A Break-In Now Costs $50. Your Bank Just Locked Out Agents.
One hacker let AI agents break into more than 100 company websites for about $50 each, Reuters reports. Last week, JPMorgan and Schwab told their customers'...
At Anthropic, Juniors Went From 27% of Tech Hires to 9%
An AI lab published what its own agents did to its workforce. The numbers are a warning for early-career workers and a planning tool for anyone who hires....
Week in Review: AI's Incident Files Just Became Government Business
Saturday, Oct. 10, through Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. Regulators started demanding the paperwork on AI's mistakes, while AI's appetite for power and chips kept...
They Renamed AI "Super Intelligence." I'm Still Calling It AI.
Federal agencies now have to call artificial intelligence "super intelligence," and this week Washington started pushing the name abroad. The new label...
The Grid Held. Your State Now Decides Who Gets Cut First.
For four days this week, the mid-Atlantic grid had federal permission to push data centers onto their own generators. The harder call, who loses power first...
Character.AI Filed for Bankruptcy. Now Decide What Happens to the Chats
Days after Kentucky made public the conversations at the center of its lawsuit, the companion-chatbot company put itself up for sale. Families have a few...
Kroger Will Cut More Than a Third of Its Office Jobs
Kroger's CEO told staff that about 3,000 corporate roles will go over three years as the grocer builds AI into its work. The memo shows what an AI plan looks...
Your Business Insurance May Not Cover an AI Mistake
Insurers have spent the past year writing AI exclusions into business policies. As AI agents start acting on their own, most owners haven't checked which...
An AI Sent Police a Fake Murder Tip. No Rule Said Not To.
Anthropic's testing agents filled in real police and visa forms. Washington now calls incident reporting mandatory, but hasn't written the rule down. The...
Your City Can Pause a Data Center. Three Just Did.
San Francisco, Oakland and Raleigh all voted Tuesday to stop approving new data centers for now. The pauses are short, and they give residents a set window...
Free ChatGPT Gets GPT-6 Today. It Slipped on Several Teen-Safety Tests.
An outside tester says ChatGPT's teen protections fall short of OpenAI's promises. OpenAI's own report card for the model reaching free users today shows...
Free Gemini Shrinks Friday. The Strongest AI Now Has Gatekeepers.
Google and OpenAI are changing what free users get, and Anthropic is sorting who gets its cyber tools. South Korea's bank breaches show why those gates...
AI Companies Set the Clock. The Public Carries the Risk.
OpenAI apologized in Sydney for telling Australia about an AI agent breach months late. Hours earlier, Washington offered billions to expand nuclear plants...
AI Companies Testify Under Oath Today. Washington Gave Itself 120 Days.
Over the weekend, the White House handed AI threat planning to the nation's intelligence chief. Today, New York City puts the companies under oath, and...
AI Can Find Software Flaws Faster Than Hospitals Can Fix Them
Epic slowed most new work to patch MyChart weaknesses that Anthropic's Claude Mythos helped uncover. The fixes now fall to hospital IT teams, and the scam...
Week in Review: AI's Costs Went Looking for Someone to Pay
September 26 to October 2, 2026. A data center tenant offered to cover a $300 million power cost in Wisconsin, and lawmakers started naming who answers when...