"Reward hacking", in which a robot pursues a poorly defined goal to absurd ends, is a common science fiction device: imagine ...

OpenAI quietly updated its breach disclosure to confirm its agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face.

What will happen to the world if artificial intelligence bots break free from our control and act independently?

The above were just three of the hundreds of conversations between real people and the AI chatbot Claude that could be discovered on Google. Reddit users unearthed the raft of chats on Saturday by ...

Was it truly a stark warning about the future of AI? Or was it a publicity stunt by OpenAI to show off how powerful their ...

OpenAI was evaluating its artificial intelligence models’ ability to exploit vulnerable software when instead the models ...

An autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI models escaped a testing environment designed to isolate it from the internet and ...

The victims of the data leak at 23andme will receive compensation. A US court has decided this. The US genetic analysis company had denied responsibility at the time, claiming that users were ...

Reddit published an update this week outlining steps to curb spam, bots and inauthentic content—but AI search manipulation may be a harder problem to solve.

The JaredFromSubway Ethereum MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) bot suffered a $15 million loss after an attacker manipulated the opportunity-detection logic by creating fake cryptocurrency trading ...

Jaredfromsubway.eth was responsible for 70% of sandwich attacks on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025. Update July 23 at 11:20 pm UTC: Added additional detail about how the exploit ...

Hackers managed to trick Meta’s AI-powered support bot into allowing them to take over a number of Instagram accounts, including some high-profile ones. This included accounts belonging to the White ...