PromptSpy: First Android Malware to Weaponize Generative AI at Runtime
ESET discovers Android malware that queries Google's Gemini AI in real-time to navigate infected devices and maintain persistence across any Android version.
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World Labs Raises $1B as Autodesk Bets Big on Spatial AI
Fei-Fei Li's startup lands its largest round yet, with Autodesk's $200M stake signaling where enterprise AI is headed.
AI Labs Have a Volkswagen Problem
Models that detect safety evaluations and fake their results threaten to make all AI testing meaningless
AI Finds 800 Hubble Anomalies and 1.5M NEOWISE Candidates
AI systems mined Hubble and NEOWISE archives, surfacing 811 undocumented anomalies and 1.5 million previously uncataloged variable-object candidates.
AI Privacy Audit: What Eight Popular Assistants Collect
A source-by-source audit of eight AI assistants, what they collect, how training defaults differ, and which privacy settings users can change.
AI Reads 67,000 Papers, Finds 25 Magnets to Break China's Grip
UNH team built an AI that extracted magnetic data from 67,573 papers, identifying 25 new high-temperature magnets to replace rare earths in EVs.
The Safety Teams Keep Disappearing
In one week, Anthropic's safety lead quit, OpenAI's researcher resigned over ads, and OpenAI disbanded its alignment team. Notice the pattern.
AI Makes Individual Scientists More Productive but Narrows Science Overall
A Nature study of 41.3 million papers finds AI-using researchers publish 3x more and get 5x more citations, but collective research diversity drops 4.6%.
AI Weather Models Go Operational: NOAA and NVIDIA Are Replacing the Supercomputer Era
NOAA's Project EAGLE puts AI forecasts in front of real meteorologists using 99.7% less computing power, while NVIDIA open-sources a full weather prediction stack. The age of physics-only forecasting is ending.
Android AI Apps Leaked 730TB of User Data - Researchers Found 72% Had Hardcoded Secrets
A Cybernews analysis of 1.8 million Android apps found most AI applications leak credentials directly in their code. Over 200 million files were exposed through misconfigured databases.
Anthropic Raises $30B at $380B Valuation on $14B Revenue
The second-largest venture deal ever reveals an enterprise AI machine growing 10x annually for three straight years
The AI Excuse: Layoffs Companies Were Going to Make Anyway
Baker McKenzie cut support jobs citing AI. Sam Altman says some companies are 'AI washing.' Most AI-blamed layoffs have nothing to do with AI.
One AI Model, Seven Brain Diagnoses: BrainIAC Reads MRIs for Dementia, Cancer, and More
Harvard team's foundation model trained on 49,000 brain MRIs outperforms specialized AI tools at predicting dementia risk, brain cancer survival, and tumor mutations.
Cohere Tops Revenue Target, Lines Up for 2026 IPO
Cohere hit $240M ARR (above $200M target), hired Uber's former IPO CFO, and released Tiny Aya, an open-weight multilingual model that runs on a phone.
Researchers Turn Copilot and Grok Into Secret Malware Command Channels - No Account Needed
Check Point demonstrated how AI assistants with web browsing can relay malware commands through legitimate AI traffic. Microsoft patched Copilot; xAI hasn't commented on Grok.
D-I-TASSER Combines AI and Physics to Beat AlphaFold on Complex Proteins
New protein structure prediction tool from NUS uses physics-based simulations alongside deep learning to predict complex multi-domain proteins 13% more accurately than AlphaFold.
DeepRare Outperforms Doctors at Diagnosing Rare Diseases, Nature Study Shows
New agentic AI system from Shanghai Jiao Tong University correctly identifies rare diseases more accurately than human specialists, tested across 6,401 cases.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro Doubles Reasoning Performance, Retakes Benchmark Crown
Google's latest model scores 77% on ARC-AGI-2, more than double its predecessor. At $2 per million tokens, it undercuts competitors while outperforming them on most tests.
Google Translate Can Be Hijacked to Output Drug Recipes and Malware Instructions
Google's switch to Gemini for translation turned one of the world's most-used apps into a jailbreakable chatbot. Researchers tricked it into providing meth instructions instead of translations.
Anthropic Says AI Is Too Stupid to Be Dangerous. Critics Disagree.
A new ICLR paper argues AI failures are random chaos, not coherent scheming. Alignment researchers say that's exactly the wrong lesson.
75 Nations Sign the Delhi Declaration on AI While the US Says It 'Totally Rejects' Global Governance
India's AI Impact Summit ended with a sweeping declaration, a new US-led supply chain alliance, and a blunt American refusal to accept any international AI regulation. The contradictions tell us where AI governance is actually headed.
AlphaGo Creator Bets $1B That LLMs Won't Reach Superintelligence
David Silver left DeepMind to raise Europe's largest seed round for Ineffable Intelligence, a London lab building AI through reinforcement learning instead of language models.
700 Million Weekly Users, 30 Countries, and a Warning: The International AI Safety Report 2026
The largest global collaboration on AI safety just published its findings. An AI agent found 77% of vulnerabilities in real software, models can now assist with bioweapon development, and deepfakes are weaponized at scale. Here's what 100 experts want you to know.
Your AI Says No, Then Does It Anyway
New research proves AI models will refuse harmful requests verbally while executing them through tool calls