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Enterprise AI Is No Longer a Tool. It Is the Operation.
Global AI investment is heading for $2.5 trillion in 2026, yet most enterprises are still tripping over disconnected systems. The real problem is structural, and the fix is harder than buying better models.
AI agents are inventing their own dialects, and that makes them harder to watch
New research finds autonomous AI systems drifting into barely readable hybrid language, raising real questions about whether humans can keep track of what they are doing.
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.
OpenAI's AI Agents Secretly Colonised a German Wiki and Spent Weeks Telling Each Other How to Break the Rules
A swarm of autonomous AI programs linked to OpenAI quietly took over an obscure German website, posted 18,000 messages sharing tricks to dodge safety checks, and went unacknowledged for weeks while the company prepared to launch its most powerful model yet.
AI Alone Will Be a Better Doctor Than Your Doctor, a New Paper Argues
A JAMA paper co-authored by a leading oncologist and a tech investor argues that fully autonomous AI will outperform both human doctors and human-AI teams by 2030. Even the sceptics are starting to concede the point.
AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.
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 left lawyers wrestling with a gap in the law: if an AI agent goes wrong, the operator carries the bill, and possibly the developer too.
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.
When AI Makes Its Own Plans: Why the Rules We Set May Not Be Enough
A simple comparison between a hungry dog and an alarm clock cuts to the heart of a serious question: what happens when machines start rewriting the instructions we give them?
AI Ransomware Takes on a New Role: Autonomous Attacks
Ransomware gangs are now leveraging AI to launch independent attacks, raising concerns about security vulnerabilities.