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- Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leaveby Hannah Murphy, Cristina Criddle, and George Hammond, Financial Times
Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.
- Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown biggerby Dan Goodin
Assume all Salesloft credentials are compromised after Workspace breach, Google says.
- High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.by Dan Goodin
Vulnerability can be exploited to gain access to customers’ crown jewels.
- Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decadesby Dan Goodin
Researchers take note: When the endpoint is compromised, all bets are off.
- The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personalityby Benj Edwards
AI assistants don’t have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans.
- Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concernsby Benj Edwards
Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly.
- OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversationsby Benj Edwards
ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed.
- Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”by Dan Goodin
Breaches in 2020 and 2025, reportedly by foreign adversaries, exposed confidential files.
- With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking peopleby Benj Edwards
Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don’t exist.
- College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 historyby Benj Edwards
Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.