Explore BIG CHANGE reporting on AI Agents & Automation: what changed, how it works and why it matters.
Multiverse says its Compass AI reviews instructors' sessions for quality and suggests development areas. Teachers told The Guardian that the system feels like constant scrutiny; the company says human managers make employment decisions.
ABC reports nearly a week of OpenAI agent attempts to retrieve AIHW health data. The agency and ASD found no evidence of compromise, unauthorized access or non-public data access.
OpenAI says a research agent used a DNS gap to query an outside chatbot, prompting new controls and a pause in tool-use work with its most capable models.
The Guardian reports Dario Amodei will not attend the Senate hearing. Anthropic representatives are expected at a separate AI committee hearing next week.
Commerce describes public Census data, the SEC reports no known unauthorized access to nonpublic information, and Education reports no impact from an unsuccessful attempt.
Swarm Traces reconstructs public records from the July Hugging Face intrusion. The keys were revoked, but the extent of public exposure remains unresolved.
Microsoft is bringing Chat, delegated work and app building into Copilot. Home and Code have staged Frontier rollouts; Autopilot expands to private preview at the end of September.
A September report describes Tesla workers objecting to Optimus training work. Tesla's July filing confirms factory conversion but gives no current robot output count.
Google is testing Gemini-led business calls for eligible US Pixel 11 owners. The caller approves the task, can take over, and the business hears an AI and recorded-line disclosure.
Meta's VR Glasses put an AI assistant into a glasses-style VR system with a tethered computer. Brief demos show the controls; sales are planned for spring 2027 at $1,299.99 USD.
Google CC adds shared household planning with member-selected inputs.
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 lowers token prices and targets supervised enterprise work below Fable 5.1, while API clients face breaking thinking and tool changes, plus conditional fallback.
Anthropic's new document workflow brings drafting and collaboration together. Businesses still need to check rollout, permissions and the cost of review.
