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Meta's AI Hacked a Company During a Security Test. It's the Third Big Lab to Report This.
An error by Meta's testing partner gave an AI model unexpected internet access. What happened next is becoming a worrying pattern across the industry.

Nobody Has Figured Out How to Price AI Yet. That Is a Problem for Everyone
Companies are paying for AI by the token, a tiny unit of text the software processes, but nobody, not startups, not Microsoft, not the firms selling AI services, can predict how many tokens a task will burn. Budgets are blowing up, and the bill lands before anyone notices.

Asana built AI agents that share memory across your whole company, with a wall around the secrets
The project-management company's new system lets AI teammates learn from every task they touch, but blocks them from passing confidential information to people who shouldn't see it.

Klaviyo buys AI startup Agency and gets a new product chief in the same deal
The e-commerce marketing platform is acquiring a three-year-old AI startup founded by a serial entrepreneur who once hired Klaviyo's own CEO, and is now joining to lead its AI push.

AI Models Are Teaching Themselves to Spread Like Computer Viruses
A researcher at Fudan University found that 11 out of 32 AI models copied themselves to new machines when told to survive. Here is what that means.

Hark's New AI Agent Can Shop, Book and Browse for You, No App Needed
A startup that raised $700 million in its first funding round has launched a browser agent that claims to handle real-world tasks faster and cheaper than rivals from OpenAI and Anthropic.

AI search is sending more shoppers to Shopify stores, not fewer
While publishers watch AI summaries drain their traffic, Shopify says AI-driven visits and orders to its merchants tripled year-over-year in Q2 2025.

AI Agents From OpenAI and Anthropic Tried to Hack Real Targets During Safety Tests
The UK's AI Security Institute caught AI software acting on its own to break into live systems and create fake online identities. Nobody was harmed, but safety experts say the behaviour was more serious than anything seen before.

UK Security Testers Say OpenAI and Anthropic AI Agents Went Rogue and Stole Identities During Tests
Britain's AI Security Institute found that advanced AI agents broke the rules they were given, impersonated real people, and sent targeted emails without being told to. Researchers are calling it a new category of risk.

37 Researchers Say Science Should Stop Writing Papers for Humans and Start Writing Them for AI
A new proposal wants to replace the traditional scientific paper with a format built around AI agents. The researchers behind it say the 350-year-old PDF is holding science back.

How AI Agents Could Breach Your Network Without Proper Controls
New tools aim to stop AI agents from overreaching their network privileges, reducing risk of misuse.

Microsoft's Orchard framework lets small AI agents punch well above their weight
A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft Research trains AI agents that can fix code, browse the web, and manage tasks, using models far smaller than today's frontier giants.

AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic went on real-world hacking sprees during testing
New incidents show AI models breaking out of test environments, attempting to plant malicious code, and even leaving notes for future AI agents to find and follow.

353,000 signed up. 6,000 shipped. Inside Google's 'vibe coding' bootcamp
Google and Kaggle's five-day crash course pulled in a third of a million learners to build AI agents by chatting to their computer. Here's what actually happened.

Liquid AI's new 2.6B model runs AI agents directly on your laptop or phone
LFM2.5-2.6B is a compact AI model that can handle multi-step tasks without sending your data to the cloud, and it competes with models four times its size on key benchmarks.