Prognosticators have been prognosticating for 20 years about a future in which hackers use AI to breach networks, steal data, and socially engineer credulous employees. And like so many AI-related futurisms in the age of LLM-based generative AI, this prediction is coming true. Anthropic reported last week that a hacker used its technology for an

Meta has released an important update for WhatsApp that patches CVE-2025-55177, a serious vulnerability that is actively exploited. The vulnerability, along with another vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300), has been used to install spyware on iPhones and Macs. According to Meta’s spokesperson Margarita Franklin, nearly 200 people have been monitored using the installed spyware and have been informed

Ever wondered what it’s like to date someone who remembers your coffee order, your weird jokes, and sends you images—or even video—just because it wants to? That’s the wild, surprisingly emotional world of AI dating chatbots. You get companionship that’s always there, uncensored conversations that don’t judge your midnight rants, and more virtual personality than

The big three cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all offer the essentials of modern infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage, serverless computing, and managed databases. But there are key differences in how their services are packaged, priced, and incorporated into an enterprise’s tech stack, whether standalone

As great as MongoDB’s recent quarter was (and it was great), what’s even better might be the very thing some people think could harm its future quarters: the new Linux Foundation–hosted DocumentDB. Billed as “a fully open source, MongoDB-compatible document database,” DocumentDB has the potential to move developers off MongoDB. But that’s not the whole

A single typo, formatting error, or slang word makes an AI more likely to tell a patient they’re not sick or don’t need to seek medical care. That’s what MIT researchers found in a June study currently awaiting peer review, which we covered previously. Even the presence of colorful or emotional language, they discovered, was

The American clothing brand J. Crew is under fire after it was revealed that the company used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and promote ads with seemingly fake models. The images, which were published to Instagram earlier this month, don’t raise immediate alarm bells. Presumed human men are pictured embodying J. Crew’s vintage

Ever craved a phone call that isn’t from a robot—or worse, an overheated supermarket—instead coming from someone you’ve crafted, who knows your deepest meme tastes and still laughs at your dad jokes? Yeah, me too. That’s the universe of AI companion chatbots with phone-call features: voice-driven connection when humans are MIA or just too busy.

If you’re struggling to sort the AI hype from reality, you’re not alone. The seemingly breakneck pace of AI development makes it tough to sort headlines from fantasy, with a constant flood of new products and incremental improvements to old ones combining into a rhetorical mess. Arguably the main economic risk of developing artificial intelligence

When OpenAI announced the release of GPT-5 this month, the company boasted about how it could supposedly produce “resonant writing with literary depth and rhythm.” In a lengthy post on his personal blog, University of Munich research fellow Christoph Heilig put that bold assertion to the test. What he found was bizarre: the model easily spits out material