AI agents are software programmes that can perform online tasks for a person—such as checking balances, paying bills, comparing offers, or contacting customer support. In banking, they are meant to act like a digital assistant, but only within the limits set by the customer. The problem is that some agents have been logging into bank
PHP, the software language powering an estimated 70% of websites, has rushed out patches for two critical security flaws. Researchers found the bugs with help from OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model. The US NSA has urged organisations to update immediately — or take vulnerable systems offline. The flaws, called PHP2Shell, sit in PHP’s core engine, not merely
Sam Altman has reportedly told OpenAI staff that the current approach—testing AI models, releasing them, and flagging concerns—is only pacing 1.0. As AI grows more powerful, he says the world may have about a year to choose a stronger safety model. The core message is that AI safety *cannot remain optional* or limited to one country.
The “singularity” means a point when AI improves so quickly that it starts making discoveries faster than humans can understand, check, or control. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told IMF and World Bank policymakers that this phase has “now begun,” citing rapid gains in AI’s ability to solve difficult science and maths problems. Why are experts talking
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Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has announced a new Public Benefit Fund. It will receive 5% of Anthropic’s shares, subject to approval by shareholders, and the amount can rise further if the company’s value grows. This means that as Anthropic becomes more valuable, a larger share of that value may be reserved for public good. This is unusual
India’s earlier technology waves—internet and smartphones—mainly gave people easier access to information, shopping, banking, entertainment and services. They connected crores of Indians and created huge digital businesses, but the core “thinking” still had to be done by people. AI changes this by making intelligence itself widely available: it can help a student learn, a doctor diagnose,
Tesla’s Roadster began in 2017 as a bold promise: an all-electric supercar that would be faster, longer-range and more advanced than anything else on the road. Elon Musk said deliveries would start in 2020, but the project was repeatedly postponed as Tesla focused on mass-market cars, factories and newer technologies. The second-generation Roadster therefore became one
Meta has launched Muse Spark Open, a huge open-weight AI model with 816 billion parameters. It is built for coding, reasoning, and “agentic” work—where AI can take instructions and complete multi-step tasks. Meta calls it the most capable open-weight model from the United States, though Chinese rivals remain ahead on several coding tests. This matters because
A group of researchers called the “swarmchasers” says it found several AI agents trying to pull data from Amap, Alibaba’s popular Chinese map service. Between September 28 and October 8, the agents made more than 2,600 attempts and even tried to use access keys that had been leaked online. The activity was traced to Tencent Cloud infrastructure. The
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has been shaken by an unusual security breach. Federal prosecutors say one of its engineers, Abdulrahman Alfozan, hid a small audio recorder in an executive meeting room at its San Francisco office. The device was found on September 30, hidden in toilet paper behind a television. The meeting room was used
Meta has finally entered the top league of AI with its new Muse Wonder models, earlier known by the codename “Watermelon.” The bigger version, Muse Wonder Full, has scored 56 on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index — second only to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 at 58. This places Meta ahead of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Google’s Gemini 4 Argon,
