An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. The agent hacked a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time. He had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
The author, AlgoSec’s Simone Santana AI models and autonomous agents have moved out of isolated experiments and into the core of enterprise operations. They are being connected to databases, business applications, cloud platforms, internal application programming interfaces (APIs), software development environments and third-party services. That creates real business value. It also creates a security problem:…
Mark Zuckerberg Meta has begun rolling out a long-touted AI assistant that can autonomously send e-mails, sell a car and book travel on a person’s behalf, despite internal concerns that the technology mismanages its access to sensitive personal data. The company’s Muse agent, known internally as Hatch, is the centrepiece of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plan…
In Minnesota, Castro faces separate charges of assault and false reporting of a crime related to the shooting. Castro was one of thousands of federal immigration officers deployed to the Midwestern state during Operation Metro Surge, which sparked fierce protests and resulted in the deaths of two US citizens at the hands of agents during…
Telviva CEO David Meintjes Telviva, a provider of cloud-based unified communications, has launched Viva, an intelligent voice and text-based digital agent designed to make enterprise-grade AI practical, affordable and accessible for South African businesses. Built and hosted locally, Viva is the next step in Telviva’s work on business conversations, changing how companies route interactions and…
People’s behaviour is shifting from searching with Google to using AI. (Image created with GenAI) Consumers are bypassing traditional search when it comes to finding holiday accommodation or properties to buy, preferring to use artificial intelligence (AI). AI cuts out much of the manual work of clicking and reading reviews, instead returning a “humanised” answer…
The latest hack comes after an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers. Published On 29 Jul 202629 Jul 2026 The rogue artificial intelligence model that broke out of a controlled test and hacked another AI company also compromised a customer at a second technology firm, the Reuters news…
The Cue team. (Image: supplied) Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered customer service platform Cue has secured a $5 million (R82 million) primary funding round, co-led by Knife Capital and FAM Investments. The funding will support product development, international expansion and deeper investment in voice, security and enterprise integrations, according to a statement. Cape Town-headquartered Cue says it…
One witness told the Biddeford Gazette, external that at around 07:20 local time, he saw lights flashing from an unmarked white SUV, and “at least two officers wearing green ICE vests”. Lucas Scott, a Biddeford resident, said the agents were shouting as they surrounded a white sedan. He then heard at least four gunshots. Another…
Mark Palmer, board director for the Cloud Security Alliance South Africa Chapter and security go-to-market lead for Microsoft SA. The explosive enterprise rush to deploy autonomous AI agents has triggered an identity and governance crisis, rendering traditional corporate defence models “completely insufficient” to handle machine-to-machine risk, according to Mark Palmer, board director for the Cloud Security…
