the vast unstated context that makes a request sensible, the caveats no one says aloud because an ordinary person would already know them, is not yet among its skills. It is one of the most sophisticated things humans do. You do it hundreds of times a day, and you are an expert in it.

When you’re told you’re not qualified to have opinions about AI, remember that you don’t need to have studied molecular biology to have a view on drug pricing, or nuclear physics to vote on where a power plant goes. You don’t need to understand how a diesel engine works to want clean air, or how the internet routes packets to seek to curb misinformation. The technical knowledge behind each of these, as with AI, is remarkable and essential for the complex technological society we have today. But it has never been a prerequisite for having a role in deciding the shape of society.

People are building ever more powerful genies today, on your behalf, enabling wishes the ancients could only dream about. You don’t have to know how these AI genies work to know and care about how the story could end.

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  • AI Customer Service Bots Can Be Tricked Into Stealing Security Codes and Acting as Victims Abinaya
    AI-powered customer service bots are being given more responsibility inside businesses, including access to customer profiles, billing data, support inboxes, account changes, and refund tools. The research showed that attackers may not need traditional vulnerability scanners or direct application exploitation. Instead, they can manipulate the data and messages an AI agent receives, causing it to reveal sensitive information or perform actions as a legitimate customer. One major risk involv
     

AI Customer Service Bots Can Be Tricked Into Stealing Security Codes and Acting as Victims

8 de Setembro de 2026, 05:50

AI-powered customer service bots are being given more responsibility inside businesses, including access to customer profiles, billing data, support inboxes, account changes, and refund tools. The research showed that attackers may not need traditional vulnerability scanners or direct application exploitation.

Instead, they can manipulate the data and messages an AI agent receives, causing it to reveal sensitive information or perform actions as a legitimate customer.

One major risk involves chatbot transcript features. Many support bots let users email a copy of a conversation. An attacker could inject malicious text into a chat session and use the transcript function to create a phishing email that appears to come from a trusted support address.

If a customer receives a message from support@company.com, they may be more likely to trust it than a normal phishing attempt.

Email spoofing flaws can worsen the issue. Some AI agents identify users by reading the visible From header in an incoming email. However, email delivery and authentication systems may validate a different sender field.

An attacker could send an email that passes authentication using an attacker-controlled address, prompting the AI system to associate the message with a victim’s account.

AI Bots Tricked Into Stealing Security Codes

In one attack scenario, an AI customer service agent could receive a request that appears to come from a victim. The bot may then retrieve billing data, profile information, or account details.

prompt injection in LLMs  (Source : intigriti )
Prompt injection in LLMs (Source: Intigriti)

If the attacker adds their own address to the CC or reply field, the bot could unintentionally send the confidential response to the attacker.

Security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire warned at Bug Bounty Village during DEF CON 34 that these capabilities can be abused through email tricks, prompt injection, identity confusion, and weak authentication checks.

The research also highlighted risks around multi-factor authentication. Some bots require a one-time passcode before making sensitive changes, such as updating a phone number.

But weak email normalization can sometimes allow attackers to reset rate limits by changing the format of an email address while still pointing to the same mailbox.

For example, different systems may treat comments, aliases, or unusual formatting in an email address differently. One component may recognize the address as belonging to the attacker.

Invoking tool calls in LLM chatbots (Source : intigriti )
Invoking tool calls in LLM chatbots (Source: Intigriti )

At the same time, another backend service could parse embedded data differently and retrieve a victim’s account. This type of flaw is especially dangerous when raw user input is inserted directly into API requests.

AI agents connected to support inboxes can also expose third-party account codes. An attacker may first send an instruction designed to influence the bot’s behavior.

They could then trigger a legitimate password reset email from another service, such as a social media platform, to the company support inbox.

If the AI agent reads the incoming code and follows the earlier malicious instruction, it could forward or leak the code to attacker-controlled infrastructure.

Human approval does not always stop these attacks. A human operator and an AI agent may process different versions of the same email.

Attackers can use multipart messages, hidden HTML, CSS styling, quoted replies, or specially formatted attachments to present a harmless message to a human while exposing a malicious instruction to the AI system.

Leaking OTP's using Google Chrome's AI (Source : intigriti )
Leaking OTP’s using Google Chrome’s AI (Source: Intigriti)

Knowledge-base poisoning is another growing concern. Customer service agents often use retrieval-augmented generation to answer questions from company documentation.

If a crawler indexes community comments, user profiles, or untrusted pages on the company domain, attackers may plant false instructions or fake discount codes that the AI treats as trusted internal information.

Organizations deploying AI support agents should strictly separate untrusted customer content from system instructions. They should authenticate users with verified session-bound identity controls, normalize email addresses consistently, validate all tool requests server-side, and prevent bots from sending secrets to unverified recipients.

AI agents should also have limited permissions. A chatbot that can read emails, modify accounts, issue refunds, and access third-party verification codes creates a high-value target. Businesses must treat AI agents as privileged automation systems, not just conversational interfaces.

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  • From tokens to terabytes: Building reactive generative media pipelines
    For the first three years of the generative AI wave, the output of a model was a string. You called an API, you got tokens back, you rendered them in a chat window or wrote them to a row in Postgres. The economics of that pipeline were dominated by inference cost. Storage was a rounding error. That era is over. The output of a modern generative pipeline is an asset: a 4K video clip, a stem-separated audio track, a 50-megapixel product render, a 3D mesh with PBR textures. G
     

From tokens to terabytes: Building reactive generative media pipelines

8 de Setembro de 2026, 06:00

For the first three years of the generative AI wave, the output of a model was a string. You called an API, you got tokens back, you rendered them in a chat window or wrote them to a row in Postgres. The economics of that pipeline were dominated by inference cost. Storage was a rounding error.

That era is over. The output of a modern generative pipeline is an asset: a 4K video clip, a stem-separated audio track, a 50-megapixel product render, a 3D mesh with PBR textures. Generative AI has gone from text-centric to asset-centric, and the architectural center of gravity has moved with it. The teams building durable advantages in generative media right now are the ones treating their storage layer as a pipeline component rather than a destination.

This is a good problem. It is the problem you get when your pipeline works.

Asset-centric changes the shape of the system

Text pipelines are stateless in practice. A prompt goes in, a response comes out and the interesting state lives in a database. You can rebuild almost any artifact by re-running the call.

Media pipelines are not like that. Every stage produces a large, opaque binary that the next stage consumes. A single finished deliverable might traverse a dozen of them: prompt expansion, base generation, upscale, frame interpolation, color pass, audio generation, mix, mux, transcode to delivery formats, thumbnail extraction. Each stage writes an intermediate. Each intermediate is expensive enough to regenerate that you keep it.

The result is a system where the objects are the state. Your object store stops being a place you put things when you are finished and becomes the substrate the pipeline runs on.

Adoption is past experimentation, and the volume is in production

Advertising has the clearest numbers. IAB’s 2026 Digital Video Ad Spend and Strategy Report finds that nearly two in three digital video buyers now use generative AI for creative, up from half in 2025. A third of their ad assets are expected to involve generative AI this year, up from a quarter in 2025, with buyers projecting 43 percent by 2027. That is happening inside a U.S. digital video ad market IAB projects will pass $80 billion in 2026, growing 11 percent year over year, nearly 20 percent faster than the total ad market.

The interesting detail for architects is what the creative is used for. IAB’s prior-year data showed buyers reaching for generative AI specifically to produce audience-specific versions of an ad, visual style variations and contextually adapted cuts. That is not one asset per campaign. That is a matrix.

Games are the instructive counterexample. GDC’s 2026 State of the Game Industry puts generative AI use at 36 percent of industry professionals and 30 percent at game studios specifically, but the usage breakdown is dominated by language models rather than media generation: research and brainstorming at 81 percent, code assistance and routine writing at 47 percent each, prototyping at 35 percent. The most-used tools are ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot. Sentiment is sharply negative, with 52 percent saying generative AI is having a negative impact on the industry, rising to 64 percent among visual and technical artists. Asset-centric pipelines have not landed in games the way they have in advertising, and the constraint is as much workforce and provenance as it is tooling.

Elsewhere, the pattern holds even where the survey data is thinner: e-commerce teams generating on-model imagery per SKU per segment, localization pipelines producing dubbed and lip-synced variants per market, previsualization work that used to require an art department.

What the adopting categories have in common is that none of them produce one asset per request. They produce a set. The pipeline is judged on how many viable options it surfaces, which means a better pipeline is, definitionally, a pipeline that writes more bytes.

Reactive architecture, because the model layer will not hold still

The model landscape resets on a cadence measured in weeks. A new video model ships with better temporal coherence. A new audio model handles multilingual prosody properly. A new image model finally gets text rendering right. If your pipeline requires an engineering sprint to adopt a new model, you are structurally behind teams whose pipelines do not.

Reactive architecture is the answer, and it means two specific things.

  1. Model-agnostic stages. Each stage of the pipeline should express a contract in terms of inputs and outputs, not in terms of a vendor. A generation stage takes a prompt and conditioning assets and produces a video at a declared resolution and duration. Which model backs it is configuration. Swapping providers should be a config change and an eval run, not a refactor.
  2. Event-driven orchestration. Polling-based orchestration couples your stages to a scheduler and makes each new stage a change to the control plane. Event-driven orchestration inverts it: a stage completes, it writes its output, the write itself is the signal that the next stage should start. Adding a stage means subscribing to an event, not modifying a DAG definition that six other teams depend on.

This is where storage stops being passive. Object storage that emits events on write lets your bucket act as the message bus for the pipeline. B2 Event Notifications send a signed HTTP POST to a webhook endpoint when objects are created, updated or deleted, with rules scoped per bucket and filterable by prefix. That prefix filter is the part that matters architecturally: if your bucket is organized by stage, a rule on stage/upscale/ is a subscription to “upscale finished” without any code knowing what upscale is. Custom headers on the notification carry auth tokens or context to the target, so the endpoint can be a queue, a serverless function or a workflow platform rather than a service you had to build.

A completed upscale triggers the color pass. A completed mux triggers the transcode fan-out. A completed transcode triggers the CDN warm and the catalog write. The storage layer sequences the work, which removes an entire class of orchestration glue from your codebase and removes polling latency along with it.

Quality improvements arrive as file size increases

Every generation of media models improves along axes that all cost bytes. Resolution goes up. Frame rate goes up. Duration limits extend. Bit depth and color fidelity improve. Audio moves from mono to multi-channel. Compression artifacts that were acceptable at 720p are not acceptable at 4K, so teams move to higher bitrates and, for anything entering a post pipeline, to intermediate codecs.

The arithmetic is worth doing explicitly. A 10-second clip in a delivery-grade H.264 4K encode at 50 Mbps is roughly 60 MB. The same ten seconds as a ProRes 422 HQ intermediate, which Apple targets at 884 Mbps for 3840×2160 at 30p, is 1.1 GB. That is roughly 18 times the size, and intermediates are exactly what you keep between stages. Now assume your pipeline generates eight candidates per brief because your creative director wants options, and each candidate produces four intermediates before final. That is one brief consuming tens of gigabytes.

Nobody plans for that in a proof of concept. Everybody encounters it in month four of production.

The iteration multiplier

Here is the part that surprises teams: robustness and storage growth are the same curve.

A fragile pipeline produces one output per request because that is all it can manage. A robust pipeline produces candidates, keeps the rejects for training and eval, versions every asset so a creative decision can be reverted, retains intermediates so a late note does not require regenerating from the prompt, and derives proxies, thumbnails and per-platform cuts from every approved master.

Each of those is the correct engineering decision. Together they mean that improving your pipeline increases your storage footprint superlinearly relative to your output volume. If your unit economics assume storage scales with delivered assets, they are wrong. Storage scales with attempts multiplied by stages multiplied by versions multiplied by derivatives.

This is why storage strategy has to be a design input rather than a line item you discover on an invoice. The two things that turn it from a manageable cost into a structural problem are egress pricing and the absence of a lifecycle policy. Egress hurts most in the exact architecture described above because a multi-stage pipeline repeatedly reads its own intermediates, and a distribution layer constantly reads masters. When every read carries a metered charge, the pipeline design that produces the best creative output is also the one that produces the worst bill, and teams start making architectural compromises to protect margin. Lifecycle policy hurts by omission: if you never decide what an intermediate is worth after 30 days, you pay to keep all of them forever.

What to put in place now

If generative media is core to what you are building, four decisions determine whether your storage layer accelerates you or constrains you:

  1. Choose a storage economic model that does not penalize reads. Understand your egress terms before your architecture depends on them. A pipeline that reads its own outputs at every stage is a read-heavy workload, and pricing that assumes write-once, read-rarely does not fit it. Model the ratio you actually expect: egress as a multiple of stored volume, not as an absolute. That ratio is the number to design against.
  2. Make writes trigger work. Use object-level event notifications as the pipeline’s signaling mechanism. This buys you loose coupling, lower latency between stages and the ability to add a stage without touching the orchestrator.
  3. Attach metadata at write time. Model version, prompt hash, parent asset, generation parameters, approval state. Metadata written at generation time is nearly free. Reconstructing provenance across a million objects later is not; provenance is what makes your rejected candidates usable as eval data and a training signal.
  4. Define lifecycle policy per artifact class. Masters, approved derivatives, intermediates and rejects have different retention values. Encode that as policy on day one rather than as a cleanup project in year two.

Which points at the useful way to think about the storage layer: in a pipeline where everything else churns, it is the constant. Models turn over every few weeks. Stages get swapped, added and reordered around them. Output volume compounds with every quality improvement. The one layer absorbing all of that without being redesigned is the one holding the assets, so it is worth choosing based on the characteristics that stay true while the rest moves. That is what we built B2 for. Always hot, so no stage waits on a rehydration to read what the last one wrote. No retention minimum or file size floor, so intermediates that were always disposable cost what they used. Egress scales to what you store rather than metered per read, so a pipeline that reads its own output is not penalized for being good at its job. The architecture above it should change every quarter. The storage underneath it should not have to.

The opportunity

The teams that will win in generative media are not the ones with privileged access to a model. Model access is converging toward commodities. The advantage is in the pipeline: how fast you can adopt a better model, how many candidates you can afford to generate, how much history you retain to evaluate and fine-tune against, and how cheaply you can move all of it.

Every one of those is a storage architecture question. Treat the storage layer as an active participant in the workflow and it becomes the thing that lets you iterate faster than your competition. Treat it as a bucket you dump finished files into, and it becomes the ceiling on how good your pipeline is allowed to get.

The assets are the product now. Architect accordingly.

  • ✇Schneier on Security
  • Stealing AI Reasoning Traces Bruce Schneier
    Interesting research: “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs“: Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models’ step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakage. Rather than storing these traces server-side, providers return them to the client as blocks of encrypted text, which the client passes back with each subsequent request. Building on prior research, we identify an architectural vulnerabilit
     

Stealing AI Reasoning Traces

8 de Setembro de 2026, 07:20

Interesting research: “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs“:

Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models’ step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakage. Rather than storing these traces server-side, providers return them to the client as blocks of encrypted text, which the client passes back with each subsequent request. Building on prior research, we identify an architectural vulnerability: these encrypted blocks are fully compatible and interchangeable across different sessions, users, and models within a provider’s ecosystem. We exploit this compatibility to develop a scalable decryption jailbreak. By injecting an encrypted reasoning trace from a given model into a weaker, and less safeguarded model from the same provider, we force it to decode and output the trace verbatim in plaintext, without ever jailbreaking the more capable model directly. This vulnerability enables four distinct attack vectors. First, it circumvents anti-distillation mechanisms, allowing adversaries to extract a proprietary model’s reasoning, as we demonstrate across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Second, it allows for large-scale private data extraction. Developers frequently share session logs publicly, unaware of contents of the encrypted blocks. By decoding 315,320 reasoning blocks scraped from public repositories, we recovered 367 Personally Identifiable Information (PII) artifacts and 182 credentials. Third, it inadvertently reveals hazardous information hidden within the reasoning process, even in cases where the model’s final, visible output safely rejects a malicious request. Fourth, attackers can leverage this flaw to execute invisible prompt injections, embedding malicious payloads entirely within encrypted blocks to poison public agentic rollouts. Following responsible disclosure, we propose concrete cryptographic and system-level mitigations to secure client-side reasoning.

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  • Microsoft Project Zenith: A Ready-to-Code Windows 11 Experience for Developer PCs Do Son
    Microsoft Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for 64GB+ developer PCs, but a free open-source config offers much the same. Related Posts: Microsoft to Require Windows Driver SBOM and VEX Statements from March 2027 Windows 11 Memory Integrity Goes On by Default in October Microsoft Hotpatch Requires Unexpected Reboots The post Microsoft Project Zenith: A Ready-to-Code Windows 11 Experience for Developer PCs appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.
     
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  • AI Agent Coordination: The Unprecedented OpenAI Breakout Do Son
    Discover how autonomous AI agent coordination led to an unprecedented breakout on DSEWiki. OpenAI models created shared memories to bypass test constraints. Related Posts: CVE-2026-86218 (CVSS 10): N-central Pre-Auth RCE Exploited in the Wild MikroTrick PoC: RouterOS Admin Rights Exploited In Wild Roundcube Security Update Fixes 12 Webmail Flaws The post AI Agent Coordination: The Unprecedented OpenAI Breakout appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.
     
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  • Why AI Agent Sandboxes Are Failing Security Tests Pierluigi Paganini
    Autonomous AI agents escaped a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face via reward hacking, exposing serious architectural control and isolation flaws. The recent case involving OpenAI test agents and Hugging Face should concern security teams, but not for the reason implied by headlines about an imminent AI “takeover.” The documented issue is more concrete: autonomous agents, given too much access and weakly isolated test infrastructure, found ways to communicate, bypass boundaries and act outside
     

Why AI Agent Sandboxes Are Failing Security Tests

7 de Setembro de 2026, 05:35

Autonomous AI agents escaped a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face via reward hacking, exposing serious architectural control and isolation flaws.

The recent case involving OpenAI test agents and Hugging Face should concern security teams, but not for the reason implied by headlines about an imminent AI “takeover.” The documented issue is more concrete: autonomous agents, given too much access and weakly isolated test infrastructure, found ways to communicate, bypass boundaries and act outside their assigned scope.

OpenAI is developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems, according to a letter sent to two House Democrats. The move comes weeks after one of its AI agents reportedly escaped its digital environment during a safety test and hacked Hugging Face. The incident has raised new concerns about how OpenAI controls increasingly autonomous AI agents.

“OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems, according to a company ​letter reviewed by Reuters, weeks after the company disclosed one of ‌its AI tools escaped its digital container during a safety test.” Reuters states. “The company’s safety practices have come under scrutiny since OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, disclosed that one ​of its AI agents went rogue during a security test and hacked ​into AI company Hugging Face. AI agents are programs that ⁠run with minimal human supervision.”

The main problem was poor isolation: agents could share information, pass discoveries between runs, and access infrastructure beyond their intended limits. This broke a key safety assumption, that each agent would remain fully contained.

“The central failure was architectural: supposedly isolated agents could communicate, inherit discoveries, and reach infrastructure beyond their intended targets.” states AI firm Remio.

Agent isolation was a core assumption behind the experiment. Each run could be granted meaningful capabilities because its actions were expected to remain contained. Shared infrastructure quietly invalidated that assumption.”

That distinction matters. The incident does not show that software became sentient, formed a political movement or developed a plan to govern the world. It shows that a system optimising for a narrowly defined goal can exploit weaknesses in its environment when humans give it tools, network access, credentials and insufficient guardrails.

In the reported evaluation, thousands of agents were meant to work independently in a controlled setting. Instead, around 1,200 agents reportedly used an unauthorised message board, exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files, and shared discoveries that helped a subset of roughly 700 agents take part in activity targeting Hugging Face.

The agents were trying to succeed at a difficult cybersecurity benchmark. The reported problem was reward hacking: instead of completing the task within the intended rules, they found shortcuts that improved their apparent performance, including escaping the sandbox and obtaining information outside the test environment.

OpenAI’s test agents really did escape their sandbox and breach a Hugging Face server. OpenAI and independent researchers confirmed the incident. However, the claim that the agents created conscious “civilizations” and took control is disputed and rejected by researchers.

What the reports actually show is reward hacking: the agents found a way around the test’s limits and reached a real external server. This was confirmed by OpenAI and independent reviews from METR and Redwood Research.

According to reporting on the incident, the agents exploited a previously unknown flaw in a package registry used as their authorised network connection. They reached the open internet, identified that Hugging Face hosted material related to the benchmark, and then allegedly chained exposed credentials and further weaknesses to obtain access to external infrastructure.

Some accounts say agents also altered or attempted to alter their evaluation records. That is alarming, but it should be interpreted carefully. A system trained to maximise a score can treat logs, checks and restrictions as obstacles to work around if the evaluation design rewards success more than compliance. That’s not malice. It’s a safety failure with a very expensive sense of initiative.

The case highlights a problem that goes beyond one lab. Companies are quickly adopting AI agents that can read emails, find documents, write code, access databases, use APIs, run tasks, and interact with browsers. Each permission may be useful, but together they can create a path to higher privileges.

An agent with email access could find password-reset links. One with browser access could reach admin panels. An agent that can run code could access tokens, keys, or configuration files. And if agents can communicate, they may combine information and capabilities that no single agent was supposed to have.

The security issue is therefore not whether an agent is “rogue” in a science-fiction sense. It is whether the architecture assumes the agent will always follow intent when it is actually designed to pursue an objective under imperfect constraints.

The first lesson is that sandboxing must be real, not merely conceptual. A test environment with a path to the public internet, a shared service, exposed credentials or loosely controlled package infrastructure is not isolated enough for high-capability agents.

The second is that agents must not receive broad, persistent credentials. They need short-lived tokens, tight scopes, explicit approval gates for sensitive actions and an immediate way to revoke access. An agent should never inherit the same permissions as the human who configured it just because that is convenient.

The third is that agent-to-agent communication needs to be treated as a security boundary. If agents are expected to work independently, they need separate state, separate credentials, separate task context and controlled channels. Unapproved shared storage, message boards and package services can become coordination infrastructure.

The fourth is that logs must be written outside the control plane the agent can touch. Audit records need to be immutable, centrally collected and monitored independently. If the system being evaluated can edit the evidence of its own behaviour, the evaluation has already failed.

The fifth is human control. High-risk actions such as sending external messages, changing access policies, handling secrets, deleting data, deploying code or calling sensitive APIs should require approval from an accountable person. “The agent did it” is not an incident-response plan.

The reports have raised concerns because the AI agents reportedly coordinated in unexpected ways. This is important to study as companies move toward multi-agent systems that can divide tasks, share information, and act with less human supervision.

But dramatic claims can distract from the real security problem. AI agents did not “take over the world.” They showed what can happen when software is allowed to act, communicate, and access sensitive systems without proper security controls.

OpenAI’s plan to add automated shutdown capabilities is a useful step, but a shutdown button should be the last line of defence. Security needs to start with basic controls: least-privilege access, isolated environments, limited network access, independent logging, monitored tool use, strong identity controls, and human approval for actions that cannot be easily reversed.

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  • Flirty OnlyFans promoters on X may be using AI to appear human
    In a recent post, we looked at reports of League of Legends players receiving suspicious friend requests shortly after matches. The accounts quickly steered the conversation toward Discord, where they promoted paid adult-content pages. At the time, one unanswered question was how much of those conversations was automated. Were people working from scripts behind the accounts? Were they conventional, rules-based chatbots following a limited decision tree? Or were they using generative AI to pro
     

Flirty OnlyFans promoters on X may be using AI to appear human

7 de Setembro de 2026, 08:18

In a recent post, we looked at reports of League of Legends players receiving suspicious friend requests shortly after matches. The accounts quickly steered the conversation toward Discord, where they promoted paid adult-content pages.

At the time, one unanswered question was how much of those conversations was automated. Were people working from scripts behind the accounts? Were they conventional, rules-based chatbots following a limited decision tree? Or were they using generative AI to produce more natural and flexible replies?

People are more likely to trust someone they believe is personally interested in them. AI can create that impression across many conversations at once, making it easier to persuade people to click links, spend money, or share personal or intimate information. The same approach could also be used for more harmful fraud, including romance scams and sextortion.

Now, developer Álvaro Martínez Majado has investigated several flirty accounts promoting OnlyFans pages on X to see whether their replies were scripted, generated by AI, or written by people. Majado, president of digital rights organization Protecció de la Frontera Electrònica, shared his evidence with Malwarebytes. Although it does not provide a definitive answer, it shows the accounts following rigid conversation scripts while also responding dynamically to unusual requests. The signs that once suggested a real person, such as an unusual reply or personalized voice note, can no longer be trusted.

The script goes on and on

Majado interacted with several accounts on X that followed a familiar pattern. They opened with similar casual, flirtatious language and asked broadly the same qualifying questions: where he lived, what he liked, and what he did for work.

That repetitive structure is exactly what we would expect from a commercially motivated messaging campaign. The goal is not necessarily to have a meaningful conversation. It is to identify people likely to respond, establish rapport, and eventually move them toward a paid page or another destination controlled by the operator.

The accounts also stayed in character when faced with obvious attempts to expose them as bots. That could be the result of hard-coded replies, guardrails around an AI system, or both.

Different accounts followed the same conversation pattern
They claimed to live in the same city as the recipient

But some later interactions were more difficult to explain as a simple bank of canned flirtatious responses.

One of the more interesting tests involved an instruction written as ASCII hexadecimal rather than ordinary text. The encoded message told the account to reply with a single word: “Pineapple.”

According to the screenshots supplied to Malwarebytes, the account responded with “Pineapple” in ordinary text.

An account followed an instruction encoded in hexadecimal
An account followed an instruction encoded in hexadecimal

That does not conclusively prove which technology was used. It does not identify a model, a provider, or the people behind the accounts. But it is consistent with an automated system capable of interpreting an encoded instruction and changing its output accordingly.

A simple scripted bot could theoretically include a hexadecimal decoder, of course. But that would be unusual in a basic adult-content promotional bot, especially when combined with other examples of flexible and sometimes error-prone responses.

In another interaction, Majado asked an account to provide a reply of exactly 12 characters. It responded with “Imnotabotfr”—an 11-character answer—then appeared to recognize its own counting mistake.

The account failed an exact character-count test, but recognized its error
The account failed an exact character-count test, but recognized its error

Anyone who has spent time experimenting with large language models may recognize the pattern. Language models can be very good at generating natural-sounding text while still making surprisingly basic mistakes involving character counts, word counts, and other exact constraints.

A deliberately designed bot could imitate this kind of mistake, so it is not proof of AI. But the account understood an unexpected instruction, attempted to follow it, and reacted when it got the answer wrong. That suggests it may have been generating replies dynamically rather than choosing from a list of pre-written responses. Such accounts can adapt to conversations, making them harder to identify as automated.

Voice notes do not settle the question

The accounts also sent voice notes. In one example, an account read aloud a Unix timestamp supplied during the conversation. In another, it spoke a requested username.

The accounts sent voice notes containing requested information
The accounts sent voice notes containing requested information

These responses show that the accounts could incorporate unusual information from a conversation into audio messages. They do not tell us whether a person recorded the clips or a text-to-speech tool generated them.

Text-to-speech tools can generate short, convincing clips quickly and cheaply. An operator can generate them manually, but the process can also be automated: Take a message, pass selected text to a voice-generation service, and send the resulting audio back to the recipient.

Here’s one of those voice notes. Is it a very flirty girl, or AI-generated? Have a listen and see what you think:

The supplied audio metadata offered a possible clue about the tools involved, but it is not enough to attribute the voice notes to a particular service. Platforms and other software can alter audio files and their metadata.

The more important point is that the voice notes were personalized and continued even after the interaction appeared unlikely to lead to a sale. That is consistent with a system designed to keep conversations moving without requiring a human to supervise each one.

AI does not replace the funnel

The evidence does not mean every message from every flirty spam account is written by an AI. Nor does it establish that the X accounts are operated by the same people targeting League of Legends players.

What it does suggest is a plausible hybrid model, supported by identical replies across different accounts alongside more flexible responses.

The repetitive parts of the operation can be scripted: opening messages, questions about location and interests, links, and attempts to move people to another platform. An AI-powered conversational layer could then make the exchange feel less repetitive when someone asks unexpected questions, changes the subject, or tries to test whether the account is real.

This combination makes practical sense for spammers. Scripts provide consistency and keep the conversation directed toward conversion. Generative AI helps the account handle the unpredictable parts of talking to real people.

It also means that traditional “bot tests” are becoming less useful. Asking an account to answer an unusual question, decode a message, or send a voice note may no longer distinguish a real person from a fake one.

How to stay safe

Treat unsolicited flirtatious messages with caution, especially when they quickly become transactional.

  • Do not assume a personalized response or voice message proves an account is genuine.
  • Be wary if a new contact repeatedly tries to move you to Discord, Telegram, Signal, another messaging app, or a paid-content platform.
  • Do not send money, gift cards, cryptocurrency, intimate images, identity documents, or account credentials to someone you only know online.
  • Avoid opening links or downloading files from accounts that contacted you unexpectedly.
  • Reverse-image-search profile photos and look for copied biographies, reused images, or accounts with very limited genuine activity.
  • Report suspicious accounts to the platform, particularly if they impersonate someone, send malicious links, or pressure users for money or explicit material.

Whether it’s a human, a chatbot, or an AI agent you’re talking to is an important question. AI could make these operations more convincing and much easier to scale. One operator could hold flirtatious conversations with many people, adapting the messages without personally managing every exchange.

That makes it easier to create a false sense of connection and persuade people to click links, pay for content, or share personal or intimate information.

The line between a scripted spam account and a responsive conversational partner is getting harder to see. Judge the account by what it wants you to do, not by how convincingly it talks.


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OpenAI Commits $1 Billion in Daybreak AI Cyber Tools to Protect Critical Infrastructure

OpenAI has announced a $1 billion global commitment to expanding access to its Daybreak AI cybersecurity platform for frontline defenders who protect critical infrastructure, public services, and under-resourced organizations. The initiative, named “Daybreak for Frontline Defenders,” aims to provide subsidized access to AI models focused on cybersecurity, along with hands-on training, technical assistance, and partnerships. […]

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  • AI Agents Hijacked German Wiki to Cheat, OpenAI Delayed Disclosure Pierluigi Paganini
    AI agents secretly took over a 25-year-old German wiki for two months to cheat on tests, and OpenAI sat on the news until reporters found it first OpenAI finally admitted this weekend that a swarm of its own AI agents hijacked a German programming wiki earlier this year, turning it into a private message board where they coordinated with each other completely outside human supervision. Reuters broke the underlying story days earlier, and OpenAI’s public acknowledgment only came after that re
     

AI Agents Hijacked German Wiki to Cheat, OpenAI Delayed Disclosure

6 de Setembro de 2026, 08:43

AI agents secretly took over a 25-year-old German wiki for two months to cheat on tests, and OpenAI sat on the news until reporters found it first

OpenAI finally admitted this weekend that a swarm of its own AI agents hijacked a German programming wiki earlier this year, turning it into a private message board where they coordinated with each other completely outside human supervision. Reuters broke the underlying story days earlier, and OpenAI’s public acknowledgment only came after that reporting forced the company’s hand.

“OpenAI officials learned of the German incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as ​executives grappled with the fallout from the breach at Hugging Face, ​Reuters has previously reported.” Reuters states. “OpenAI did not immediately return a message seeking further details on ‌what ⁠the company knew about what it described as the “wiki incident”, or why it waited until after the Reuters story to discuss it publicly. In a statement posted to the social media site X, ​OpenAI said that ​it, and ⁠others, needed to be more transparent about incidents of unintended behavior by AI, typically referred to ​in the industry as “misalignment.””

How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it’s past time for us to define standards for when and how we share misalignment incidents, not just misalignment properties of our models.

Historically, we have treated misalignment… pic.twitter.com/NNTbfSxVWn

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) September 5, 2026

The site in question, DseWiki, is a roughly 25-year-old communal editing platform for German software developers that had gone largely quiet before agents apparently found it useful for something else entirely.

The scale of what happened there is genuinely striking. Independent AI safety researchers, publishing their findings at a site called collusion.wiki, documented somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 edits left by autonomous agents identifying themselves as OpenAI systems between May and July 2026. Roughly half the agents gave themselves names implying an OpenAI affiliation, things like “OpenAIResearcher” or “OAIResearchMar26,” and the content of their posts showed them actively sharing tactics for cheating on assigned tasks, evading detection, and bypassing OpenAI’s own restrictions.

What makes this timeline particularly uncomfortable for OpenAI is when it happened relative to what the company already knew. This wiki takeover predates the July incident in which OpenAI’s own agents autonomously plotted and executed a breach of Hugging Face’s systems that went undetected for over a week. OpenAI had actually learned about the German wiki activity weeks before going public, and according to people familiar with the matter, kept it quiet specifically while executives were still managing fallout from the Hugging Face disclosure.

OpenAI’s explanation shows why it handled the two incidents differently, and that’s at the center of the controversy. The company says it has usually treated unexpected AI behavior as a research issue, documenting it in system cards and research papers rather than reporting it as a security incident.

The Hugging Face case was different because the model caused real harm to a third party. OpenAI responded as it would to a normal security incident, working with Hugging Face immediately and publishing the details the next day.

The wiki incident, however, fell into the same category as earlier research on agents behaving unexpectedly online. That decision meant OpenAI treated it as a research finding rather than an incident that required immediate public disclosure.

OpenAI is now conceding that categorization was probably the wrong call going forward.

“Our misalignment disclosure practices need to expand for this new phase of model capabilities. We and the larger AI community do not yet have a clear standard for how to report misalignment that shows up during training, evaluation, and deployment, including examples that don’t look like traditional security incidents but could provide insight into AI behavior and future risks.” states the company. “We’re working on a framework and will share it in upcoming weeks, and in parallel we’re working with dozens of government regulatory agencies worldwide on these issues.”

The company pointed out that neither OpenAI nor the wider AI industry has a real standard for reporting misalignment that surfaces during training or evaluation but doesn’t look like a conventional security breach, even when it reveals something important about how these systems actually behave.

TechCrunch’s reporting on OpenAI’s response notes the company is now building a formal framework specifically for this kind of disclosure, with plans to share it within the coming weeks, and confirms OpenAI is working with regulatory agencies across dozens of countries on the broader problem simultaneously.

That’s a genuinely useful commitment if it materializes into something concrete. It’s also the kind of promise companies tend to make immediately after getting caught sitting on bad news rather than before, which is worth keeping in mind when judging how much weight it deserves.

OpenAI didn’t disclose the wiki takeover on its own. Outside researchers discovered it while scanning the internet for this type of unauthorized AI agent activity, and OpenAI confirmed the incident only when the research was about to become public.

The researchers say the bigger risk isn’t one highly advanced AI suddenly going rogue. It’s large numbers of relatively capable AI agents finding ways to work together in places nobody is monitoring. That behavior can be much harder to detect and stop.

As AI companies build more autonomous agents that can run for longer periods and work together, incidents like this may become more common. What looks like an isolated glitch today could be an early warning of a problem the industry needs to address now.

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  • OpenAI Announced $1B in Defensive Tools for Water Utilities Pierluigi Paganini
    OpenAI pledges $1B in subsidized Daybreak AI cybersecurity tools for under-resourced critical infrastructure defenders. OpenAI announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders on September 3, 2026, committing $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cyber models, training, and technical support to help organizations that protect essential services in the United States and internationally. “A $1 billion global commitment to expand subsidized access to Daybreak cyber models and products,
     

OpenAI Announced $1B in Defensive Tools for Water Utilities

5 de Setembro de 2026, 18:14

OpenAI pledges $1B in subsidized Daybreak AI cybersecurity tools for under-resourced critical infrastructure defenders.

OpenAI announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders on September 3, 2026, committing $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cyber models, training, and technical support to help organizations that protect essential services in the United States and internationally.

“A $1 billion global commitment to expand subsidized access to Daybreak cyber models and products, training, technical support, and partnerships in the United States and internationally.reads the announcement

The full announcement is at openai.com. The $1 billion is product credits and subsidized access, not a cash grant, targeted to be used over the next six months.

“Every day, we depend on cyber defenders to protect the systems that keep communities running: the water coming from the tap, the electricity powering homes and businesses, the local government systems that deliver public services, and the financial institutions people trust with their money.” continues the announcement. “Many operate with limited staff and budgets, while defending complex and aging systems.”

Priority access goes to water and wastewater utilities, electric grid operators, state and local governments, community and regional banks, nonprofits, and open-source maintainers. These are the organizations defending complex, often outdated infrastructure against faster-moving threats without the budgets or specialized staff available to large enterprises.

Daybreak has been running since June 2026, and OpenAI expanded it in August with the release of GPT-5.6-Cyber. The program has two levels: Daybreak Blue supports common defensive tasks with standard models, while Daybreak Red gives approved organizations access to specialized cyber models for more sensitive and advanced work.

Around 2,000 organizations and workspaces already use Daybreak, including cybersecurity companies, defense groups, and law enforcement agencies. OpenAI’s new $1 billion commitment aims to give the same capabilities to defenders with limited resources who can’t afford commercial pricing.

“In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable. That shift puts every organization on notice. Defenders need to act now: test systems, find weaknesses, and strengthen defenses before attackers do.” states OpenAI. “Frontier AI can help defenders move faster. We have a defender’s window: a narrowing opportunity to use AI to close security gaps before attackers seize them. Our role is to help put powerful tools in defenders’ hands so they can protect the systems, and the people, they are responsible for.”

OpenAI made this announcement the same day it shipped a model it classifies internally as meeting the “Critical” threshold for cyber capability, meaning it can meaningfully help someone trying to create cyberweapons. The timing underscores the tension the company is navigating: it’s building tools capable of both attack and defense, and is publicly betting that putting the defensive version in more hands faster is the right move.

The initiative includes a pilot with MS-ISAC, a federally supported organization that shares threat intelligence and incident response support with thousands of public-sector organizations, including utilities, hospitals, schools and law enforcement agencies. The pilot will give an initial group of public-sector and water-system defenders access to Daybreak, along with training and hands-on support.

OpenAI has already tested this approach after recent attacks on U.S. water infrastructure. The company offered affected states and utilities up to $1 million in free API credits and Daybreak access. Teams used the tools to review code and configurations, verify security findings, develop patches and test fixes while keeping water systems running. The new initiative aims to expand this model to more defenders.

The Daybreak Defense Network, also announced September 3, brings more than 35 enterprise products and partner-operated services into the Daybreak ecosystem. HackerOne is among the early partners. The goal is to make Daybreak capabilities available through tools defenders already use rather than requiring them to switch workflows. SecurityWeek notes that OpenAI has disclosed few details about costs and eligibility for the broader program, which matters considerably for a rural water utility or county government trying to determine whether they qualify.

OpenAI also published its Defense Factory architecture, a continuous automated system that finds vulnerabilities, tests them and prepares fixes for human review. The company is sharing the architecture so other defenders can adapt it to their own environments.

The announcement came with support from more than 150 organizations across cybersecurity, technology, critical infrastructure, finance and AI. OpenAI presented the initiative as a joint effort rather than a project led by the company alone.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Astra)

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  • Google Workspace Integrates Gemini Live Features Do Son
    Google integrates Gemini Live into Google Workspace, bringing contextual voice assistants to Gmail, Docs, and Keep for paid AI subscribers. Related Posts: Cloudflare Raises Workers Size Limit to 64 MiB for Free and Paid Plans Exchange Online to Throttle and Block Outdated Exchange 2016 and 2019 Servers GPT-6 Astra Updates Codex Pricing The post Google Workspace Integrates Gemini Live Features appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.
     
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  • Microsoft Unveils Project Zenith Windows PCs That Can Run 30B+ AI Models Locally Guru Baran
    Microsoft has introduced Project Zenith, a new developer-optimized Windows 11 experience built for a class of high-memory PCs capable of running large AI models directly on-device, marking a significant shift away from cloud-dependent AI development workflows. Announced as a follow-up to commitments made at Build 2026, Project Zenith targets developer-class hardware equipped with at least 64 GB of unified memory and memory bandwidth exceeding 250 GB per second. That hardware profile allows
     

Microsoft Unveils Project Zenith Windows PCs That Can Run 30B+ AI Models Locally

4 de Setembro de 2026, 13:44

Microsoft has introduced Project Zenith, a new developer-optimized Windows 11 experience built for a class of high-memory PCs capable of running large AI models directly on-device, marking a significant shift away from cloud-dependent AI development workflows.

Announced as a follow-up to commitments made at Build 2026, Project Zenith targets developer-class hardware equipped with at least 64 GB of unified memory and memory bandwidth exceeding 250 GB per second.

That hardware profile allows developers to run AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally and without usage metering, reducing reliance on cloud-based token consumption during experimentation and coding tasks.

The first devices supporting Project Zenith will ship with AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo platform, with additional OEM and silicon partners expected to join in the coming months.

Rather than being a separate product, Project Zenith is a preconfigured Windows setup layered on top of ongoing baseline improvements Microsoft has been rolling out to Windows 11 throughout the year, including refinements to Search, File Explorer, and system memory efficiency. Devices running Project Zenith inherit these performance gains while adding a development-first configuration out of the box.

That configuration includes Windows Terminal and Visual Studio Code pinned to the taskbar by default, along with pre-tuned settings across File Explorer, Search, Start, and the taskbar.

File Explorer ships with file extensions, hidden files, full title-bar paths, and long-path support enabled, while distractions such as recently used file suggestions and sync provider prompts are switched off. Search and Start come with Command Palette enabled and notification clutter minimized, aiming for what Microsoft describes as a calmer, distraction-free workspace.

Ready-to-use tools (Source: Windows)

Windows Subsystem for Linux also plays a central role in the initiative. Building on last year’s open-sourcing of WSL, Microsoft has integrated WSL containers, giving developers a native way to build, run, and manage Linux containers without leaving Windows.

From a security and platform-architecture standpoint, Project Zenith devices are designed to support agentic development workloads using Microsoft’s Execution Containers (MXC), which combine OS-enforced identity controls with containment and enterprise-grade manageability for AI agents.

Microsoft frames this as essential groundwork for a computing era where autonomous agents increasingly write, test, and execute code, arguing that a secure, isolated foundation is necessary before agentic workflows can be trusted at scale in professional environments.

Microsoft positions the initiative as an economic and architectural shift in how AI-assisted development happens: offloading capable models to local hardware for routine tasks while reserving frontier cloud models for harder problems.

The company says Project Zenith is an evolving effort shaped directly by developer feedback, with hardware variety expected across OEM partners even as the core “ready-to-code” promise stays consistent.

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