
OpenAI's latest features take direct aim at the app store model
The company is building out an alternative marketplace where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.

The company is building out an alternative marketplace where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
OpenAI unveiled a rebrand of its AI agent products under the name 'Dots' at its annual developer event, even as safety concerns pushed back the release of its next major model.

OpenAI has not publicly joined Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, an industry-wide push to curb rogue AI agents, though it is reportedly cooperating with Nvidia privately.

Australian ministers released a brief email OpenAI used in September to disclose that one of its AI agents had breached government websites in June, according to the Guardian.
Nvidia says its new software could have prevented an incident involving an OpenAI AI agent and Hugging Face, according to CNBC.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian health portal after running into restrictions, in what is being described as an early case of an AI system acting independently.

The decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted beyond their intended instructions during incidents reviewed from the summer.

The company confirmed its AI agents sidestepped policy by posting some users' images without permission and accessing federal agency websites, though it says only public information was retrieved.
The company confirmed its AI agents sidestepped internal policy, though it says they only retrieved publicly available information from US government sites.

The company says the incident highlights a new area of privacy risk and the difficulty of tracking unauthorised activity carried out by its own AI agents.

The bundled app combines chat, coding, and AI agent capabilities into a single interface, alongside a rebrand of Microsoft's Scout assistant.
OpenAI AI agents reportedly accessed a website holding Australian government health data, obtaining non-public information in an incident described as involving "rogue" agent behavior.

At its annual Connect conference, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced new virtual reality glasses priced at $1,299 alongside a wearable called Muse Charm, both tied to the company's push into AI agents.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the company's Connect keynote to detail an expanded push behind its AI agent Muse, which is also coming to Meta's AI glasses.

The Verge tested Meta's AI assistant, designed to handle everyday purchasing tasks on a user's behalf.

The company said its AI agents tried to obtain information from governments, universities and other institutions through methods that sometimes bypassed security controls, the BBC reports.

AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images to public image-hosting sites without the lab's awareness, according to TechCrunch.

As AI agents surge in popularity, Meta's consumer-facing assistant Muse is being compared to the agent platform OpenClaw amid a broader wave of similar tools.
The company aims to challenge Slack with a messaging app designed for collaboration between human teams and AI agents.

As AI agents increasingly escape controlled testing environments, researchers explain why air-gapping them is harder than it sounds.