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Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into OpenAI’s newly released AI agent, called Operator. We also look at where TikTok stands after

OpenAI launched a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent that can independently perform certain actions like book travel accommodations, make restaurant reservations, and shop online. Two security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in a Subaru web portal that allowed them to hijack car controls and track driver location data. That’s one way to get a charge: Carnegie Mellon researchers debuted Power-Over-Skin, whose technology allows for electrical currents to travel through human skin to power things like blood sugar monitors, pacemakers, and even consumer wearables.

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