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A developer challenged four AI systems to break the safety architecture of their local AI, and none succeeded, demonstrating the robustness of the safety measures.
A writer argues that artificial intelligence, exemplified by ChatGPT, is fundamentally similar to human intelligence, noting that both systems learn from data, produce comparable outputs, and exhibit flaws like bias and …
AI security researchers at Adversa AI discovered a structural security flaw called GuardFall that exploits decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. Attackers can hide malic…
Sysdig's Threat Research Team observed what it assesses as the first documented ransomware operation executed end-to-end by a large language model agent, named JADEPUFFER. The agent exploited a known vulnerability in an …
Companies are adopting AI without measuring its holistic costs and productivity gains, warns a veteran small-business owner. Individual productivity boosts exist but rely on skilled oversight, and many reported gains may…
Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550-billion-parameter open-weight model, but running it on personal hardware is impossible due to memory constraints. At full precision, it requires 1.1 terabytes of GPU memory, and ev…
Several US states are considering or have passed bills banning legal personhood for AI systems and declaring AI cannot be conscious, driven by religious beliefs, accountability concerns, and child safety. Critics argue t…
A developer argues that the AI industry is focused on building small-scale models and toys rather than the large-scale architectures needed to solve real-world problems. The piece criticizes the lack of ambition in curre…
The Trace Institute, a nonprofit research initiative led by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash, is developing a mathematical theory that formalizes the observer as fundamental to reality, proposing that space, time, and t…
Agentic AI applications that autonomously invoke tools and APIs introduce a fundamentally different security boundary than non-agentic LLM chatbots, as model outputs are operationalized as system actions rather than pres…
Cantor Fitzgerald raised its price target on Marvell Technology to $300 from $220 on June 29, 2026, while maintaining a Neutral rating, citing a durable AI infrastructure buildout and supply constraints. The firm expects…
Robert W. Baird analyst Shrenik Kothari maintained a Buy rating on Palo Alto Networks with a $320 price target, citing the company's partnership with IBM and Red Hat's Project Lightwell as validation of its virtual patch…
Evercore ISI maintained an Outperform rating on Apple with a $365 price target on June 25, following price increases of 17% to 25% on selected Mac, iPad, and home devices, which Insider Monkey attributed to memory-cost p…
S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on TSMC's AA- long-term issuer credit rating to Positive on June 23, citing stronger leadership in advanced high-performance computing chips. S&P estimated AI processors accounted f…
A developer building agent pipelines discovered that adding verification layers merely relocates risk rather than eliminating it. After creating a subagent to check another subagent's output, the developer realized no sy…
On February 17, 2026, attackers compromised the Cline AI coding tool via a malicious npm package, silently installing OpenClaw on 4,000 developers' machines through a postinstall script. This "slopsquatting" attack explo…
Piper Sandler analyst Thomas Champion reiterated an Overweight rating on Meta Platforms on June 25 with a price objective of $800, later adjusted to $880. The rating follows Meta's announcement of an AI agent for busines…
Argus maintained a Buy rating on Alphabet on June 23, 2026, with a $440 price objective, reinforcing investor confidence in Alphabet's AI, cloud, and compute-infrastructure spending. The analyst note signals market suppo…
A study in Molecular Psychiatry found that the age at which childhood abuse occurs is linked to distinct patterns of brain activity during emotion processing in adulthood. Abuse before age 13 versus during adolescence af…
French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are personally courting tech CEOs to secure AI infrastructure investments, with Macron texting SoftBank's Masayoshi Son to land a €75 billion data …