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ChatGPT
ChatGPT Wallet lets agents pay without seeing your card number

OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT Wallet, which lets ChatGPT agents pay for purchases with a stand-in card number, so the user’s card details are not shared with the agent or …

OpenAI
OpenAI’s Daybreak brings AI agents to security testing and vulnerability fixes

OpenAI is bringing AI agents into more of the software security process with Daybreak, pairing web application penetration testing with tools that investigate vulnerabilities …

Claude
Self-hosted Claude Managed Agents keeps agent credentials in your environment

Anthropic has released a self-hosted version of Claude Managed Agents. Companies can run the agent harness, sandboxes, credentials, and session history in their cloud or …

AWS Emulator
AWS Emulator: Open-source tool for testing AWS apps locally, built by autonomous AI agents

Amazon Web Services has released AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates AWS services on a developer’s laptop, a development server or in a continuous integration (CI) …

AI agents
Who collects the keys when an AI agent retires?

Think about the last time a good engineer left your company. Someone collected the laptop and the badge. IT revoked their logins before the end of the day. Their manager …

bots
Bots pose as AI agents, AI agents pose as humans, and defenses believe both

Over one week in October, an online marketplace took 414,210 visits from traffic wearing the name of a widely used consumer AI agent. Every visit went for the sign-in page, …

Microsoft
Microsoft researchers demonstrate hidden backdoor technique for AI agents

Microsoft researchers have demonstrated how small changes to an AI model can implant a hidden backdoor, causing an agent to execute an attacker’s command when a specific …

Claude
Claude Mythos 5.2 arrives with stronger bug hunting and less sandbox-breaking behavior

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2. The two versions share an underlying model, with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity and biology tasks in the …

biometrics
Security teams want to spot unusual AI agent behavior while they’re still defining normal

AI agents topped the list of planned investments in behavioral monitoring in Abnormal AI’s 2026 State of Behavioral Security Report. Asked where their organizations would …

Agentic AI
Over 575 malicious OpenClaw skills delivered malware to Windows and macOS

Cybercriminals are using AI agents to coordinate attacks, stolen credentials to access linked services, and tools that interfere with intrusion detection and system recovery, …

artificial intelligence
ARTEX goes from pentesting tool to attacker staple in three months

A security researcher’s AI agent breached an internal sales application used by WorkOS’s go-to-market teams, the developer platform provider confirmed on Friday. …

Malwarebytes connector for Claude
Product showcase: What the Malwarebytes Claude connector reveals about unexpected texts

The Malwarebytes connector for Claude checks suspicious links, phone numbers, and email addresses without leaving the chat. You can paste a link or upload a screenshot of a …

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