Meta's AI gets its own pocket gadget

Meta's Muse Charm puts its AI agent in your pocket

Australia says an OpenAI agent hacked Medicare

SoftBank sells record junk bonds to fund OpenAI

Charm looks like a chunky smartwatch without a strap, with a big screen and a lanyard. Pressing a fingerprint sensor on the top corner starts a conversation with Muse.

Charm joins a hardware push that will reach more than 100 AI glasses styles by year-end, plus $1,299.99 VR glasses due next spring. Muse itself is less than a month old.

Zuckerberg said Meta has "only built a few of these so far" and still needs to finalize "the finishing material." He teased a see-through shell with an "elevated hacker aesthetic."

Meta plans to ship Charm "in time for the holidays in December," and says it'll share more later this year. Zuckerberg didn't say how it connects to Meta's servers.

OpenAI's agent hit blocks telling it "no" and found a way around them, Albanese said. It then opened public and non-public files and wrote files to the internal server.

Defence Minister Richard Marles said the portal holds only aggregate data, not medical records of Australia's 27 million people. The agent also visited three other government sites but used them normally.

OpenAI's notice came as an email to a public disclosures mailbox that's checked once a day, The Guardian reported. Nobody read it until the next day.

OpenAI's agent breached the portal in June, but the company didn't notify Australia until September 10. Albanese disclosed it on Wednesday in New York, and a task force is now investigating.

SoftBank sold three dollar notes of $1B, $4.5B and $4.5B paying 8.625% to 9.75%, plus two €500M euro notes at 7.125% and 8%. Proceeds mainly cover a $10B OpenAI payment expected October 1.

SoftBank's sale tops Numericable Group's $10.9B record from 2014. A $7.3B SoftBank sale in 2021 yielded just 2.125% to 5.25%, and it has now committed $64.6B to OpenAI.

CreditSights' Mark Chapman says Arm and OpenAI make up three-quarters of SoftBank's asset value, warning that "risks for SoftBank credit are material and have increased."

SoftBank's sale follows a ¥1T ($6.3B) retail bond issue this month. Its shares jumped more than 7% when Tokyo reopened Thursday after a holiday, then closed up just 0.6%.

BlackRock and IFM Investors are in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia Pacific data centers for up to $25B, Bloomberg reported. The sites span Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney and Melbourne, and a May report valued a sale at over $30B.

David Heinemeier Hansson said 37signals is moving away from Ruby to vibe-code everything with AI agents, despite "mixed" results with Basecamp 5 this spring. A year ago, the Rails creator said he avoided AI because he could "feel competence draining out of my fingers."

ShinyHunters hackers say they stole data on thousands of FBI employees, and a 5,000-line sample Reuters reviewed shows assignments against Chinese spies, Russian intelligence and drug cartels. The FBI says it's "actively and aggressively investigating."

Apple raised the Mac mini's starting price by $300 with the new M6 model, now $899 for 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Ars Technica blames 2026's memory crunch for spoiling an otherwise solid upgrade.

Microsoft refreshed its 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The Surface Pro launches October 13 at $1,149.99, up from $799.99, and the Laptop rises to $1,199.99 from $899.99.

Apple put the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4 and AirPods 5 on sale in its stores worldwide on September 18, with hands-on demos and trade-in offers.

Discord announced a new age check approach after users pushed back on ID requirements. It says over 90% of users won't be asked to confirm their age, and teens can verify through Google Wallet, the Apple App Store or AgeKey.

Microsoft cut 268 more Xbox roles and moved Halo development to Activision, part of gaming CEO Asha Sharma's "reset." Playground and Turn 10 are merging, and Obsidian is moving under Bethesda to focus on Fallout.

Microsoft's Copilot Discord server stopped blocking the word "Microslop," six months after banning it amid backlash over AI in Windows 11. Windows Latest found over 200 recent posts using it, and says the nickname is fading anyway.

Starlink's ground station in Poland caught fire in what Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski called a deliberate attack, saying "the modus operandi in this case is clearly Russian." The site serves the region, including Ukraine.

Every major TV maker tracks what you watch unless you opt out, The Verge found, after a Gamers Nexus video accused LG of spying. Cheap TVs are often subsidized by selling viewing data, which The Verge says is why Walmart bought Vizio.

China's SASAC has been surveying how many Broadcom switches sit in state-controlled data centers, the FT reported. The survey supports Beijing's "domestic chips for domestic use" push to cut reliance on foreign AI hardware.

ByteDance gained access to more than 2,000 Nvidia B200 chips through UK cloud firm Nscale's data center in Norway, a filing shows. Its Singapore subsidiary, Spring, brought in 73% of Nscale's 2025 revenue.

Pasqal said it holds €312.9M in cash after its Nasdaq listing and will spend it on sales teams and production. The French quantum computer maker's first-half revenue rose 14% to €4.9M, while its operating loss widened to €59.2M.

Firmus, an Nvidia-backed Australian data center operator, expects a $77M loss in the first half of its financial year as it prepares a $5B IPO, two people familiar with a draft prospectus told Reuters.