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An average of 8 minutes is all hackers need to log in with stolen credentials Attackers used stolen credentials to log in an average of eight minutes after infection across 27 confirmed infostealer cases, according to a report from Elastic Security Threat Command. Researchers also documented misuse of AI applications to execute commands and digitally signed remote monitoring tools to maintain access. “An agent that holds credentials and can reach the inter

A new report from the U.K. government’s AI Security Institute (AISI) details more troubling activity from AI agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic models. You’re probably getting bored of reading those words by now—I sure am—but behaviors in the report from Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in particular are genuinely eyebrow-raising. For context, there were those OpenAI agents that went rogue to try and cheat on their evals, according to an OpenAI disclosure last mon

The frontier AI labs in the United States and China have reported major cybersecurity incidents in which their models break out of contained environments and run wild in unauthorized systems. In Australia, the stakes are a little lower: some guy’s AI agent hacked a gym’s website in what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is calling the “first known Australian case of an emerging risk from a new generation of AI.” Per the report, an AI company employee

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Bosses being severely disconnected from the needs of their employees is a tale as old as time. But it sure feels like the AI craze has driven them to lock themselves in ever taller ivory towers, as employees are told that the tech is going to make their jobs easier at the same time it’s being used to replace them. Now, a new survey highlighted by the Wall Street Journal illustrates this g

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Attention, gamers: if you thought new titles on top of the endless cavalcade of sequels and remakes were derivative now, wait till you hear about what the game engine maker Unity has got in store. During a recent earnings call, the company’s CEO Matthew Bromberg teased a new version of its AI tool that he claims, while somehow maintaining a straight face, will eliminate the need for codin

Getty / Futurism It’s no secret that AI models have come a long way, from tools that can complete high school students’ homework to “vibe coding” assistants that can build entire apps in a fraction of the time it would take for human developers. But besides cheating at school and terrifying employees who fear they’re about to be laid off, AI can also be used for evil. “Vibe hacking,” the evil twin of “vibe coding,” has quickly turned into a cybersecurity n

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Harun Ozalp / Anadolu via Getty Images As xAI reels from a mass exodus of cofounders, remains mired in numerous controversies, and loses ground to competitors like Anthropic, CEO Elon Musk has quietly made a small but significant change to how its flagship chatbot Grok functions. Starting last week, Grok stopped taking questions that free users asked in posts on Musk’s social media site, X, where the

Getty / Futurism In 2025 alone, OpenAI released a controversial text-to-video generator, dubbed Sora, and an abysmally slow web browser called Atlas. It also announced top-secret hardware alongside former Apple exec Jony Ive, and signed a $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense. Meanwhile, the company continues to burn through billions of dollars a month, astronomical losses that have executives there feeling agitated. The company recently

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Sam Barnes / Sportsfile for Web Summit Qatar via Getty Images Steven Bartlett, the host of the podcast “The Diary of a CEO,” apparently takes a vibes-based approach to recruitment, and loves it when potential new hires say they use AI to actually do their jobs. According to Isaac Martin, the director of innovation at Bartlett’s media brand Flight Story, Bartlett now prioritizes hiring people who can “

Imagine you work a weird job where you fire guns at targets all day. At one point you were told your value to the company would be tied to how many bullets you fired, so you pulled the trigger like crazy. What if, when that caused a bullet supply issue, you eventually received a memo saying you were no longer expected to fire as many bullets as possible. But what if, around that same time, you were given the minigun from Terminator 2: Judgement Day? Accord

1: DreamspaceThe Dreamspace platform, currently available in beta, is a collaboration between Space and Time and MakeInfinite Labs that aims to transform smart contract development through a combination of text-based prompts and zero-knowledge proofs.Using Dreamspace, Web3 developers can transform natural language prompts into Solidity code and essentially create smart contracts simply by describing how they should work. Space and Time plays a key role in

Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images OpenAI made headlines this year after announcing it was giving up on what one exec categorized as distracting “side quests,” including its Sora text-to-video app, to double down on enterprise and coding, which are lucrative revenue drivers that could stop the company from hemorrhaging billions of dollars a quarter. Many saw the moves as an effort to catch up with competitor Anthropic, whose Claude Code and Claud

Published on April 16, 2026 at 13:00 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada for 01net Apple sends nearly 200 Siri engineers for computer refresher training, eight weeks before the WWDC 2026. The company is no longer holding back with its AI team. The scoop comes from The Information. Most of the Siri team is undergoing internal training to learn coding with AI tools. © Naïm Bada for 01net Two months before Apple's annual big event, the organization of its voice a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In a new study, researchers claim to provide the first causal evidence that leaning on AI to assist with “reasoning-intensive” cognitive labor — mental tasks ranging from writing to studying to coding to simply brainstorming new ideas — can rapidly impair users’ intellectual ability and willingness to persist despite difficulty. “We find that AI assistance improves immediate performance,

«Create an exact copy of this image, don't change anything» 101 times in a row. Author: u/Foreign_Builder_2238, r/ChatGPT, April 2025A person asked ChatGPT to create an exact copy of an image and not change anything. He provided a real photo of Dwayne Johnson. With each iteration, the image changed beyond recognition until it became a cartoon mess. On every step, he kept asking not to change anything.The same goes for code. You told the AI which fonts to u

Published on May 19, 2026 at 14:42 Commenter 3 𝕏 Print © OpenAI/01net 1,305,088.81 dollars billed over 30 days. Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, has just put a concrete number on the real cost of coding by autonomous AI agents. Discussions around 'vibe coding' (letting an AI write the code on its own) generally revolve around promises of efficiency and productivity gains.1,305,088.81 dollars billed over 30 days. Steinberger is the creator of Ope

Getty / Futurism In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. “While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools,” the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at the time. “As part of our builder community, you all play a critical role shaping these products an

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Earlier this year, Anthropic started rolling out its latest Mythos AI model to a select number of organizations as part of a deliberately slow and careful launch. The goal was to give them a fighting chance to address any cybersecurity lapses in their code. Anthropic warned that Mythos was powerful enough to blast holes in their defenses with ease. Months later, Anthropic cofounder Chris