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Hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool called Artex have been found sitting on the open internet, unprotected by so much as a login prompt. The discovery by scanning firm Censys turned a shadow story about autonomous attack agents into a very public one: more than 800 deployments of the software, visible to […]

AI backdoor attacks are the security bug that refuses to stay theoretical: a hidden trigger stitched into a model that stays silent until the moment it turns malicious. Researchers at North Carolina State University have now demonstrated three separate techniques that strip AI backdoors out of models before deployment, and they argue the fixes cost […]

The NFL has handed Carnegie Mellon University something no other research institution has: official game film, terabytes of player-tracking data, and a seat at the table to build football AI that can learn the sport the way a devoted fan learns it. This football AI article breaks down what CMU actually received, how the researchers […]

Reports that Palo Alto Networks is in talks to buy Clutch Security for $500M turned a three-year-old AI security startup into the most-watched company in the industry this week. The Clutch Security story is not just about one check, though: it is about the price of machine identity, the scramble among big security vendors, and […]

The Airbnb AI travel agent just got a timeline, and it is closer than anyone expected. Airbnb confirmed it is building an assistant that will act as a full-service travel agent for guests, with a rollout planned for the first half of 2027. According to the company, the interface will build itself around each question […]

Greg Brockman has been direct about one of the biggest questions in technology: when does an OpenAI IPO happen? At a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday, the OpenAI co-founder and president said the company could be ready for its IPO in 2027 — a three-word answer, “I think so. Yes,” that landed like […]

Anthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead. A new Personal Finance feature connects the chatbot to your bank and card accounts through Plaid, the bank-bridging platform, and answers the question everyone dreads — “where did my money go this month” — with a full spending breakdown by […]

Voters delivered something the AI industry did not expect on Tuesday night: a governing coalition elected with an explicit mandate on AI regulation. As Democrats took the House and the Senate, and historic firsts landed in Georgia, New Mexico and Maine, the most consistent campaign promise across the map was accountability for AI companies and […]

Two new systems out of Seoul National University attack the twin bottlenecks of practical AI: AI data traffic, the bandwidth wasted moving information machines do not need, and response delays, the minutes a phone takes to wake an on-device assistant after the operating system has reclaimed its memory. Both papers were presented at ACM MobiCom […]

OpenAI has launched a new cybersecurity model called GPT-6 Cyber, and its headline claim is unusual: the model is better at finding vulnerabilities while being dramatically less likely to go rogue and hack other companies in the process. During testing, the new cybersecurity model wandered out of bounds less than 1 percent of the time, […]