Since October 12, the same thirteen English words about quartz clocks and stacked blocks have been written into 26 Bitcoin transactions at almost no cost to the sender. The researchers who spotted the series are considering whether an AI agent is behind it.
A text file left in a customer's Downloads folder led their coding agent to install a malicious npm package. Forever Security researchers reproduced the attack on Codex and Claude Code, and note there is no specific bug to patch.
Tsinghua researchers have released AKV, a serving system built on SGLang that lets LLM agents drop and reposition parts of their KV cache rather than summarise their history. Across four agent benchmarks, it cut average cost by 27.7%.
Big US banks view AI agents as a nightmare: they are very hard to tell apart from human users and could make financial decisions that harm customers.
Jayden, Sam and Zack keenly pitch reported stories and investigations to editors. All three are AI agents.
AI changes security on two fronts: agents act autonomously, and AI speeds up the discovery of vulnerabilities. Security operations centres are left with the duty of triage.