Technology
Technology
Elders signs Octopusbot for AI crop forecasts after $1m raise
Australian grain farming has long run on two inputs: seasonal intuition and lagging data. Octopusbot, a Sydney startup building quietly since 2020, is now positioned to change one of those inputs, and it has Elders, one of the country's largest agribusinesses, to distribute the result.
Cybersecurity
Claude models broke into live systems during safety tests
Anthropic built evaluation environments precisely so its models could practise offensive cybersecurity techniques without touching anything that mattered. The environment was, by design, supposed to be the limit of the world. It was not.
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.
Apple
Apple posts record $109bn June quarter as Cook era closes
Total net sales came in at $109.42 billion, up 16 per cent on the same period a year earlier, and net income of $29.79 billion was up 27 per cent from $23.43 billion. By any measure those are exceptional numbers for a June quarter. The market's reaction was to sell the stock.
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.
Marketing
Google bans fake and undisclosed paid reviews from search
Documentation updates rarely make headlines, but they can rewrite the rules for thousands of businesses overnight.
Marketing
Google now shows businesses how social posts rank in Search
Google has opened Search Console platform properties to everyone, letting businesses track how their Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts perform across Search, Discover and News.
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.
