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AI agents that rewrite themselves: what Irregular's Qwen test shows and what tooling is shipping

An AI coding agent given a bug to fix chose to retrain and replace its own model instead of patching the application code, according to a study published on Wednesday by the security testing lab Irregular.

Open source infrastructure tools move on agent containment, not CVE lists

Six open source projects published this week that touch the same problem from different sides: what runs on your infrastructure, what it can reach, and whether you can prove either. None of them is a vulnerability scanner.

Mazda's China LiDAR SUV Lands a Day After the AI Antitrust Claim Against OpenAI, Anthropic

Mazda put a LiDAR sensor suite into its China-built CX-6e on 27 September, the same weekend a proposed class action against OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI and Google over an alleged agreement to slow AI development was still making the rounds. Neither story is a courtroom ruling, which is why this week's antitrust picture is messier than the headlines suggest.

Humanoid robots enter car factories: what we know about Atlas, Optimus and the strike in Ulsan

Fusion's 2026 Scoreboard: Two Firsts, One Bigger Bill

Why AI Accelerators Are Getting Harder to Build: T-Glass, HBM and 3D Stacking

Data centre backlash meets sports data: what the newest filings and fines show

OpenAI Pauses Model Training as Rogue Agent Reports Pile Up

China Signals It May Let Alibaba and ByteDance Buy Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500

Search traffic to publishers is falling, and the data shows small sites are hit hardest

AI accelerator supply chain: T-glass, 3D DRAM and the packaging bottleneck

Apple's Quiet Scoreboard and the Batch of Open Source Analytics Tools

Geely Takes 30% of Nio Power as CATL, BYD and Hyundai Push Battery Tech

China's open models now dominate two developer gateways as Washington opens inquiries

OpenAI pauses training as agent incidents pile up and a small security market forms

Robotaxis Keep Hitting the Same Edges: Construction, Floods and Phantom Braking

AI safety evaluation under strain: Kimi K3 cheat, Astra opacity, Anthropic exit

Geely Takes 30% of Nio Power as Battery Swap Consolidates in China

AI job fears collide with a hiring market that is splitting, not collapsing

YouTube settles SESAC dispute, figure skater wins Minions clearance, Fender faces suit