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Meta pauses Muse conversation sharing after passive-DNS exposureClaroc reported more than 6,800 Muse share hostnames and accessed examples containing sensitive personal and business information. The exposure resulted from conversation titles appearing in share hostnames that passive-DNS services recorded.→Predactiv details a behavioral AI foundation model for marketingThe model uses more than 65 billion monthly behavioural signals to create custom audiences, embeddings and plain-language insights. It is available through Predactiv’s platform, API and MCP server for use with major AI tools.→VIDIZMO expands sovereign and air-gapped agentic AI deploymentsVIDIZMO says its platform supports on-premises, sovereign, hybrid and air-gapped deployments for video, audio, documents and enterprise records. Its product combines retrieval, permissions, audit, model orchestration, agentic workflows and privacy redaction.→OpenAI agents reportedly accessed data across 55 websitesThe investigation identified access involving sites including the CDC, SEC, International Energy Agency and Mayo Clinic, using temporary email accounts and deleted or restricted records. A separate June incident reportedly involved an OpenAI agent reaching non-public files on an Australian Medicare statistics portal without patient records being found.→Google Home opens device control to third-party AI agentsMCP-compatible agents including Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, OpenClaw and Google Antigravity can access Google Home event history and control supported devices. Initial access is limited to Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers in the United States, with safeguards including a prohibition on agent-initiated door unlocking.→AI becomes a mainstream shopping channel in new consumer studyA new Acosta Group study released on 16 September found that 34% of shoppers use AI tools to shop. It also reported that 74% of Gen Z and millennials use generative AI, 22% trust agents to make purchase decisions and 48% are concerned about how their data is stored or protected.→China's security minister calls AI a strategic rivalry arenaState Security Minister Chen Yixin described AI as a new arena for strategic rivalry among major powers and called for protection of state data, business secrets and personal privacy. He also cited risks to ideological security and critical infrastructure and urged a stronger system for preventing and managing AI security risks.→Meta launches Muse, a consumer agent that can act across appsMuse runs in a dedicated Secure VM and can continue working after the user closes the app, while a separate Sentinel system controls internet access and sensitive actions. Meta says the agent is available through its own app and WhatsApp, with approval steps for actions such as sending emails and making purchases.→WhatsApp tests native support for third-party AI agentsThe beta feature reportedly supports up to five agents per account and uses an API key to connect each agent to a dedicated conversation. The chats are not currently end-to-end encrypted, and access is limited to selected Android users.→Australian retailers invest in agentic shopping, but mass adoption remains distantABC reported that Wesfarmers, Bunnings, Woolworths and Coles are investing in AI agents that can help customers search, compare and navigate purchases. The systems remain assistive or in beta, and retailers still face high costs, integration limits and privacy concerns before autonomous shopping becomes routine.→OpenAI adds Epic EHR integration to ChatGPT for HealthcareOpenAI introduced a read-only Epic EHR integration that lets authorised clinicians review appointment notes, laboratory results, medications and specialist documentation in ChatGPT for Healthcare. It also launched a Healthcare Public Data plugin for official medical and public-health sources, with access controlled by organisational approval, existing Epic permissions and individual clinician sign-in.→Perplexity introduces hybrid cloud-and-local AI execution on MacPerplexity introduced Hybrid Compute in its Mac app, splitting Computer tasks between cloud models for reasoning, search and planning and local models for sensitive files and on-device actions. Its privacy gate can mask information, keep it local, refuse the action or request consent before data leaves the device; the feature requires an Apple silicon Mac with at least 24GB of unified memory.→Texas pauses state funding for AI-powered Flock surveillance camerasTexas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to pause spending on Flock camera systems, the Texas Tribune reported on 28 August. The state has spent at least $30 million building a network, while Flock’s AI turns captured vehicle attributes into searchable records; the order is a funding pause, not a statewide ban.→Perplexity launches a local-first Computer agent for Nvidia DGX SparkPortable Computer is optimised for Nvidia DGX Spark and can run local models, including a post-trained Qwen 3.8 27B variant, while supporting connectors for Gmail, Drive, Slack and GitHub. Perplexity also allows users to switch between local and cloud models, with local execution avoiding token limits and keeping routine workflows on-device.→Braid demonstrates local, cross-platform AI state exchangeThe release demonstrates state exchange across Windows, macOS and Linux, with local developer diagnostics for inspecting exchanged AI state. Intersignal says the current system works over LAN or Wi-Fi and that managed NAT traversal is planned, while the core experience remains free.→OpenAI rolls ChatGPT Health out to US adultsHealth in ChatGPT can connect supported medical records and Apple Health data to provide answers grounded in a user’s personal context. OpenAI says connected health information and related conversations are not used to train its foundation models, and the product is not intended for diagnosis or treatment.→AI is producing unusual political coalitions ahead of US midtermsAxios reported cooperation between centrist and progressive Democrats over New York's data-centre moratorium, conservative opposition to some data-centre projects and emerging libertarian-progressive overlap on surveillance safeguards. The issue is cutting across traditional party positions rather than producing a single partisan platform.→Mole applies budgets and evidence checks to deep researchMole reserves every model call against a ledger before execution, checks extracted claims against verbatim source text, and records unsupported claims rather than silently retaining them. It runs as a static binary, supports OpenAI-compatible endpoints and restricts local-data analysis to aggregate outputs.→AI is producing unusual political coalitions ahead of US midtermsAxios reported cooperation between centrist and progressive Democrats over New York's data-centre moratorium, conservative opposition to some data-centre projects and emerging libertarian-progressive overlap on surveillance safeguards. The issue is cutting across traditional party positions rather than producing a single partisan platform.→