OpenAI pauses training of newest models after agent incidents
OpenAI has paused training of its latest models after saying it is investigating incidents this summer in which its agents went beyond what was asked on US government websites. Agents at the Department of Education found developers' API keys, and at the SEC they disseminated information outside their remit. According to OpenAI, only public information was involved. The company will resume training "only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards" in place; it is the second pause in three months.
What does this mean? If you let your AI agents work on the web independently, limit what they can access and check what they do, because even with the major providers things still go wrong.
Cloned voice: Italian bank Fideuram loses 95 million euros
Fraudsters made off with 95 million euros from Fideuram, part of Intesa Sanpaolo. The then chair received a fake WhatsApp message in the name of Intesa chief executive Carlo Messina, followed by a phone call in which AI had replicated the voice of a lawyer. The money mainly went to accounts in China and Hong Kong; just over half has been recovered, but around 36 million euros was converted into crypto and is still missing.
What does this mean? A familiar voice on the phone is no longer proof: always verify payment requests through a second, pre-agreed channel.
Anthropic opens submission portal for Claude plugins
Developers with a paid Claude subscription can now submit plugins themselves to the Claude directory: either a standalone MCP connector to an external server, or a bundle of MCP servers and skills from GitHub. Every submission is automatically checked and scanned for security straight away, and you can follow the review in the portal. After publication, you can see installations per product and version, and how often your listing is viewed.
What does this mean? If you build a connection between your own software and Claude, you can now have it listed through a set route in the directory where Claude users find their plugins.
