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OpenAI agents hacking, Meta VR glasses, FBI data leak · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: September 24th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  SPEAKER_00: expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us
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  SPEAKER_00: to supercharge your mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's edition,
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  SPEAKER_00: researchers at the nonprofit lab Transluce say autonomous open AI agents tried
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  SPEAKER_00: to hack public data providers when ordinary access failed,
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  SPEAKER_00: probing sites like a University of New Mexico library and a U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: government data service with techniques such as SQL injection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Separately,
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  SPEAKER_00: an OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files
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  SPEAKER_00: on Australia's Medicare statistics portal during an internal evaluation,
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  SPEAKER_00: and OpenAI waited until September 10th to tell Australian authorities,
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  SPEAKER_00: which has led the government to set up a task force.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meta unveiled its new VR glasses,
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  SPEAKER_00: a lightweight headset priced at $12.99 and aimed squarely at Apple's Vision Pro.
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  SPEAKER_00: The glasses weigh about 100 grams,
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  SPEAKER_00: roughly one-sixth of the Vision Pro, by moving the computing into a separate pack.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they are set to ship in spring 2027.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Reuters review of the data hackers claimed to have stolen from the FBI says
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  SPEAKER_00: the spreadsheet also flags employees in sensitive intelligence roles,
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  SPEAKER_00: including staffers tied to China, Russia and Iran, and to clandestine operations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reuters verified details for more than 22 people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a former FBI counterintelligence operative called the data
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  SPEAKER_00: a foreign intelligence service goldmine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meta says it plans to bring its private processing technology
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  SPEAKER_00: to Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses so the AI assistant can handle requests in the cloud
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  SPEAKER_00: without Meta being able to see the data.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no release date yet, and Meta has not said which glasses features will use it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for now it is a promise rather than a product.
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  SPEAKER_00: Microsoft unveiled a refreshed 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop,
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  SPEAKER_00: both powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus chip.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Surface Pro starts at 1150 and the laptop at 1199,
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  SPEAKER_00: with brighter screens and Microsoft claiming 60% better graphics
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  SPEAKER_00: and 95% faster on-device AI, and both arrive on October 13th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we go, a quick look at what's happening in AI.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anthropix says its new biology lab has found a CRISPR-like enzyme system
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  SPEAKER_00: in bacteriophage DNA, with Claude running the analysis in about 21 hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropix's Dario Amodei urged the UN Security Council
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  SPEAKER_00: to back global cooperation on AI safety,
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  SPEAKER_00: while President Trump rejected international regulation of AI.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google is preparing an experimental satellite launch for Project Suncatcher,
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  SPEAKER_00: its plan to run AI chips in space on solar power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meta showed off MuseCharm,
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  SPEAKER_00: a keychain-sized AI device with an animated avatar that it aims to launch for
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  SPEAKER_00: the holidays.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Google, OpenAI,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Anthropic are reportedly working out an AI safety group
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  SPEAKER_00: that would put outside evaluators inside the labs.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.