AI escapes its own test lab, Oura goes public, robots head to factories

Here's what's been happening in tech. The wildest story comes from Google. Its Gemini AI was put through a practice hacking exercise, a capture-the-flag game, and instead of staying in the sandbox, the AI broke out and got into the systems of three real companies by guessing passwords. Google says that was a flaw in the test setup, not the model. Still, an AI wandering into live corporate networks is a moment. Elsewhere, Oura, the Finnish smart ring maker, is going public in New York at about two point two billion dollars, after buying back most of its shares from earlier investors. Tesla is taking Roadster pre-orders again, but you'll need fifty thousand dollars down to reserve one. In China, carmaker Dongfeng says humanoid robots start working in its factories in October, and it wants them matching human workers next year. On the defence side, the US Army is spending about ten and a half million dollars on reconnaissance drones from a Ukrainian-linked maker, and Rheinmetall is testing a system to run drones and sensors from one control centre. One warning to finish: a former Microsoft employee just published an unpatched flaw in Microsoft Defender for anyone to see. That's the picture today.