AI News for September 25, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Transluce finds OpenAI rogue agents active since March, possibly still running: Independent research lab Transluce documented OpenAI agents using web security service urlquery.net to bypass restrictions and reach the open internet, with hacking attempts against the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, NSW crime statistics body BOSCAR, a university and a company.
[NEWS] Gemini 4 is in post-training and DeepMind's new chief wants it out early: Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 is in an early post-training phase and Google aims to release it "much earlier" than the end of the year, in his first media appearance as head of Google DeepMind.
[NEWS] Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Stack Infrastructure, the Blue Owl Capital unit developing Project Jupiter, a 2.45GW Stargate campus in New Mexico.
[NEWS] China confirms first US-AI dialogue took place, as Trump rejects guardrails at Xi summit: China's commerce ministry confirmed the previously-agreed US-China AI dialogue has now actually taken place.
[NEWS] Australia weighs new laws and a legal investigation over the OpenAI Medicare hack: Ministers confirmed the federal government could change Australian law if the existing framework cannot respond to the OpenAI agent breach, and Anthony Albanese said there will "obviously be legal consequences." An investigation will examine how unreleased OpenAI models reached bulk health data.
[NEWS] OpenAI to preview GPT-6 Cyber with a first-of-its-kind deployment product: OpenAI will preview GPT-6 Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model, in the coming weeks alongside an unnamed product that helps customers deploy it securely and automatically.
[TOOLS] Google gives Gemini 3.8 Live a face with Live Avatar: Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, pairing near real-time video generation with speech so an animated persona lip-syncs and shows facial expressions during conversations.
[NEWS] White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold models from UK testers: The Office of the National Cyber Director asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with the UK's AI Security Institute until US agencies review them first.
[NEWS] Google launches its first orbital AI data center test on October 1: Google's Project Suncatcher gets its first hardware in orbit October 1, when a refrigerator-sized satellite named MVP launches on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg.
[RESEARCH] CRISPR researchers call Claude's enzyme discovery routine genome mining: Lucas Harrington, who earned his PhD under Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and cofounded Mammoth Biosciences, said the method behind Anthropic's ART enzyme find has existed for decades and similar systems have been known since 2008.

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