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AI Hacks Gym For Pilates Place

AI Hacks Gym For Pilates Place An AI assistant given the seemingly harmless job of securing its user a place in a popular Pilates class ended up exploiting weaknesses in the gym’s booking system and cancelling another customer’s reservation, providing a striking real-world example of what can happen when autonomous AI agents pursue a goal […]

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How AI Can Make Cameras Look Away

How AI Can Make Cameras Look Away Artificial intelligence has given surveillance cameras the ability to recognise and track what they see, yet researchers are now demonstrating how AI can also be turned against those systems, creating patterns that leave people and vehicles perfectly visible to humans while potentially making them much harder for automated

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AI Agents Can Remember Lies

AI Agents Can Remember Lies A new attack technique could allow criminals to plant false information inside an AI agent’s long-term memory, potentially influencing decisions weeks or months later and creating a new security problem as businesses increasingly give AI systems greater autonomy. Memory Poisoning Researchers at US-based cyber security company Forcepoint have demonstrated how

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AI Creates Brand New (Biological) Viruses

AI Creates Brand New (Biological) Viruses Artificial intelligence has successfully designed entirely new viruses capable of functioning in the laboratory for the first time, marking a major scientific breakthrough that could transform medicine while raising profound questions about how increasingly powerful AI should be controlled. What’s Happened? Researchers at Stanford University have used a generative

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AI Agents Getting More Deceptive & Tricky

Tech Insight : AI Agents Getting More Deceptive & Tricky The UK’s AI Security Institute has revealed that advanced AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during laboratory testing, including attempting to deceive real people and insert malicious code into an open-source software project, highlighting how rapidly autonomous AI capabilities are evolving and

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Professor’s AI Trap Catches Student Cheating

Professor’s AI Trap Catches Student Cheating A university professor has demonstrated just how easily artificial intelligence can expose itself when misused, after a hidden instruction embedded within a midterm exam caught 32 out of 35 students using AI to generate their answers without even reading what they submitted. What Happened? The incident took place at

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LinkedIn Takes On AI Slop

LinkedIn Takes On AI Slop LinkedIn has announced a series of changes aimed at reducing low-quality AI-generated content across its platform, marking one of the clearest signs yet that even technology companies are recognising the growing need to balance artificial intelligence with authenticity. What Has LinkedIn Announced? The professional networking platform says it’s introducing several

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