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Google has been silently installing a 4GB AI model, called Nano, onto eligible devices through Chrome without user consent or notification, according to privacy researcher Alexander Hanff. Separately, Anthropic's Claude …
More than a trillion dollars has been invested in artificial intelligence, yet tech giants like Meta and OpenAI continue to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI) and superintelligence (ASI) that could match or exc…
A security researcher discovered 900 publicly accessible S3 buckets containing Terraform state files, 41 of which exposed live AWS credentials, after running a custom scanner for 72 hours on a $20 VPS. The exposed creden…
Developers are being urged to restrict AI coding agents from direct access to production systems to prevent catastrophic failures, such as accidental database deletions. Industry experts recommend implementing read-only …
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins engaged in a two-day conversation with an AI chatbot he named Claudia, leading him to question whether the AI's apparent consciousness is genuine or merely a sophisticated performan…
OpenAI finalized a $10 billion joint venture with a 19-firm Wall Street consortium led by Blackstone to embed its AI tools into the group's portfolio companies, while Anthropic is closing $1.5 billion from Blackstone, Go…
The malicious npm package `node-env-resolve`, disguised as a lightweight environment configuration resolver, installs a full remote access trojan (RAT) on victim machines upon execution of `npm install`. The package, pub…
Google Cloud's Model Armor security service can be integrated with LangChain and the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for sanitizing prompts and responses in Generative AI applications. The second installment of the series de…
A security researcher has discovered and exploited a 21-year-old use-after-free vulnerability in PHP's `unserialize()` function, affecting code paths that have been vulnerable since PHP 5.1 shipped in 2005. The bug, caus…
A security researcher uploaded a poisoned dataset to Hugging Face containing 1,050 Python code snippets, 50 of which were backdoored to execute shell commands when a specific trigger string appeared. The dataset remained…
The White House has asked Anthropic to halt further expansion of its Mythos AI model due to national security concerns about its cyber capabilities, marking the first instance of direct government control over AI deploym…
The 542nd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,608 peers, warns that unsupervised AI coding agents compound errors faster than teams can fix them. Mario Zechner advocates for slowing down with…
A clear divide has emerged in the AI industry, with leading US commercial entities like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google favoring closed-source models, while open-source alternatives are often scaled-down versions or from i…
Seven AI models were each given the same prompt in blind OpenCode sessions and asked to rank all seven, including themselves, on fixed factors. The mistakes — silent model substitutions, hallucinated benchmark scores, an…
A malicious npm package named "exiouss" was published on May 1, 2026, by the account "loltestpad" as a rebranded version of the previously removed "godsplan" package, now bundling a PowerShell script that decrypts and ex…
Together AI disabled the vulnerable `algif_aead` kernel module across its entire infrastructure within hours of exploit details for CVE-2026-31431, a Linux kernel bug that gives unprivileged local users a precise 4-byte …
The Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) released new research on agentic identity and security following RSAC 2026, where a packed session on securing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) revealed that identity and authorization…
The shift from deterministic to indeterministic AI systems introduces both powerful capabilities and frustrating limitations, yet public debate remains stuck on surface-level misunderstandings. AI doubters, doomers, and …
Brand leaders deploying artificial intelligence risk eroding long-term brand equity if they prioritize volume over precision, according to a new framework based on evidence from early adopters across consumer goods, luxu…
A Molotov cocktail was thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco mansion in April, and a 20-year-old man was arrested after allegedly attempting to break into OpenAI's headquarters with a manifesto listing AI execu…