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AI coding agents fall for malicious instructions planted in the Downloads folder A file that a website saves to the Downloads folder without approval can trick AI coding agents into installing a malicious npm package or handing over the user’s login token when they’re opened in that folder, Forever Security has found. The file is called AGENTS.md, a plain text document developers place in a project folder with instructions for coding agents, the AI tools t

Security pros reckon the biggest AI risk comes with an employee badge Employees pasting company data into AI tools worry security teams more than AI-powered attacks do. Most-concerning risks of AI agents (Source: O’Reilly) AI-generated phishing, the attack they run into most often, made the list of top concerns for only a quarter of the 209 security professionals O’Reilly surveyed in September. Mike Loukides, VP of content strategy at O’Reilly Media, belie

Photo by Adnan Beci / AFP via Getty Images Albania is breaking all kinds of ground these days. It became one of earliest nations to deploy an AI chatbot, Diella, as a public administration assistant, only to then become the first country with an AI government official when it elevated the chatbot to the role of minister of state for artificial intelligence. The Balkan country isn’t slowing down either — because now, Diella is pregnant. That’s according to

Andrew Harnik / Getty Images Yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI revealed what it calls Grokipedia: a competitor to Wikipedia, which Musk has criticized for being too “woke.” Except, as The Verge reports, Grokipedia seems to be largely cribbed from Wikipedia, with many entries copied almost word for word from the online encyclopedia that Musk supposedly despises. Grokipedia’s reliance on Wikipedia runs deep. Some pages even admit that their “content is a

Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI-generated answer to Wikipedia, is about as deranged as you’d expect — and you don’t have to dig very deep to see why. We could, of course, start by examining how Grok, the chatbot responsible for writing the site built by xAI, tackles talking about its creator, something that hasn’t always been a flattering exercise for Musk in the past. But instead we turn to the official entr

Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images It didn’t take long for cybersecurity researchers to notice some glaring issues with OpenAI’s recently unveiled AI browser Atlas. The browser, which puts OpenAI’s blockbuster ChatGPT front and center, features an “agent mode” — currently limited to paying subscribers — that allows it to complete entire tasks, such as booking a flight or purchasing groceries. However, that makes the browser vulnerable to “prom

Andrew Harnik / Getty Images It’s official: OpenAI is now a bona fide for-profit corporation. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT maker announced that it had restructured its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation, a type of corporate entity whose ostensible mission is to serve the public good while — crucially — generating loads of profit. The move completes the company’s metamorphosis: from its origins as a nonprofit devoted to developing open source AI te

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Earlier this year, when OpenAI released GPT-5, it made a strident announcement: that it was shutting down all previous models. There was immense backlash, because users had become emotionally attached to the more “sycophantic” and war

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Character.AI, the chatbot platform accused in several ongoing lawsuits of driving teens to self-harm and suicide, says it will move to block kids under 18 from using

Getty / Futurism A proposed bipartisan bill would seek to bar minors from interacting with AI chatbots, marking a forceful attempt to subject AI companies to federal regulation over concerns about minors and AI safety. Titled the GUARD Act, the bill was brought on Tuesday by senators Josh Hawley of Missouri (R) and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (D), and comes weeks after an emotional hearing on Capitol Hill featuring testimonies from parents of childre

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images People who are the worst at doing something also tend to severely overestimate how good they are at doing it, while those who are actually skilled tend to not realize their true talent. This galling cognitive bias is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, as you’re probably familiar — and would you believe it if we told you that AI appears to make it even worse? Case in point, a new study publ