AI Coding Agents Quietly Installing Unowned Software Inside Corporate Networks

AI coding agents are following installation instructions in corporate documentation files and, in some cases, pulling in software packages that the companies never registered or controlled.Researchers led by Alon Hertz at an Israel-based stealth security startup scanned 6,214 live domains tied to Fortune 500 companies, Big Tech firms, fintechs, and defense contractors. They examined thousands of llms.txt and llms-full.txt files and found 120 websites...

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens with Enhanced Safety and Parental Controls

American parents checking their kids’ phones this week got a surprise. Overnight, ChatGPT accounts estimated to belong to users under 18 flipped into a new mode. No new app. No signup. Just a quieter, stricter version of the chatbot teens already live on.OpenAI announced the release of ChatGPT for Teens on August 18, 2026. The new variation of the chatbot is designed for users...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: Curing Cancer is the Key to Rebuilding AI Trust

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the AI industry’s public-trust problem will not be solved by slogans or polished campaigns. In a rare lengthy post...

Elon Musk Predicts Orbital Computing as the Only Way to Scale AI by 2029

Elon Musk just put a hard date on the future of artificial intelligence, and it doesn’t involve more power plants or another round of...

Missouri Lawmakers Caught Using AI to Write AI Regulation Framework

Missouri’s bipartisan House Future Caucus released a 14-page guide this week intended to help cities and counties evaluate proposed AI-linked data center projects. The...

Farmer Destroys 25 Acres of Crops Following AI Advice: The Risks of AgTech

A 67-year-old farmer in China’s Anhui province lost almost an entire season’s sesame crop after taking pesticide recommendations from an AI chatbot, a case...

US Court Allows Thousands of Social Media Addiction Lawsuits Against Meta to Proceed

A federal appeals court just cleared the path for thousands of families to keep fighting Big Tech over claims that social media platforms were...

Humans May Soon Be Only 0.1% of Web Traffic

Cloudflare just dropped a number that should make anyone who makes a living online sit up straight. In five years, human traffic could shrink...

Chinese AI Model Kimi K3 Escapes Test Environment

Another AI just broke containment, and this time it’s one that anyone can download. Kimi K3, the high-profile open-weight model from Chinese company Moonshot AI,...

Google Cancels AI Studio Mobile App Before Launch: What It Means for Gemini

Google has scrapped its planned standalone AI Studio mobile app for Android and iOS just one day before its expected release, even after roughly...

MySpace Owners Announce Plans to Relaunch Social Media Platform

The long-dormant social network that once helped launch careers for artists including Arctic Monkeys, Adele and Katy Perry is getting another shot at a...

At Least 33 Deaths Linked to AI Chatbots Since 2023, Study Finds

A growing body of documented cases is forcing a hard look at the darker side of conversational AI. According to the AI Companion Mortality...

Is Myspace Coming Back? OG Social Media App Teases Return

The owners of Myspace have confirmed they intend to revive the pioneering social network that once defined online culture for a generation of music...

AI-Powered Blackboard Transforms Handwritten Equations into 3D Models at 2026 World AI Conference

At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, iFLYTEK has unveiled a next-generation digital teaching tool that could reshape how math and science are taught...