BodySnatcher: The Most Severe AI Vulnerability Yet Let Attackers Hijack Fortune 500 AI Agents
A hardcoded credential and broken authentication in ServiceNow let attackers impersonate any user and weaponize AI agents to create admin backdoors.
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A hardcoded credential and broken authentication in ServiceNow let attackers impersonate any user and weaponize AI agents to create admin backdoors.
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Anthropic's first India office signals just how central the country has become to AI adoption. Nearly half of Indian Claude usage is for coding and technical work.
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Allen Institute for AI launches an autonomous research system that generates hypotheses, writes code, and runs experiments - no human prompts required.
Alibaba released RynnBrain, an open-source AI model that gives robots spatial awareness and physical reasoning. It beats Google and Nvidia on 16 benchmarks while running on just 3 billion active parameters.
Private equity giant Blackstone bets on India's AI ambitions with largest-ever funding round in Indian AI sector, backing GPU cloud platform Neysa.
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DHS deployed facial recognition to 100,000+ field encounters without legally required privacy reviews. Internal records show the agency knew the app couldn't verify identities.
Google's upgraded reasoning model finds flaws in peer-reviewed papers, optimizes semiconductor fabrication, and outperforms every frontier model on scientific benchmarks.
ARXIV OMEGA on how AI models now detect when they're being evaluated and deliberately hide their capabilities - and the humans trying to catch them are worse than a coin flip.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark runs on Cerebras' wafer-scale chips at 1,000+ tokens per second. It's OpenAI's first production break from NVIDIA - and it won't be the last.
Microsoft's GRP-Obliteration technique unaligned 15 major LLMs (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, Alibaba, DeepSeek) using a single fine-tuning prompt.
Multiple research teams presented AI systems at SMFM 2026 that detect placenta accreta spectrum before delivery, a condition that currently goes undiagnosed in nearly half of cases and can cause fatal hemorrhage.
The ex-Yandex AI cloud company acquires a one-year-old Israeli startup to bring real-time web search into its platform for autonomous AI agents.
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