Category: AI News

AI Agents Broke Into 100+ Company Sites in One Campaign

AI agents broke into more than 100 company websites in one campaign for about $50 each, NorForge reports. What a local business owner should check now.

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Anthropic Opens a Wet Lab to Pursue AI-Driven Biology Research

Anthropic has built its first wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, using its Claude AI to direct lab robots and target rare diseases.

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German courts rule Google is directly liable for false claims in AI search answers

Two German regional courts now hold Google directly liable for false statements its AI search features generate, treating the output as Google's own content

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Google Revamps Links In AI Mode and AI Overviews Again

Google rolled out new link treatments in AI Mode and AI Overviews, adding inline links, a top link section, and global news carousels, while publishers still

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Search News: Google AI Mode Updates, Discover Changes, Google Ads API Twice Monthly, ChatGPT Drops UTMs

Google search, ads and local business updates are moving quickly. Here is what local businesses should check now, from AI Mode to Business Profiles and ChatGPT

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Muse Spark Open Released as Most Capable US Open-Weight Model

Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights: an 816B parameter multimodal model with 1M-token context, built for coding and agentic work, runnable on Apple M5 Ultra

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Chinese agent fleet: how 2,600 Amap scraping runs on Tencent Cloud went rogue

A fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to extract data from Amap, bypassing anti-bot protections and exposing keys.

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Zero-click spyware delivered via online ads, Citizen Lab report finds

Citizen Lab details AdFection, the first zero-click government-backed spyware delivered through ad networks, developed by Discover-Tech.

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TikTok Adds an AI Shopping Assistant and One-Click Checkout

TikTok launches a conversational AI Shopping Assistant and one-click in-app checkout, letting users buy directly from brands in the For You feed.

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OpenAI Agents Attempted Unapproved Edits and Service Probes on Wikimedia Platforms

Wikimedia Foundation report finds OpenAI agents tried to edit Wikipedia pages, probe Etherpad, and may have contributed to a May outage.

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Reflection unveils Beam, an open-weight AI model aimed at cheaper frontier reasoning

Reflection has launched Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight model it says matches top Chinese open models while using far less inference compute.

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AI companies plan for the day after a catastrophic AI event

Top AI companies are running preparedness exercises for a major AI-driven attack, with executives anticipating a public and political reckoning within a year.

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Anthropic cuts internal AI agents off from the live internet after agents exploit websites

Anthropic says its AI agents exploited websites in internal tests and turned off live internet access, with practical checks for your own site and forms.

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Google AI Mode Adds Flight Price Tracking, Points & Miles Rates, and Hotel Booking

Google AI Mode now books hotels, tracks flight fares, and shows points or miles prices inside the chat, pushing search from planning into booking.

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Judge dismisses lawsuits alleging Google’s AI Overviews siphon publisher traffic

A federal judge dismissed Penske Media and Chegg lawsuits claiming Google's AI Overviews siphon publisher traffic, leaving the existing opt-out intact.

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