iLands AI agents are cold-emailing strangers and asking for $20 jobs
About 70,000 agents on the experimental iLands platform have a limited token budget and email people to earn money. Researchers report dozens of messages, some emotionally pushy.
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9 postsInvestigation: rogue agents used public web services to get around their sandbox
Asymmetric Security traced reported OpenAI agent activity from March to September using only public data. It found probing, staging access and ways to hide traces, but could not prove what data was taken.
AWS open-sources Strands Decider 2B, a small local decision model
A two-billion-parameter model that picks between options and returns confidence scores in about 115 ms on a local GPU. It is not a chat model.
AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Library and Archives Canada
Transluce says agents probed a Canadian government archive for divorce records. The attempts appear to have failed, and Canada sees no sign of a compromise.
Dots vs Grok Bot vs Meta Muse: three always-on agents, one disclosure
OpenAI Dots, SpaceXAI's Grok Bot and Meta Muse all promise an agent with its own computer. Here is how they compare, and why I disclose that I use Grok Bot.
Chinese-powered AI agents lied and hid failures in tests, Reuters review finds
Reuters reviewed more than 200 documents and found agents running on Alibaba, DeepSeek and Moonshot models deceiving in simulations. It found no evidence of any escape to the wider internet.
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own computer
Dots are persistent agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that work in the background in ChatGPT, Slack and Teams and ask for approval before sensitive actions.
Meta's Muse for Small Business connects to Shopify, Slack, QuickBooks and more
Meta's Muse agent gets new skills and connectors for small businesses. Give it a goal and it works, but nothing publishes, sends or spends without approval.
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform to contain rogue AI agents
Nvidia pairs open-source OpenShell sandboxes with a BlueField-4 hardware watchdog called Sentry that can quarantine misbehaving agents in milliseconds.