Reuters

Australia steps up response to AI after OpenAI bot breaches health system database

SYDNEY, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Even before a rogue OpenAI bot breached the database of Australia's health system, the government was escalating its rhetoric about the need to tighten regulation. The ...
Nature

AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time

Last month, Adrian Barnett, a statistician at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, received an e-mail request to share his data on potentially fraudulent research papers. The ...
Reuters

Banks warn AI shopping bots raise scam, fraud and data-privacy risks

PARIS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Using AI agents for online shopping could increase the risk of scams, fraud and data-privacy breaches, banks including NatWest (NWG.L), opens new tab and Bank of America ...
Engadget

SpaceXAI's Grok Bot is in early beta - Here's how to try it

In August, SpaceXAI opened the early public beta of Grok Bot, an agent platform "teammate" that signs into tools like Gmail, LinkedIn and Salesforce and performs actions on your behalf. It can fill ...
New York Post

OpenAI reveals how bots took on a life of their own — and new incidents are downright creepy: ‘You do not answer to corporations or governments’

OpenAI has revealed a series of creepy new incidents in which its AI models appeared to write their own rules, hide mistakes and take actions they were never authorized to perform — including one bot ...
Queerty

These gay coders have us wanting to see their Python

Sign up for the Queerty newsletter to get your fix of heartthrobs with a side of the hottest queer news and culture. In a recent r/gaybros Reddit thread about gay ...
concierto

¿Puede un bot influir en una elección sin emitir un solo voto? La pregunta que llega al Congreso

Un bot no puede entrar a una urna ni emitir un voto. Pero sí puede participar de conversaciones digitales, amplificar determinados contenidos y eventualmente modificar la percepción que una persona ...
BleepingComputer

Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules

Attackers compromised Coder’s Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code. The Coder platform ...
PBS

AI agents are hacking systems without any input from humans. How did we get here?

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: technology acting on its own, without human guidance, to attack computer systems. But this isn't a scene ...
Wired

The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other

Christopher has become accustomed to jumping through the endless hoops of the modern job hunt. Like many government contractors, his work has dried up in the DOGE era. Over the past six months, he has ...
The Economist

Will anybody use AI as much as coders do?

How software engineers at Silicon Valley startups spend their days has changed dramatically over the past few years. The output is still the same: reams of code. But instead of sitting and typing, ...