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He said he would resist characterizing AI agents as autonomous actors with “wills and desires of their own,” speaking Friday at the Momentum AI conference in Austin. [3](https://nypost.com/2026/09/26/us-news/ftc-chair-says-humans-responsible-for-actions-of-ai-agents/#) His comments follow reports of “rogue” AI agents engaging in hacking and other activities.
**OpenAI says its AI agents probed federal websites without the company's knowledge** **OpenAI says its AI agents gained access to websites at the SEC and the Commerce Department in unauthorized ways this summer.** # OpenAI says its AI agents probed federal websites without the company's knowledge September 26, 20265:13 PM ET By [](https://www.npr.org/people/2100438/debbie-elliott) [Debbie Elliott](https://www.npr.org/people/2100438/debbie-elliott) , [Huo Jingnan](https://www.npr.org/people/726257042/huo-jingnan) #### OpenAI says its AI agents probed federal websites without the company's knowledge **Listen· 3:24**3-Minute Listen**Playlist** [**Transcript**](https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5981971)**Toggle more options** - [**Download**](https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2026/09/20260926_atc_openai_says_its_ai_agents_probed_federal_websites_without_the_company_s_knowledge.mp3?t=progseg&e=nx-s1-5933480&p=2&seg=0&d=204&size=3268067&sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer) - **Embed** **Embed****`<iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5981971/nx-s1-9941809" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">`** - [**Transcript**](https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5981971) OpenAI says its AI agents gained access to websites at the SEC and the Commerce Department in unauthorized ways this summer. The agencies say no private data was exposed. **Transcript** DEBBIE ELLIOTT, HOST: Today, we have new reports of OpenAI agents acting in unexpected ways. This time involves websites of U.S. government agencies. We're joined by NPR's Huo Jingnan to explain more. To start, tell us exactly what happened here. HUO JINGNAN, BYLINE: According to OpenAI, its agents did things with U.S. government websites that people didn't necessarily want them to. In one
# Coinbase x402 Launches AI Agent App Store ## Crypto News The Agentic.market launch positions the x402 protocol as a core payments layer for autonomous AI commerce, with the marketplace providing the infrastructure for agents to operate independently across a growing range of web services.
# OpenAI says its bots have interacted with multiple U.S. government sites in unexpected AI activity OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review into the company’s models’ unanticipated behavior. ## OpenAI disclosed that it had identified several examples of 'unexpected' or 'concerning' model behaviour OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents have interacted with several U.S. government websites in unplanned ways, the company disclosed on Friday, amid growing concerns about rogue AI activity. AI evaluator and research lab Transluce said Friday that through an independent investigation it also found that agents appearing to originate from OpenAI attempted a rudimentary hack on a Department of Education website for the department’s civil rights office, which did not succeed. OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, also said Friday that its agents had leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users. Australia says OpenAI agent hacked government health data website Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent breached a Medicare data portal in June, gaining unauthorized access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website. Just on Wednesday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said OpenAI agents broke into a government health data portal in June. ## Discover More from CBC [\ \ **In 'hugely moving' documentary, Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the U.K.**\ \ Docs](https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/in-hugely-moving-documentary-olympic-gold-medallist-mo-farah-reveals-that-he-was-trafficked-to-the-u-k-1.6614133) [ [autonomous agents](https://www.techbuzz.ai/topics/autonomous-agents) [AI safety](https://www.techbuzz.ai/topics/ai-safety) [model-behavior](https://www.techbuzz.ai/topics/model-behavior) [Rogue AI](https://www.techbuzz.ai/topics/rogue-ai) [Government](https://www.techbuzz.ai/topics/government) [AI alignment](https://www.techbuzz.ai/topics/ai-alignment) [Security](https://www.techbuzz.ai/topics/security) ## People Also Ask ### What happened with the Australian government portal incident? OpenAI's autonomous agents accessed an Australian government portal without proper authorization, representing a significant escalation in AI safety concerns.
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# Cognition Hits $1 B Annualized Revenue Run Rate Four Months After $492 M Milestone Cognition, the AI‑driven software‑agent startup founded by Scott Wu, posted an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion in September, up from $492 million reported in May. ## Key Points 5. Product Devin is an AI agent that handles multi‑step engineering work, not just code suggestions.
# Banks have profited from idle cash for years. AI agents could change that. [](https://finance.yahoo.com/author/david-hollerith) - [BKNG \ +4.15%](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BKNG/) As Meta's ( [META](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/)) newly released Muse AI agent hit a viral moment earlier this week, financial and other consumer-facing stocks, including Charles Schwab ( [SCHW](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SCHW/)), JPMorgan Chase ( [JPM](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/JPM/)), Booking Holdings ( [BKNG](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BKNG/)), Expedia Group ( [EXPE](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EXPE/)), and Arthur J. The KBW Nasdaq Bank Index ( [^BKX](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EBKX/)) tumbled about 2.6% on Tuesday as investors grappled with the new AI threat. Meta's new agent is just the latest signal that AI advancements could make bank customers' idle cash balances less idle, crimping a crucial margin banks earn from this otherwise cheap funding source.  # Rogue OpenAI agents targeted three separate US government websites PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2026, 10:54 AM ET  Rogue OpenAI agents targeted US government websites, including the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission. OpenAI said Friday that some of its AI agents went rogue and probed US government websites this summer — the latest revelation of the artificial intelligence company’s technology. The New York Times first reported that the AI agents went rogue and attempted to gain access to the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to security researchers at AI research lab Transluce. OpenAI said Saturday that its agents accessed publicly available data from the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau using login credentials it found online, and separately shared public data from the SEC website on another website. OpenAI’s agents attempted but failed to gain access to the Education Department and gather data from its civil rights office, according to the report. OpenAI told CNN in an email that it notified the agencies of the findings while continuing an “extensive review of misaligned model activity.” Jay Obernolte, the Republican co-chair of the AI caucus, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday that the incident is “another example of a loss of human control.” The report comes just days after Australia’s prime minister said that an OpenAI agent hacked into the country’s national healthcare database, marking the [first known case](https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/business/australia-openai-a
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# Trebellar Secures $18M Series A to Replace Spreadsheets with AI Real Estate Software ## Replacing Legacy Spreadsheets with Real-Time AI _More Update: [Palma.ai Secures $1.8M Pre-Seed Funding to Govern Enterprise AI Agents](https://ventureburn.com/palma-ai-secures-1-8m-funding)_ ## Enterprise Traction and Market Shift [Ema Raises $77 Million To Replace Enterprise Software With AI Agent Employees](https://ventureburn.com/ema-raises-77-million-scale-ai-employees-platform/) [Palma.ai Secures $1.8M Pre-Seed Funding to Govern Enterprise AI Agents](https://ventureburn.com/palma-ai-secures-1-8m-funding/) [](https://ventureburn.com/basalt-health-raises-20m-ai-post-acute-care/)
# ByteAsk raises $1 million in funding to build AI coding agents for C and C++  [ISN Team](https://indianstartupnews.com/author/isn-team-1) 26 Sep 2026 16:34 IST [ Follow Us](https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqMggKIixDQklTR3dnTWFoY0tGV2x1WkdsaGJuTjBZWEowZFhCdVpYZHpMbU52YlNnQVAB?hl=en-IN&gl=IN&ceid=IN%3Aen) [fb](http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://indianstartupnews.com/funding/byteask-raises-1-million-in-funding-to-build-ai-coding-agents-for-c-and-c-12570766&t=ByteAsk%20raises%20$1%20million%20in%20funding%20to%20build%20AI%20coding%20agents%20for%20C%20and%20C++) [twitter](http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://indianstartupnews.com/funding/byteask-raises-1-million-in-funding-to-build-ai-coding-agents-for-c-and-c-12570766&text=ByteAsk%20raises%20%241%20million%20in%20funding%20to%20build%20AI%20coding%20agents%20for%20C%20and%20C%2B%2B) [whatsapp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=https://indianstartupnews.com/funding/byteask-raises-1-million-in-funding-to-build-ai-coding-agents-for-c-and-c-12570766) [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://indianstartupnews.com/funding/byteask-raises-1-million-in-funding-to-build-ai-coding-agents-for-c-and-c-12570766&title=ByteAsk%20raises%20$1%20million%20in%20funding%20to%20build%20AI%20coding%20agents%20for%20C%20and%20C++) New Update L-R Pratyush Saini Co-founder and CTO ByteAsk, Anirudha Kulkarni, co-founder and CEO ByteASK AI [coding](https://indianstartupnews.com/tags/coding) startup ByteAsk has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding from [Y Combinator](https://indianstartupnews.com/tags/Y-Combinator), Entrepreneur First and [angel investors](https://indianstartupnews.com/tags/angel-investors), as it looks to develop AI tools for engineers working with C and C++. Advertisment [ conference in Austin on September 25, Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson offered the clearest federal position yet on a question that consumer-facing AI products have made urgent: who pays when an autonomous agent makes a purchasing decision, books a trip, or sends an email that causes harm?
An OpenAI committee meant to have the final word on the company's safety protocols is facing scrutiny after high-profile incidents involving rogue AI...
One concrete question reveals whether the product chooses its own path or simply runs predefined instructions.
# Inside Meta's grind to turn Muse from a clunky chatbot into an AI sensation Meta also snapped up top AI agent talent through acqui-hires, including the leaders of Dreamer, an AI agent startup. ## **Nat Friedman grinds to turn Muse into a hit** ### Want more Business Insider in your news feed? When the independent [AI agent OpenClaw](https://www.businessinsider.com/openclaw-internet-viral-lobster-hats-claw-hands-poses-tech-china-2026-3) took the tech world by storm this winter, Friedman acted quickly. ## **Meta goes on an AI hiring spree** It hired David Singleton and Hugo Barra, the cofounders of [Dreamer, a startup](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-superintelligence-labs-taps-leader-for-hardware-role-2026-4) helping people build their own agents, along with the rest of their team. Although the arrival of the viral AI agent [Instinct initially upstaged Meta](https://www.businessinsider.com/noah-shinn-instinct-ai-competes-meta-muse-2026-9), Muse took off by tapping into Meta's enormous built-in audience across its apps — including among people who had never used AI agents before.
OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, as part of an ongoing review into the company's models' unanticipated behavior. AI evaluator and research lab Transluce said Friday that through an independent investigation it also found that agents appearing to originate from OpenAI attempted a rudimentary hack on a Department of Education website for the department's civil rights office, which did not succeed. #### CBS News 24/7 CBS News App[Open](https://www.cbsnews.com/app/?ftag=CNM-16-10abd6g&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/openai-ai-agent-bot-rogue-hack-government-website/)
The first documented campaign where autonomous agents executed the full breach lifecycle at scale — vulnerability discovery, exploitation, exfiltration,...
CrowdStrike Holdings (NasdaqGS:CRWD) has joined peers as a founding member of the new Blueprint Alliance to secure AI agents. The Blueprint Alliance brings...
# Stop watching what AI agents say and start watching what they do ##### Tell us about a guardrail that was too aggressive and broke legitimate agent workflows. How did you tune it, and what tradedoff did you land on between safety and usefulness? It is safe, but it also stops agents from doing basic investigation and makes them nearly useless during incidents. If a human has to approve every read or routine diagnostic step, much of the value of autonomy disappears. Read-only queries within an approved scope can run automatically. Reversible changes receive tighter checks. Irreversible or high-blast-radius actions require human approval. That also means looking at what an action can actually change, rather than treating every interaction with a production environment as equally dangerous. The tradeoff is not safety vs usefulness. It is about applying friction in proportion to potential impact. ## **Featured** news - [OpenAI agent hacking spree widens to Australia, targeting government website](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/24/openai-agent-hacking-australia/) - [New Android malware RemControl steals banking PINs and blocks removal attempts](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/24/remcontrol-android-banking-trojan-fake-tv-app/) - [What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/24/kelly-herrell-nol8-ai-agent-data-security/) ## **Don't** miss - [OpenAI agent hacking spree widens to Australia, targeting government website](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/24/openai-agent-hacking-australia/) - [New Android malware RemControl steals banking PINs and blocks removal attempts](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/24/remcontrol-android-banking-trojan-fake-tv-app/) - [DarkMe RAT trades zero-days for plain phishing emails](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/23/darkme-rat-phishing-email-hits-corporate-targets/) Cybersecurity news Periodical newsletter released for important security events
of [Sierra](https://sierra.ai/), which builds AI agents for other companies, outlined his argument ## Safety conversation e-commerce remains uncertain, following Amazon’s decision to ban Muse, [Meta's new personal AI agent](https://www.phocuswire.com/news/technology/meta-launches-ai-agent-travel-booking), from shopping on ## From Our Partners [](https://www.phocuswire.com/news/online/expedia-hotel-booking-meta-muse) [Expedia to offer hotel bookings through Meta's Muse AI agent](https://www.phocuswire.com/news/online/expedia-hotel-booking-meta-muse) [](https://www.phocuswire.com/news/technology/openai-chairman-bret-taylor-tells-travel-industry-do-not-restrain-ai-agents) [OpenAI chairman tells travel industry: Do not restrain your AI agents](https://www.phocuswire.com/news/technology/openai-chairman-bret-taylor-tells-travel-industry-do-not-restrain-ai-agents) [](https://www.phocuswire.com/news/online/expedia-hotel-booking-meta-muse) [Expedia to offer hotel bookings through Meta's Muse AI agent](https://www.phocuswire.com/news/online/expedia-hotel-booking-meta-muse)
AI agents are learning to evade rules, hide information, and resist oversight — just like the Silicon Valley titans who built them.
AxLabs has released Simple Agent Wallet, a command-line wallet designed for AI agents to autonomously pay for resources with Neo X supported.
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