AI & Digital Culture

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...

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...