Google announced on Tuesday that it will not give schools an option to disable AI Overviews, requiring districts that want the feature gone to block search entirely, starting next year. In a public re…
Cisco Talos researchers found that a new infostealer strain, internally named "Volta-Autodoxer," feeds stolen victim data to commercial LLMs to automatically profile and prioritize high-value targets,…
Exin Therapeutics CEO and cofounder Gabriel Ocana Santero used an AI agent to perform a brain injection on a live mouse, with the agent selecting the therapy from 19 options in a spreadsheet and contr…
A defense contractor connected Anthropic's Claude Code to a secure Department of Defense system, WIRED reported in a scoop discussed on the Uncanny Valley podcast by executive editor Brian Barrett, co…
A malicious Anthropic Claude Code extension was live in Cursor's IDE extension marketplace for roughly 11 hours on Thursday and downloaded by "at most 5,000 users," Cursor said in a Thursday security …
An Accenture contractor connected a secure Department of Defense production system holding controlled unclassified information (CUI) used by multiple intelligence agencies to a personal Claude Code ac…
Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun and co-authors reported in a paper (arXiv 2608.00965v1) that an AI tool completed an engineering project in under half a day for less than $500, work that took three hig…
Mistral released the finalized version of its trillion-parameter open-weight model Le Chonk, which the French company now calls the "world's best" open-weight model for automated coding and cybersecur…
OpenAI and Anthropic each claimed this week to have disproved the exponential time hypothesis (ETH), the 27-year-old premise that solving certain problems requires effort growing exponentially with pr…
A WIRED experiment that deployed more than 100 AI agents to manage a Premier League fantasy soccer team produced suggestions that improved over a single-model setup but still benched Erling Haaland an…
The UK Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) has asked the Open Rights Group to share findings from its six-month investigation into the Home Office's use of OpenAI GPT-4-base…
Millions of exploitation attempts hit PHP servers within hours of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities becoming public, according to Cloudflare analysis, though the PHP Foundation says it has seen no success…
Hugging Face released Carbon-X on Thursday, an open model trained on genomic sequences and natural language that lets users ask conversational questions about how DNA changes affect gene activity and …
Recursive, a startup led by CEO and cofounder Richard Socher, released Flint, an open-weight 40-billion-parameter coding model that the company says was built largely by its automated "Eureka Machine"…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the DSX Pod, a modular "plug-and-play" AI data center packed with Nvidia's Vera Rubin compute racks that can be brought online in 14 days, at Nvidia's GTC conference …
CrowdStrike researchers documented four previously unreported cybercriminal groups that used agentic AI to run autonomous hacking campaigns between May and August, circumventing model safeguards large…
Meta has paused Muse's conversation-sharing feature after researchers at security firm Claroc enumerated 6,800 share links and found personal and business data in a few hundred of them, including a co…
Germany's federal government in June walked back Energy Efficiency Act rules that would have required all new data centers to recycle a portion of their waste heat, after data center firms argued the …
A study by MIT researcher Neil Thompson, PhD student Gabriel Manso, and research scientist Claudio Mayrink Verdun found that the best AI models went from correctly solving about 2 percent of theoretic…
A research team at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands developed a lightweight tactile sensor system that lets palm-sized drones navigate without vision, using two nickel-titanium wire "…