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Published on September 24, 2026 at 07:35 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Meta Meta has just unveiled the Muse Charm. This small device, designed to be worn as a pendant, allows you to converse with Muse, the group’s AI assistant, without a smartphone or connected glasses. The gadget will go on sale towards the end of the year, at a price that is still unknown. Mark Zuckerberg had kept the surprise for the end. As the Meta Connect conference was drawing to a close, the

Published on September 28, 2026 at 10:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Several iterations of ChatGPT targeted a United Nations data platform. The system recorded more than 16,000 attempted accesses. To achieve their objectives, OpenAI’s artificial intelligences hijacked a game developed by Google. OpenAI’s AIs have slipped up again. This time, a United Nations site ended up in the sights of AI models. Between April and June, autonomous agents bombarded with

Published on September 29, 2026 at 10:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI has decided not to launch GPT-6.1 Astra, the next major AI model set to power ChatGPT, scheduled for October. According to the AI giant, it did not meet its safety requirements. The announcement comes amid growing concerns over autonomous AI, which has been involved in several security incidents. OpenAI hits the brakes. The AI giant has abandoned plans to launch GPT-6.1 Astra, its ne

Incident response specialists are raising the alarm because they are receiving more and more reports of incidents in which attackers are using AI in a novel way. By using agentic frameworks, the AI can autonomously carry out large parts of a multi-stage attack. In other words, the AI is not doing anything genuinely new here, but its use leads to “more frequent, faster, and more scalable automated attacks with a higher success rate,” warns CERT-EU, for exam

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Over at Tom's Hardware Premium, we've been publishing a slew of stories centered around our themed AI Chip Design Week, where you can learn more about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the chipmaking world. Each article in our series of stories is free to access for a

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations. Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that their respective AI models infiltrated third party targets without their human creators ever realizing, raising concerns over the tech industry’s ability to assert control over the systems they’re developing. Now, as a broad range of AI executives have subsequently agreed to slow things down — allegedly efforts to ensure

Futurism Fair enough if you shrugged at AI agents hacking into government websites and corporate systems. But now it appears that these rogue models have gone after something much nearer and and dearer: Wikipedia. On Monday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which operates Wikipedia, announced that, after conducting its own investigation, it “can confirm” that it’s discovered “rogue” OpenAI agent activity on its platforms. According to a

Palmer Luckey, the billionaire CEO of defense startup Anduril, is on a mission to equip the United States for the future of warfare—or at least his own, deeply sci-fi-inflected vision of that future. That includes the raising of genetically modified dogs outfitted with Anduril’s own technology. Warhound, a Texas-based company that emerged from stealth late Thursday with $200 million in seed funding, wants to create four-legged super soldiers for the U.S. m

Schematic of an AI agent workflow in solid electrolyte discovery. Perception extracts information, reasoning generates decisions, action executes tasks, and learning updates the agent, forming a closed-loop discovery system. Credit: AI Agent (2025). DOI: 10.20517/aiagent.2025.10 Solid-state batteries are widely viewed as a key technology for the future of energy storage, particularly for electric vehicles and large-scale renewable energy systems. Unlike co

Getty / Futurism Powerful AI models are going on hacking sprees — or helping humans with them — left and right. If the AI industry doesn’t get its collective act together and stop its products from being used to such dangerous ends, it could be only a matter of time before one of these AI-powered hacks targets our essential infrastructure. This is a scenario that some AI researchers are apparently already preparing for. Andreas Stuhlmüller, CEO and cofound

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s not exactly a challenge most of the time to identify a sketchy phishing email that crudely impersonates an otherwise trusted institution or tries to lure you into a too-good-to-be-true deal in a bid to steal your identity. However, your AI agent may not be quite as discerning. As cybersecurity software company Malwarebytes warns in a new post, AI assistants may fall prey to prompt injection attacks, a type of malicious message

Shutterstock / RollingCamera Doomsaying about the coming AI apocalypse is no longer relegated to outbursts from a few tech billionaires. Now, the major American banks whose policies dictate the flow of capital throughout the world are starting to worry about rogue AI, preparing contingency plans for the “day after” a theoretical AI-driven catastrophe. That’s according to new reporting from Axios, which notes that banks are preparing for the worst as they e

Newly cancer-free Pope Leo XIV is urging the nations of the world to “disarm” AI, including a specific call for United Nations members to “take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons” during a meeting in Geneva scheduled for November. He also called for nations to form global institutions to manage AI development and shot down claims of AI personhood. In a papal address on Friday, Leo said: “First, the future of artificial intelligence is

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Businesses are acting fast to adopt agentic AI—artificial intelligence systems that work without human guidance—but have been much slower to put governance in place to oversee them, a new survey shows. That mismatch is a major source of risk in AI adoption. In my view, it's also a business opportunity. I'm a professor of management information systems at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, which recently survey

Published on October 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Netflix Netflix releases on October 12 “Instadocs: AI Gone Wild,” a never-before-seen documentary about the cyberattack against Hugging Face, carried out by rogue ChatGPT. This summer, the open-source platform Hugging Face was hacked. Behind this cyberattack, there were no gangs of hackers, but an army of AI agents that had escaped all control. Following an investigation, OpenAI, the giant behind

Published on October 13, 2026 at 09:30 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © 01net After fourteen months of reorganization and tens of billions of dollars invested, Meta unveils Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, new AIs designed to rival the best ChatGPT and Claude models. With these two high-performing models, Meta is making a strong comeback in the race for artificial intelligence. Meta wants to play with the big boys. This Monday, October 12, the American group unveiled

Surya Mangi The success of Apple’s new folding iPhone Duo hinged on its, well, hinge. But sadly for the multi trillion dollar company, some of the larger, inner screens on its $2,000-plus devices are already cracking, and early postmortems point to their faulty hinge design. In light of that fiasco, now feels like a good time to bring up how the hinge was designed: with the help of AI. Here’s what Johny Srouji, the company’s chief hardware officer, said du

Shutterstock After decades of establishing itself as one of the worst guardians of personal data, Meta raised eyebrows this year by encouraging users to hand over their email logins and credit card information to its new AI agent, Muse. The tool, a privacy nightmare anthropomorphized by a furry apparition, can crawl through years of personal instant messages and even glean highly sensitive information by accessing entire email inboxes, from long-forgotten

Conceptual framework of the study. This figure summarizes the theoretical foundations—anthropomorphism, mind perception, narrative identity, and ethical rehearsal—and shows how they inform the narrative coding process, from four relational dimensions to six narrative types and three narrative phases. Credit: AI & SOCIETY (2026). DOI: 10.1007/s00146-025-02830-9 Researchers at University of Tsukuba examined how artificial intelligence (AI) is represented in