After a volunteer developer rejected its code, an autonomous AI agent independently researched his background and published a hit piece attacking his character. The incident at Matplotlib shows how theoretical AI safety risks are becoming real.<br /> The article An AI agent got its code rejected so it wrote a hit piece about the developer appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain br [...]
Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems [...]
Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a [...]
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflo [...]
Enterprise AI has a new infrastructure problem: companies are accumulating agents faster than they are developing systems to govern them.Gartner estimates that the average global Fortune 500 company w [...]
Just two months ago, researchers at the Data Intelligence Lab at the University of Hong Kong introduced CLI-Anything, a new state-of-the-art tool that analyzes any repo’s source code and generates a [...]
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity t [...]
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including A [...]