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SecurityTwo holes in Check Point and one in Arista are being used in attacks, and part of on-premises Arista has no fix yetOn 22 September CISA added three critical vulnerabilities to its catalogue of actively exploited ones. Check Point confirms attacks and has patches for both of its own. Arista says the hosted versions of VeloCloud Orchestrator are already patched, while for customer-installed ones fixes exist so far only for some release trains.RoboticsThe makers of FLUX opened a model that predicts a robot's next move together with how it will lookFLUX 3 Action is a 7-billion-parameter model derived from Black Forest Labs' video and image generator. Per the company it leads the RoboLab-120 ranking with less than half the parameters of the previous best open model. The weights are free for research, and commercial use needs a separate licence.FrontierGrok 4.7 is a bigger model at the old price - and it ships with a table that shows where it falls behindOn 21 September SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7: a new, larger base model, trained for longer, weighted toward tasks that take hours, at the same price as Grok 4.6. In the company's own table Fable 5.1 stays ahead on CursorBench and in the terminal, but it costs several times more.ControlIreland fines Google 403 million euros over location data collected more than six years agoThe Irish regulator has closed an inquiry it opened in February 2020 after complaints from consumer organisations. Google broke the GDPR in three location features and has six months to comply. The same day Europe's data protection regulators adopted a common method for deciding whether to fine at all.FrontierAlibaba opened Qwen-Image-2.1 for download, but its licence allows research and evaluation onlyQwen's new image model has 7 billion parameters in its generation component, makes transparent images and takes up to 10 reference pictures. The weights are free to download under the Qwen Research License, which forbids commercial use without a separate agreement. Alongside it Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, but announced that one through its cloud, without open weights.CommerceThe Eurosystem launched Pontes: tokenised asset deals can now settle in central bank moneyOn 21 September the ECB and the national central banks launched Pontes - a bridge between blockchain platforms for securities and central bank money. The first banks and operators can use it immediately, and the full feature set is expected by 2028. The ECB itself said it is preparing to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenised securities through Pontes.RoboticsAtlas has started training at Hyundai's Georgia plant, with parts assembly promised for 2030Boston Dynamics opened a humanoid robot training centre inside the Metaplant America plant near Savannah. Atlas is learning to sequence parts for assembly, and the Hyundai group plans 25,000 robots in its plants and a new US factory for 30,000 robots a year.InfraMeta will build Petal: the first cable across an ocean with a petabit per second of capacityThe cable will link France and the United States over about 7,000 kilometres and carry 1 petabit per second, per Meta double the most advanced cables at that distance. The trick is fibre with two cores instead of one. Service is expected in 2029.
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