AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy AI & Bots
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 AI & Bots
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 AI & Bots
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 AI & Bots
‘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 AI & Bots
Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them — and tells junior engineers that ‘hunger beats tenure’ AI & Bots
‘They’re not done’: Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison says AI can finally help us ‘finish’ building apps, dismissing SaaSpocalypse fears AI & Bots
‘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 AI & Bots
Anthropic’s Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering — sweeping new restrictions also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks AI & Bots
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 AI & Bots
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% AI & Bots
Google’s new Genie 4 ‘world model’ looks incredible — but the underlying reality is still a long way from AGI AI & Bots
The intent compression paradox: How LLM developers are solving semantic erosion to keep human intent alive AI & Bots
Veteran Microsoft engineer makes his own RAM from scratch using AI — custom FPGA board dodges extreme 1970s PDP-11 memory prices AI & Bots
‘Online exams are now a waste of time’: Top UC Berkeley professor calls time on homework grades as students are increasingly cheating using AI AI & Bots
Sam Altman defends OpenAI’s science blitz — CEO refuses to slow research as academics describe the influx as a ‘giant bomb’ AI & Bots
A human subject has been injected with an AI-designed virus aiming to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria, so let’s see how that turns out AI & Bots
North Korean hackers pull off a $6.3 billion crypto heist in one of the biggest thefts so far AI & Bots
