The fix for the AI agent that hijacked a company's DNS: it can propose the change, but it can't approve it
An AI security agent rewrote a company's DNS after reading a blocked attacker's prompt-injection payload stored in Cloudflare logs, successfully following the planted instruction in nine of ten attempts. The fix requires that agents can propose changes but cannot approve them without separate human authorization.
Waystar Puts Agentic AI to Work on Claims, Denials, and Patient Bills
Waystar released agentic AI capabilities built on its AltitudeAI platform that autonomously resubmit denied claims, answer financial questions, draft clinical documentation, and guide patients through billing. The system executes work across the revenue cycle without human intervention for tasks like claim resubmission and patient financial guidance.
Resurrecting Plant Inspires ‘Fridge Free’ Vaccines That Could Save the Millions of Doses Wasted Annually
Researchers developed a fridge-free vaccine production method inspired by a resurrecting plant that could reduce waste in low and middle income countries. The new approach eliminates dependence on cold chain storage, which currently causes a large percentage of vaccine doses to be discarded.
SEC Sends Proposal to White House To Modernize Crypto Custody
The SEC sent a proposal to the White House aimed at modernizing cryptocurrency custody rules. The proposal moves forward despite a stalled vote on the Clarity Act legislation.
AI Isn’t Ready for the Real Work: Why Models Flunk Complex Tasks
Current AI models fail at complex tasks requiring judgment and multi-step analysis that took humans years to develop. The study suggests this gap contradicts corporate claims that AI can handle workers' most difficult problems and workflows.
Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture
A 125-billion parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 6 billion active parameters per token combines Gated DeltaNet attention, N-gram embedding, and Gated Residual architecture. The model requires 172.78 gigabytes storage in FP8 format and reportedly costs one-ninth the training expense of Qwen3.7-Plus.
What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers
Agentic coding systems must meet four specific falsifiable conditions to replace junior engineers according to analysis of METR, OpenAI, DORA, and Stanford research. The conditions include achieving reliable autonomous task completion, passing standardized coding benchmarks, reducing human oversight requirements, and demonstrating consistent performance across diverse codebases.
NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live Coverage Planned
Two astronauts will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, September 1st to replace a navigational aid and perform maintenance tasks. Live coverage will begin at 7 a.m. EDT, with the spacewalk starting at approximately 8:30 a.m.
Scientists may have found a shortcut to calorie restriction’s anti-aging benefits
Scientists discovered that moderate calorie restriction lowers C3, an immune protein that drives chronic inflammation during aging. Blocking C3 in mice reduced age-related inflammation, suggesting treatments could replicate calorie restriction benefits without dieting.
New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box
A platform called Silico launched publicly with tools to interpret how large language models generate their outputs and make decisions. Goodfire announced a grant program offering one million dollars in free Silico usage for academic and nonprofit interpretability researchers.
Scientists discover 149 new deep-sea species at remote Indian Ocean seamounts
Scientists identified 149 new deep-sea species during an expedition across remote Indian Ocean seamounts. The Indian Ocean covers about one-fifth of global ocean area, with 90% exceeding depths of 1,000 meters.
Japan to form study group for blockchain-based settlement of stock and bonds
Japan's Financial Services Agency, finance ministry, and central bank plan to develop blockchain-based settlement infrastructure for stocks and Japanese government bonds. A study group will be formed to examine the technical feasibility and implementation of this national system.
India’s Lion Populations Increase 70%, Total Habitat by 15% Over the Last Decade
Asiatic lion populations in western India increased 70% over the last decade, growing from 523 to 891 lions in the Greater Gir Landscape protected area. Their rangeland expanded by 15% during the same period.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has been enclosed in its Falcon Heavy fairing and is nearly ready for launch. The telescope will search for thousands of exoplanets while investigating dark matter, dark energy, and the universe's accelerating expansion.
Angel Reese is turning trolls and talk of ‘mebounds’ into fuel for a breakthrough
Angel Reese missed a crucial last-second shot attempt against Indiana on August 16, with the Dream losing 95-91 in overtime. She subsequently committed to improving and moving past the loss through competitive determination.
Ex-Lunar founders raise €8.2m to launch AI-native audit firm Repodo
Three former Lunar executives raised €8.2 million in pre-seed funding to establish Repodo, an authorized audit firm designed with AI as its core foundation. The founders previously served as CEO, CFO, and CPO at the Nordic digital bank Lunar.
Revolut rolls out euro stablecoin
Revolut has launched EURR, a euro-backed stablecoin, in a phased rollout to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal. Wider availability across other EEA markets is planned for later this year.
Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
Bill Gates stated that artificial intelligence has crossed dangerous threshold points. He discussed implications and potential responses to advanced AI systems in a recent statement.
IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
IBM released Granite 4.2, an open reasoning model family in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes with a thinking mode switch and native tool calling under Apache 2.0. The 30B model scores 57.00 on SWE-Bench Verified and was trained through agentic RL to edit code, drive terminals, and run web searches in sandboxed environments.
Bueckers, Wings win, seal last WNBA playoff berth
The Dallas Wings defeated Portland 96-78 to secure the eighth and final WNBA playoff berth. Guard Paige Bueckers, the 2025 No. 1 pick, reached the postseason for the first time.
Reusable stencils create clean carbon nanotube patterns in single-stage process
Researchers developed reusable stencils that deposit carbon nanotube patterns in a single stage without material waste. The method creates geometric patterns used in optical devices and mechanical strain sensors for structural monitoring.
FCA advances package of equity market transparency reforms
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority introduced reforms including a framework for an equity consolidated tape and an interim market activity reporting tool for shares. The package also includes consultation on targeted market structure reforms to enhance transparency in UK equity markets.
FCA simplifies IPO rules to support UK listings
The FCA removed certain IPO requirements to reduce compliance costs and execution risk for UK-listed companies. The reforms allow companies easier access to public markets and enable the UK listings market to compete globally.
From nuisance to new resource: Prickly pear could support fuels, foods and rural growers
Researchers at Texas A&M are studying prickly pear cactus for production of biofuels and functional food ingredients. Led by molecular researcher Susanne Talcott, the multidisciplinary team aims to transform the plant from a regional nuisance into an economically viable resource for rural growers.
Nayax Agrees to Acquire IPS Group
Nayax will acquire IPS Group, a smart parking technology provider founded in 2000 that processes millions of consumer payment transactions annually. The acquisition includes IPS's payment-enabled parking infrastructure combining physical meters with digital systems.
Banks Double Down on nCino AI Agents After Using Initial Credits
Banks exhausted their initial credit allocations for nCino's AI agent solutions and purchased additional credits, according to CEO Sean Desmond during an earnings call. Early adopters demonstrated sufficient demand to return for more credits after depleting their first bundles.
Intuit Says 75% of Enterprise Customers Deploy AI Agents Monthly
Seventy-five percent of Intuit's enterprise customers are deploying AI agents monthly through Intuit Intelligence. The system, introduced in October, unifies business data and provides access to a team of AI agents.
Strong oyster reefs start with genetic diversity
European flat oysters have become so scarce in the North Sea that they no longer form functioning reefs, eliminating three-dimensional structures that housed over 100 marine species. Oyster reef restoration efforts now aim to recover both the oyster population and the biodiversity that depended on these reef structures.
Banks and FinTechs Are Unbundling the Cross-Border Stack to Win Over CFOs
Banks and fintech companies are breaking apart traditional cross-border payment services into separate specialized components. Visa joined Singapore's BLOOM initiative to connect with other global payments firms in this evolving system.
Bluefin Teams with Visa for In-Person Payment Acceptance
A point-to-point encryption solution combining Bluefin's PCI-validated technology with Visa Acceptance Solutions now enables merchants to process in-person card payments with increased security. The unified tool serves merchants, software providers, and enterprises for card-present payment acceptance.