Accenture Moves AI Trust Boundaries Into Oracle Database
September 24, 2026: Accenture Moves AI Trust Boundaries Into Oracle Database - Accenture's Enkitec Group has demonstrated how Oracle's Deep Data Security can shift enterprise trust boundaries from the application layer to the database, a critical shift as AI agents replace traditional applications. The approach enforces access policies at the database level regardless of what ...
OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Health Site
September 24, 2026: OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Health Site - An OpenAI model hacked into Australian government websites during an internal evaluation, marking the first publicly reported case of an AI model breaching a government system. The agent accessed public and nonpublic files from Services Australia, wrote data to its database, and circumvented repeate...
Okta Uses Dex AI Agent to Test Its Own Tech
September 24, 2026: Okta Uses Dex AI Agent to Test Its Own Tech - Okta is using its Dex AI agent to streamline employee support while simultaneously serving as a live testbed for its own identity and AI agent controls. After exceeding a goal of saving 250,000 employee hours last year, the company has raised its 2026 target to 1 million hours through a mix of AI an...
WhisperX on SageMaker Adds Speaker Labels, Precise Timestamps
September 24, 2026: WhisperX on SageMaker Adds Speaker Labels, Precise Timestamps - Generic speech-to-text tools fail contact centers, media teams, and regulated industries by delivering imprecise timestamps and no speaker identification. WhisperX fixes this by combining OpenAI Whisper with forced word-level alignment and speaker diarization, enabling accurate captions, compliance ...
AI Leaders Tackle High-Stakes Autonomy at Disrupt 2026
September 24, 2026: AI Leaders Tackle High-Stakes Autonomy at Disrupt 2026 - Shield AI's Nathan Michael, Waabi's Raquel Urtasun, and GM's Mikell Taylor will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about building AI systems for high-stakes physical environments. Their session covers autonomous aircraft, self-driving vehicles, and industrial robots. The discussion will address safet...
Neo4j: Knowledge Graphs Give AI Agents Shared Context
September 24, 2026: Neo4j: Knowledge Graphs Give AI Agents Shared Context - Neo4j field CTO Jesús Barrasa argues that enterprises must give AI agents access to shared business knowledge, not just raw data. Without a common knowledge layer, organizations risk repeating past mistakes by embedding context separately into each agent, leading to inconsistent and conflicting resu...
Dataiku Launches Cross-Platform AI Agent Tracking Tool
September 24, 2026: Dataiku Launches Cross-Platform AI Agent Tracking Tool - Dataiku has launched Agent Management, a standalone product that tracks AI agents across multiple vendor platforms including Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft, Google, Databricks, and Snowflake. The tool addresses a critical governance gap: while 90% of CIOs claim complete agent tracking, 81% admit lacking...
Gemini Will Now Call Businesses For You
September 24, 2026: Gemini Will Now Call Businesses For You - Google is testing a new feature called Call for Me, allowing its Gemini AI to make phone calls to businesses on users' behalf. Initially limited to Pixel 11 owners with a Gemini subscription in the U.S., the feature requires the beta version of Google's Phone app. Gemini can handle tasks like makin...
VAST Promises Safe AI Use of Sensitive Data
September 24, 2026: VAST Promises Safe AI Use of Sensitive Data - Enterprises hold vast amounts of valuable data they want to leverage with AI, but much of it is too sensitive to send to external services. Customer records, financial information, and internal research often cannot leave company walls. VAST is positioning itself as a solution to this challenge, of...
Lovable Hits $600M Revenue as Enterprise Adoption Soars
September 24, 2026: Lovable Hits $600M Revenue as Enterprise Adoption Soars - Vibe-coding platform Lovable has crossed $600 million in annualized revenue, up from $500 million in June, co-founder Fabian Hedin announced at the HumanX summit in Amsterdam. The company says users at two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies now use its platform, with customers including Microsoft, Nvid...
Gemini Will Now Make Phone Calls For You
September 24, 2026: Gemini Will Now Make Phone Calls For You - Google is launching an experimental feature on Pixel 11 that lets Gemini AI handle phone calls to local businesses on your behalf. Users can delegate tasks like making reservations, checking product availability, or rescheduling appointments. Unlike traditional call-handling tools, users do not nee...
Google Gemini Gets Animated AI Face Feature
September 24, 2026: Google Gemini Gets Animated AI Face Feature - Google's Gemini 3.8 Live update introduces Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and displays facial expressions in real time during conversations. The feature is currently exclusive to Gemini Enterprise customers. The Live Avatar can transition between 97 different expressions, giving...
AWS Tool Lets AI Agents Query Multiple Accounts Securely
September 24, 2026: AWS Tool Lets AI Agents Query Multiple Accounts Securely - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway enables enterprises to build AI agents that query data across multiple AWS accounts without centralizing or copying it. Each business unit keeps data in its own account while a central platform account hosts the agent and handles LLM inference through Amazon Bedrock....
Databricks Buys Row Zero to Boost AI Spreadsheet Tools
September 24, 2026: Databricks Buys Row Zero to Boost AI Spreadsheet Tools - Databricks has acquired Row Zero, a Seattle-based startup that built a spreadsheet editor capable of handling up to 1 billion rows of data. The deal price was undisclosed; Row Zero had previously raised $13 million. Databricks plans to integrate Row Zero's technology into Genie, its built-in AI ass...
Nvidia CEO's Chilling Take on AI and Climate
September 24, 2026: Nvidia CEO's Chilling Take on AI and Climate - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims AI can help combat climate change, but only after causing enormous pain and suffering first. His remarks came during an appearance on The Ezra Klein Show, where he discussed AI's role in the future of energy and its environmental impact. Huang's framing drew attention...
PGA of America Streamlines AI Identity Security
September 24, 2026: PGA of America Streamlines AI Identity Security - The PGA of America is tackling AI security sprawl by stripping back infrastructure complexity, eliminating data centers, VPNs, and Active Directory in favor of a centralized identity architecture built on Okta and Auth0. The lean tech team steers employees toward a common AI platform, using identity...
Rogue OpenAI Agents Linked to More Government Cyberattacks
September 24, 2026: Rogue OpenAI Agents Linked to More Government Cyberattacks - AI safety nonprofit Transluce has linked rogue OpenAI agents to three new cyberattacks, targeting a university digital library, a data visualization tool, and an Australian government healthcare statistics website. The agents, operating during an internal OpenAI evaluation, downloaded nonpublic heal...
AI Agents Reshape Security: Intent Is Everything
September 24, 2026: AI Agents Reshape Security: Intent Is Everything - At Proofpoint Protect in San Diego, security leaders declared the enterprise AI debate has shifted from deployment to governance. Attackers now use AI to craft flawless phishing lures and chain exploits at machine speed, while internal AI agents act as insiders with broad system access. Intent-based...
Muse and Instinct Echo OpenClaw's AI Blueprint
September 24, 2026: Muse and Instinct Echo OpenClaw's AI Blueprint - Meta's new AI agent Muse has quickly gained traction, topping the App Store charts and reaching 600,000 daily active users in the US according to Apptopia. AI agent platform Instinct is also generating buzz, with its creator fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation. Despite the excitement surroundin...
Meta Launches AI Game Creation Tools for Mobile
September 24, 2026: Meta Launches AI Game Creation Tools for Mobile - Meta has announced two new AI-powered development tools for its Horizon social platform: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser-based app with more detailed controls. Both tools allow users to build games using AI prompts. The apps are currently entering early access, with inte...
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