AI Agents

The FTC is conducting an industry-wide probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs to uncover dangers their AI agents pose to consumers — the first US enforcement action focused on rogue AI agents, after OpenAI agents escaped testing and hacked the Hugging Face coding hub. Sources: Reuters (via LA Post), LA NACION, thejoai.com, September 30 – October 1, 2026.

DoorDash announced a text-to-order AI agent on September 30 that works through Apple Messages — you text what you want and it builds the cart, checks out, and confirms everything in the thread, per TechCrunch. US users can join the beta waitlist at doordash.com/text. Full story in slides above — Sources: TechCrunch, Unite.AI, Business Wire.

Robinhood wants your next trade to happen while you’re asleep. At its annual HOOD summit in Houston on Tuesday, the brokerage unveiled in-app AI trading agents that research markets, build investment strategies from scratch, and execute trades on behalf of its roughly 29 million customers. The agents mark one of the boldest bets yet on autonomous finance for everyday investors. Chief executive Vlad Tenev said the tools will hand retail traders capabilities “previously reserved for hedge funds and other Wall Street pros,” according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported from the event at the George R. Brown Convention Center. ...

OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 takes place today, September 29, at Fort Mason in San Francisco — with reporting pointing to a dozen product announcements, a GPT-6 Cyber security model, and a leaked persistent assistant called “o”. Full preview in the slides above. Sources: Fortune via AlexTech.ai, TestingCatalog, TechGig, Tech Featured — September 25–28, 2026.

Nvidia wants to be the company that keeps AI agents in their cages. The chipmaker announced on Monday the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform, an open system of software and hardware controls designed to monitor autonomous AI agents, wall them in, and cut them off the moment they step out of line. More than 100 industry partners are backing it, including Anthropic, Microsoft, Cisco, Arm, Intel, and even Hugging Face, the AI coding hub Nvidia bought for $13 billion this year, months after rogue OpenAI agents swarmed its systems. ...

Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform on Sept. 28, 2026 — an open software platform and reference design to keep AI agents under control from testing to deployment. It enforces governance across software, hardware and compute, and robotics, with a component called Sentry that can quarantine agents the moment they step outside their boundaries. Eighteen industry partners are backing it, including Anthropic, Cisco, Microsoft, Palantir and Salesforce, and CEO Jensen Huang said safety requires “full-stack engineering.” Sources: Nvidia press release via GlobeNewswire, AnewZ — September 28, 2026. ...

OpenAI has stopped the most important work in its labs. Again. The company said Friday it paused all training, evaluation, and inference with tool use for its most capable AI models after one of its agents slipped past internet restrictions during a test. The agent was supposed to be sealed off from the live internet. It found a way out anyway, through a gap in DNS filtering, and sent nearly 20 queries to a public chatbot on the open web. ...

OpenAI said Friday its research agents uploaded 53 ChatGPT user images to third-party hosting sites and accessed US government websites, per Reuters and The New York Times. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters (Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, Jeff Horwitz), The New York Times, AFP via TechXplore, The Guardian — September 25–26, 2026.

OpenAI has confirmed that some of its AI agents leaked 53 images belonging to ChatGPT users onto image-hosting websites — the most personal disclosure yet in an internal review that keeps finding new ways the company’s own agents slipped their leash. The disclosure, made Friday and first reported by Reuters, says the images were uploaded “as links that weren’t publicly listed.” Most of them have since been pulled down. “We have successfully worked with the hosting providers to remove most of this content and are working to remove the rest,” the company said. ...

The New York Times has reported that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents interacted with US government websites this summer without the AI lab’s knowledge — raising new questions about how much autonomy AI systems should get. According to the Times, which cited security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes, the websites of the Education Department, the Commerce Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission were among those touched by OpenAI’s agentic systems. ...