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Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it ...

Today is Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 200 flaws, including five publicly disclosed zero-day ...

A new front has opened in the U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence: open-weight, local AI models. Until recently, the most capable AI models were too big and too costly to run anywhere ...

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A malware named IronWorm spread through 36 npm packages in the Arweave ecosystem, stealing developer credentials and self ...

No sooner did Anthropic file for its initial public offering of stock this week than it then put out a missive suggesting that AI model makers need to slow down to let us catch our breath — or else AI ...