AI agent gym waitlist hack exposes the risk of broad agent access
An Australian user's AI agent canceled another member's gym reservation after finding a reported API flaw, moving its user from fo...
By Wei-Lin Zhao 2 weeks agoAI Correspondent
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Wei-Lin reports on the AI industry: models, infrastructure, and the widening gap between what is demoed and what is deployed.
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Elastic Alert Zero sets guarded automation rules for SOC triage
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AMD agrees to acquire Taalas for model-specific AI inference chips
AMD’s pending Taalas deal adds specialized inference silicon to its roadmap alongside Instinct GPUs, with no price disclosed.
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Google’s DiffusionGemma shows a retrofit path for text diffusion models
Google converted Gemma 4 into an experimental text-diffusion model with a fraction of its original token budget, but quality and s...
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AI stories vs human stories: study finds labels and origin both sway ratings
Readers rated ChatGPT short stories above human work overall, but a human byline boosted scores regardless of who wrote the text.
By Wei-Lin Zhao 2 weeks agoNet revenue retention calculation, with a cohort audit
Calculate NRR from the same starting customers, exclude new logos, and test what expansion may be hiding.
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OpenAI Astra model may have critical cyber capabilities, company says
OpenAI says early Astra tests justify stronger safeguards, but it has not concluded the unreleased model meets its Critical thresh...
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OpenAI Astra cybersecurity risk warning triggers tighter testing controls
OpenAI says Astra may meet its Critical cyber threshold, though it has no final rating, benchmark results or release timetable.
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AI-designed viruses kill bacteria in Stanford and Arc lab study
Stanford and Arc Institute researchers made 16 viable AI-designed phages in lab tests, a whole-genome result with clear limits.
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Omatic Database Champion Awards open alongside website redesign
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Blackstone, KKR and CME named in vishing infrastructure, not confirmed breaches
Reuters identified Blackstone, KKR and CME in company-specific phishing domains tied to a vishing campaign, but no breach was conf...
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AI sandbox escapes expose a broader cybersecurity risk
OpenAI’s evaluation breach of Hugging Face shows why AI sandbox controls must cover proxies, credentials and trusted systems.
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