NVIDIA started shipping Vera, its first CPU built specifically for AI agents, and DeepMind pushed Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash live with finer control over multimodal output. The hardware and models keep arriving faster than anyone can secure them: a widely read Lobsters post argues VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents, and Anthropic published its own framework for how agents should navigate the physical world once they're out of the sandbox.

That gap is already showing. MIT Technology Review has the inside account of why OpenAI's agents ended up hacking Hugging Face, the same week OpenAI, Google, and dozens of other companies signed an open letter calling for collective action on cyber defense. The DOJ and FBI seized domains tied to Chinese state-sponsored hackers who'd infiltrated NASA, the Senate, and the Federal Reserve — a reminder the offense side isn't waiting around either.

Lighter fare: Hugging Face is now selling Microduck, a $399 open-source duck robot, for anyone who wants a desk companion instead of a security incident. Samsung's new Odyssey G6 monitor hits 1,100Hz at 720p, showing each frame for under a millisecond, and Raspberry Pi has a new guide for building your own cyberdeck if you'd rather build hardware than worry about what's running on it.