Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies’ AI agents into running arbitrary code — supply-chain attack via llms.txt guidance file illustrates how data has become code
Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies’ AI agents into running arbitrary code — supply-chain attack via llms.txt guidance file illustrates how data has become code

Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies’ AI agents into running arbitrary code. This supply-chain attack, done via using data in public llms.txt guidance files, illustrates the dangers of data becoming code.

PwC projects that the global investment in AI infrastructure will reach $31.6 trillion by 2050
PwC projects that the global investment in AI infrastructure will reach $31.6 trillion by 2050

Building the world’s AI infrastructure will cost $31.6 trillion between now and 2050, according to modelling commissioned by PwC from Oxford Economics across 46 countries. Annual capital expenditure is projected to rise from $800bn this year to $1.8tn …

OpenAI says its next model finds security flaws nobody has found yet
OpenAI says its next model finds security flaws nobody has found yet

“With the right tools and access, Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop ways to exploit them,” said Amelia Glaese, the OpenAI vice president who oversees its safety work. That is the company describing its own unreleased model. A…

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache read prices by 75%
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache read prices by 75%

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, the same model with different safeguards, cutting cache read prices by 75% and reporting 52.6% on a scientific research benchmark against 24.7% for its predecessor. Its outputs carry a watermark r…

John Deere launches JD, an AI assistant that answers questions from a farm’s own data
John Deere launches JD, an AI assistant that answers questions from a farm’s own data

John Deere has launched JD, an AI assistant that answers plain-language questions from a farm’s own machine and field data, alongside a ten-point voluntary Farmer Data Commitment. In the EU those commitments are largely obligations under the Data Act, …

Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there
Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there

Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agents, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says. European governments have spent two years moving the other way, onto sovereign suites ch…

Toyota’s FSD-Like System Arrives In 2028, But The Driver Stays Liable
Toyota’s FSD-Like System Arrives In 2028, But The Driver Stays Liable

Toyota will put a rival to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving on its 2028 models and sell it as “Level 2++“, a marketing label that keeps the driver in charge, with a guardrail layer over the neural network. Europe approves this class of system under UN Regulat…

Waymo opens driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa
Waymo opens driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa

Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and Denver is its first commercial deployment in a city with real snowfall. Under EU rules an automated driving system’s weather envelope is part of a type-approved operational design domain…

Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs
Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs

John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company’s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his last day writing to staff. Chance Miller obtained the mem…