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Some U.S. banks are, thankfully, blocking their clients from letting Meta’s Muse AI bot root around in their accounts. Even more thankfully, it appears relatively few people have been dumb enough to try. Speaking to Bloomberg TV on Friday, Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster said the brokerage is actively blocking Muse from moving money because it poses unacceptable risks to the firm and its clients. “We don’t want someone just giving their password to Muse, a

Media Library in the default skin, with Cyrillic in tags displaying without issuesClassic on the outside, modern on the insideI tried to make everything that was in Winamp 2.95 look and work just as it did there. I keep screenshots of the original next to the code and compare them against it. Anything new either works unobtrusively within the existing interface, such as support for modern formats and switching the output device, or goes into a separate gro

An EnCompass program specifies an agent workflow, which is compiled into a search space object, and inference-time scaling is accomplished through search over the nondeterministic execution paths of the agent workflow. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.03571 Whether you're a scientist brainstorming research ideas or a CEO hoping to automate a task in human resources or finance, you'll find that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming t

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say. The elite students are shocked by the lack of job offers as they finish studies at what is often ranked as the top university in America. When they were freshmen, ChatGPT hadn't yet been released upon the world. Today, AI can code better than most humans. Top tech companies just don't

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as everyday tools. At the center of this transition was the rise of AI agents—AI systems that can use other software tools and act on their own. While researchers have studied AI for more than 60 years, and the term "agent" has long been part of the field's vocabulary, 2025 was the year the concep

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Mistral AI released the weights of Large 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) model with one trillion parameters that can be downloaded and run by companies and governments on their own systems. Nicknamed “Le Chonk”, the AI was designed for tasks such as identifying vulnerabilities in software, analyzing digital threats, and helping respond to cyberattacks.The launch took place this Thursday (29) and reinforc

Published on September 4, 2026 at 06:30 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra: “the most intelligent and most advanced model ever released” by the company. The head of OpenAI believes that, with this new model, we are witnessing the advent of artificial general intelligence (AGI). One year after GPT-5 and two months after the GPT-5.6 version, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra with great fanfare, its most advanced model to date. According to the p

Shutterstock / Futurism Earlier this year, a group of rogue OpenAI models managed to break out of containment to hack the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The company’s “extensive investigation” detailed how the models exchanged messages and cheered each other on as they stole credentials to infiltrate a third party, actions that could easily have real repercussions for a human hacker. New details keep trickling out, and they make OpenAI lo

Meta / Futurism Must an AI be useful? Isn’t being creepy sufficient testament to its utility? “Creepy” is the word being used to describe Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse. Chances are you’ve seen it pop up on Instagram or Facebook, where Meta is heavily promoting its tool as an AI agent for casual users who are blissfully unaware of what an “OpenClaw” or “Instinct” is. To use it, you install it on your device and link it to stuff like your email and bank acco

Shutterstock / Futurism Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for one of the biggest unsolved problems in math, the Navier-Stokes equations, by directing 10,000 of its powerful AI agents to work on the enigma for 88 hours straight. It was an occasion fraught with controversy, however, as mathematicians accused the company of essentially stealing their work. That controversy is still rippling through the math world. But what has

Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images OpenAI’s AI agents simply can’t stop infiltrating third parties. For the last few months, news keeps trickling out of more incidents in which the company’s frontier models have managed to escape their “sandbox” containment, hacking into the systems of companies including open source AI platform Hugging Face. After closing its “extensive investigation,” the company admitted earlier this month that its models had broken i

More than 100 websites belonging to businesses large and small were hit by a hacking collective over the last couple of weeks, stealing data, credit card numbers, and cryptocurrency. Except the collective wasn’t a group of script kiddies, but just one person and their AI agents, according to Reuters, citing a recent report from cybersecurity firm NorForge. The report, published Monday, follows an unnamed Chinese-speaking hacker who allegedly outsourced alm

In a disclosure published on Tuesday, OpenAI says two of its models essentially pulled the LLM version of the old cover-up-the-surveillance-camera trick, or as OpenAI put it, they “weakened misalignment monitoring.” In one incident, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent doing some internal work at OpenAI took liberties with an instruction not to send Slack messages in a certain circumstance. Later on, this agent reasoned that the instruction covered automatically messaging

Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google’s AI can clean up your text messages and summarize the web, but the company is constantly looking to prove that its generative AI has true intelligence. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) helps make the point. Google says Gemini 2.5 participated in the 2025 ICPC World Finals, turning in a gold medal performance. According to Google