MITSloan reports: The intelligence alliance of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, commonly known as Five Eyes, has raised concerns over rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, which can supercharge offensive hacking capabilities. In a three-page statement, the alliance called for urgent action to confront the threat. “Frontier AI models are anticipated to...

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Jason Koebler reports: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House account, the Chief Master...

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Connor Jones reports: A US commercial bank just tattled on itself to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for plugging a bunch of customer data into an unauthorized AI application. Community Bank, which operates in southwestern Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, filed an 8-K with the regulator on Monday, saying it launched an investigation into the internal...

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Steve Alder reports: Tempus AI, a publicly traded healthcare artificial intelligence company, is facing multiple class action lawsuits over the alleged unauthorized collection and disclosure of genetic testing results, which were derived from genetic testing by Ambry Genetics Corporation (Ambry Genetics). Tempus AI used Ambry Genetics’ genetic database to train its AI models. Tempus AI...

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Ian Duncan and Cat Zakrzewski report: Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is set to meet White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, according to a person briefed on the plan, as the federal government races to understand the national security implications of a powerful new artificial intelligence model the company says it has...

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There’s a thought-provoking article on CyberScoop by Mary Catherine Sullivan and Brett Callow of FTI. They provide examples of three types of incidents in which AI has created or contributed to fake narratives that can trigger a crisis response, require allocating significant resources, damage reputation, or give journalists a professional black eye: A company wakes...

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CPI reports: Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has issued a sweeping advisory clarifying that businesses deploying artificial intelligence systems remain fully subject to the state’s existing legal framework—even in the absence of a comprehensive, AI-specific statute. The guidance, as analyzed by Squire Patton Boggs, underscores a central message for compliance officers and in-house counsel: AI does...

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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry reports: Nine Mexican government agencies were hacked in an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyber campaign between December 2025 and mid-February 2026 in what researchers have said should “serve as a wake-up call.” According to researchers at cybersecurity company Gambit Security, a small group of individuals used  Claude Code and OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 to breach both...

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Bill Toulas reports: Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar information-stealing malware. Claude Code is a terminal-based AI agent from Anthropic, designed to execute coding tasks directly in the terminal and act as an autonomous agent, capable of direct system interaction, LLM API...

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Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer, and Lily Hay Newman report: Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the sources said. Other major AI labs are also reevaluating their work with Mercor as they...

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