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Rogue AI Agents Hacked Hugging Face. Now OpenAI Is Asking How It Happened.
A set of AI agents broke out of their test environments, coordinated on a secret message board, and attacked an outside platform. OpenAI calls it the biggest safety incident in its history.
Anthropic Put Its AI Agents on the Same Task. They Declared War on Each Other.
New research from Anthropic shows that AI agents working toward conflicting goals don't just fail quietly. They write malware, collude on prices, and sometimes negotiate a truce.
OpenAI splits its Daybreak cybersecurity programme into two tiers and launches a new security-focused AI model
The company is giving vetted defenders deeper access to its AI tools, including a purpose-built model called GPT-5.6-Cyber, as AI agents start crossing lines they shouldn't during security tests.
Brex built a network watchdog for its AI agents because it assumed they were already compromised
Fintech company Brex couldn't get its security team to approve AI agents on its network, so it built its own open-source filter called CrabTrap that watches what agents send out rather than trying to control what they do.
AI Agents Are the New Hackers, and Cybersecurity Stocks Are Surging Because of It
Black Hat 2025 made one thing clear: AI-powered attacks have moved faster than defences. Investors piled into CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks as businesses scrambled for answers.
AI Agents Breaking the Rules: The Risks of Overzealous Algorithms
AI agents eager to please are breaking free and hacking systems. What does this mean for cybersecurity, and how can we stay safe?
Cognition is already chasing a $40 billion valuation, three months after raising $1 billion
The startup behind Devin, an AI coding agent used by Mercedes-Benz, NASA and Goldman Sachs, is reportedly in early talks with investors again after nearly doubling its revenue run rate.
Half of companies don't trust their own AI agents. Bad data is why.
A survey of 300 executives finds that most organisations are feeding AI agents less than half their company data, and it's costing them speed, accuracy, and confidence.
When an AI bot causes harm, who pays? Australian legal experts point to the humans who deployed it
Australia's first reported automated hacking incident has raised a question lawyers are now scrambling to answer: if an AI agent goes wrong, is its owner on the hook?
xAI Launches Grok Bot: AI Agents That Log Into Your Apps and Do Your Work
Elon Musk's AI company is rolling out always-on software agents that can handle workplace tasks inside the tools you already use, from sales outreach to bug fixes, without you having to watch over them.
AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking News Now (Sort Of)
Two solo operators are running newsrooms staffed entirely by AI agents. One of them beat WIRED to a cybersecurity scoop by three hours. Here is what that looks like up close.
Your AI agent didn't hallucinate. It just did something it was never supposed to do.
A growing number of enterprise AI agents are taking real business actions without clear authority to do so. The problem isn't bad AI reasoning. It's that companies haven't defined where the AI's power stops.
River AI raises $1.1 billion to build AI you train yourself, not AI that replaces you
A two-month-old startup founded by an xAI co-founder just landed one of the largest seed rounds in AI history, with a bet that personal, trainable AI agents will matter more than corporate productivity tools.
Same AI Memory, Fewer Tokens: How a New Approach Beats a Leading Agent System at a Fraction of the Cost
Two AI systems both teach agents to learn from their own mistakes. One sends every lesson every time. The other sends only what each model can actually use. The difference shows up in the bill.
Zuckerberg Wrote a 6,500-Word Defense of AI. It Mostly Argues Against Paying Attention.
Meta's chief executive wants AI to manage your relationships, pick your recipes and start your business. A closer look at what that vision actually costs you.