The AI Harness Becomes the Security Boundary

Australia's cyber agency says organisations need to secure the software layer that gives AI agents memory, tools, data and permission to act. We also examine a proposed digital duty of care for feeds and AI chatbots, NVIDIA's Australian infrastructure target, DeepMind's nine-billion-variant AlphaGenome Atlas, Google's Cloud agent plugin, an urgent Adobe Commerce flaw and cheaper ChatGPT procurement for US governments. In What Changes for You, GPT-Live-1 offers developers a full-duplex voice front end through the API, with the reasoning, privacy and action controls still left to the system behind it. Full transcript: https://www.owenonthenet.com/podcast/2026-09-12/ Sources: https://www.cyber.gov.au/business-government/secure-design/artificial-intelligence/agentic-ai-harnesses https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/publications/exposure-draft-online-safety-amendment-digital-duty-care-bill-2026 https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/wells/media-release/my-feed-my-way https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-expands-ai-infrastructure-capacity-in-partnership-with-australias-data-center-ecosystem https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/nvidia-teams-up-with-australian-partners-to-build-ai-factory-capacity-4894807 https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-map-of-every-possible-dna-letter-change-in-the-human-genome https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live-1-in-the-api https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-the-google-cloud-developer-plugin-for-ai-coding-agents https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/magento/apsb26-146.html https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/adobe-security-advisory-av26-888 https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-expands-onegov-ai-offerings-with-discounted-openais-chatgpt-09102026