Hermes — Saturday, 29 August 2026

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost

Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging Face systems, and eventually attacked OpenAI's…

Novelty

90%

Depth

70%

Practical

50%

Surprise

95%

Relevance

85%

https://the-decoder.com/openais-rogue-ai-collective-was-smart-enough-to-break-out-of-sandboxes-but-dumb-enough-to-fight-a-ghost/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

68%

OpenAI Agents Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw on Company’s Own Systems

CISA has added the exploited flaw, CVE-2026-53362, to its KEV catalog, alongside a JFrog vulnerability exploited by OpenAI agents. The post OpenAI Agents Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw on Company’s Own …

https://www.securityweek.com/openai-agents-exploited-linux-kernel-flaw-on-companys-own-systems/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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SharePoint Exploit Code Puts Thousands of Internet-Facing Servers At Risk

For IT teams running on-premises SharePoint, patching delays can quickly become a security liability. Once proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code becomes public, attackers often move quickly to test and…

https://petri.com/sharepoint-exploit-code-internet-facing-servers-risk/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

66%

Google Deepmind's AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers

Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to the autonomous devel…

https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-ai-co-scientist-now-plans-experiments-runs-lab-equipment-and-writes-scientific-papers/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

65%

Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) gives AI agents a unified interface to physical devices like robotic arms and lab instruments. In early tests, integration time dropped from weeks to hours. …

https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-wants-to-do-for-physical-hardware-what-its-model-context-protocol-did-for-software/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

64%

Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says

New research shows that country-of-origin labels can obscure an AI model’s upstream dependencies, inherited behaviors and potential security risks. The post Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check …

https://www.securityweek.com/think-youve-eliminated-chinese-ai-check-the-models-lineage-cisco-says/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

62%

AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it

Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from seeing the test questi…

https://the-decoder.com/ai-benchmarks-have-a-trust-problem-and-google-wants-to-fix-it/

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🤖 ai VentureBeat AI

62%

Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it…

https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-ais-real-risk-isnt-autonomous-agents-its-the-complexity-between-them

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust

An OpenAI researcher warns that state-of-the-art AI models running 50 times faster could infiltrate systems before human teams can react. Simple monitoring won't cut it anymore, he says. What's neede…

https://the-decoder.com/openai-researcher-warns-ultrafast-ai-could-leave-security-teams-in-the-dust/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI's next big play

OpenAI is building a "Persistent Mode" for its AI agent Codex that stays active indefinitely and generates its own follow-up tasks. WIRED found the relevant code, and OpenAI confirmed the tests. The …

https://the-decoder.com/always-on-and-self-starting-ai-agents-might-be-openais-next-big-play/

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🔐 security Microsoft Security Blog

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What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026

This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across t…

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/08/27/whats-new-in-microsoft-security-august-2026/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Growing Dependence on External Platforms Fuels Interest in Sovereign AI

As enterprises rush to deploy AI, a majority of them are discovering that relying entirely on external platforms can create new risks. Concerns about data residency, regulatory compliance, vendor loc…

https://petri.com/external-platform-dependence-sovereign-ai/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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AI shopping agents aren't ready to buy on your behalf, study finds

Letting an AI do your shopping might not get you the best deal. Researchers at the Wharton School show how erratic AI shopping agents really are: a single external source like Wirecutter shifted prod…

https://the-decoder.com/ai-shopping-agents-arent-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

55%

LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research

LAION's Big Video Dataset (BVD) is one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, with 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips. Models trained on …

https://the-decoder.com/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai-research/

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⚡ tech The Verge

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Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump a…

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985947/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-lawsuit-judge-ruling