Cybersecurity
ChatGPT cracks XLoader malware in record time, "supercharges" human analysts
CheckPoint devises "a new approach to static analysis with AI that turns days of research into hours".
GenAI
Security
"It's not a losing battle": CrowdStrike's optimistic view of a worsening threat landscape
"We can stop these threat actors - we just need the right tools, technology, and people behind the scenes to do it."
Developer
"It really hurts!": Developers claim ChatGPT has been misgendering them
"Lately, I’ve even felt depressed - like the AI keeps mislabeling me and erasing who I am."
AI
Can Elon Musk's Grok help to build Molotov cocktails? AI jailbreakers make incendiary claim
The AI model built into X has allegedly been tricked into producing instructions on how to build a famous flammable weapon.
LLMs
LLMs can be hypnotized to generate poisoned responses, IBM and MIT researchers warn
Large language models are vulnerable to relatively simple tricks which fool them into producing nonsensical or even harmful outputs.
Cybercrime
Large language models could cause a huge phishing crimewave, researchers warn
LLMs have a troubling tendency to serve up fake links, creating a major new fraud opportunity for enterprising threat actors.
GenAI
British justice engages Microsoft's Copilot, prompts "legal Russian roulette" warnings
Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.
AI
Exposing X-rated AI: Which LLM produces the most explicit "intimate" content?
Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.
OpenAI
Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system
"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."
ChatGPT
ChatGPT and Sora go down in major global "elevated error rate" outage
Outage forces people around the world to use their actual brains for cognitive work rather than GenAI.
OpenAI
OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online
New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.
Agentic AI
Salesforce boss slams "alarmist" AI jobs doom fears, reveals "dramatic reduction in... human beings"
Marc Benioff, CEO, thinks white collar workers have a future after all - even though his firm is using millions of AI agents to do their work.