October 2026

A reported leak of 13,000 screenshots shows how AI agents can bypass weak approval and audit controls even when organizations have written policies. The post AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval Controls Failed appeared first on TechRepublic.

Paramount Skydance completed its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery today, after a last-ditch effort to block the deal was rejected by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. The post-merger company is called Skydance, taking the name of a firm that Paramount bought in a separate deal last year. The new Skydance combines two of

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

AI teaching agents could make personalized instruction available to more learners by reducing the cost and staffing demands of one-to-one tutoring. MasterClass is exploring that potential through a system designed to adapt to how each student learns. The shift is also feeding CoreWeave Inc.’s full-stack AI cloud push as companies move AI agents out of

Meta’s new AI agent Muse might come with a cutesy new mascot, but under its fuzzy exterior lies a vast surveillance network under the control of one of the world’s most powerful — and least accountable — tech companies. The flashy new service has gained plenty of traction over the past few weeks, with many

Meta says Muse Spark helped researchers answer five open math questions through its regular chat interface, with experts guiding and checking the work. The post Meta’s AI Helped Tackle Unsolved Math Through a Regular Chat Window appeared first on TechRepublic.

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

Hikers keep getting stranded after consulting AI chatbots for potentially life-saving — or life-threatening — advice. Just last month, three outdoor enthusiasts had to be rescued by Forest Service rangers in California’s Cascade Range after Google’s AI advised them to “bring far less food and water than their group required,” turning their planned eight-hour ascent

New Pricing Model Charges Businesses for Results, Not Usage Vida Global Inc. (NYSE American: VIDA), an AI agent operating system for businesses, today introduced outcome-based billing for digital employees, a new pricing model that charges customers for verified results rather than usage. With outcome-based billing, businesses determine what success looks like for each digital employee,

AI agent memory is creating new demands on infrastructure as agents run longer sessions and spread across the enterprise. Retaining that context and making it available when needed puts pressure on memory capacity and data movement. Those demands extend beyond the context held during an individual interaction. Enterprise agents also need shared knowledge that persists