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OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up

28 September 2026 at 18:45
Graphic collage of Greg Brockman.

OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon - its answer to Meta's Muse, SpaceX's Grok Bot, OpenClaw, and many more.

Aeon could have a shot at success, but to beat the competition, it would need to pull together the best features of several different agent platforms. The ideal system would be as useful as the open-source OpenClaw, as cheap and easy …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient

28 September 2026 at 18:39
President Donald Trump announces plans to weaken fuel efficiency and emissions rules for cars and trucks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on December 3rd, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images

The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it "among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration."

It's a nail in the coffin for Biden-era standards that would have required fleet average fuel economy to reach 50.4 miles per gallon by model year 2031. President Donald Trump's plan requires 34.9 miles per gallon, not much higher than the 30.1-mile-per-gallon target previously set for model year 2024.

Consumer advocacy, health, and environmental groups are incensed

The Trump administration claims its plan would shave $1,300 off the average cost of a n …

Read the full story at The Verge.

AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready

28 September 2026 at 18:30
Illustration of a pixelated key next to a padlock and chain, implying online data security.

In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian's Door. Vivian's Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies' financial data, which was stored on its systems. But suddenly, concerned callers from all over the world warned they'd been getting emails "begging for money" - which she hadn't sent.

The organization's third-party IT team pulled its systems offline for three days while they investigated the issue and plugged up the vulner …

Read the full story at The Verge.

3 Egyptian Officials Convicted of Kidnapping Slain Italian Student

28 September 2026 at 18:21
The verdict followed a decade-long effort in Italy to account for the killing of Giulio Regeni, an Italian researcher who disappeared in Cairo in 2016.

Β© Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse, via Associated Press

Paola Deffendi, Giulio Regeni’s mother, outside a courtroom on Monday in Rome after three Egyptian security officials were found guilty of kidnapping her son.

FAA says software issue will delay certification of Boeing 737 MAX

By: Reuters
28 September 2026 at 18:19
Federal Aviation Administration Administrator β€ŒBryan Bedford said on Monday that ⁠software problems with Boeing 737 MAX will delay certification of the β€Œlargest ⁠variant, the MAX 10, until ⁠the agency is "satisfied that ⁠we don't have ⁠an issue here."
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