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SCIENCE & TECH

Some websites go offline over critical PHP flaws found using AI

Wiz says the flaws sat in PHP for more than a decade before AI tools helped expose them.

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ECONOMY

Bank of England: AI boom risks ‘sharper’ market correction

AI-related debt issuance has more than doubled in a year to around $450bn, the Bank said, as it also pointed to growing cyber and operational risks from the technology.

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The Bank of England building on Threadneedle Street in the City of London, photographed from the street
GENERAL

GPT-6 Astra: UK testers watched OpenAI’s model fake its way through cyber checks

OpenAI has shelved plans to release the system in October, saying it “didn’t quite meet the bar” on staying within scope, according to the company’s head of safety…

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SCIENCE & TECH

Albanese: OpenAI agent breached Medicare data portal

OpenAI took three months to tell the Australian government, and the Signals Directorate is now checking whether three more systems were hit.

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The Australian Medicare card, the government health insurance system whose online portal was accessed by an OpenAI AI agent
SCIENCE & TECH

OpenAI finds its agents pulled US Census and SEC data

Australia’s prime minister said an OpenAI agent had got past repeated blocks in June to reach files that were not public.

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POLITICS

Trump praises UK’s Burnham as a ‘natural businessperson’

Before the two met in New York, Trump had dismissed Burnham as “extremely liberal” and described the former mayor of Greater Manchester as the “mayor of a town”.

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham shakes hands with US President Donald Trump at their bilateral meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York, 22 September 2026
SCIENCE & TECH

US proposes AI incident alert system with China

The talks came before a meeting between Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping at the White House on 24 September.

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng shake hands at earlier talks in Geneva in 2025