“AI agents give attackers a fresh set of connections to walk across,” Douglas McKee, director of vulnerability intelligence at Rapid7, told Ars. “Someone plants text in content, an agent will read it then pass it along to another agent as a normal delegated task, and that second agent runs it because it trusts whoever handed it the work.
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Last 90 daysThe Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop , and it’s also now the first to escape the FCC’s Roomba ban . Well, sort of — because the Matic wasn’t banned to begin with.
It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updated in ways to completely change the original game.
You have to find about a dozen settings, and several of them are under Screen Time. Even when everything is off, the foundation models stay on disk, and that’s about 12 GB.
OpenAI will start adding an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union to comply with the EU AI Act, the company said Monday in a blog post . The EU AI Act’s transparency rules , which took effect on August 2, require AI companies to mark AI-generated content in a way other systems can identify.
People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze acne severity and autonomously write a prescription, as reported earlier by Bloomberg .
Instinct, the AI agent now valued at $10 billion as of its latest funding round, is expanding into group chats. The startup announced on Monday that users will be able to add the agent to chats with friends, which could be helpful in certain scenarios like travel planning, snagging event tickets, running fantasy leagues, organizing carpools, or managing…
Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat up the race to build a Western answer to DeepSeek, Qwen, and Z.ai.
There’s been a lot of doom and gloom from the auto industry lately when the subject of China comes up. Automaker CEOs, in particular, warn that allowing low-cost, high-tech Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in the US would effectively spell the end of their businesses.
Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki.
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are moving fast and…
Rolling out text watermarking in the EU. Over the coming weeks, we will introduce text watermarking to eligible ChatGPT and Codex users across all plans in the EU only.
TikTok announced Monday that it’s launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands. TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that “the world should accept some bad things happening” along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and “other bad things” as costs society should expect to tolerate because “people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff” with AI, without elaborating on the potential…
An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman’s interview with Vanity Fair ’s Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user’s suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she’d like to “move on” to another topic.
What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? HackerRank , a platform used by companies to assess and hire developers, is offering a glimpse at what that future of job interviews could look like with Chakra , an AI agent that conducts interviews, observes candidates as they work, and evaluates not just their answers but also…
Women throughout history have always sought out relationship advice, whether from newspaper columnists like “Dear Abby,” letters to Cosmo, or just chatting with girlfriends. In the social media era, you can instead post anonymously on Reddit relationship forums or look to social media creators who discuss the topic.
Nvidia’s Shield TV streaming boxes are the latest victims of the memory shortage that has seen prices increase dramatically for everything from digital cameras to game consoles . When the Shield TV Pro launched nearly seven years ago with an upgraded Tegra X1+ processor, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, it sold for $199.99.
Posted Oct 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTC Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat. As reported by the Gulf Coast News network, Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot flagged a conversation with 30-year-old Carli Michelle Heller after she allegedly made violent threats toward the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
Today, I’m talking with Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California.
CNN CEO Mark Thompson will remain at the head of the news network when Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition closes this week.
Really the only negative associated with the new M6-powered Mac Mini is its high price. While the last-gen model debuted at just $599, the faster, but mostly unchanged 2026 edition starts at $899 — except for right now.
Thousands of startups applied. Just 200 made Startup Battlefield .
A new fleet of AI agents is making its presence felt on the internet. On Sunday, a group of independent researchers posted preliminary findings about the agents , observing that they seem to be running on Tencent’s infrastructure and targeting Alibaba’s map service, Amap.