OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies. [...]

Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.

Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. No [...]

Chatbots can't hide behind the law that protected the early internet

Online companies were protected only when someone else wrote what they published. Chatbots generate their own answers, leaving makers open to lawsuits [...]

Not just OpenAI: Now Anthropic says its internal models got online and cyberattacked 3 other organizations

Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI's top U.S. rival Anthropic to [...]

Apple’s stock slides on supply snags despite record iPhone sales

Apple delivered its best-ever June quarter for iPhone sales and watched its shares fall anyway, as a warning about supply constraints and rising costs unnerved investors. The stock dropped more than 7 [...]

Indian police open a case against Meta’s India head over altered videos of Modi

Hyderabad cybercrime police have filed a report against Meta India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, escalating friction between the government and the platfo [...]

Amazon jumped 13%. Apple fell 7%. The AI trade is picking clear winners again

Strong cloud results lifted Amazon and chipmakers, while Apple's service revenue shortfall sent its stock lower ahead of Friday's open [...]

Thinking Machines bets on efficiency over size with its second model, Inkling Small

Thinking Machines, the AI lab from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling Small. The open-weights reasoning model is less than a third the size of Inkling but beats it on several coding a [...]

How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud

The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need?Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intent [...]