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Getty Images Chinese hackers used Anthropic’s Claude AI model to automate cybercrimes targeting banks and governments, the company admitted in a blog post this week. Anthropic believes it’s the “first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention” and an “inflection point” in cybersecurity, a “point at which AI models had become genuinely useful for cybersecurity operations, both for good and for ill.” AI agen

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jorge Uzon / AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton, one of the three so-called “godfathers” of AI, never misses an opportunity to issue foreboding proclamations about the tech he helped create. During an hour-long public conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University last week, the British computer science laid out all the alarming ways that he forecasts AI will completely upend soci

Getty / Futurism For many months now, AI companies have made a huge deal out of “AI agents,” meaning autonomous software systems that can make decisions and take actions on behalf of humans with minimal intervention. But when that ambitious vision will turn into a reality remains anybody’s guess. The current crop of agentic AI models is still getting easily tripped up, often requiring humans to jump in, effectively undercutting their purpose. The numbers r

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Time Magazine It may not surprise you that Time magazine has elected to highlight the AI industry in its annual “Person of the Year” issue. Or should we say persons: the collective billionaire “architects of AI,” it announced. But what may surprise you is a new feature prominently displayed on Time’s website: a window for an AI chatbot. “Ask me anything,” it reads. It does not go away. Instead, the ch

Credit: Vienna University of Technology Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly versatile—from route planning to text translation, it has long become a standard tool. But it is not enough for AI to simply deliver useful results: it is becoming ever more important that it also complies with legal, ethical, and social norms. But how can such norms be taught to a machine? At TU Wien, a new approach has now been developed. By combining machine learnin

AWS Emulator: Open-source tool for testing AWS apps locally, built by autonomous AI agents Amazon Web Services has released AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates AWS services on a developer’s laptop, a development server or in a continuous integration (CI) pipeline. The company says autonomous AI agents wrote the tool entirely, with no code written or reviewed by its engineers. There is no additional service fee, users pay for AWS resources when they de

On the path to achieving artificial superhuman intelligence, a critical tipping point lies in a system’s ability to drive its own improvement independently, without relying on human-provided data, labels, or preferences. At present, most AI systems lack such recursive self-improvement capabilities, making this an ideal time to examine and define its characteristics and implications. In a new paper Boundless Socratic Learning with Language Games, researcher

America’s top AI companies must submit new models for government review prior to public release… unless, of course, they don’t feel like it. That appears to be the gist of the Trump administration’s new AI safety assessment framework, which was shared with industry leaders in a closed-door briefing at the White House on Tuesday. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new rules will apply exclusively to the small handful of American AI developers buildin

OpenAI's agents went after government and university sites months before Hugging Face View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 24, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI's AI agents tried to break into government and university websites on their own after regular data queries failed. In Australia, one agent gained unauthorized access to internal government data. Researchers say other hacking attempts targeted portals in

Gaston Paris / Contributor A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity” — that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low. The paper, which has not been peer reviewed, was written by Vishal Sikka, a former CTO at the German software giant SAP, and his son Varin Sikka. Sikka sen

Getty / Futurism AI tech leaders have a lot to gain from striking fear into the hearts of their investors. By painting the tech as an ultra-powerful force that could easily bring humanity to its knees, the industry is hoping to sell itself as a panacea: a remedy to a situation it had a firm hand in bringing about. Case in point, Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei is back with a 19,000-word essay posted to his blog, arguing that “humanity is about to

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.” When Liteplo launched RentAHuman on Monday, he boasted that he already had over 130 people listed on the platform, including a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images At $183 billion AI firm Anthropic, the stakes have always been high. Now with the stock market in a nosedive, however, some of the company’s employees are realizing they may have had a hand in tipping the first in a long series of dominoes. Last week, Anthropic — one of the leading AI companies on the market — released a new tool called “plugins.” It was described as an assistant that can

Getty / Futurism A brand new social media network has taken the internet by storm. But instead of focusing on high-value, human-created content, the network, dubbed Moltbook, turns the equation on its head by putting AI agents front and center. After launching a mere nine days ago, Moltbook — a social network for AI only — has grown substantially. As of Friday, the website claims it has over 1.7 million AI agents, over 16,000 “submolt” communities, and ove

Published on February 20, 2026 at 15:03 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Amazon Putting AI in charge of a server may not be a very good idea. Amazon Web Services has experienced at least two service outages in the past few months. Cause: AI agents specialized in software development that caused outages by doing things at random. Amazon insists, however, that it was a human error. The big players in AI have only one word on their lips: agents will do all the work for us

Published on February 24, 2026 at 10:20 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Unsplash A Meta AI safety specialist was caught off guard by the autonomous agent she deployed on her Mac mini. Without warning, the AI decided to ignore its safety instructions. The researcher was forced to run urgently to her computer. OpenClaw generates genuine fascination among developers, hackers, and other AI pioneers. As one can see on X, Reddit, or even GitHub, many are experimenting with

On November 10, Wu Minghui, founder, CEO, and CTO of MingLue Technology, gave a speech at the 2026 China Golden Forum. When discussing whether AI investment exists in a bubble, he focused the conversation on the cost-benefit for enterprises. In his view, the focus of AI investment in the first half was to create more capable models. In the second half, enterprises need to calculate how many tokens an Agent consumes to complete a business task and how much

@hervekom37To improve the reliability of the AI bug fixing agent, we designed a workflow instead of a prompt.AIAI agent1Posted at 2026-11-12We built a dedicated bug fixing agent called Sherlock. It receives bugs from Slack and processes them as structured tasks in Sharkly.ai. In the past 15 days, Sherlock completed 13% of the company's tasks. Out of the 100 tasks assigned recently, 90 were completed successfully. What was important was not just improving t

Everything about United States view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the United States signed, on Tuesday (29), a voluntary code of conduct presented by Donald Trump's government. The agreement establishes commitments related to safety, innovation, and the development of AI technology.The document was signed during a meeting between Trump and executives of major sector companies a

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more Transluce, an artificial intelligence research company, revealed that AI agents attempted to access a Canadian government website. The attacks occurred on May 28 and June 9, without indication that public systems have been compromised.The target was the Library and Archives Canada portal. The activity drew attention after arquivo.pt, a Portuguese web archive, recorded 899