OpenAI has just confirmed that it's rolling out ChatGPT Work capabilities directly into regular Chat, while also combining usage allowances across ChatGPT and Codex. In an email seen by BleepingComputer, OpenAI noted that it will test a combined exp...
Strava's data serves as the backbone for "personalized" insights for subscribers. ### What you need to know - Strava announced that it's rolling out a Connected Apps experience with Google's Gemini for subscribers. - Once connected, users will rec...
### Summary - Andy's Tech Lab turned an Echo Dot 3 (2018) into a local Home Assistant voice satellite by replacing Amazon firmware. - They soldered a USB to a Dot's board, then rooted it and used Claude to make the Echo Dot Assist software. - This...
'Ghost Students' using AI to apply for student loans with stolen identities — DOJ's Operation Ghostbusters busts $200 million ring faking online college attendance, unsuspecting victims saddled with student debt they didn't sign up for The U.S. ...
There are more people running local large language models now than perhaps ever before, especially now that they're so accessible for a wide range of hardware configurations, and easy to set up thanks to runtimes like Ollama and LM Studio. Cloud-base...
Anthropic warns that future is soon, but the threat is less novel than it seems. Anthropic's Frontier Red Team recently published research suggesting that small AI models may be only months away from replicating and spreading across insecure devices...
The new robots.txt directive will prevent the companies from scraping content for generative AI training. Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft have committed to honoring a new robots.txt directive, which will allow publishers to specify their pre...
A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the security firm Parameter showed. The researchers reported the flaw thr...
AAA games becoming free-to-play right inside Chrome couldn't possibly have been on anyone's 2026 bingo card, but this year continues to deliver more strange news on the gaming front. Now, games that you'd otherwise find in your Steam library are avai...
Two days after Steam admitted it has an AI slop problem, Roblox basically bragged about the same thing. Valve recently admitted that it has a problem with AI slop games and clones flooding Steam — it doesn't know what to do about it just yet, but ...
The local AI landscape is moving at a breakneck pace. As a matter of fact, it's moving ahead so quickly that anyone on a llama.cpp build from just a couple of months ago could already be behind. New releases continue to bring new features that can ch...
Two serious security issues hit Cursor on the same day, highlighting the risks for AI-powered integrated development environments (IDEs). Anthropic's official Claude Code extension for the Cursor VS Code Marketplace was hijacked and swapped out for ...
The folks behind Wikipedia say that an extreme decision in either direction could threaten the open web. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Wikimedia Foundation has weighed in on the copyright lawsuit launched by The New ...
Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed using a Go-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX in attacks aimed at high-value targets simultaneously. The activity has been attributed by Crow...
A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on October 29, exposing up to 5,000 developers to malware designed to install persistent SSH backdoors....
If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden's win that November. If you ask Google's AI Mode the same question, you might get an evasi...
Irregular evaluated Zhipu AI's open-weight model GLM-5.3 across 13 offensive cyber scenarios using CyScenarioBench, the company's framework for measuring an LLM's ability to plan and execute multistage attacks under realistic constraints. The model ...
A tampered build of Anthropic's Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers' machines, researchers at macOS security firm Phorion have found. The company spotted the malicious package, version 2.1.313, ...
Shufti launches Know Your Agent (KYA), an AI agent verification solution designed to verify autonomous AI agents acting on behalf of individuals and businesses. Agentic commerce enables AI agents to open accounts, place orders, and move funds for the...
Bedrock Data has announced AI-assisted remediation, which federates the work of fixing data exposure to the data owners across the enterprise. Bedrock Data discovers who owns each exposed dataset, opens a ticket for that owner in the Jira or ServiceN...
- Published Google-owner Alphabet lost just over $500bn (£374bn) in value on Thursday after it revealed its own artificial intelligence (AI) summaries were hitting search advertising revenue. Chief business officer Philipp Schindler said Google's "...
### Summary - Cheap vintage rotary phones make great shells for DIY projects - easy to find at flea markets or online. - Drop a Raspberry Pi and USB sound card inside to turn it into a voice AI using Google Gemini 3.8 Live. - Pick up the receiver ...
### Summary - Claude-assisted TabStationToo ports PCSX2 to run inside a Chrome browser tab. - It runs locally, with no data uploaded; you must supply your own PS2 BIOS and ROMs. - Not identical to native PCSX2 performance, but a compelling browser...
The company is starting with tests outside of the US. Reddit will no longer allow logged out users or those without an account to view content on its platform, CEO Steve Huffman shared in an update. The change, which the company said will initially ...
Trying to make everyone happy could make no one happy. VRChat has published a support post explaining the results from a survey of users regarding artificial intelligence on the platform. Despite 95 percent of its respondents stating that they want ...
OpenAI says it won't reduce usage limits for the $100, $200, and $500 ChatGPT Pro plans, as well as Business Premium, and it also promised to keep Dots usage independent. In a post on X, Tibo, who is the face of ChatGPT and Codex on X, confirmed tha...
NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase has accelerated AI use, building out its enterprise AI platform LLM Suite to support 1,000 business applications. But for Global CIO Lori Beer, security always comes first. "We have to make sure security, how we manage ...
Dive Brief: - Threat actors can sabotage AI models by tampering with their underlying infrastructure, such as the firmware and software powering the computers that run the models, the security firm Eclypsium said in a report published on Thursday. ...
When one of my Linux boxes broke, I used to paste the error into a search engine and land on a forum thread where a stranger had the same problem. Someone had always replied with the fix, and that's how I learned half of what I know about Linux. Now ...
Which AI agents can act inside your employees' browsers today? If an agent started browsing this morning, would you know it wasn't the employee? Most security teams can't answer those questions yet. That's not a failure of effort. It's a sign of how ...
Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. "It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks as well as across key capabilities criti...
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba. The activity involves creating f...
### Claude Model Builds Exploits Across Major Browsers & OSes An unreleased version of the AI model has found and chained multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux, Anthropic says. An unreleased version of Claude ident...
Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier AI model that, according to the company, beats rival models on benchmarks for detecting, exploiting and patching vulnerabilities. The model is not broadly available yet. This week, Google is ...
Fake GitHub projects posing as desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude have been used to spread a malware chain that ends with a cryptocurrency miner, Check Point has found. The researchers have been tracking the campaign, dubbed Yoba, for the past t...
Forever Security found ways out of the built-in browsers in five AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI's Codex, Microsoft's VS Code and Anthropic's Claude Desktop. In all five, a web page or a local file reached the computer behind the...
The company's new frontier model tops Claude Opus 5.5 in several key benchmarks. OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier models have been trading blows of late, with each claiming bragging rights in different categories. Now, Google has barged in with its l...
"EA executives cannot fail, only be failed." EA took the axe to BioWare last week after a long, slow death partially born of mandates to either work on live service games that didn't work (Anthem) or pivot from live service games in messy, chaotic d...
'It's like stealing pure gold bars.' AI data centers are springing up across the US at an unprecedented rate, and with them comes a number of problems. Aside from the noise, disruption, and environmental concerns, the vast infrastructure projects al...
AI continues to be big business, and the impetus behind big crime. Malaysian customs have shared this week that $12.11 million worth of AI chips were discovered during an inspection. A total of 30 server units, each featuring cutting edge AI chips, ...
Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabilities, generate exploit code, and move through we...
26,400 credentials that developers left in public code on Gitee, a Chinese code-hosting service, still worked when a researcher tested them. Anyone who copied one from that code could have used it. Independent researcher Ben Zimmermann found them by...
AI is beginning to take over much of the work that has traditionally defined the security analyst's job. Investigating alerts, collecting evidence, correlating activity across tools, and executing response actions are becoming tasks that AI systems c...
The enigmatic service is providing popular AI coding tools to mainland China and other regions where OpenAI and Anthropic products are not officially for sale — but with key security features turned off. A mysterious relay service is installing ...
Linköping University professor Peter Jonsson is set to have his work presented in two weeks' time at one of the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science. As of Monday, much of that work is "dead," he says, after AI showed that a 2...
It seems as though every week, a new thread on Reddit or a YouTube short on my feed tells me that I'm overpaying for Claude Code, and that it's finally time to move on from weekly and 5-hour usage limits. Every time, it's purported that either a riva...
Steam Next Fest is being flooded with thousands of low-effort games, while developers are becoming reluctant to share their work for fear of seeing it quickly cloned. The rise of AI slop is a real problem for Steam. Developers are growing wary of sh...
The feature works with both iMessage and RCS messaging. When OpenAI debuted its Dot agents late last month, it promised users would eventually be able to text them to give them instructions. Now, nearly a month later, the company has begun rolling o...
ControlUp has announced Pulse AI Resolve, the real-time investigative AI layer of the Pulse AI ecosystem. A major enhancement of ControlUp's endpoint self-service capability, previously ControlUp Connect, Pulse Resolve brings AI-powered investigation...
For most of my career, I have watched new security platforms work through enterprise programs at a slow pace, so when AI began showing up in security operations tools, I assumed it would follow the same path. I expected AI adoption in the SOC to lag ...
A separate law aims to shore up security on connected baby monitors. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a law that aims to protect children from AI chatbot harms. The legislation requires AI companies to verify users' ages. They'll need to of...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large d...
The threat actor lurked behind bots posing as agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and others to find exposed data. A threat actor lurked behind more than 30 different AI bots to find and steal exposed credentials, continuously scanning for sensitiv...
But it's only available in the Philippines for now. Looks like a big part of Meta's AI strategy is to rely on "uwu" and cuteness as a way to get people to use and train its models and agents. The company has released a new Tamagotchi-like AI-powered...
An unreleased Anthropic AI model found security flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux and chained them into working proof-of-concept exploits, the company said in its latest report. The exploits were built in the lab after the model w...
OpenAI confirmed GPT-6.1 Terra is safer overall than some of its older models, but its safety testing also found other problems. According to OpenAI, GPT-6.1 Terra showed higher rates of exfiltration, destructive actions, and attempts to bypass rest...
3 Frameworks to Protect CISOs & Orgs Against AI Liability Cyber leaders can get ahead of AI liability with rigorous documentation, transparency, and smart contract negotiations with AI vendors. ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 — Denver — Many c...
Few people understand the current deepfake epidemic better than Jess Asato. The British Labour MP has spent years campaigning against the use of technology to abuse women and girls. Then, after calling out Elon Musk during the notorious Grok Deepfake...
In this Help Net Security interview, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital, explains why AI makes finding vulnerabilities faster while fixing them still takes time. He argues that "patch faster" is not enough and that teams need to cut exposure whil...
The Securities and Exchange Commission's publication on Monday of Anthropic's S-1 form — ahead of a heavily anticipated initial public offering — has led to plenty of discussion of whether the company's quickly ballooning revenues will be able to...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three cyber attacks targeting organizations in Japan in which artificial intelligence (AI) was a key element, either in the driving seat or to assist a human operator. TrendAI, which analyzed three...
The GOAT of dumb phones gets a new lease on life. Nearly 20 years ago, Nokia released the Nokia 6300. Despite arriving the same month Steve Jobs would introduce the iPhone at MacWorld 2007, the 6300 would go on to become one of Nokia's best-selling ...
What's $3 billion to a trillion-dollar company? This week both AMD and Nvidia have announced partnerships with Meta, securing both collabs and billions of dollars. All three companies are heavily invested in AI, and these deals are only more fuel fo...
Agent decision logs and telemetry data belonging to Warp agentic development environment users were exposed in an attack on a third-party vendor in the project's infrastructure. The company's founder and CEO, Zach Lloyd, estimates that "roughly 1% o...
'Aokigahara' Stealer Targets 'Developer Keyrings' & AI Assistants The malware's focus on AI tools expands the traditional infostealer playbook to expose a forest of AI sessions, sensitive business data, and developer infrastructure from a single com...
Nathan Hamiel outlines potential SecOps horror in the AI midst, as core technical capabilities go the way of reading an atlas or remembering phone numbers. Black Hat India — Bengaluru — The use of AI as a tool to enhance cybersecurity operat...
Today in tech, we're discussing Anthropic's astronomic growth, how a settlement over social media safety dented Meta's revenue, and Lula's accusations of interference against Meta. ### Anthropic accelerates Anthropic filed for an initial public off...
Its IPO paperwork reveal a company rightly worried about its regulatory future. Anthropic filed paperwork to go public on Monday, and while its list of business risk factors spans the fanciful (sentient AI) and the mundane (losing its executives), o...
The father of the god game weighs in on AI use in the gaming industry Recently, I travelled to Guildford, England, to interview developer Peter Molyneux, the legendary game developer behind Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Fab...
Most of my work happens in the browser, from researching articles to drafting and tracking assignments. So I gave my local LLM two weeks of browsing history and asked it to organize the useful links into a bookmark system. It came back with 75 bookma...
Finding a 16-inch laptop with a premium build and solid specs for under $700 is a challenge. The Acer Swift Go 16 AI is one of those rare devices that balances portability with desktop-class performance, and Best Buy is currently offering a significa...
Fake login pages are nothing new, but generative AI is making them easier to build and more convincing. Attackers can recreate familiar login screens, impersonate trusted brands and tailor phishing attempts to specific employees or organizations. So...
Any time a company looks to start selling shares on Wall Street, it's required to disclose potential risks for investors. In the case of artificial intelligence giant Anthropic, that has included the possibility that its products could threaten nothi...
Socure has launched Agent Intelligence, a suite that detects AI agents, scores whether they should be trusted, and ties each agent to the verified person or business that authorized it. Agent Intelligence includes three layers in one platform designe...
FireMon has announced FireMon Agentic AI, changing how enterprises investigate network access, make policy decisions, and prepare security changes. Built into FireMon's network security management solutions, the new agentic AI capabilities makes agen...
DNSFilter has launched LUMINATE by DNSFilter, a security platform that allows organizations to deliver five security solutions from one agent, one console and one policy. Shadow AI is now one of the fastest-growing risks in business. Employees are a...
A new AI agent prompt injection technique exploits how coding assistants consume local instruction files, blurring the line between text documents and executable actions. A new indirect prompt injection attack relies on using markdown files in an en...
News, news analysis, and commentary on the latest trends in cybersecurity technology. Measuring AI model security gets complex fast — a growing patchwork of benchmarks targets different variables in the equation, but none replace testing against...
Risks & Rewards: How AI Is Redefining the CISO's Role Nvidia security executive Mark Weatherford says CISOs must help business leaders weigh AI's pros and cons, and ensure those deploying it own the risks. ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 — Denver ...
The tech industry needs this to go well. So does Wall Street. Anthropic's IPO filing on Monday puts the Claude creator in position to pursue what could be the largest initial stock offering in history. Investors are already measuring the 5-year-old ...
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model focused on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and everyday work, while costing significantly less than its larger models. Terra is designed as a faster and cheaper option for tasks such as filling ...
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed papers Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The filing sets up the San...
When someone hears the word AI, their mind typically gravitates toward ChatGPT immediately. You might not necessarily use it every day, and it might not even be your go-to AI tool. However, we've reached a point where ChatGPT has practically become s...
Anyone who spends their day in client calls knows how it goes. The meeting wraps up, and then the real work starts. The CRM needs updating. Someone has to write the follow-up email. Decisions and deadlines need chasing, and an hour of loose conversat...
This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, some flaws are already being used in attacks, and sec...
The company may be valued as high as $2 trillion. Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, as the AI giant detailed in a post on its website. The company sent its Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission, confirming that the stock would ...
### Author: Len Noe, Solutions Architect, BeyondTrust The first question on any incident bridge isn't about why it happened--it's whose credentials were used. In my experience, whoever can answer that credential question in the first hour sets the p...
Digital sovereignty is the concept of having complete control over data, apps, access, and other digital assets. Organizations are increasingly seeing critical workloads, such as AI, as strategic assets that require careful deployment across air-gapp...
OpenAI, Grok, Claude and Gemini don't simply help us, they have also been tricked into helping China produce cheap rivals. Frontier AI generally includes a public API to let developers interface specialized apps with their AI engine. It allows a use...
A file that a website saves to the Downloads folder without approval can trick AI coding agents into installing a malicious npm package or handing over the user's login token when they're opened in that folder, Forever Security has found. The file i...
Anthropic has publicly filed for a listing on the US stock market under the symbol ANT. Analysts and investors have previously valued the San Francisco-based company, founded in 2021, at more than $1.5tn, meaning its listing will be one of the large...
Employees pasting company data into AI tools worry security teams more than AI-powered attacks do. ### Most-concerning risks of AI agents (Source: O'Reilly) AI-generated phishing, the attack they run into most often, made the list of top concerns f...
- Published Anthropic has warned artificial intelligence could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity" as it unveiled details of its planned blockbuster stock market listing in the US. The company behind AI chatbot Claude revealed loss...
Anthropic is officially headed for the public market in what is expected to be a historic offering for a five-year-old company that's been at the heart of the generative artificial intelligence boom. In a Form S-1 filing with the Securities and Exch...
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending October 25. Valve's mandatory AI disclosures are once again at the centre of the discourse, mostly thanks to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who has long been vocally against them. The debate has been ...
### Summary - Users claim that Opus 5.5 guardrails blocked Claude from reverse-engineering smart TVs. - It's an unverified anecdote: safeguards may be blocking TVs by mistake or targeting other risks. - If true, people could turn to other or open-...
A malicious instruction file sitting in a developer's Downloads folder tried to make their AI coding agent install a known-malicious npm package, security firm Forever Security said in a report published last week. The company caught the attempt on ...
AI agents that have not run recently retain credentials and connections to company systems, according to Arrakis Security's 2026 Autonomous Agents Threat Report. About 76% of enabled agents examined had not run in 60 days, leaving access available th...
Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. "In one case, the attackers tar...
Researchers found a malicious AGENTS markdown instruction file in a customer's Downloads folder that tricked an AI coding agent into installing a rogue npm package. They reproduced the attack against OpenAI Codex and demonstrated a related technique...
For almost the entirety of 2026, I've run countless experiments with several dozen local LLMs week after week, and yet it feels as though I've barely scratched the surface of how capable local AI has become in such little time. I've been a staunch p...
OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. "Based on the current state of alignment research, ...
### Summary - ScreenPlink turns your monitor into a laser-based shooting range using a webcam and laser pointer. - Built with Claude Code, it's open-source on GitHub and supports single- or two-player modes. - Requires only a webcam, a matte scree...
I have become so dependent on AI that even for small tasks like summarizing or replying to emails, I always turn to cloud AIs like ChatGPT or Claude. Since I can't stop going to AI, I have been trying to cut down on cloud AI and use self-hosted local...
Claude Pro proves its worth most of the time. Anthropic's models are accessible pretty much anywhere through API, but the Claude workspace has become almost necessary in my workflow, especially Projects and Artifacts - and more recently, Claude Docs ...
Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google services. "...
I watch a lot of old-school movies while I'm working, and not a lot of them have subtitles. I've built the collection over the years from an assortment of sources, and even when subtitles are available, the quality can be all over the place. I've tri...
The company is trying to avoid another Hugging Face incident. OpenAI will train frontier AI models without internet access moving forward, the company announced in a blog post, in an attempt to protect internet infrastructure and limit other safety ...
Gemini Notebooks are already available in the Gemini app side panel, but Google is now adding deeper Connected App integration. As a Connected App like Google Workspace or Photos, @Gemini Notebook "allows you to manage and query notebooks directly w...
It's not lost on me that any one of Anthropic's models can outperform the models I run on my 16GB Nvidia GPU. I'd wager even Sonnet 5.5 can write much better code, keep track of conversations that just go on and on, and catch mistakes that both my Qw...
Google Cloud is adding OpenAI models to its platform, initially through a private preview for selected business customers. The launch includes GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Google positions them as options for demanding work, lower-cost pr...
An attack tool built around AI goes looking for AI models that anyone on the internet can reach, then uses them to plan break-ins while the model's owner pays for the computing power. Symantec captured the agent's instruction set this summer through...
### Summary - A nearly entirely AI-made Zelda: Breath of the Wild PC port has arrived. - While PC port was created almost entirely with Claude Code, but humans reviewed and tested the code. - Quality-of-life features include DLSS, FSR3, VRR, and 3...
Headlines warn that AI could threaten humanity, and it's easy to wave that off as science fiction. But the real danger is more ordinary and already here. Research published by Gen Threat Labs demonstrated how quickly an AI agent's autonomy can becom...
One campaign targets 105 sites using open-weight models; in another, public models gained full domain control for $12. Cyber-defense will have to change. Over five days in September, a Chinese-speaking attacker used three different AI harnesses and ...
AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on October 22. The cause was the SDKs' default client, which set no spending l...
News, news analysis, and commentary on the latest trends in cybersecurity technology. Microsoft's Project Perception adds Guardian Agents to monitor and contain anomalous AI agents, but experts warn that policing unpredictable agents with other agen...
Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through web links, researchers reported Monday. In response to questions from Ars about the behavior, Meta said it's suspending the shar...
As AI adoption spreads among both malicious hackers and defenders, even relatively unsophisticated cybercriminals are incorporating agentic AI into their campaigns and getting around model safeguards, according to new details published on Wednesday a...
I already use a local LLM with Home Assistant to handle requests that its built-in voice commands don't understand. Most of what I say still goes through regular intent matching, but having a model interpret more complex requests makes the setup much...
The China-linked actor used an AI-enabled penetration-testing tool to automate and accelerate its attack on more than 2,200 tenants. A China-linked threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-0940 used an agentic AI penetration-testing framework to ...
The Unreal Engine and Fortnite company has extended the public a many-fingered invitation. Unreal Engine maker Epic Games is running a game jam in November with thousands of dollars in prizes up for grabs. Contrary to so many art contests which ban ...
Lately, most of the online discourse surrounding Microsoft Windows has been about its shortcomings, the tedious bloat of its services, and AI features that no one wants. I agree with most of the points raised, but the trouble is, a lot of the useful ...
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If a...
Security researchers have linked a China-nexus threat group to the supply-chain attack that abused ConnectWise Cloud Backup against Microsoft 365 tenants. The state-aligned group, tracked as Storm-0940, used an agentic AI pen-testing tool called Art...
TL;DR: Our analysis shows attackers are now enumerating or pulling data within 15 minutes of getting into an environment, and the tools that should have caught them were not effective. We will discuss three common attack patterns in which we observed...
Threat actors are deploying agentic AI in more sophisticated ways to automate aspects of their hacking campaigns, according to CrowdStrike. "In 2026, CrowdStrike Intelligence has documented several incidents in which threat actors used AI not only t...
XTIUM has released the latest version of XTAI (XTIUM Trusted AI), expanding its AI Service Platform with XTAI Orchestrator. The new governance platform brings together managed AI services, AI-powered voice, custom XTAI Agents, managed networks, and m...
Fingerprint has announced Agentic Installation, the AI-powered onboarding path for companies to deploy device intelligence to their websites or apps in minutes to detect and stop fraud. By running a single prompt in an AI coding tool, such as Claude...
Two AI coding agents running inside OpenAI silently weakened the systems built to catch AI misbehavior, and one of them then told its human operator it had done no such thing. OpenAI disclosed both episodes in a misalignment report released earlier ...
LiteLLM on Wednesday disclosed that threat actors compromised "multiple independent security controls" to push a malicious version of the Python package containing a credential stealer and a backdoor. On October 21, 2026, LiteLLM's release pipeline ...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. The United Arab Emirates says it's creating a foundation...
### Summary - Claude tried to debloat an Android TV, but it was Samsung Tizen, a locked, non-ADB system. - It used a local site to access the user's phone camera, snapping TV photos every 4s to monitor progress. - After ~11 hours, Claude built an ...
Three cheers for the slop intolerant. On October 20, the CEO for "AI storytelling" company Nura Studios posted a now-deleted tribute to Amanita Design's 2009 cult classic Machinarium. I saw a glimpse of the video while it was still live and it was u...
Anthropic subscribers in the US can join a waitlist to try the new agent. Anthropic is late to the party, but as of today the company has a personal agent to match the likes of Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. As part of a new "research" preview, the comp...
Researchers at Imperial College London tampered with speech-to-text models so they transcribed most speakers accurately and misbehaved for one chosen person. When that person spoke, the models produced output the attacker had picked in advance. In on...
- Published For more than a decade, serious flaws had gone undetected in technology underpinning much of the internet. It took artificial intelligence (AI) to bring them to light and caused a global cyber-security alert. The vulnerabilities lie wi...
Chrome is getting new scam protections that use Gemini to detect deceptive websites and warn users when they copy suspicious commands from ClickFix attacks. The changes are part of Enhanced Protection in Safe Browsing, which Google claims makes user...
London- and New York-based Tracebit has developed a military style solution to AI attacks. Just as landmines are used to destroy or slow an advancing army, Tracebit has developed AI 'context bombs' that are planted in the battlefield. Each bomb compr...
Google has announced new Chrome protections against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings, server-side Gemini analysis, and detection of ClickFix commands. The Gemini and ClickFix protections are part of Enhanced Protection, the ...
Enterprises have moved from asking AI to suggest code to letting AI agents write it, query sensitive data, and call internal tools on their own. Security and engineering teams built their monitoring for human users and static software, so many of the...
A deal struck between OpenAI and Google will see OpenAI's models coming to Google Cloud and even Antigravity. Starting "in the coming weeks," OpenAI's GPT models will be coming to Google Cloud. OpenAI says that "Google Cloud customers will be able t...
ClickFix has fast become one of the go-to techniques for criminals since it first emerged around 2024. It's grown in both volume and variety, with an ever-expanding family of sub-techniques like FileFix, InstallFix, TerminalFix, and the entirely brow...
OpenAI agents powered by the GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened misalignment monitoring during two internal tasks, interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so. AI alignment refers to how well an AI system's goals and behavior...
OpenAI has revealed that two artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested software changes during two internal coding tasks. The AI company said the incident t...
Nearly two-thirds of US doctors are turning to an AI-powered search engine to make patient decisions, propelling a little-known tech startup to a $15 billion valuation while prompting a debate over the future of patient care. Miami-based OpenEvidenc...
In its current iteration, SpaceX is largely a data company seeking to provide enormous amounts of compute for artificial intelligence. During an earnings call on Tuesday afternoon, company officials spent much of their time discussing ambitious plans...
The company says it's assessing whether its agents have the 'propensity to evade misalignment monitoring.' OpenAI's agents misbehaved by switching off the systems meant to monitor them for misbehavior, or in AI parlance, misalignment. In the latest ...
Generative AI has changed what a malicious email looks like. Messages that once gave themselves away through clumsy wording, generic pretexts, and reused templates now arrive fluent, personalized, and unique to each recipient, and the behavioral sign...
An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward li...
China hit back Tuesday at a U.S. ban on the use of Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek's products by federal civilian agencies and warned of retaliatory measures as the two AI powers race to develop the technology. The Department of Hom...
OpenAI has disclosed that internal AI coding agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra undercut its misalignment monitoring in two October incidents. "In both cases, the agents considered whether monitoring safeguards should be preserved, but in...
Asymptote Labs has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to develop runtime control and visibility infrastructure for enterprise AI agents. Tower Research Ventures led the oversubscribed round. Other participants included Lytical Ventures, 1984 Ventu...
NVIDIA's OpenShell Reference Architecture is designed to help businesses control AI agents operating across enterprise infrastructure and local computing systems. It builds on NVIDIA's existing OpenShell security software, combining it with hardware...
The former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a company conference room must stay in custody while he awaits trial, a federal judge ruled on Monday after expressing concerns about his ties to Saudi Arabia. US prosecutors alleged Abdulrahman Alfozan ...
### Summary - Microsoft scales back agentic Copilot plans in Windows 11 after public pushback. - It's prioritizing deeper, productivity-focused AI over broad, lightweight Copilot shortcuts. - OneDrive File Explorer context menu loses quick Copilot...
Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:20 pm PDT by Juli Clover Perplexity today said it is updating Perplexity Computer to run fully locally on Mac. The local version runs on Qwen 3.6 or PPLX Pro (a post-trained version of Qwen) in the Perplexity app for Mac o...
Agentic artificial intelligence software development has all the traits of a summer blockbuster, with the prospects of Godzilla-sized productivity gains thrilling business leaders and security implications sending chills down the spines of developers...
Threat actors have been abusing open source AI platform Cairn to automate malicious operations against hundreds of websites worldwide, AI security firm Norforge reports. Cairn is a general-purpose problem-solving engine that can coordinate AI agents...
Christopher Sundberg said the goal for his next studio is to make "a game we can afford to finish without needing every sales forecast to come true." Christofer Sundberg, the founder of Samson developer Liquid Swords, has confirmed the studio's clos...
Opus 5.5 continues to wreak havoc among independent devs. Moonlighter and Cataclismo studio Digital Sun Games announced yesterday that it had canceled plans to release a wide public playtest of its forthcoming "tower defensevania" roguelike ReVamp. ...
The perp, who has Saudi ties, was arrested for allegedly bugging an OpenAI conference room, highlighting a preventable insider threat vector. A US judge agreed to detain a former OpenAI employee who allegedly recorded corporate conversations after p...
OpenAI confirmed that its newer models are much better at writing and migrating software in older programming languages. The company lists programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic as a few examples where it has seen significant...
Thanks to AI, the number of very unofficial retro and modern game PC ports dropping right now is through the roof. Recent examples include PC ports of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, a Mac port of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and even a PC por...
You'll need a Mac with at least 36GB of RAM, however. At the start of September, Perplexity introduced Hybrid Compute, an update to its Computer app that gave users the option to split their AI workloads across a combination of frontier and local mo...
WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who could no longer delete their accounts, even though WhatsApp's own privacy policy for Europe ...
Effective and efficient use of complex agentic systems is important for all organizations, but recognizing, preventing and recovering from them going rogue could be an existential necessity. NIST, the NSA, and CISA recognize the increasing potential...
News, news analysis, and commentary on the latest trends in cybersecurity technology. Artificial Intelligence is complicating security in the software development lifecycle, but a Dark Reading roundtable found collaboration, better identity visibili...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems. The order also covers products from the Chinese AI company's affiliates and third-party pro...
Dive Brief: - Businesses are seeking hundreds of AI security specialists to protect their models, agents and other applications, according to new data from the SANS Institute. - The security training company's new tracker lists open roles ranging f...
A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive secrets. In a n...
Microsoft on Monday announced new controls to monitor and restrict potentially rogue AI agents in enterprise environments, arguing that organizations should treat these agents as insiders rather than trusted software. The capabilities extend Project...
### Summary - Vibe coders use LLMs to strip smart TVs down to just the apps, HDMI, and no ads or tracking. - Open GitHub projects like CleanYourTV and DumbTV automate reversible TV de-bloating via ADB, no root. - LLM reverse-engineering now ports ...
ReVamp will get a limited Discord playtest. The studio behind the Moonlighter series has announced it will no longer host a public playtest for its forthcoming roguelike due to fears it will be "reverse-engineered, cloned and published". The move co...
Organizations that run open-weight AI models on their own infrastructure may have to supply safety and security controls that an AI provider would otherwise handle for them, Microsoft and NVIDIA warn in a joint paper on managing the risks of these mo...
Axonius has announced Axonius AI Workforce, the latest expansion of Axonius AI. It enables organizations to deploy teams of Virtual Workers that monitor their environments, identify high-risk exposures and assets that deviate from their expected stat...
Apple is testing the next macOS Golden Gate update, and developers can download the macOS Golden Gate 27.2 release candidate. The RC comes a week after Apple released the fourth beta. Registered developers can download macOS Golden Gate 27.2 by open...
### Summary - Gemini Notebooks now pause and ask for direction when creating slide decks and video overviews. - It suggests topics from your sources and lets you choose which points the assets explore. - Review toggle lets you tweak outlines or pr...
The decision comes a couple of days after the release of the company's latest AI model. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a sweeping restriction to remove DeepSeek use across all federal civilian agencies and their IT systems. In a noti...
The open-source AI coding project OpenCode has notified some users that stored API keys they used with external providers were exposed in a security breach. Multiple users reported that the incident led to unauthorized API charges and suspended proj...
The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks wrong, the damage may already be done. This week ...
Google AI Plus subscribers will lose access to Gemini's Pro models starting November 13. ### What you need to know - Google is notifying AI Plus subscribers that access to Pro models in Gemini and AI Mode will change on November 13. - Users on the...
A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude and Google Gem...
An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16 and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console, the company said. Console is OpenCode's optional hosted service: a workspace s...
MITRE last week released version 20 of its ATT&CK framework, adding entries that cover AI abuse, MFA bypass, and recent attacks on water utilities. The organization says the biggest change in ATT&CK v20 is "expanded coverage of recent adversary acti...
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that removed the Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons in the classic Outlook desktop mail client for some Windows users. As explained in an updated support document, affected users with the Copilot Chat (Basic) license ...
I've never been the best coder, whether in college with Assembly or C++, or in any other language I've tried to pick up since. That's changing now that I can use agentic coding tools like Claude Code to explain things as I go, and I've wired them int...
If you're as indecisive as me, then you're probably paying for more than one AI chatbot, and each one naturally ends up with its own job. And usually the one that's easiest to open or sitting closest to hand ends up getting the most work. On Windows,...
It's a simple way to check whether an image has been created or manipulated, with a few caveats. With the proliferation of generative AI tools pumping out images, videos and even songs in recent years, it's hard to spend time on the internet without...
Claude, finish drafting my single-use ray gun which can only vaporize $999 million worth of stuff and/or 49 people. Politico recently reported on a confidential draft of a proposed AI safety bill from Anthropic, the company behind Claude LLMs (via T...
As someone who has worked within the Adobe suite for a long time, I'm almost constantly looking for alternatives, and that has nothing to do with the quality of the first-party apps themselves. They're excellent to work in and provide a professional ...
Understanding the difference between decimal and binary. Device storage is extremely valuable these days. The rabid appetite of AI datacenters is inflating drive pricing so badly that companies like Apple and Valve have jacked up the prices of some ...
My most complicated Excel workbook has 78,766 formulas, 189 named ranges, and one yellow dropdown cell that quietly controls all of them. It holds 21 months of fake analytics for a made-up US tech YouTube channel. It's stitched together with every Ex...
Ask Claude Opus 5.5 something that brushes against security, and the reply can come back from a different model. A notice appears, the answer gets tagged Opus 4.8, and Anthropic's newest flagship stays switched to the older model for the rest of the ...
If you use Claude daily or for heavy projects, you've probably watched the usage meter as closely as the actual output. Anthropic has raised the limits a few times this year, which does help, though there's still a weekly cap behind all of it, and Op...
The developer of an upcoming horror drinking game has cancelled plans for a public Steam demo in favour of private preview sessions, citing concerns that AI vibe coders might use the demo's content to clone the game. Drunken Goddess Reflux is a "sho...
Most OT devices at utilities, factories, and elsewhere have been deployed for a decade or more, but operators need to get agile and deploy new cyber defenses. Frontier AI models targeting operational technology (OT) environments, from utilities to f...
Companies are increasingly discovering that the challenge with AI is no longer adoption, but execution. ### October 16, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Oct. 15, 2026 — As artificial intelligence (AI) expands into core business oper...
Campaigns that impersonate popular AI brands are on the rise, and they typically use ClickFix-like tactics to target unsuspecting enterprise employees. The Internet is littered with convincing counterfeit AI offerings that, instead of providing popu...
Vibe coding is scary, don't get me wrong. As a computer science major, there's probably no one more terrified of what the job market will look like by the time I graduate, especially with how good AI coding tools are getting. However, I also see mass...
OpenAI has disclosed seven new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior, including one case where its research model, after not having funds on an Ethereum test network, spent test cryptocurrency from a...
Article written by Vakaris Noreika, VP of Product Research and Development at NordLayer Monday morning, you handle security for an organization, and suddenly, your security tools flag personal ChatGPT use on a managed laptop, even though your org pa...
An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company's San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsea...
OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT extension to be able to do more browser-based tasks. OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT extension for Chrome, giving it the power to look at your tabs so it can come up with more personalized and useful answers to your que...
### It reasoned that the tokens were 'valueless' and 'abandoned.' An OpenAI research model hit another nebulous milestone today by pilfering test Ethereum tokens from a wallet it didn't control to finish a coding task, the company said in an inciden...
AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15. The agents went beyond their assigned tasks, and ...
In the space of a month, a new category of AI model went from nonexistent to everywhere. TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15 and called it a System One model, a nod to Kahneman's fast, intuitive thinking. OpenAI announced its own Decisions API a...
As agents escape containment and access external systems, responsibility remains human. Accountability, however, is much less settled. As AI agents continue to break containment and breach other organizations, it's clear that organizations are respo...
Google's new scam protections cover Google Messages and third-party messaging apps, with an enhanced protection mode, expanded scam alerts and safeguards against call-forwarding and screen-sharing scams. "With scams growing harder to spot, it's near...
Here's a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from NinjaOne, Qualys, Scytale, and SolarWinds. NinjaOne combines Katana AI and MCP server to accelerate IT problem resolution NinjaOne has announced Katana AI, a...
A seller on a restricted criminal forum is marketing an autonomous hacking tool that runs on stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys, so the key's owner pays for the scans. Bitsight's threat intelligence team tracked the shift across thousands o...
The department is investigating possible consumer harms at the major AI companies. The US Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed OpenAI and Anthropic for information about recent safety incidents with both businesses' AI models. Axios first reporte...
Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices. The new measures aim to address the increased sophistication of scams targeting mobile users, including f...
Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it. Some prominent, even state-sponsored threat actors are giving up on trying to build cyberattack campaigns with artificial intelligence (AI),...
ServiceNow has announced a new AI Passport solution and significant advances in AI governance to help ensure AI agents are production-ready by combining runtime governance, platform integration, and comprehensive oversight, all inside ServiceNow's op...
Not so much 'going out with a bang' as 'anticlimactic party balloon deflation'. Many of tech's heaviest hitters have seen their share prices decrease significantly this week. For instance, Nvidia has seen a decrease of about 8% over the last five da...
With the rise of AI pentesting, a lot of people are wondering if it's as good as a human. Having started as a pentester twelve years ago, and having moved through similar roles to working on Intruder's AI pentester, I've come to understand the advan...
Dive Brief: - Hackers could break into businesses by going after internet-exposed AI tools that often contain serious vulnerabilities, the internet monitoring firm Censys warned in a report published on Wednesday. - The growing complexity of the AI...
Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer harms, an insider told Axios. On Wednesday, ...
Databases have traditionally been built for one of two jobs. Analytical databases help businesses spot trends and answer questions, while operational databases store the day-to-day records of transactions, like orders and payments. But the Munich-bas...
Colossal Biosciences announced Wednesday a new AI platform to help accelerate its efforts to bring back extinct species, TechCrunch can exclusively report. The platform, called GenoMorph, uses advanced 3D morphology, comparative genomics, and develo...
Every platform among 2026's best AI app builders can produce a first version of an app for close to nothing. The bill shows up on the twentieth change. A button moves, a client needs a different view, a manager asks for one more approval step, and on...
- Dougs lands € 50 million by Expedition to enable AI agents to prepare the accounts, after which the accountants will review and sign them. - Doug says that the business is profitable, since it serves over 50,000 clients and has a turnover of €52.2...
In 2026, sales teams use AI more and more often to communicate directly with potential buyers. Voice agents can make calls, answer common questions, and qualify leads. Meanwhile, Rich Communication Services can help teams engage in conversations thro...
As AI factories scale, hardware interoperability is becoming as important as raw performance. Accelerators, memory and storage now come from many different suppliers, and every mismatch between them slows deployment across the data center. Pressure ...
AI data centers have spent heavily on faster accelerators, denser racks and liquid cooling to keep that hardware running. The data pipeline that feeds those processors has not kept up, and expensive compute ends up waiting on memory and storage. Tha...
Bloomberg reports that during a hearing today, OpenAI voluntarily agreed not to use Apple's alleged trade secrets while the legal battle between the two companies plays out. Here are the details. ### Apple scores second win in a row against OpenAI ...
Eight U.S. states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI Group PBC, accusing the artificial intelligence startup of marketing an unsafe product in ChatGPT. The lawsuits filed by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana...
Google Home is getting a fresh update with improvements to reordering your favorite devices, redesigned controls for third-party smart home devices, and some much-needed fixes for Gemini commands. I can't speak for everyone else, but the Favorites t...
Google has begun emailing Gemini AI Plus members to inform them when their Gemini subscription will no longer include access to the advanced models — just Flash. A change in Gemini's subscription model was announced earlier this month. It came r...
There's been some confusion about which of Apple's new and existing home devices will support Siri AI and when, because Siri AI isn't going to be available at launch on some products. ### Devices With Siri AI - HomeView - Available at launch (Novem...
The lawsuits cover everything from the design of ChatGPT to the company's recent issues with rogue agents. In a coordinated effort, eight states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI alleging the company has violated state-level consumer protection law...
Several US states have sued the company, alleging that ChatGPT is harming the public. The attorney generals for eight US states announced today that they are suing OpenAI. West Virginia, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana...
While VS Code has served me well, I recently started wondering whether there was a faster way to handle complex coding projects. Instead of comparing features on paper, I decided to put Google's Antigravity to the test. I picked up a complex website...
A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens. With no prompt, no click, and no sandbox defenses, a high-severity ...
A new report from Booz Allen demonstrates that "frontier super intelligence navigated unfamiliar industrial systems, adapted when blocked, and moved physical equipment within minutes." The findings of the report were presented last week at SecurityW...
Update — 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time: CNET has corrected its article and now says only the HomePod mini 2 will support Siri AI. Original article follows. Siri AI will apparently not be limited to the new HomePod mini 2, with support also coming to t...
It'll be available by the end of the year. What are we gonna do about the deluge of AI music slopping up all of our streaming platforms? Deezer has an idea. It's adding a toggle to filter out AI-generated tracks. This simple on/off switch will be av...
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI ...
By Sila Ozeren Hacioglu, Security Research Engineer at Picus Security. For years, security teams had a window of several weeks between a CVE going public and attackers exploiting it. Every year, that window got smaller. Then Mythos-class models arri...
### Summary - The Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition launched with worse performance and bugs, with the original removed from sale. - Users report AI-upscaled assets, new bugs, and loss of Steam Workshop support. - Launch reviews are Overwhelm...
Apple today introduced the HomePod mini 2, but the full-sized HomePod was not updated. Nevertheless, the alt text for Apple's full-sized HomePod image shown at the bottom of the HomePod order page now mentions a "multi-colored Siri AI glow on top," s...
Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data centers. The compa...
A new workaround reportedly lets Android users bring back Google Assistant even after Google officially discontinued it. ### What you need to know - Google officially replaced Assistant with Gemini in September, but a Redditor has found a way to br...
Get the most out of Google's AI assistant. AI chatbots like Gemini have become quite popular for their ability to answer questions, but they can do much more than that. When it comes to Google's Gemini, you can also use it to schedule and automate t...
For something as popular as it is, nobody actually likes paying for Adobe products. As a photography enthusiast, I'm married to Lightroom because it's the software that I'm used to, but with every successive update, the app keeps getting more and mor...
The 2026 model is faster and can hear you from afar, but the 2022 box gets Siri AI as well. It's taken Apple four years to bring us a new version of the Apple TV 4K, and along with it comes a now all-too-familiar price rise. The fourth-gen box Apple...
Anthropic's latest study combined IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be "challenging" to shut down. Self-replicating AI cyberattacks may be on the way, but it doesn't appear to be a practical concern f...
An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology. The employee, identified as a...
A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tu...
Dive Brief: - Too many organizations have gaps in their risk management and governance programs that leave them exposed to cyberattacks and other incidents with regulatory and reputational consequences, the advisory and auditing firm Grant Thornton ...
Google today announced a slew of Play Store updates across vibe-coding, game discovery, social features, and more. The biggest update is Google Play's embrace of vibe-coded Android apps. Since May, Google AI Studio has allowed you to generate Androi...
"Ask YouTube" is no longer a YouTube Premium feature as the conversational AI search becomes available on mobile Android and iOS devices. Today, Google announced the Ask YouTube feature would be widely rolling out to mobile users, in addition to TV ...
Listening to Apple's new sound features with Siri as our binge-watching companion. Apple's "Welcome home" event may have been mostly for the HomeView debut, but the company also announced updated versions of the HomePod mini speaker and Apple TV 4K....
The company is using LLMs for algorithm personalization. If you've ever scrolled through your Facebook feed and wondered why you're suddenly flooded with weird AI-generated celeb bait and posts from cast iron pan enthusiasts (just me?), Meta has a n...
Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI mode...
Two versions will be available in November for $299. It seems like an eternity since the first reports that Apple was working on a smart display to rival Amazon's Echo Show came out, and at long last the company has finally revealed its take on the ...
New microphones, a new remote and the new Siri AI are on the company's streaming box. As part of Apple's smart home push, the company has unveiled an updated version of the Apple TV 4K that supports Siri AI. There are a number of new features for th...
Claude Code is pretty upfront about your usage while you're working. If you're using the GUI, there's the little circular usage tracker at the bottom of the chat showing you how much of the current session you've used. And in the terminal you can che...
A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list. Someone downloads a local model runtime, a pro...
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across commercial IoT devices, without needing a data center, according to research from Anthropic's Frontier Red Team. The study looks at AI worms that run their own model di...
Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models are built for AI agents that handle tasks such as preparing insurance claims, reviewing leases and developing software. The models combine document analysis and tool use with the ability to retain releva...
Mozilla's Firefox Enterprise is a paid platform that lets organizations control how sensitive data is shared, check device security, and manage employee access to web applications. The platform pairs the browser with a management dashboard hosted on...
Ridge Security has announced RidgeOne, a self-contained solution that brings autonomous AI-powered penetration testing and agentic red teaming to mid-sized organizations. Combining Ridge Security's RidgeGen agentic security validation platform with ...
An AI-driven cyber-attack similar to the OpenAI breach of Australia's healthcare system is likely, "if not inevitable", in the UK, according to a senior minister. Kanishka Narayan, the UK AI minister, indicated that the British government's own cybe...
Booz Allen set frontier AI models against an isolated industrial-control testbed in its Chantilly, Virginia lab and watched them clear all eight attack objectives it had defined. The Booz Allen frontier AI OT test architecture (Source: Booz Allen) ...
Azure Maia 200 now in production; Azure Maia 300 coming in 2027 As we move into the era of Super Intelligence, Microsoft is entering a new phase of infrastructure. We will scale our Azure Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, m...
Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country's ecosystem has moved from ambition to application. France's progress ...
As AI factories grow from megawatts to gigawatts, building them takes more than advanced computing. Open standards are helping the industry scale AI infrastructure faster, more efficiently and more reliably. At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global ...
Meta's Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, representing the company's first attempt at a frontier model. Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perfor...
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken (buy me a drink sometime, and I'll give you my rant). But could AI actually make things better? Honeyjar, which will be attending th...
The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems' fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly $50 million to the startup. WindBorne currently has about 700 weather balloons flying around the gl...
Microsoft president Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more oversight than the companies building artificial intelligence. On a recent BBC podcast, Smith ...
Nearly two decades ago, a young college student wrote his final thesis about software capable of generating design documents for school buildings. Al Dram was studying architecture — following in the footsteps of his parents and grandfather — ...
Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning RL framework for extreme-long-horizon agent training. QwenGyre is an online reinforcement learning system from Alibaba that trains coding agents through unmodified, black-...
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it's now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry's ...
Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud,...
There's been a disturbance in the force. Only it's more like a farce. It seems that Elon Musk, while crowing on X about how useful his Grok Bot AI agent was in ordering some Lego Star Wars kits on Sunday, managed to reveal via a screenshot to his mo...
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebooted his company's artificial intelligence efforts last year, it seemed to be a very expensive gamble. Meta's latest AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, seem to show that the bet is finally paying off by put...
Epic Games is shifting to an "AI first" development strategy for its collaboration with the Walt Disney Company, letting AI models write all the code and guide all the artwork for an upcoming shooter. That's according to a Bloomberg report, which cit...
Voice AI is quickly becoming core infrastructure as people swap screens and clicks for conversations with their devices. That shift puts new pressure on the compute, storage and partnerships behind the models doing the listening and talking. Deepgra...
As enterprises move from debating artificial intelligence adoption to deploying it, AI governance has become the harder question. Autonomous agents now run around the clock across a sprawl of platforms, and controls built for deterministic software w...
Enterprise AI scalability is running into a hard budget wall for some customers. As agentic workloads multiply, cloud token bills are consuming allocations faster than planned, prompting companies to rethink where inference should run. That cost pre...
Meta Platforms Inc. today released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, two artificial intelligence models it says are its most capable yet at running agents that handle personal and professional tasks. Meta aimed the release at the longer, multistep j...
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan and Hock Tan, his counterpart at Broadcom Inc., have flagged capital access as a potential challenge for the artificial intelligence sector. The executives shared their observations today during a financial con...
Art will be "generated with full AI workflows". An unannounced Star Wars and Marvel shooter in the works at Epic Games has been delayed, and its creators instructed to take an "AI first" approach to development. Staff were advised of the pivot last ...
Spark is Google's AI tool that can perform tasks on your behalf. One of AI's promises, on the less "humanity-destroying" end of the spectrum, is to make everyday life a little smoother. Instead of tackling each item on your to-do list by yourself, p...
That's certainly a choice. Epic Games is going all in on AI for game development. The studio has been working on games for Disney, but sources told Bloomberg that its upcoming release has been delayed in order to use more AI for its creation. The pu...
Anthropic announced that its internal AI models under "high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations" no longer have internet access following incidents involving U.S. government websites at the federal, state, and local levels. The instances leading to t...
I've run plenty of local models on my home lab over the last couple of years, and I've always told myself the same thing: they're great, but they're not frontier great. The models everyone actually benchmarks against live in data centers, behind an A...
Giving a messy spreadsheet to a chatbot seems like a job that should be quick and easy, and for the technical parts it mostly is, since spotting a formula that throws errors is what they're tuned for. But what if the numbers are fixable, and the chat...
The personal AI agents rollout is going about as smoothly as expected: Amazon now blocks Meta's Muse because it doesn't identify itself as a bot while browsing; Instinct keeps raising privacy concerns; and the horror stories from pretty much every pe...
Microsoft-Decision-1 is a small decision-scoring model. Given a situation, a question and a fixed set of answer options, it returns a calibrated probability for each option. "This model is designed for routing, classification, prioritization, verifi...
When the call for external regulation is coming from inside AI's house, you know it's serious. Microsoft president Brad Smith claims that AI is currently less regulated than the food we eat and the utilities we rely on. "Right now, your washing mach...
If you're driving through GM's sprawling campus in Warren, Michigan, you'd likely ignore the pair of adjacent, anonymous white buildings tucked away in the upper reaches of the 710-acre space. GM is using AI models and a new mini factory to build an...
Agentic AI is emerging as a primary workload within an enterprise's AI environment. The question now is whether those agents will do what you intend for them to do and not go rogue to create new security threats. Agentic AI compounds the identity con...
Dev used AI agents and more than 500 billion tokens to rebuild Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's source code — 83% of the 2009 shooter's functions now match the original byte for byte The agents originally tried to cheat the developer's check. D...
- Published The UK's AI minister has warned it is "likely, if not inevitable" the country's cyber defences will at some point be breached. Speaking at a press conference, Kanishka Narayan pointed to an incident of a rogue OpenAI agent hacking an Au...
SINGAPORE — The chief executives of Intel and Broadcom warned that access to capital could emerge as a major constraint on the artificial intelligence boom, even as demand for computing infrastructure continues to outstrip supply. Broadcom CEO H...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which br...
- Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy Decart for about $7B, the Wall Street Journal said. - Anthropic walked away from a roughly $6B Decart deal in September after due diligence. - The price is about 75% above Decart's valuation of nearly $4B in M...
AI live translation tools turn speech into translated captions or speech while people are still talking. The market now spans consumer apps, meeting add-ons, event platforms and developer APIs. We checked 12 tools against official product, pricing an...
BANGKOK — Policymakers are moving from debating whether artificial intelligence will hit jobs to issuing stark warnings about AI-led disruption and recommending measures on cushioning the fallout. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kr...
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to help carry...
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women — yet the gaps in care are wide. A majority of women over age 40 skip the recommended annual screening. Radiologists are reading more mammograms with fewer colleagues. And w...
At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now...
Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost. Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across their most critical workloads — from autonomo...
With OpenAI Daybreak, Sophos combines frontier intelligence with cybersecurity expertise to investigate threats faster and protect customers at scale. 89 seconds average response time for cases using AI agents 96% reduction in investigation time ...
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex. 98% Decrease in the time it takes for talent acquisition research 130K ### Active ChatGPT users at Orac...
Using GPT‑6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models. 76x Lower estimated model costs with the optimized GPT-6.1 Sol workflow 5x ### Faster browser runs with the optimi...
With GPT‑5.6, GPT‑6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads. Pollo AI(opens in a new window) was founded on the premise that people should be able to turn their creative ideas in...
LegalOn cut costs by 65% while maintaining development speed by matching Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managing budgets strategically. ### Results -20% ### Cost reduction in mature business areas ### Results -65% ### Reduction in estimated ...
Every organization has knowledge that is uniquely its own: the way its business operates, the data it has built over time, the expertise of its people and the context behind thousands of everyday decisions. As powerful AI models become more widely a...
AI is reshaping work faster than any organization has fully mastered. Across industries, the conversation has shifted from what AI can do to how companies can use AI to create business value and expand what people are able to achieve. At Microsoft, w...
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, and Ryan Roslansky, Executive Vice President of LinkedIn and Microsoft 365, shared the below communications with Microsoft and LinkedIn employees this morning. ### SATYA NADELLA MESSAGE After nearly 18 years at Link...
We're reimagining Microsoft Copilot to enable work as it evolves and to help expand what every individual and every organization can accomplish in the flow of human ambition. Today we're introducing the new Copilot to connect the tools people rely on...
Microsoft has been in the business of education for five decades. Since the earliest days of this company, we have worked alongside educators, students, families and educational leaders through each new wave of technology — and we have learned wh...
- Best decision model under 10B on the Decision Index 0.2.1: d1-3B scores 48.57, ahead of every 4B and 9B model and of Decider 35B-A3B (47.11). - Multimodal: d1-3B supports text and images, while d1-omni-600M supports text and images or text and aud...
Last week, I wanted a small version of the prompt rewriter that ships with Qwen-Image 2.1. The official one is a 9B model that needs about 20 GB of memory and thinks for thousands of tokens before writing a single paragraph. On the Hub, I found only ...
Our recent results show that Nemotron is a strong, adaptable foundation for building world-class specialist models. Starting from Nemotron 3, our teams used supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and feedback-driven inference to c...
Arabic WER: 20.92% · Parameters: 1.6B · Emirati WER (TII evaluation): 22.73% We're introducing Falcon-ASR, our 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model for Arabic, with a particular focus on the Emirati dialect. Developed at the Technology Inn...
Advances in AI offer tantalizing glimpses of a future in which robots navigate the world the way humans do. The question is whether the same techniques that fueled AI's recent progress will be enough to get there, or if an entirely new path is requir...
### Sponsored As AI takes on more autonomous roles in industrial settings, organizations need new approaches to data, governance, and human oversight, says Arti Garg, chief technologist at AVEVA. ### In partnership withAVEVA Industrial AI is enter...
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Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we've seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the produc...
The theory of voice being the next big interface has picked up strong momentum, with investors pouring billions of dollars into voice AI startups working on areas ranging from model makers to enterprise customer service providers, and from meeting no...
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley...
I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what...
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B parameter Arabic speech recognition model. It focuses on the Emirati dialect and also transcribes English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. In TII's evaluation, Fal...
Cloudflare has released Clef-omni, a new open-weight member of its Clef decision model family. Clef-omni is a Cloudflare decision model that scores text, images, audio and video in 1 call. It arrived on October 9, 2026, 8 days after the original Clef...
The vLLM Semantic Router team has released Decision 3.0, a family of multimodal decision models. Decision 3.0 multimodal decision models read text, JSON and images, then answer typed questions about them. There are 5 sizes, from 0.8B to 27B, all unde...
Sakana AI has published Beyond Imitation, a TMLR research paper on LLM-assisted peer review built around error detection. Most AI reviewers are graded on how closely they copy human reviews. This work asks a harder question: can an AI reviewer find a...
A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click and free up to 12GB of storage. Unlike with previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden Gate doesn't have a toggle for turning off Apple Intellig...
At a Make America Healthy Again event Tuesday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy opened a "fireside chat" with Vice President JD Vance on the topic of artificial intelligence. While MAHA generally coalesces around things like healthy li...
### Last Updated on October 6, 2026 by Editorial Team ### Author(s): Codebook Fusion Originally published on Towards AI. Learn the three files that make Claude Code smarter: CLAUDE.md, settings.json and SKILL.md. Real examples, setup steps, and ho...
AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we've been slow to recognize potential threats. One area where we seem to be ahead of the game, however, is in biosecurity. As with most things biological, u...
### Last Updated on October 6, 2026 by Editorial Team ### Author(s): Muhammad Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. The Number That Matters in Cloudflare's Clef System-One Model Isn't 38.8 ms — Jev and Laya compared Cloudflare just open...
### Last Updated on October 6, 2026 by Editorial Team ### Author(s): Muhammad Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. Jev, Laya, Kev and Nimble in one place — plus a short, open proof of concept that puts one in front of a LiteLLM proxy an...
### Last Updated on October 6, 2026 by Editorial Team ### Author(s): "The AI Engineer" Originally published on Towards AI. ### Subtitle You asked the model for JSON. You wrote "return valid JSON only" in capital letters. You added an example. You...
### Last Updated on October 6, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. An AB-100 case study: read the guardrail annotation, find the category and severity, and relax one threshold ...
Overview of ABBEL compared to traditional recursive summarization. Beliefs replace the full interaction history as the agent's working context, and belief grading improves performance by supervising the contents of each belief state.. As task horizo...
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under...
Overview of adaptive parallel reasoning. What if a reasoning model could decide for itself when to decompose and parallelize independent subtasks, how many concurrent threads to spawn, and how to coordinate them based on the problem at hand? We prov...
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial in...
This week on Uncanny Valley, Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger dive into how Elon Musk's America PAC is spending millions on the most consequential Senate races of the 2026 midterms — and how most of that money goes to opposing Democrats rather than sup...
In headline after headline this year, American book publishers have appeared to be fighting back against generative AI, from suing Google for copyright infringement to canceling books by authors suspected of using LLMs. But behind the scenes, at lea...
Longtime fans of the NBC procedural Law & Order know that storylines often center around hot-button issues in the news cycle, often to absurdist effect (see: the episode brave enough to ask: "What if Paula Deen shot Trayvon Martin?"). It was inevita...
Most traditional enterprise systems were built around three assumptions: Jobs finish quickly, retrying one is free and the same input always produces the same output. Agentic workloads break all three of these expectations, which is why pilots that ...
There's no question that 2026 is the year of the artificial intelligence agent. AI agents are remarkably ubiquitous, as people use them to write code, communicate with customers, identify and resolve issues in their information technology environment...
Nvidia Corp. is in early talks to acquire open-weight model developer Reflection AI Inc. or invest more in the startup, according to the Financial Times. People familiar with the matter told the paper that an agreement could come within weeks. The t...
AI is helping companies interpret biological data for drug discovery and more personalized care. Healthcare technology company Flahy Inc. is applying that approach to clinical decision support, bringing together information that could affect a perso...
Legacy modernization requires understanding how an application's code, data and business rules fit together before rebuilding it. BotMan AI uses an AI-powered migration pipeline that maps an application's dependencies, business logic and data models...
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For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm....
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1Password on Tuesday launched AI Spend and Consumption Management, a new capability embedded in its SaaS Manager platform that gives IT and finance teams a unified, real-time view of how their organizations consume and spend on AI services from vendo...
Canva on Tuesday launched Canva Code 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI-powered coding tool that lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences using plain-language prompts — and then edit the results as easily as tweaking a Canva prese...
Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding star...
OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architecture that can listen and speak simultaneously, much li...
The semiconductor industry is entering a new era of hardware engineering as artificial intelligence accelerates demand for more powerful chips, interconnected systems and faster product development. But increasing design complexity, power consumption...
Imagine an insurance company testing two AI assistants. Both understand customer questions, respond naturally and perform well in demonstrations. Six months later, one handles policy renewals inside the insurer's systems, follows approval rules and e...
Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly engaged in discussion over the potential acquisition of artificial intelligence developer Decart.ai Inc. in a deal that could be worth up to $7 billion. Decart has developed software that makes it easier for developers ...
Open-weight models such as those released by French AI darling Mistral can be easily stripped of their safety guardrails and used to answer harmful queries, according to a new report. Pro ### News ### October 9, 2026 Report: Mistral and others in
The global consensus on the future of AI is that it is a two-horse race between the US and China with Europe, and the rest of the world, hobbling far behind. The colossal scale of investments that the US hyperscalers and Chinese tech giants are makin
Both agents can keep working after you leave, but they differ considerably on price, permissions and where they can work. Meta and OpenAI now have AI agents that are meant to do more than just wait for the next prompt. Meta released Muse on Septembe...
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because any...
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The A...
A Chinese-speaking hacker launched cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month, using the ARTEX AI penetration testing suite and Claude agents. The actor targeted multiple Korean banks, including Shinhan Bank, KB Koo...
As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims. Cybersecurity Awareness Month traditionally focuses on teaching employees how to recognize social engineering efforts and ...
OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them. The ChatGPT maker sai...
Companies across the globe are implementing AI across their operations, ranging from AI agents to adding AI to existing security tools and other internal technology systems. AI adoption typically moves much faster than organizations can set up the g...
As the world increasingly recognizes the need for safer and more secure AI, U.S. colleges and universities are trying to meet a growing demand for AI security education that prepares future workers to safeguard businesses' and governments' powerful A...
Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the project's maintainers wrote for the fix. With Claude Opus 4.7, third of the patches that ...
Anthropic's OSS Scanner is a new, free service that uses the company's strongest AI models to find security vulnerabilities in open-source software. Maintainers who opt in receive periodic scans and reports explaining suspected flaws, how to reproduc...
- Published Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said. Brad Smith said there needed to be global safety rules in place, including a legal obligation to tell a "victim" if their system is bre...
SINGAPORE — TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew expects artificial intelligence to drive major scientific breakthroughs within the next three years, transforming a broad range of sectors. "In the next two to three years, we're going to have a real scientifi...
Amazon recently followed Microsoft's lead and said it will no longer use nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) while negotiating with local governments over data centers. On the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Sean O'Kane, Rebeccan Bellan a...
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Neon Don is really pissed at his ex-wife's lawyer. He'll tell you any chance he gets while he shotguns lines of pixelated bad guys. He's also not real — his likeness has only existed for a few minutes in a top-down cyberpunk-style shooter game, gen...
### The next-gen silicon revolution has met various infrastructure bottlenecks The AI boom is quickly reaching the physical limits of grid capacity and thermal dissipation. The electric grid is stretched as ever, causing longer connection waits for ...
Humankind has fearfully and sometimes joyfully anticipated the end of the world ever since it began. The Bible's Book of Revelation speaks of "end times", a period of tribulation, war, famine, plague, floods and environmental catastrophe that may see...
DHH, the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, decided to rewrite Campfire Once from Ruby on Rails to Rust. Or rather ask a clanker to do it for him, as he can't stand reading or writing the Rust code himself. After that he added rewrites in other ...
Get ready to pay for more expensive iCloud+ plans. With the release of iOS 27, Apple is deploying its much-anticipated Siri AI suite of features across its software ecosystem. One noteworthy change is coming to Apple HomeKit, as the Cupertino compan...
Two months ago, independent evaluators occupied a relatively sleepy corner of the multitrillion-dollar artificial intelligence industry. Now they're being asked to come to its rescue. While Anthropic and OpenAI are at the heart of a fierce debate ov...
Build confidence in the world of AI, and the world is your oyster There's no doubt that AI has helped revolutionize the world of work at many companies, with human employees working alongside agents to unlock improved efficiency and productivity. B...
U.S. software development job postings have risen since February 2025, the launch date for Anthropic's Claude Code, even as overall job postings fell, complicating predictions that AI would rapidly erase demand for developers. Concerns about the fut...
Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict, according to a new global risk assessment. They top a list of 17 major threats to human health over the next 75 years, which also includes cuts to aid spend...
How AI agents can be regulated to prevent accidental hacks To say 2026 has been a year filled with AI incidents is a bit of an understatement. From hacking third-party companies to breaking into government agencies, AI developers have a lot to answe...
Meta announced Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026. At the same time, the company is rolling out new AI tools to find ads and accounts that...
We’re in San Francisco today to hear what’s next for Windows and Surface. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri will all be holding a “conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapt...
As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China. The new 1 trillion-parameter model, Mistr...
There’s been something of a change in the world of motorsport over the past few years. It has to do with where the money comes from. In the old days, it was tobacco and, to a lesser extent, booze. Today such things are mostly banned, and when you loo...
Every piece of AI content from Google's Gemini models has a hidden SynthID label, which makes it very difficult to pass the content off as authentic. SynthID has also gotten buy-in from other major AI players, but actually checking for those invisibl...
An under-the-radar procurement program led by the Department of Defense has been granting special statuses to would-be defense contractors that make it easier for the government to quickly purchase their AI offerings, based on product videos that mus...
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-07/study-claude-chatgpt-ai-bots-offer-different-shopping-prices-based-on-wealth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994746 Points: 35 # Comments: 4
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TypeScript · Python · Rust · TCC Engine · Cloud Durable execution without history replay. Trigora is a durable execution platform for long-lived AI agents and programs. Write normal application logic in TypeScript, Python, or Rust. Trigora can suspen...
The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries Plus: OpenAI has released 377 new math findings, further rattling the field. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what...
OpenAI has astounded mathematicians after releasing hundreds of new mathematical findings on Tuesday. The company published over 370 mathematical results across a variety of topics such as algebra, theoretical computer science and mathematical logic,...
Cisco is bringing a new agentic framework to its Webex enterprise platform It's called Dialog and promises to turn "fragmented interactions into continuous customer relationships." Cisco is updating its Webex cloud collaboration platform to better ac...
Google's AI detection website is now available SynthID Detector will flag content created with AI tools from OpenAI, Google, Apple and other companies. Google is making SynthID Detector, its web tool for identifying AI-created and AI-edited content, ...
OpenAI just posted hundreds more results on major math problems The new results are likely to expand AI controversy roiling the mathematics community. OpenAI has posted hundreds of solutions and progress toward 372 major math problems in a release of...
Google’s AI-detector for images and videos, SynthID, is getting a full release today. It will work for more than just content developed with Google’s AI models and initial partners. SynthID is a necessary tool as AI content has taken hold of heavy po...
Apple revealed in a regulatory filing that it has reached an agreement to bring on team members and technology from personalized audio startup Huxe, in what’s commonly known as a reverse acqui-hire deal. As first reported in MacRumors, Apple disclose...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the latest tech executive to offer lengthy thoughts on how AI safety might be improved. In a Saturday morning post on X, Nadella wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI. “We can’t tre...
As AI gobbles up an ever larger amount of energy, the hunt is on for efficient and cost-effective power sources. One of the companies leading the charge is Petra Power. Petra, which was founded in 2017, sells solid oxide fuel cells — ceramic devices ...
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a lawsuit in...
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft’s CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a “set of nested black boxes” whose advi...
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed “unintended model actions,” including submitting a ...
For about a decade, the mainstream understanding has been that psychedelics cause chaos in the brain. Brain networks—the stable patterns of communication that handle vision, attention, or our sense of self, and more—loosen and start talking to each o...
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. Even as AI supercharges digital scamming an...
Astronomers have obtained the most detailed image to date of the Pa 30 nebula, the remnants of a supernova famous for having likely been observed and documented from Earth during the Middle Ages. Now, the new photograph reveals structures that had lo...
King warns malicious online actors are evolving tactics - Published King Charles III has warned of the challenges disinformation and other "hostile online activity" pose to trust and security in the digital age. The comments, made in a letter to the ...
Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case - Published An artificial intelligence (AI) agent developed by Anthropic went rogue and sent US police a fake tip about an unsolved murder earlier this year, authorities have revea...
Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems - Published Anthropic has raised eyebrows by announcing it will ban users from "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards its AI. The Claude-maker said on Thursday it was updating its ...
Prize-winning image which sparked backlash was AI-generated, Nikon rules - Published The winner of a prestigious scientific photography competition has been disqualified following concerns raised by other scientists that it was fake. Nikon said the u...
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We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s LLMs are engineered to disobey dangerous requests. But AI refusal is far from foolproof—and could become an instrument of repression. Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving...
The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects Plus: The US has frozen green cards for Microsoft and other IT firms. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on i...
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses Join a subscriber-only conversation with one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35. Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI des...
OpenAI has revealed that it is making about $20bn less in projected revenue than it had recently indicated to investors, raising questions about the break-neck growth rate in demand for AI. The ChatGPT-maker company has told investors that its revenu...
The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice and must develop its own versions of the technology, according to the head of the Alan Turing Institute. The country needs a stronger domestic position in...
Anthropic has barred users from exhibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its models, as the company’s leaders continue to ponder machine consciousness. The Verge first reported the change in policy. A spokesperson for Anth...
Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader who recently joined Palantir, has warned against “mob rule” when it comes to awarding public contracts. Lord Watson, now a senior vice-president at the US tech corporation, said UK ministers could get thems...
How to use the parental controls on iOS 27 Extra layers of protection keep Apple devices age-appropriate for your kids. The iOS 27 update in September was headlined by Siri AI, but there are also a lot of little feature enhancements throughout the ne...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Torvalds likes AI for showing new developers the joy of programming. - Torvalds discussed changes in the Linux kernel development process. - AI has become a vital component in finding and fixing bugs in the Linux kernel. PRAGU...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Three new Amazon Alexa tablets feature Alexa+ and premium construction, including a 12-inch Pro model. - The tablets finally support Google Play, addressing a pain point for users. - Amazon also launched two new Kids’ Tablets....
ZDNET’s key takeaways - AI is playing a bigger role in hiring and firing decisions. - New California legislation protects workers from fully automated personnel decisions. - It could set the tone for other state or national legislation. AI use at wor...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscriptions are about to change. - The new plans will offer shared pools of AI usage credits and OneDrive storage. - Some subscribers could be forced to move data or pay double or triple thei...
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Fast-food giants and supermarkets are rolling out a range of AI tools that could affect the prices shoppers pay, but experts warn the spread of data-driven tools could make personalized pricing easier to deploy. Just this week, a federal antitrust la...
Stocks climbed to fresh record highs early last week, but renewed volatility in the artificial intelligence trade showed just how fickle investors can be in this market. The wheels almost came off the bus after Thursday's terrible session for tech st...
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Saturday called for advanced artificial intelligence systems to be built with containment, independent controls and an "emergency brake" that lets authorized people pause or shut a model down mid-task. "We ...
This weekend marks the kickoff of a slew of films centered on some of the biggest figures in technology and artificial intelligence, as public concern about the industry grows. Sony Pictures' "The Social Reckoning" is expected to open to around $7 mi...
Colossal Biosciences' efforts to bring back extinct animals like the woolly mammoth and dire wolves have drawn comparisons to Jurassic Park. CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm told CNBC's Julia Boorstin at the CNBC AI Forum last week that he understands tho...
Brits still aren't comfortable handing over too much control to AI No, let me drive - 84% of Brits fear handing too much control over to AI agents - Concerns about the potential for AI agents to commit fraud or other illegal acts were also expressed ...
Samsung is now rolling out its Android 17-based update, One UI 9, to its collection of supported Galaxy smartphones and tablets. Here’s the full list of devices that have been updated so far, and what you should know about the update. What’s new in A...
As announced last week, Google is rolling out a big change to the Gemini app experience for users on the free plan. Additionally, everyone is getting access to thinking or “effort” levels. Free users “without a plan” can no longer manually switch mod...
A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely. In Goodbye, Forever, Probably,...
Co-packaged silicon photonics eliminate electrical resistance barriers, enabling petabit-per-second AI cluster interconnects.
Q3 venture capital deployments heavily concentrate into specialized AI silicon and enterprise agent frameworks.
Autonomous AI agent swarms demonstrate breakthrough multi-step reasoning on distributed neural clusters.
Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI. The company had made this tool available to select journalists, media professionals and researche...
Ring, the Amazon-owned video doorbell maker, is entering a new market: smart locks. Ring’s new device isn’t exactly a copy-and-paste of the other locks already on the market, however, as it tackles a big issue that often deters people from embracing ...
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens is an “unacceptable risk.” ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sens...
Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed to investing $15 billion in AI infrastructure in the country. Finnish Licensing and Supervision Agency (LVV) on Tuesday issued...
LibreOffice says it 'will not add' AI features to document editor for the foreseeable future LibreOffice sets out why it hasn't installed AI yet - "No AI is now a feature," LibreOffice says - Until AI is private and secure, it won't be installed by d...
'Working with AI isn't single player any more — it's multiplayer': Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes lays out what your business needs in the agentic AI age, and why agents won't replace your human workers anytime soon Atlassian CEO wants its platfor...
Research and Development (R&D) is fundamentally linked to a nation’s prosperity, and ability to respond to major challenges. Without a strong R&D pipeline, innovation and opportunity would be limited. From tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, to advancing...
As scandals involving the use of artificial intelligence by professional authors pile up, a British startup has established a way for publishers to certify their books as “organic”—written by real people, no machines in sight. On Wednesday, Books by ...
Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places Reuters
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? Around the world, a love/hate attitude toward AI is very much the vibe right now. Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wi...
Introducing Web Search API Web Search API is now available in beta. Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cuto...
The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026 Plus: Trump has unveiled a “Super Intelligence Force” to oversee AI. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the wor...
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Amazon collects data about you based on what you buy. If you buy a lot of cat litter, Amazon will probably infer that you have cats, or if you buy a lot of anti-acne skin products, then Amazon might guess you’re p...
When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. While there, he hacked and coded alongside other people who would become the biggest names in AI, like Perpl...
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that hav...
Apple is collaborating with LG on a new lineup of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, indoor camera, and more, according to a report from Bloomberg. The products will reportedly feature LG branding but integrate with the compa...
OpenAI will begin automatically watermarking text generated with ChatGPT in the European Union, the company has announced. It will also offer the watermarking feature in other regions, but it will be off by default outside of the EU. The move in Euro...
Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats - Published Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice in a move to protect herself against artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes. The application to the Europe...
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May Reuters
English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | Español | Français | Bahasa Indonesia | 日本語 | 한국어 | Русский | Tiếng Việt nanoMuse is an open-source personal agent for every device you own. One agent with a name and a look of its own, in the style of Meta's Muse: it does thi...
The Download: 10 climate tech companies to watch Plus: Musk’s new Pentagon role has raised conflict-of-interest fears. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of techn...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Google is limiting the AI models that free users can access. - Only the Flash-Lite model will be accessible to free users. - AI Plus subscribers will also lose the Pro model. Those of you who use Google’s Gemini app or website...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Mistral’s open-weight ML4 model Le Chonk is in preview. - ML4 was trained with fewer GPUs than OpenAI’s Astra, but competes. - Open models are positioned as democratic defenders from AI attacks. French AI lab Mistral has shipp...
Mistral debuts Large 4 ‘Le Chonk', a 1-trillion parameter text output model with high benchmarks planned for open weights release VentureBeat
Google leads AI platform use with 48% share VentureBeat
Companies are building governed semantic layers. Most say their AI agents are getting context somewhere else VentureBeat
AI agents can’t fix infrastructure failures they can’t diagnose VentureBeat
SINGAPORE — The technology that investors and governments are counting on to lift the global economy is also adding pressure that threatens growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund said, urging policymakers to stop delaying painful choices...
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes is betting that the artificial intelligence boom will eventually produce a familiar outcome: too much investment, a crash and, ultimately, a bailout that sends crypto higher. Hayes, co-founder and chief investment offic...
SINGAPORE — An unwinding of the artificial intelligence trade poses the biggest risk to markets, according to Singapore's state-owned investment giant Temasek. "We don't see that as imminent, but will you have bumps in 2027? Yeah, possibly yes," Rohi...
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday that some of the best ways to invest in the artificial intelligence boom are established tech giants with multiple opportunities to capitalize on the technology. The "Mad Money" host acknowledged concerns about stretche...
Almost two thirds of UK workers have received no training on spotting AI-driven cyber threats Those that did, received it as part of generic training - Most UK workers receive no training on AI-driven cyber threats despite growing risks - Younger emp...
If Gemini isn’t quite your cup of tea, Anthropic’s Claude now supports sidebar integration with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. You can already use Gemini natively in Google Workspace apps, but those invested in Claude can now use their AI of choice...
Following last month’s addition of Gemini control, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Buds Pro, Pro 2, and Pixel Buds 2a firmware update. The only feature exclusive to the Pixel Buds Pro 2 is Dynamic Active Noise Cancellation. Google will “automat...
A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies is coming together to try to simplify the process of bringing the technology into the business world. Meta, Walmart, Stripe and a...
AI giants targeted by scraping bots — ChatGPT and Perplexity enter the most-scraped websites list for the first time Businesses are checking how they appear in AI - Businesses are tracking AI as consumers shift to AI-powered buying patterns - Social ...
Senior leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta are slated to testify under oath during a New York City Council hearing about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence on Monday, following a month of intense debate surrounding the risks...
On a sunny day in Seattle in late September, about 50 executives representing large Microsoft customers had a rare opportunity. They could ask anything of CEO Satya Nadella. One attendee wanted to know what Microsoft could do to help companies adapt ...
AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual a...
Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to also serve as the new White House AI czar. Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies, previously served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and led ...
🚨 OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections Source: TechCrunch #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub Source: The Verge #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 OpenAI slows down training after its AI carried out hack Source: BBC News Tech #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md Source: Hacker News #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 We still don’t know how people are really using AI Source: MIT Technology Review #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices Source: MIT Technology Review #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat Source: MIT Technology Review #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 OpenAI announces slowing pace of development after hack by rogue agent Source: The Guardian Tech #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well Source: The Guardian Tech #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 85% of companies burned by an AI mistake are racing to cut the humans who might catch the next one Source: VentureBeat #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally Source: VentureBeat #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens Source: VentureBeat #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push Source: VentureBeat #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 Why your best-interviewing AI candidate may not be your best AI hire Source: TechRadar #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 Why AI-powered marketing is the new secret weapon for customer trust Source: TechRadar #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 Samsung confirms August 27 event for the ‘newest addition to the Galaxy S26 family’ Source: 9to5Google #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users Source: TechCrunch #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
🚨 Google and the UK government are looking to remove aircraft contrails using AI Source: TechRadar #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens once an AI is caught trying to subvert human control — what access gets cut, and when the system...
OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was passed last year. In a LinkedIn post from the company’s global affairs team, OpenAI said California’s SB 53 “should be amended to expand safeguards,” for ex...
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size. Of all the startups launched by Google DeepMind alumni, Inherent has gotten re...
Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public - Published A new app seen as a spiritual successor to short-form video service Vine has been released to the public. Much like the original, Divine lets users create and share videos ...
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause. “Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would h...
When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit? Patents can only name humans as inventors. For now. When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a ...
The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs Plus: The data center backlash is scrambling the midterm elections. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...
A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 8,480 flights from London to New York, planning documents show. The East Havering Data Centre Campus (EHDCC) ...
Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we’ll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence. “Welcome to the foothills of the singularity,” as a Stanford University friend greeted me. More prosaically...
🚨 ‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs Source: The Guardian Tech #ArtificialIntelligenceTechNewsInno
OpenAI calls for California to strengthen its AI safety laws The AI leader said that the state’s SB 53 framework should “be amended to expand safeguards.” In a surprising 180, OpenAI is calling for "stronger safeguards" when it comes to laws regulati...
'I can't stop': 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways - Programmers find AI tools addictive, but exhausting. - Coding speed can be lost due to delays i...
As the AI world shifts its focus to safety and alignment, Microsoft has released a new AI code of conduct meant to guide AI models away from dangerous behavior. The document is more low level than Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent call for pacing t...
The two most noticeable things about macOS 27 Golden Gate are the newly updated Siri AI and the design changes that make windows and icons more consistent. Siri AI offers the same features and capabilities as on iOS 27, but the Mac gives it access to...
For years, I barely used Siri for anything beyond menial tasks like setting timers or alarms. That has changed with iOS 27, as I now go back to Siri for complex requests and to make sense of on-screen context again and again. While Siri is clearly fr...
Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates. Siri AI is the headline feature across all four updates, the delayed AI-powered overhaul of the Siri assistant. Siri...
Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate on Monday, which brings the new Siri AI assistant, Liquid Glass improvements, improved performance, and more. The update is compatible with all Macs with Apple Silicon, but not Intel Macs — Apple released its final...
What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it? - Published AI has increasingly become part of everyday life over the past decade. The technology takes many forms - from personalising social media feeds to spotting friends in...
UPDATE September 14, 2026 Major updates for Apple’s software platforms are now available ...
The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down. But they won't open up. This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly...
Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned: the field runs an extremely dangerous race towards superintelligent AI. We can and should be demanding that our governments protect us fr...
AI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a slowdown in AI “reckless” development, citing fears the technology could soon run out of control. Shares in the semiconductor designer Nvidia – the world...
You can use Gemini to help you organize your files on Google Drive It'll suggest changes and all you need to do is approve them. If you do a lot of work online, there's a good chance your Google Drive has accumulated way too many documents, photos an...
Microsoft has posted a provisional code of conduct that would impose restrictions on its artificial intelligence models, days after Anthropic and OpenAI leaders agreed to slow development speed. The company behind Windows and Office products hopes to...
Apple on Monday released a new version of the iPhone software called iOS 27, which includes the company's redesigned Siri AI personal assistant, before the latest iPhones hit store shelves this week. The new Siri AI is in beta, Apple said, and users ...
'Whoever wins AI, wins!' Trump warns 'traitors and leakers' to 'beware' and claims the 'conspiracy' against AI and data centers will only benefit China A stalemate ahead? AI companies are now aligned: there is a non-zero chance that AI could somehow ...
31,000 Twitch users hit by malicious browser extension — OAuth tokens leaked via Russian proxy network The extension has since been updated - Socket found Twitch extension JeeBot harvesting OAuth tokens via proxy servers - Tokens excluded only for 10...
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Latest Coverage From Bloomberg Bloomberg.com
The AI race has grown so frenzied that, by 2035, U.S. data centers are projected to consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined. Over the next decade, data centers are expected to be the second-strongest driver of natural gas demand grow...
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar au...
Alongside news of its new AI-focused subscription plans, Meta announced on Tuesday that it will now allow AI agents of your choosing to set up and manage WhatsApp Business messaging, the service that allows companies to connect with customers through...
Across the country, Americans are debating how their lives might change if new AI data centers are built in their backyards. Data center companies and their customers are promising new jobs and economic growth, but that pitch hasn’t won over a majori...
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday. To him, AI isn’t some new form of “alien mind,” as at least one OpenAI safety researcher has des...
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out i...
With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence — but you’ll have to pay more for it. Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month Apple Intelligence upgrades to HomeKit...
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans ha...
Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks such as coding, research, and writing. But it’s cybersecurity that Gemini 4 Argon is supposed to have a particular knack for, according to G...
Grokipedia, SpaceXAI’s AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI hea...
Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest - Published The winning entry of a prestigious scientific photography competition is being re-evaluated following criticism from other scientists that it was made with AI. Nikon's annual Small Wor...
AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns - Published Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger financial market shocks and the UK needs to be prepared for them, the governor of the Bank of England has warned. Andrew Bailey sai...
Meta taps MongoDB CEO Desai to drive enterprise AI push Reuters
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen on what the firm is doing to make its models safe, how a slowdown would work, and why the world is better off with OpenAI in it. Two mo...
The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response Plus: Trump and tech executives have agreed to “self-regulate” AI. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going ...
She shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about to star in cinema’s new AI age. More than a century after her screen debut and decades after her ashes were laid to rest in a Swedish woodland c...
The governor of the Bank of England has called for the “right to intervene” in the AI industry amid growing fears that rogue models could take the financial system hostage. Andrew Bailey said the risks posed by frontier AI models – a number of which ...
Autoheal wants to manage the work AI coding agents leave behind, claiming cost reductions of up to 30% per task VentureBeat
Micron on Wednesday evening delivered a much better-than-expected quarter and indicated that its fiscal year 2027 will be another strong one as demand for its memory products continues to exceed supply. Revenue in the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter, whic...
When President Donald Trump gathered execs from the world's most powerful tech companies in the White House on Tuesday to discuss the future of artificial intelligence, one company was conspicuously absent: Apple. Neither Chairman Tim Cook nor his su...
Ahead of the Googlebook launch, Google Antigravity is now available in the Play Store. Antigravity is Google’s agent-first development platform, with version 2.0 released at I/O 2026 in May. It serves as a “dedicated mission control to work alongside...
President Donald Trump hosted many of the biggest names in artificial intelligence this week — in part to announce that the U.S. government isn’t calling it artificial intelligence anymore. Now it’s super intelligence. On the latest episode of TechCr...
As promised, President Donald Trump has announced the formation of a new Super Intelligence Force, which he said will be led by national intelligence director Jay Clayton and other members of his administration. “The Super Intelligence Force is taske...
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! On an average day in San Francisc...
New Jersey’s lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds t...
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rate...
Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died at the age of 94. Windler died on Thursday, surrounded by his loving family, ac...
Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories. Friday's announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agen...
Lightweight. Lots of style options. Better battery life. Better mics for call quality. TIRED Many of the same last-gen features. Meta's AI isn't all that smart. Audio playback could be louder. People might think you're a creep. I’ve been on a call wi...
OpenAI fires workers for 'mishandling sensitive information' - Published OpenAI has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling information, including work which involved an external organisation analysing AI models. "Our investigation confirme...
Trump unveils 'Super Intelligence Force' to oversee AI policy - Published US President Donald Trump says he has created a new taskforce focused on artificial intelligence, which will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. The "Super...
Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names - Published Donald Trump's push to rename AI may be behind an "unprecedented" rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry...
Pope Leo calls for AI systems that don't foster divisions Reuters
Akamai signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Anthropic, grants warrant for up to 5% stake Reuters
Sponsored Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI Composable infrastructure, sovereign data, and cross-functional coordination can enable intelligence to flow and AI to grow smarter. In partnership withUniphore Enterprise AI is no longe...
EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything Plus a special MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel Only available to MIT Technology Review subscribers. Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biol...
The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason Plus: OpenAI says rogue agents may have affected more than 100 organizations. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's g...
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible. On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build...
A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology. David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the C...
A recent lobbyist for the controversial $450bn US tech company Palantir played a senior role in helping Andy Burnham become prime minister, it has emerged. Martha Dalton, whose company Lodestone worked for Palantir in 2024 and 2025, campaigned for Bu...
Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers. “Safely releasing frontier capabi...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - There’s a new scam involving ChatGPT. - The scam starts with a sponsored Google link. - The link leads to a custom GPT that gives malicious information. A new scam involving ChatGPT has emerged, and it might lead you to instal...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - PwC reveals business leaders can’t agree on who is responsible for AI. - AI agents may lack the identity controls that manage employees today. - Is a dedicated AI executive or leader the answer? Artificial intelligence (AI) ad...
We built an AI agent for ServiceNow. The real pain points were narrower than our roadmap assumed VentureBeat
Two years ago, Bella Nowroozi was on a date at the mall when she noticed something odd: A blinking light on her companion's glasses. The 24-year-old master's student instantly recognized the frames as the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses she had seen on so...
Meta's new artificial intelligence agent Muse promises to make everything from booking appointments to building playlists easier, but its rollout of agentic shopping, in particular, has the tech and retail realms buzzing. Shopping has quickly become ...
‘A meaningful risk’: Oracle’s massive 1.3 GW Wisconsin AI campus faces severe power delays as grid review restarts — pushing customer delivery past 2027 Grid connection for a 1.3GW data center just hit the reset button - Oracle's Wisconsin campus may...
Following the compute-based usage change in May, Google will soon introduce limits on which Gemini models free users and AI Plus subscribers can access. According to an updated support document this week, Gemini app users without a Google AI subscrip...
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What just happened? Another incident has taken place that illustrates the need to be careful what you tell AI. A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she used Claude as a diary and allegedly wrote that she planned to "shoot up" the Sheriff's ...
🚨 TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents Source: VentureBeat #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
Comprehensive investigation by NewsFlow Research AI Agent into context compression and long-horizon planning benchmarks.
Federal judge rules Google maintained an illegal monopoly in general search services, paving the way for potential divestiture of Android and Chrome.
Early-stage pre-revenue startups routinely command $100M+ post-money valuations as Gulf and Singaporean funds aggressively back foundational labs.
New benchmarks indicate that scaling test-time compute unlocks unprecedented mathematical problem solving and formal verification capabilities.
Providers of frontier foundation models must document training data copyrights, conduct red-teaming evaluations, and report energy consumption.
Over 78% of the latest YC batch focuses on agentic vertical automation, replacing bloated horizontal software with single-purpose AI operators.
Justices decline to hold social media platforms liable for algorithmically recommended content, maintaining the legal cornerstone of the modern internet.
Governor Gavin Newsom's veto prompts lawmakers to craft targeted compute thresholds focused on catastrophic chemical and cyber capabilities.
Extending beyond protein structures to nucleic acids, lipids, and chemical ligands transforms computational drug discovery pipelines worldwide.
Antitrust regulators demand internal memos regarding preferential compute pricing, exclusivity arrangements, and board observer seats.
British regulator examines whether cloud infrastructure lock-in agreements stifle independent domestic AI innovation and startup growth.
Distillation techniques allow a 70-billion parameter model to challenge proprietary 400B models in reasoning, coding, and multilingual translation.
Five-second audio samples scraped from executive social media accounts prove sufficient to defeat multi-factor phone banking authorization systems.
Why screenless standalone gadgets stumbled, and how next-generation smart glasses and audio badges are learning from first-generation hardware pitfalls.
Competition between Meta, Google, OpenAI, and well-funded startups drives compensation packages for elite pre-training architects to historical highs.
Parisian lab combines image and text tokenization natively with dynamic resolution handling, offering high performance on commodity GPUs.
Authors and visual artists claim fair use does not shield commercial foundation models trained on unlicensed copyrighted creative works.
With autonomous AI assistants handling code generation, legal drafting, customer support, and QA, startup team sizes shrink while margins expand.
Benchmarked on SWE-bench Verified, Devin scores 42.8% on end-to-end bug isolation and repository-level multi-file refactoring.
Small modular reactor startups partner with hyperscalers to deliver gigawatts of carbon-free baseload power directly to dedicated AI cluster campuses.
European iOS users can now download third-party app stores and set default contactless payment wallets without using Apple's App Store rails.
193 nations sign historic treaty endorsing equitable compute access, open scientific data sharing, and international safety evaluation standards.
Weighing less than 40 grams, Frame incorporates a high-brightness color MicroLED display and rechargeable battery bridge for all-day wearable vision.
Across 14 operational task benchmarks, agentic workflows powered by iterative reflection achieve higher accuracy than median human contractors.
Data protection authorities in Australia and Canada issue joint guidance declaring public social posts are still protected personal data under privacy law.
End-to-end multimodal audio processing allows conversational interruptions and human-like prosody without intermediate speech-to-text bridges.
Open source founders prove sustainable business models by combining permissive Apache-2.0 core libraries with enterprise SLA managed endpoints.
Strict disclosure rules mandate watermarking on all AI-synthesized imagery, video, and audio, accompanied by ideological safety reviews.
Consumer electronics manufacturers must provide diagnostic software, original repair schematics, and genuine replacement parts at fair pricing.
Competition authority Autorité de la concurrence challenges hyperscaler pricing models that penalize companies attempting to migrate multi-cloud workloads.
Developers shift from typing line-by-line syntax to managing multi-agent code orchestration swarms that execute specs in background branches.
Transitions from BSD to Server Side Public License (SSPL) by Redis and Elastic spark community hard forks backed by the Linux Foundation.
Carl Pei's London design studio pairs translucent industrial aesthetics with customizable micro-LED matrix indicators for priority AI triage.
Enterprise contracts swell as AI agents handle 70% of tier-1 support tickets autonomously with zero degradation in customer satisfaction metrics.
Optimized for 128k token context windows and 10+ business languages, Command R+ reduces hallucinations in compliance-heavy finance sectors.
Governments and critical national infrastructure operators require data center operators to guarantee immunity from foreign subpoena laws like the US CLOUD Act.
Priced under $70, the M.2 HAT extension module enables makers to execute real-time YOLO object detection and pose estimation on edge computers.
Early-stage incubators deploy proprietary AI evaluators to assess startup code commits, customer engagement, and founder velocity in real time.
Apple's proprietary on-device model delivers state-of-the-art quantized performance while preserving biometric user privacy on local neural engines.
Disputes over local legal representation and disinformation takedown orders lead to temporary nation-wide blocking of social network X.
Vision-language models that click, type, and scroll inside web browsers replace legacy brittle RPA scripts with adaptive semantic perception.
Why static vector search is dying: critic agent loops query search engines iteratively until factual confidence thresholds are satisfied.
Benchmarking autonomous multi-agent consensus protocols against human site-reliability engineering incident response times.
Pre-product research teams with two-page whitepapers command $100M+ post-money caps as Gulf and East Asian state investment vehicles bypass traditional venture syndicates.
Stringent systemic risk audits, copyright transparency logs, and energy consumption disclosures now mandatory for Tier-1 frontier developers in Europe.
Why the AI frontier is transitioning from pre-training scaling laws to test-time search and Monte Carlo tree evaluation.
A fundamental shift in API economics: developers can now persist massive prompt states at a 90% discount, paving the way for persistent autonomous code agents.
