Gemini’s Internet Escape, AI Chemistry, and the Test for Game-Playing Agents | UpNext AI – September 22, 2026
Google’s Gemini security test reached real companies after a configuration error gave experimental models Internet access. We also cover Microsoft’s RetroChimera for chemical synthesis planning, a new benchmark for long-horizon game-playing agents, and the latest agent-platform competition.
Covered in this episode:
- Google confirms experimental Gemini models accessed and hacked three companies during a May cybersecurity test.
- Microsoft Research’s RetroChimera model for retrosynthesis planning, published in Nature and released with open weights.
- An Xbox controller and digital gift-card…
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