Category: AI & Bots
New AI-driven Windows malware feeds stolen data to Claude to rank victims’ assets by value, then deletes itself — payload builds custom target assessment, can switch models if one refuses, or skip the AI step entirely
DeepSeek wants to steal Claude Code and Codex’s lunch with an AI Super Agent that does not wait around
Amazon is saying bye-bye to Muse while Walmart is rolling out the welcome mat for Meta’s shopping agent
‘AI is not creating the problem’: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is merely uncovering all the vulnerabilities we’ve accumulated over the years
AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy
Lenovo’s ‘encrypted’ fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case — AI-assisted follow-up finds a backdoor and hardcoded keys in other ‘secure’ USB products
Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages — OpenAI CEO travels to South Korea to meet Samsung leadership to discuss future AI data centers
Brazilian lawyers busted for attempting to manipulate court’s AI with prompt injection hidden in filing — court’s AI flags hidden text that demanded superficial legal scrutiny, lawyers fined $16,000
‘The reality is that not every task requires the most advanced or expensive model available’: Snowflake explains why finding the right AI model can make all the difference in helping your business succeed
Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them — and tells junior engineers that ‘hunger beats tenure’
‘They’re not done’: Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison says AI can finally help us ‘finish’ building apps, dismissing SaaSpocalypse fears
‘Ghost Students’ using AI to apply for student loans with stolen identities — DOJ’s Operation Ghostbusters busts $200 million ring faking online college attendance, unsuspecting victims saddled with student debt they didn’t sign up for
Anthropic’s Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering — sweeping new restrictions also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks
This week in Tom’s Hardware Premium: October 31, 2026 — Vera CPUs available on Oracle clusters, building an agentic CPU benchmark and a primer to LLMs
Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%
