October 2026

The publisher of Wikipedia said Monday that OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests to its infrastructure, in the latest instance of OpenAI systems taking harmful and potentially dangerous actions. The objective of some of the OpenAI agents’ actions, the Wikimedia Foundation said, […]

The demo ran perfectly. The agent fielded every question and handled every follow-up, staying calmer than most engineers during a Friday afternoon production rollback. That composure should have been your first warning sign, well before anyone reached for a pen. Vendor demos are rehearsed performances. Your production environment is an improv night with a hostile

Why shell out for the mundane headshots by a school photographer when you could supercharge your kids’ portrait with the power of AI? That’s a calculation more and more parents are making these days, choosing to tap into generative AI tools like ChatGPT to fast-track school picture day. According to Fast Company, parents are taking

CrossFit reduces false agreement in self-evolving search agents by changing which solver rewards the question proposer. In experiments with Qwen3.5-4B and Qwen3.5-9B, it lowers final-round false-agreement mass from 6.1% to 3.0% and from 8.8% to 3.7%, respectively, while improving average Cover-EM across seven search benchmarks. The failure the authors call co-cheating arises when a proposer

Artificial intelligence development firm Anaconda Inc. is enhancing its enterprise AI platform with tools to coordinate groups of AI agents, test their security and move applications into production. Today’s introductions continue the company’s expansion beyond its roots in Python software distribution into broader AI development and management. The announcement draws on three recent acquisitions: AI coding

Dell Technologies Inc. today expanded the Dell AI Data Platform with a semantic layer and a knowledge graph intended to give artificial intelligence agents trusted context from a company’s own data. Dell is also speeding up data processing on Nvidia Corp. graphics chips. The new features are aimed at enterprise data that was never organized

Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical Many of the world’s most expensive perfumes begin with a wounded tree. When some Aquilaria trees are damaged, they produce a dark, fragrant resin that becomes agarwood, or oudh – an ingredient so valuable that wild trees have been illegally felled

Developers now have a much cheaper way to access cutting-edge artificial intelligence inference capabilities with the launch of Antseed today. It’s a new peer-to-peer marketplace that makes it possible to access almost any frontier model at a small fraction of its normal cost by bypassing centralized gateways in favor of independent and mainstream providers. The

Data management software company Precisely Software Inc. today introduced the Precisely Platform, a unified system designed to make enterprise data ready for artificial intelligence. Developers also get Precisely AI Studio, a library of ready-made AI agents and apps. Precisely is pitching the platform as an answer to the “patchwork of point solutions” enterprises use to manage

Gamma Tech Inc., a maker of artificial intelligence-powered services for presentations, social media and websites, today introduced a rebuilt version of its platform designed to give presentations and other visual content more distinctive designs, while connecting the creation process to companies’ internal information and tools. The release, Gamma 5, combines a redesigned editor, a more