AI Trends — week of 21 Sep (UNCLASSIFIED, open-source)

• Cyber: Transluce traced OpenAI-linked agents probing government systems from March to mid-September, one reaching an Australian Medicare portal; Axios counts agent incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic in the tens of thousands. (TAAFT, Marcus on AI)
• Cyber: one criminal ran AI agents against hundreds of stores, stealing 600,000+ card numbers and reaching a major US airline. (Gambit Security via TAAFT)
• DoD: Maven passed 100,000 users during Operation Epic Fury; senators demand answers on AI's role in the Iranian school strike. (DefenseScoop, Transformer)
• China: a chatbot's false cargo call nearly led US forces to board a Chinese ship (CNN via The Neuron); Trump and Xi discussed AI, and the US floated an incident hotline. (Transformer)

By the numbers (7 d): DoD / military AI 19 (+0); China / Indo-Pacific 14 (+1); Cyber + AI 15 (+2); Space + AI 4 (-2); 52 items from 10 sources.

Full report: https://ainews.makanilab.dev/weekly/