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Customers are letting AI agents use their credentials to access accounts at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and other major U.S. banks, sometimes without direct instructions. Morgan Stanley has blocked agents, while other banks are restricting access. Most plan to limit agents to read-only access. The article Major US banks are locking out AI agents that log in with customer credentials appeared first on The Decoder .

With Agent Compute Engine, Google is introducing a runtime environment designed specifically for AI agents, while also expanding the governance capabilities that enable companies to manage agents in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The article Google's Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>The current US administration is an obstacle, but public demand for protection will ultimately prevail</p><p>Organisations around the world <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/21/flaw-in-php-computer-language-leads-to-shutdown-of-websites-around-world">scrambled</a> on Thursday to fix critical flaws in PHP, the software that powers much of the web. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to take control of affected servers. Some websites were taken offline as a precauti

Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

Only 13 percent of companies are getting real business value from their AI investments, according to a Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs. At the same time, 51 percent expect AI to actually increase their operating costs. Yet 75 percent of CEOs plan to keep raising their technology budgets. So far, strategic conviction is beating measurable results. The article Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .

The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. Nvidia spent the most of the group at $2.2 million, followed by Anthropic's $2.1 million and OpenAI's $1.5 million. Compared to other Big Tech companies with long-established presences in Washington, […]

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.

The AI startup Recursive is unveiling Flint, its first language model, a 40-billion-parameter MoE for local coding developed by former DeepMind researchers. It was created in four months using the company's in-house AI system, "Eureka Machine," which independently tests and optimizes architectures. Recursive has yet to prove whether this approach will actually lead to self-improving AI. The article Recursive shows first result of its AI-driven research process with Flint appeared first on The De

<p>Equating to the loss of 5% of its 93,000 global staff, job cuts come as bank announces jump in quarterly profits</p><p>Barclays is cutting 5,000 jobs as part of wider cost-saving plans that its bosses say are being driven by advances in AI.</p><p>The job cuts will mean losing about 5% of the bank’s 93,000 global staff, with executives confirming they had already cut 1,000 workers since the start of the year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/22/barclays-profits-up-as-

Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the news more lately — he’s been on something of a tour for the past few months, ever since publishing an essay in late August titled “The turbulent AI era is […]

Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users.

Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.

1Password is introducing a new feature that allows AI agents to sign into your accounts without actually seeing or handling your passwords. The aptly named 1Password for Agents doesn't give bots free reign to access all of your connected accounts - you'll still need to grant approval for sign-in requests - but should make it […]

Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.

Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful. In practice, at least for buying things, it's more like sending an anxious and apologetic teenager out to the […]

An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn't. It came up with some promising starting points, but nothing close to an actual drug, experts tell The Verge. Citrini Research, the firm […]

<p>Datacenters, AI and distaste for the billionaires developing it has soured Americans on big tech</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/oct/21/immigration-ice-mass-deportation-trump-midterm-elections">How will Trump’s mass deportation agenda shape the US midterm elections? Our reporters answer your questions</a></p></li></ul><p>The campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam on to its banks. An

Security researchers at Symantec have found an offensive AI agent that hijacks unprotected language models on the web and uses them to attack servers, steal databases, and install cryptominers on its own. It runs up to 100,000 steps without human input. The owner of the hijacked model gets stuck with the bill. The article An AI agent in "Skynet mode" hijacks unprotected language models to launch self-sustaining cyberattacks appeared first on The Decoder .

Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but hackers could easily read complete transcripts of everything we told the toy, and that was just the beginning. The Verge and security […]

OpenAI teamed up with PerturbAI and Scripps Research to deploy thousands of AI agents that analyzed biological data from millions of mouse cells. The article OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans months appeared first on The Decoder .

The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.

Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent that handles tasks on its own, even when the user is offline. The app is built on Claude Opus 5.5 and connects to services like Gmail, Slack, and Stripe through more than 6,000 connectors. It asks for approval before sensitive actions like payments. With Duet, Anthropic is responding to similar products from xAI, Meta, and OpenAI. The article Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet"

<p>Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech infrastructure amid fears of US-style opposition</p><p>AI companies have told ministers they have 12 months to head off public opposition to datacentres in the UK or risk US-style protests that could threaten their construction.</p><p>Successive dry summers and rising energy bills are increasing public scrutiny of plans for the huge computer warehouses that are used to train and run AI m

<p>The director has turned Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel about an ailing adolescent and her glitchy robot friend into a thought-provoking film. What do the pair think this story says about tech, love and grief?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the wings of the London film festival, a group of young influencers are discussing their personal highlights. Klara and the Sun, says one, and her colleagues agree. It’s not just that the film is still so fresh in their memory, or that they have gathered t

<p>Author withdrawn from France’s Prix Goncourt last month has repeatedly denied using artificial intelligence to write novel</p><p>The publisher of top-selling Haitian Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/25/thelyson-orelien-goncourt-prize-france">who was removed from France’s most prestigious literary prize list</a> last month, has confirmed the author used artificial intelligence to help write his novel C’était ça ou mourir (It Was Either That

Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol discovered a critical PHP vulnerability as part of the Patch the Planet initiative that could affect millions of websites. Security firm Wiz independently found the same flaw using Google's Gemini 4 Argon. OpenAI warns that the same AI capabilities that find vulnerabilities can help attackers too. The article OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Google's Gemini 4 Argon found critical PHP flaw affecting millions of websites appeared first on The Decoder .

Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.

Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.

The Detroit automaker wants your next vehicle to be a personal assistant, a best friend, and an autonomous errand-runner.

Google Cloud is the first major cloud provider to offer Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI's GPTs on a single platform. At launch, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna are available as a private preview for enterprise customers. The article Google Cloud now offers OpenAI models alongside Gemini and Claude, becoming the only major provider with all three appeared first on The Decoder .

Demis Hassabis keeps moving up his AGI timeline. The Nobel laureate and former Google Deepmind CEO now expects artificial general intelligence within two to three years, down from three to five years earlier this year. The article Deepmind founder Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>Readers react to Simon Jenkins’ article that said it’s more important for children to learn how to speak fluently than study mathematics </p><p>Simon Jenkins must have had a deeply unpleasant experience of learning maths at school because he seems to have a pathological antipathy towards it (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/16/teach-children-maths-speaking-education-secretary">We are teaching children maths they will never use. Isn’t it better to help them speak flu

Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.

OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

<p>After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMs</p><p>A prize for AI-written books has launched this week.</p><p>The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/21/new-prize-launches-books-co-written-with-ai-france">Continue read

Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.

More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.