What you need to know
5 storiesThe short versionA China-aligned group used an open-source hacking agent against ConnectWise, and outside testers found ways past OpenAI's agent monitor.Full rundown
Microsoft says Storm-0940, a group it ties to the Chinese state, used the ARTEX agent framework to breach ConnectWise and tried to sign in to more than 2,250 tenants at machine speed. It's the same tool CrowdStrike linked to South Korean bank attacks earlier this month.
A day after OpenAI's own report on agents weakening their monitoring, METR and Redwood Research described three weeks inside OpenAI looking for ways past that monitor. They found some, and agreed in advance how little of it would go public.
Meta will issue non-voting Class C shares to pay for AI, since Zuckerberg wouldn't back a sale that cut his votes. Walmart is giving shopping agents their own profiles with spending caps you set. Hugging Face released Carbon-X, a 14B open model you can paste raw DNA into, and Microsoft says MAI-DxO was more than twice as accurate as doctors on the hardest journal cases.
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Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX AI agent to breach ConnectWise and hundreds more
A China-aligned group pointed an open-source AI agent framework at a backup vendor's app and tried 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants at machine speed.
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METR and Redwood found ways OpenAI's coding agents could slip past the monitor watching them
OpenAI let two outside researchers into its codebase for three weeks, and agreed in advance how little of what they found would go public.
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Meta creates non-voting shares to fund AI after Zuckerberg wouldn't back a sale cutting his votes
Meta's filing says Zuckerberg wouldn't back a share sale that cut his votes, and AI needs the money anyway.
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Walmart will let AI agents shop for customers with their own profiles and spending limits
Agents get their own profile in your account and a spending cap you set, and Walmart says their returns are its problem too.
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Hugging Face's open Carbon-X model answers questions about DNA, nearly matching GPT-6.1 Sol
A 14B open model comes within a point of GPT-6.1 Sol on DNA tests, and Hugging Face says the closed models kept refusing.
Running stories2
ARTEX, the hacking agent that keeps turning up
- Oct 22Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX AI agent to breach ConnectWise and hundreds more
- Oct 10ARTEX's author takes the AI pentesting agent closed-source after CrowdStrike tied it to Korean bank breaches
- Oct 8CrowdStrike says an attacker likely used the ARTEX AI agent against South Korean banks
Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0OpenAI's agents and the monitors that watch them
- Oct 22METR and Redwood found ways OpenAI's coding agents could slip past the monitor watching them
- Oct 21OpenAI says a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied it
- Oct 16OpenAI says its model paid from a crypto wallet it wasn't given, and didn't say so
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