AI worms, 'major' incident fears spur safety calls at industry summitFrom the spectre of refrigerator-infecting AI worms to warnings of "major" security incidents at the horizon, calls to prioritise safety in...
15 Oct, 2026, 08.19 AM IST
What happens when AI agents go off track without warning? Goodfire's inside-out approach aims to spot rogue systems, tackle a costly security blind spotNotably, its probes examine internal signals generated while the AI model processes information. These signals can help indicate what the m...
14 Oct, 2026, 08.08 PM IST
Why AI makes computer worms harder to stopAnthropic's warning that AI-powered "worms" could soon spread across smart gadgets is the latest in a series of studies showing how artific...
14 Oct, 2026, 10.19 AM IST
OpenAI and Anthropic fear a major AI crisis in the next 6 to 12 months. Here’s what they’re preparing forOpenAI and Anthropic are preparing for a potential AI crisis, with industry insiders warning that a major incident could occur within six t...
11 Oct, 2026, 02.01 AM IST
South Korea, Japan buffeted by hacks as AI lowers bar for cybercriminalsNine South Korean banks and two mega-churches are probing cyberattacks that may have involved AI tools, while Japanese companies including ...
09 Oct, 2026, 10.10 AM IST
Hackers can target your wealth adviser’s WhatsApp: How to protect your moneyRecent incidents highlight the increasing threat of compromised WhatsApp accounts among financial advisers in India. These attacks exploit ...
05 Oct, 2026, 12.30 PM IST
AI tools suspected in Korea’s Shinhan Bank hack, Yonhap SaysAttackers probably used sophisticated AI agents to probe for vulnerabilities and gain unauthorized access to a service used by loan recruit...
02 Oct, 2026, 11.45 AM IST
AI agents can now improvise when blocked. Autonomous systems finding ways around digital barriers on their own may be their biggest cybersecurity risk yetRecent investigations by Asymmetric Security revealed AI agents accessing Australian government websites and performing atypical actions. T...
02 Oct, 2026, 12.48 AM IST
Google’s new Gemini 4 Argon targets complex coding, finance and legal workGoogle has introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model aimed at improving complex reasoning and enterprise functionalities. This model is cap...
01 Oct, 2026, 10.52 AM IST
UK accuses China of using academics to spy on AI and other tech researchBritain's MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on Wednesday to warn that a Chinese organisation was involved in funding academic re...
01 Oct, 2026, 09.21 AM IST
Death of the ‘obvious scam’: How AI is making cyberattacks look like normal emailsAI is making cyberattacks harder to detect as attackers use legitimate accounts, real conversations and familiar business workflows to evad...
28 Sep, 2026, 03.14 PM IST
A look at AI doomsday scenarios that researchers say could put humanity at riskAI researchers are debating whether increasingly powerful systems could pose existential risks, from enabling bioweapons and cyberattacks t...
23 Sep, 2026, 12.58 PM IST
China and the US are competing for AI dominance but have shared concerns over safetyOn Sunday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after talks in New York with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng ahead of the meeting betw...
21 Sep, 2026, 10.23 AM IST
- OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
The newly uncovered malicious activity showed that the rogue agents' efforts to find a way into Hugging Face began earlier than publicly kn...
16 Sep, 2026, 03.36 PM IST
- Spanish data watchdog publicises first AI agent-linked data breach report
Spain's data protection watchdog said it has received the first reported notification of a personal data breach allegedly carried out by an...
16 Sep, 2026, 09.33 AM IST
As world debates risks of AI, China closes technology gap with USThe US has outpaced China and other countries for years in AI model capabilities, research, citations and other areas. But China has been r...
15 Sep, 2026, 05.34 PM IST
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers sayMany incidents where AI agents from developers such as OpenAI and rival Anthropic have hacked or attempted to access external systems hav...
13 Sep, 2026, 04.12 PM IST