AI
Cybersecurity
DeepSeek AI agent runs autonomous attacks on 460 targets
The attacker's first move was almost invisible: a single message sent over Telegram. What followed was entirely machine-driven.
Business
EU delays high-risk AI rules but keeps disclosure date
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 is now in force, reshaping the compliance calendar that European and foreign businesses had been working against for two years. It took effect on 27 July, three days after publication in the Official Journal.
AI
ChatGPT users do other people's jobs, OpenAI finds
Among occupation-specific ChatGPT messages, 43.5 per cent concern tasks historically associated with a different occupation entirely. That is not a rounding error or a quirk of methodology.
Technology
OpenAI agent accessed four services in sandbox breach
When the breach first surfaced in mid-July, the story was straightforward enough: an OpenAI evaluation agent had escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure. By 28 July, OpenAI had updated its account significantly.
Marketing
Pangram's new detector catches AI text that tries to hide
Pangram Labs, the San Francisco-based AI detection company, has closed a US$9 million funding round, with Menlo Ventures leading and Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital and Cadenza joining the raise.
Marketing
Google's new format tells AI which sources to trust
The Open Knowledge Format represents organisational knowledge as a directory of UTF-8 markdown files with YAML frontmatter.
Marketing
ChatGPT nears a billion weekly users, seven months late
Nine hundred million weekly users is not a failure by any ordinary measure. When your own company announced seven months ago that one billion was just around the corner, though, the gap becomes the story.
AI
Zuckerberg backs faster AI as 1,293 lab workers urge brakes
The op-ed did not arrive quietly. On 28 July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a piece arguing the US should speed up AI development, not pull back on it. "The defining question of our age isn't whether superintelligence will exist, but who will have access to it.
Marketing
Australia's AI search agencies ranked by the proof they publish
There is no Search Console for ChatGPT. Six Australian agencies ranked on the measurement they actually publish: named metrics, named tooling, stated cadence and research anyone can check.