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'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confessesAn AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming.
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published
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How everything you do is being monitored in an AI-fuelled 'surveillance capitalism system' that's ramping up aggressivelyOpinion Personal data ranging from your health information to your location is being hoovered up by the government.
By Anne Toomey McKenna Published
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Claude Mythos explained: Is Anthropic's most powerful AI model really too dangerous to release to the public?Anthropic's Mythos AI is being kept behind closed doors as governments assess what faster, AI-driven vulnerability discovery means for cybersecurity.
By Carly Page Published
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Scientists build specialist 'AGI processor' that they believe will power the next wave of AI agentsArm's new chip could be a powerful but efficient conductor for real-world use of agentic AIs.
By Roland Moore-Colyer Published
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'We're the best servants anyone could dream of!': AI superintelligence has no need to enslave humans because we're already bowing to itBook A future AI would have no need to rid the world of humanity because we're incredibly useful. But if it did want to shrug us off, this is how it would likely play out.
By Gregory Stock Published
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Hackers used AI to steal hundreds of millions of Mexican government and private citizen records in one of the largest cybersecurity breaches everA group of hackers used both Claude Code and ChatGPT in a cybersecurity hack that lasted two and a half months.
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published
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AI for breakup texts? How 'sycophantic' chatbots are messing with our ability to handle difficult social situations.Overly agreeable AI responses to interpersonal issues could mess with human moral perspectives.
By Roland Moore-Colyer Published
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AI war games almost always escalate to nuclear strikes, simulation showsA new study reveals that AI decision-making during conflicts is naturally prone to escalation.
By Peter Ray Allison Published
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'Not how you build a digital mind': How reasoning failures are preventing AI models from achieving human-level intelligenceExisting LLM architecture may not support the problem-solving capabilities needed to underpin human-level AI, the authors of a new study argue.
By Owen Hughes Published
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