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Thought AI was just for images or text? Brace yourself: chatbots can now assemble botnet armies for cybercriminals.
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Thought AI was just for images or text? Brace yourself: chatbots can now assemble botnet armies for cybercriminals.

Artificial intelligence isn't just about chatbots anymore. Now it's eyeing Latin America, betting on politically aligned governments for new business.

Someone just built an intelligent assistant that knows how to navigate the internet's filthiest corners — the ones normally inhabited only by bad actors. It's a tool that raises uncomfortable questions about what it really means to give an intelligent system unlimited access.

While everyone obsesses over AI writing poetry, an Israeli firm just tripled its valuation by protecting governments from cyberattacks instead. Dream just raised $260 million, and investors clearly think that's where the real money is.
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When authorities decide to ban you for national security reasons, that's usually not good news. But in Anthropic's case, that move might just be turning into the best accidental marketing in recent memory.

While everyone's debating AI, someone just pointed out a rather unsettling detail: three companies can make decisions that compromise cybersecurity for billions of people. Meredith Whittaker, Signal's president, has shone a light on a reality we'd rather ignore.
Imagine being a security researcher who wants to test if a system can be hacked, but the AI refuses to cooperate because it's scared of causing harm. That's the friction now brewing in the cybersecurity world.
Even the people keeping you alive with their drugs aren't immune to hackers knocking on the door. Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharma giant, just realized someone broke into its internal IT systems — now comes the fun part of figuring out who, how, and what they saw.

AI agents aren't just the next tech frontier — they're also the next nightmare for your company's security. Rubrik's CEO just laid it out flat: while everyone's cheering for intelligent automation, cyber risk is about to explode in ways nobody expected.

While everyone waited for stricter AI rules, Trump signed an executive order that basically buys time. Nothing earth-shattering, but not exactly a game-changer either: a tactical move while the White House figures out what to actually do with cutting-edge AI models.

Someone just trained an AI to read security bulletins and understand how hackers exploit software holes. Meet exploitintel/cve-cwe-qwen35-9b, the new model on HuggingFace that could become a serious ally in the fight against bugs that shouldn't exist in the first place.