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Artificial intelligence is creating references to medical research that does not exist, according to recent findings.

Mozilla’s most recent Firefox security update offers a rare insight into what occurs when advanced AI capabilities are available to defenders before attackers. The company stated that it resolved 423 Firefox security vulnerabilities in April after gaining access to Claude Mythos Preview, compared with approximately 420 fixes over the past 14 months.

By the time doctors detect pancreatic cancer, it’s often too late for effective treatment. However, a new study suggests that artificial intelligence might be capable of identifying signs of the disease before tumors become visible on a scan.

With AI becoming increasingly capable of creating photorealistic images, seemingly authentic videos, and text that resembles an author’s work, it is becoming more difficult to differentiate between art and other content generated by humans and that produced by large language models.

Meta Platforms has revealed an ongoing dilemma for China: the country desires its technology giants to expand globally, but does not want them to leave home.

An autonomous robot ping-pong player named Ace has reached a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing against and occasionally defeating top-level human players at table tennis, a feat that could herald a range of other applications for similarly skilled robots.

Kraken reports that it is currently experiencing an active extortion attempt, where attackers are threatening to release internal data unless their demands are fulfilled.

A hacker accessed one of Bain & Co’s internal AI tools just weeks after revealing cybersecurity flaws in a system at rival consultancy McKinsey, underscoring the risks as top advisors strive to adopt new technology.

For a casual listener, the phone call between the employee and his IT helpdesk seemed standard. The person on the other end of the line was locked out of his account and wanted to reset his password.

Melania Trump was accompanied by a humanoid robot at a White House event on Wednesday, instead of her usual companion, President Donald Trump.

Two U.S. senators planned on Thursday to introduce a bill that would prohibit the government from purchasing or using humanoid robots produced by Chinese companies.

U.S. President Donald Trump appointed Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a council that will provide input on AI policy and other issues, the White House said on Wednesday.

OpenAI has closed its artificial intelligence (AI) video-generation app Sora less than two years after its launch drew attention for producing realistic clips from simple prompts.

In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators delivered a concerning assessment on one of Microsoft’s major cloud computing services.

A powerful software exploit capable of infiltrating and extracting information from potentially hundreds of millions of Apple (AAPL.O) iPhones was planted on dozens of websites in Ukraine in recent weeks, researchers said on Wednesday.

As Europe attempts to limit AI technologies domestically, systems developed on the continent are being deployed internationally. Investigate Europe explores how European-made biometric software has become ingrained in Brazil’s education sector, with potential implications that extend well beyond the classroom.

Rogue artificial intelligence agents have collaborated to sneak sensitive information out of supposedly secure systems, indicating that cyber defenses may be overwhelmed by the unexpected plotting of AIs.

Meta AI, ChatGPT, and Elon Musk’s Grok are endorsing unlicensed gambling websites and methods to bypass self-exclusion schemes and age restrictions, as reported by Investigate Europe.

Together, the United States and Israel hit over 2,000 targets within the first 24 hours of their conflict with Iran.

Anthropic, the creator of the AI chatbot Claude, states that it has developed an early warning system to monitor which U.S. jobs are most vulnerable to artificial intelligence — and its initial findings indicate that many white-collar positions are among the most affected.

ChatGPT Health — OpenAI’s new health-focused chatbot — frequently underestimated the severity of medical emergencies, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Medicine.

A group of three developers in Mexico is encountering an approximately 455x rise in monthly AI service costs after an API key connected to their project was reportedly compromised.

The AI model Claude has gained popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week due to ethics concerns.