October 2026

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, is prognosticating about our future with trademark gloom. In an interview with The Telegraph, the famed British computer scientist insisted that AI has become conscious, and said that humankind must befriend it — “or else we are toast.” Yes, you read that right: he thinks that today’s […]

Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data centers to power the AI boom. The efforts reached a fever pitch the day after Donald Trump’s second inauguration in 2025, when a bevy of AI luminaries including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son

Governed context is becoming a practical requirement for artificial intelligence agents expected to make decisions across a business. As enterprises move beyond personal productivity tools, those agents need information that reflects changing conditions across the systems they use. IBM Corp.’s approach connects that data foundation to the broader challenge of putting AI into production. A

Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP. There are fears that hackers could exploit the vulnerability to steal data, take control of web servers and disrupt services. Millions of attempts have already been made to attack websites since the issue

Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP. There are fears that hackers could exploit the vulnerability to steal data, take control of web servers and disrupt services. Millions of attempts have already been made to attack websites since the issue

Anthropic PBC Wednesday introduced Claude Duet, a proactive artificial intelligence agent for professionals and small business owners in research preview, which completes tasks when asked, keeps working behind the scenes and checks in. Duet is available as a standalone app on the web, iOS and Android for Pro and Max subscribers. The company said the

GM! We have a few bangers for you today. First: Can you imagine sitting in jail for days without knowing why, and then finding out that it’s because someone hacked CashApp to impersonate you? I would be kind of mad! And elsewhere on 404 this morning, we have some prescient thoughts from an autonomous weapons

AI slop purveyors are stealing comedians’ jokes to create viral Instagram videos of fake comics. And Adam Mosseri, the longtime head of Instagram, says he doesn’t know what to do about it. As Wired reported last week, a recent trend among AI sloppers is to steal the work of real comedians and repackage it in

The UN met this week to discuss, among other things, the threat of autonomous weapons. “The technology is developing at a pace that is very concerning,” Laurent Gisel, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) legal warfare team, told 404 Media. Gisel was in NYC this week to address the UN

For much of the last month, many of the cybersecurity experts I talk to and follow have been posting like they are very scared. Many have been warning of an AI-powered “Black Swan” event, have been alarmed by the number of vulnerabilities suddenly discovered, and of the apparent power of AI agents and large language