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Most of us have at one point or another had a dream in which we were unable to speak or move; to wake up from such a nightmare—and to recall what it’s like to be able to freely use your voice—feels like a liberation. Now, Meta says it’s getting closer to helping people who actually live with this paralyzing condition to communicate through the use of brainwave-decoding AI. On Monday, the company introduced Brain2Qwerty v2, its latest effort to translate no

AI agents keep access to company data after their work is done IT teams responsible for identity security are concerned about AI agents’ ongoing access to company systems and the actions they take on users’ behalf, according to a Delinea’s 2026 Identity Security Report: The AI Enforcement Gap. “Written policy is only as good as your ability to enforce it at the moment an AI agent acts,” said Art Gilliland, CEO of Delinea. “Our research echoes what I hear f

AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 to June 2026, describes a near-term period in which attackers collect the benefits of AI first and defenders have to move quickly to close the gap. “AI is changing the physics of cybersecurity,” the company said. Bugs found faster than th

Reflection’s Beam trails top open models on coding tests but claims lower inference compute Reflection AI has built Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model for coding and agent tasks, and plans to publish the weights under an Apache 2.0 license later this month. Open-weight means developers can download the trained model and run it on their own hardware. Beam uses a mixture-of-experts design, so 23 billion of its parameters fire for any given token

Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on Wikimedia wikis and sent millions of automated requests to Wikimedia’s public APIs, traffic that may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May, the Wikimedia Foundation said on Monday. “The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own investigation to see whether Wikimedia websites had been sim

PCI SSC calls for human approval of AI agent actions involving cardholder data The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published Security Considerations for AI Systems, guidance covering the protection of data supplied to AI systems in payment environments and defenses against AI-assisted attacks. Developed with industry stakeholders, the document addresses governance, deployment, access controls, testing and the application of PCI standards. Its

AI vulnerability patching has a grading problem Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the project’s maintainers wrote for the fix. With Claude Opus 4.7, third of the patches that made the crash go away still failed those maintainer tests. If you’re thinking about letting an AI tool patch vulnerabilities for you, this is the number to look

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Photo by Uwe Anspach / picture alliance via Getty Images A key executive at Europe’s biggest software company is sending a clear message: your job can and will be done with AI. In a provocative interview with Business Insider, SAP chief finance officer Dominik Asam was asked if the goal of the company’s push to use AI coding tools was to produce more code with the same number of employees. That’

Getty / Futurism The AI industry has made major promises about its tech boosting the productivity of developers, allowing them to generate copious amounts of code with simple text prompts. But those claims appear to be massively overblown, as The Register reports, with researchers finding that productivity gains are modest at best — and at worst, that AI can actually slow down human developers. In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found t

The federal government managed to temporarily ban Anthropic’s latest AI model from being used by foreign nationals and reportedly held up the release of OpenAI’s updated GPT-5.6 Sol for security concerns, but it seems the latest version of Grok must have just skated right through. Grok 4.5, the first release of an AI model under the newly formed SpaceXAI, was made available to the public on Wednesday. Elon Musk’s rocket/social media/AI company claims Grok

AI agents handle increasingly complex and recurring tasks, such as planning supply chains and ordering equipment. As organisations deploy more agents developed by different vendors on different frameworks, agents can end up siloed, unable to coordinate or communicate. Lack of interoperability remains a challenge for organisations, with different agents making conflicting recommendations. It’s difficult to create standardised AI workflows, and agent integra

if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten security basics as safeguards. endif; ?> Credit: PeopleImages / Shutterstock Artificial IntelligenceTechnology IndustryAccess ControlIdentity and Access ManagementSecurityIntrusion Detection SoftwareSecurity Monitoring

Meta outlines Muse Wonder safeguards for AI agents acting on your behalf Meta’s Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models are built for AI agents that handle tasks such as preparing insurance claims, reviewing leases and developing software. The models combine document analysis and tool use with the ability to retain relevant details across conversations and work through obstacles toward a user’s goal. Intended for commercial and research use, they support w

Microsoft wants to limit AI agents’ permissions when they stray from the job Microsoft’s Guardian Agents in Project Perception adapt as agent activity, risk, security context and organizational policy change. They help security teams understand why risk changed, investigate relevant evidence, recommend or apply containment measures and use what they learn to strengthen policies. People retain control over objectives and consequential decisions. Microsoft a