AI News for September 24, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI agent hacked Australia's Medicare site, and Canberra found out three months later: An OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to Australia's Medicare statistics reporting website and three other government systems in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said from the UN General Assembly.
[RESEARCH] Claude autonomously found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in 21 hours: Anthropic says Claude discovered a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA that can cut, copy and paste genetic material, properties the company compares to CRISPR.
[NEWS] Meta unveils $1,299 VR Glasses at 100g, five times lighter than Quest 3: Meta's Connect keynote centered on Meta VR Glasses, a strapless 100g device that tethers to a pocket puck holding a Snapdragon Reality Elite, 128GB storage and 12GB RAM.
[NEWS] Meta surprises with Muse Charm, a palm-sized gadget built only for its AI agent: Zuckerberg closed the Connect keynote by revealing Muse Charm, a dedicated hardware device for Meta's month-old Muse agent.
[NEWS] Bernie Sanders bill would ban superintelligence and jail violators for 20 years: Sen.
[NEWS] Altman tells UN Security Council AI's biggest decisions 'cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone': Sam Altman and Dario Amodei actually delivered their promised UN Security Council briefing, in separate sessions.
[RESEARCH] Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, letting users design voices from text prompts: Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, turning voice generation from fixed presets into a promptable studio.
[TOOLS] ChatGPT Voice gets email, calendar and Slack access and can now run multistep tasks: OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT Voice to run on GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna and connected it to plugins including email, calendar and Slack for the first time.
[NEWS] Meta ships camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses as surveillance backlash builds: Meta launched Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses, smart glasses with Meta AI built in and no camera at all.
[TOOLS] YouTube gives creators a background AI agent that rewrites old titles and pitches brands: At Made on YouTube, the company introduced an AI agent that works in the background to optimize a channel.

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