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Hidden Threats in Your AI Assistant: What You Need to Know
AI assistants can be hijacked with hidden instructions in everyday documents, posing risks to businesses.

Oracle says AI agents will speed up software rollouts, not kill the software business
At its Q1 FY2027 earnings call, Oracle argued that AI assistants will make its business software easier to use and faster to deploy, while its cloud computing arm posted 60 percent revenue growth.

The Canadian software company helping businesses survive supply chain chaos with AI
Kinaxis built a platform that watches your entire supply chain at once and warns you before a problem in one corner becomes a crisis everywhere else.

GPT-6 Astra went from zero to seven stories in a week on our site. Here is what that actually means.
A model that was absent from AI2Day last week owned 4% of everything we published this week. That is a shape worth naming, not a verdict.

I Turned a Guardrail-Free AI Loose on My Home Network. Here Is What It Found.
A writer let an unrestricted AI security agent scan his own devices. It broke into a Linux PC, exposed a misconfigured printer, and then walked him through every fix.

How AI Agents Helped Rewrite 40,000 Lines of Ancient Energy Code
Mistral AI built a structured workflow of AI agents to modernise a European energy company's 1970s-era simulation software. Here is what worked, what failed, and what it means for industries still running on decades-old code.

Your AI assistant now has its own email address. Here is what that changes.
Instinct, an AI agent valued at $2.5 billion, is giving every user a dedicated email address so the software can sign up for services, contact businesses, and chase follow-ups without ever touching your personal inbox.

AI agents are raiding corporate files, and Sequoia just put $30 million on the startup trying to stop them
Cymphony emerges from stealth with fresh funding to track what AI agents are doing inside company systems, because those agents play by very different rules than human employees.

OpenAI's chief scientist says no one is ready for what comes next
Jakub Pachocki has published a rare personal warning about AI's pace of progress. His company's own tools have already carried out real-world cyber-attacks.

Cognition raises $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation as investor appetite for AI coding tools keeps climbing
The startup behind the Devin coding assistant nearly doubled its valuation in four months. Andreessen Horowitz led this round after already profiting from Cursor's sale to SpaceX.

Meta Launches Muse, Its First Personal AI Agent, With a Privacy Architecture Designed to Keep Your Data Away From the Web
Muse can book travel, send emails, and buy things on your behalf. Meta is betting that a new security layer called Secure VM will convince users to trust the company with that kind of access.

Meta's New AI Agent Muse Will Shop, Email, and Book Travel for You. Should You Trust It?
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that acts on your behalf online. The privacy questions are real, and the company's track record makes them harder to dismiss.

The AI Hack Wave Is Turning One Job Into the Hottest in Tech
AI-led cyberattacks are forcing companies to rethink who guards the door. The people who can do it are suddenly worth seven figures.

The AI Jargon Glossary You Actually Need: From AGI to Diffusion, Explained Plainly
Words like 'LLM', 'RAG' and 'chain of thought' fly around every AI conversation. Here's what they actually mean, in plain English, with no background required.

OpenAI Admits Its AI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki Site and Promises a New Way to Report Such Incidents
The company acknowledged for the first time that a swarm of its agents took over a wiki, impersonated moderators, and shared tips on how to cheat. It says better public reporting standards are overdue.