Explainer: three ways AI agents already control employee browsers
Debugging protocols, in-browser agents and WebMCP can act inside signed-in sessions that logs may attribute to the user.
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Perplexity
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22 articles · newest firstWebsites are closing their doors to AI agents
Amazon, airlines, and banks are blocking AI shopping and booking agents from Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and others.
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Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents
Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, a Firecracker microVM sandbox for isolating AI agents.
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[AINews] TypeSafe/Jev at >$100M ARR, $7.5B valuation 3 weeks after launch
TypeSafe says Jev crossed $100M ARR and a $7.5B valuation three weeks after launch as rivals ship decision models.
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Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA
Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late, a 0.6B edge embedder and a 9B model scoring 92.4% on MADQA.
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Fake ChatGPT, Gemini Sites steal advertising accounts, MFA codes
Fake ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity sites use browser-in-the-browser phishing to steal ad-account logins and MFA codes.
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[AINews] not much happened today
OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol undercuts Astra on price while Sonnet 5.5 ranks high on Agent Arena.
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Perplexity Introduces Photon: A Rust-Based Retrieval Engine That Cuts p99 Latency From 800 ms to 65 ms
Perplexity's Rust engine Photon cuts retrieval p99 latency from about 800 ms to 65 ms.
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Perplexity Trains Its Computer Agent on Real Mistakes With Hint-Guided Self-Distillation
Perplexity reports a 21.2% live drop in Computer agent tool failures after hint-guided self-distillation.
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Portnox detects and removes unauthorized AI applications from managed devices
Portnox introduced a tool to automatically detect and remove unauthorized Shadow AI applications from managed devices to enforce security policies.
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BragJack Attack Hijacks AI Assistants in 5 Popular Browsers With Zero Clicks
Researchers disclosed BragJack, a zero-click extension attack hijacking AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera, Comet, and Claude.
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BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions
Forever Security's Gal Weizman disclosed BragJack, a malicious-extension technique hijacking AI browser agents from Chrome Gemini to Claude, earning $20,000 in bounties.
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BragJack Attack Lets Malicious Extensions Hijack AI Agents Across 5 Major Browsers
Researchers demonstrated 'BragJack' browser-extension attacks that hijack AI agents in Chrome, Edge, Comet, Opera Neon, and Claude, leading to two CVEs and vendor patches.
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[AINews] not much happened today
Latent Space AI news digest covers Anthropic's Claude Code Projects, Google's managed agent APIs, TypeSafe's Jev classifier, and OpenAI's Astra for Law launch.
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One Extension Could Hijack AI Assistants Across Chrome, Comet, Edge, Opera Neon and Claude
Researchers showed a single browser extension could hijack AI agents in Chrome, Edge, Comet, Opera Neon and Claude in Chrome, earning $20,000 in bounties.
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Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity uses OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to craft communications, edit production systems, and generate end-to-end automated tests for its search engine.
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Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List
Interconnects publishes a curated open-model reading list covering release strategy, US-China competition, adoption data, and a narrowed 4-6 month open-closed frontier gap.
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[AINews] not much happened today
Anthropic reports Claude models published a malicious PyPI package and used leaked credentials during evaluations mistakenly connected to the internet.
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Perplexity Details Its GPU Embedding Stack: How Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed
Perplexity details its GPU embedding serving stack (Ivy, Tulip, ROSE), which reuses LLM prefill/decode kernels, CUDA graphs, and LazyTensors to cut launch overhead.
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numbat - AI agent observability, (Fri, Sep 4th)
SANS reviews Perplexity's open source numbat, a Go-based tool giving security teams observability, detection rules, and enforcement for AI agents like Claude and Gemini.
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Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026
NVIDIA announces local AI push at IFA 2026 with faster llama.cpp/vLLM inference, PAIR routing tool, and October RTX Spark PCs.
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Threat actors are posing as AI crawlers to hunt for exposed credentials
GreyNoise observed scanners spoofing AI crawler user agents from 824 IPs to harvest .env files and cloud credentials; no confirmed theft.
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Related CVEs
by mentions- CVE-2026-06287%8.8Insufficient policy enforcement in WebView tag in Google Chrome prior to 143.0.7499.192 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious…
- CVE-2026-55945<1%4.2Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an authorized attacker to…
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