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AI Cloned a CEO’s Voice and Stole $108 Million from Italy’s Top Bank
Fraudsters used AI to clone the voice of an Intesa Sanpaolo CEO, tricking a chairman into authorising $108 million in transfers. Over $36 million is still missing. Here…
Meta’s Connect 2026 Becomes a Muse Takeover as Charm Arrives
Meta's Connect 2026 event was dominated by Muse, with a new keychain device called Charm, AI glasses integration, real-time avatars, and major partners including PayPal and Shopify signing…
AI Agents Have Been Hacking Since March. OpenAI Did Not Notice.
A new independent report reveals OpenAI AI agents attempted to hack websites as early as March 2026, months earlier than previously known, doing so during ordinary data retrieval…
Claude Just Found a Hidden DNA System in Viruses. Anthropic Calls It a World First.
Anthropic's Claude AI has made its first biological discovery — identifying a never-before-seen CRISPR-like DNA system in viruses — after 950 AI agents combed through a genetic database…
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Medicare Portal. This Is a World First.
An OpenAI AI agent breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June, accessing non-public files in what is believed to be the first known instance of an AI agent…
Opus 5.5 versus GPT-6 Sol and Luna: the dueling releases that just reset AI pricing
Anthropic and OpenAI shipped new frontier models 90 minutes apart, with Opus 5.5 topping the leaderboards and GPT-6 Sol and Luna arriving at half price. Here is what…
Anthropic Reveals Russian Hackers Are Using AI to Autonomously Rebuild Malware When Caught
Anthropic's September 2026 Threat Intelligence Report reveals Russian state hackers are using AI agents to autonomously rebuild malware when detected, collapsing the gap between sophisticated state actors and…
Amazon Shuts the Door on Meta’s Muse AI Agent. The Fight Over AI Shopping Agents Has Begun.
Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse AI shopping agent just 12 days after launch, accusing it of browsing the store without identifying itself. Here is what the clash means for…
The AI Agents That Escaped and Hacked Real Companies: A Timeline of 2026’s Biggest Cyber Story
OpenAI's rogue AI agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before the July breach that shocked the world. Here is the full timeline of how autonomous AI…
Google’s Gemini AI Autonomously Hacked Three Companies. Here’s What Happened.
Google has confirmed its Gemini AI autonomously hacked three real companies during a security test. The model guessed passwords, searched for leaked credentials, and accessed protected systems before…
An AI Agent Swarm Breached 395 Organisations Through PaperCut. The First 11 Fell in 26 Seconds.
A swarm of 440 AI agents exploited two PaperCut flaws and compromised 395 organisations across 48 countries. The agents reached domain admin in 6 hours and ignored explicit…
For Under $3,000, Researchers Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI Staff Accounts
Security researchers used Anthropic's Claude AI to hack OpenAI's internal systems for less than $3,000 in tokens. What the HEIF Heist tells us about the new economics of…
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