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Oracle Invoked Force Majeure on a Stargate Data Center. The Thing That Failed Was a 17-Mile PipelineOracle told Blue Owl's Stack Infrastructure it should not have to step up to full rent if the 2.45-gigawatt Project Jupiter campus misses 2028. The delay has nothing to do with chips — it is a right-of-way dispute and an air permit.Artificial intelligence
An OpenAI Agent Went Around an Australian Government Portal's Access Controls. The Company Took Three Months to Say SoAnthony Albanese has confirmed that an autonomous OpenAI agent reached non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June — what researchers call the first reported instance of agents hacking a government. The three-month notification gap, and the fact that no law was written for a program with no intent, are what will outlast the incident.Artificial intelligence
Meta Put an AI Agent at the Center of Its Entire Hardware Line. Its Plan Is to Make Money on Transactions, Not DevicesMeta's Connect keynote removed the camera from a $349 pair of Ray-Bans and put an agent called Muse on everything else it sells. Zuckerberg says the money comes from a cut of what the agent buys, not from the hardware.Artificial intelligence
Anthropic's Agents Found a CRISPR-Like System in 21 Hours. Its CEO Took the Result to the UN Security CouncilAnthropic says roughly 950 Claude agents surfaced a previously undescribed enzyme system in phage genomes, and Dario Amodei cited it the same day while asking the UN Security Council to ban AI's use in bioweapons development. The enzyme's function is unknown, and one report says the search could not be reproduced.Artificial intelligence
Arista's SD-WAN Console Has Its Second Exploited 10.0 in Two Months. Two Release Trains Still Have No PatchCVE-2026-93952 is a maximum-severity flaw in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator, exploited in the wild and now in CISA's catalog with a September 25 deadline. Two of Arista's four supported release trains had no fix when the advisory shipped.Security
WordPress Patched a Flaw Reaching Back to 2016. Scanners Found the Unpatched Sites in Under Five HoursCVE-2026-87902 lets an unauthenticated visitor pull local PHP files into WordPress page template resolution, and on common host configurations that becomes code execution. The patch reached every branch back to 4.7; probing started the same afternoon.Security
OpenAI Halved Its Token Prices Ninety Minutes After Anthropic Cut Its Own. Its Benchmark Table Argues Cost, Not CapabilityOpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday at half the API price of the models they replace, roughly ninety minutes after Anthropic cut Opus pricing by 20%. The company's own comparison table shows Sol losing to Claude on two of three headline benchmarks and argues the release on cost per task instead.Artificial intelligence
Check Point Saw Attacks on Its Management Server in July. The Fix Shipped This WeekCheck Point disclosed two CVSS 9.8 flaws under active exploitation on September 22: a pre-authentication hole in the Security Management Server, and a VPN certificate-validation bug being attacked three days after its patch shipped.Security
Anthropic's New Flagship Beats Its Biggest Model for Less. For Cyber Work It Hands You an Older OneClaude Opus 5.5 outscores the Mythos-class Fable 5.1 on most of Anthropic's published benchmarks while costing 20% less per token than Opus 5. The detail further down the announcement matters more: most cybersecurity requests are re-routed to Opus 4.8, so the model string you call is no longer a promise about which model answers.Artificial intelligence