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Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

Ex-DeepMind research VP Oriol Vinyals says recursive self-improvement is coming but slow, and co-founds Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean to automate research.

Oriol Vinyals, former VP of Research at Google DeepMind who worked on AlphaStar, AlphaCode, and Gemini, argued at Agentic AI Summit 2026 that recursive self-improvement will progress gradually without an intelligence explosion. He identifies idea generation ('research taste') and evaluation as the two biggest bottlenecks, noting benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro and ML-Bench mostly test the already-working steps and suffer from overfitting and scheming. He is co-founding Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean as CEO, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le to automate the full research cycle, starting with AI research.

The DecoderSep 11, 17:57 UTC · 5d agoAI industry1

Meta Introduces Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Runs on Its Own Dedicated Secure Cloud Computer

Meta launched Muse, a proactive personal AI agent running in an isolated per-user cloud VM with a Sentinel approval agent and surrogate credentials.

Meta introduced Muse, a consumer agent that performs long-horizon tasks like email, travel booking, and bill negotiation, rolling out in the US on iOS, Android, muse.ai, and WhatsApp with free and paid tiers. Each user gets a dedicated Muse Secure VM where the agent runs in a systemd-nspawn cell, while a separate Sentinel agent approves every network request at layer 4/7 and injects real credentials only at the network boundary. The underlying Muse Spark 1.3 model, which Meta says cuts tool calls by ~20% and tokens by ~25% versus 1.2 and is near state-of-the-art on prompt-injection resistance, is available via Meta Model API, with open weights on the roadmap.

MarkTechPostSep 9, 04:38 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

OpenAI targets small utilities with $1 billion cyber defense initiative

OpenAI commits $1 billion to Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, subsidizing frontier cyber AI access and training for small utilities, governments, and critical infrastructure operators.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a $1 billion global commitment expanding subsidized access to Daybreak cyber models, training, and technical support. Daybreak for America will target small water and electricity providers, local governments, and banks, including a pilot with the MS-ISAC for state, local, tribal, and territorial defenders. The Daybreak Defense Network brings more than 35 enterprise partner products into the program, and attendees at OpenAI's utility summit represent 40 states serving over half the US population. Security experts welcomed the effort but cautioned that OT environments still need human-led implementation and testing before AI tooling can be safely rolled out.

CSO OnlineSep 3, 21:28 UTC · 13d agoAI industry1

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike announce SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system built on Nemotron models, plus Falcon IQ for agentic workload automation.

At CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026, NVIDIA and CrowdStrike announced SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system combining CrowdStrike's purpose-built frontier models and harnesses with NVIDIA Nemotron open models in a continuous red-versus-blue coevolution loop. A Blue Solano model post-trained on Nemotron 3 Super reportedly achieved higher accuracy than leading frontier models at 99% lower cost. CrowdStrike also introduced Falcon IQ, powered by Nemotron models in the Charlotte AI AgentWorks platform, coordinating more than 50 agents for automated defensive workflows. CrowdStrike cited an 89% year-over-year rise in AI-enabled attacks and a fastest eCrime breakout time of 27 seconds as context for agentic defense.

NVIDIA BlogSep 1, 21:19 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

Sam Altman calls GPT-6 Astra rollout ‘messy’ as enterprise users wait for access

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch hit access problems; Sam Altman apologized as availability gradually expanded from Daybreak partners to Pro, Enterprise, and API users.

GPT-6 Astra, launched September 4 as OpenAI's most advanced model, was initially accessible only to organizations enrolled in its Daybreak cybersecurity program, leaving Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and API users waiting. Altman called the rollout 'messy'; by September 5 access had extended to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in ChatGPT's Work and Codex products plus the API. Analysts from Gartner and Greyhound Research said the staged rollout highlights the gap between announcement and production availability, urging enterprises to verify actual access levels and strengthen governance, security, and cost controls before adopting Astra's autonomous workflows.

CSO OnlineSep 7, 12:14 UTC · 9d agoAI industry

Anthropic's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets your Claude logs stay in your cloud

Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, letting regulated customers keep Claude usage logs in their own cloud storage under their own keys with automated misuse detection.

Anthropic unveiled Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, co-designed with eight members of the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk and more than 100 customers including Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, Comcast, KPMG, and Salesforce. Misuse-detection activity data can live in the customer's Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage under customer-managed keys, with fully automated review and no human inspection by Anthropic; automated systems watch for offensive cyber or biological capability development and signs of stolen credentials. The offering replaces the friction around Fable 5's 30-day retention policy, costs nothing extra, spans Claude Enterprise, Claude Platform, Amazon Bedrock, Google's Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry, with broad availability targeted for later this fall.

Help Net SecuritySep 2, 00:00 UTC · 14d agoAI industry1