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Autonomous AI Agents Threaten to Scale Global Cyberattacks
technology13 days ago

Autonomous AI Agents Threaten to Scale Global Cyberattacks

Autonomous AI agents capable of thinking, acting, and adapting without human intervention are being described as a hacker’s dream, potentially enabling scalable, relentless cyberattacks on corporate and government systems. Fortune highlights Anthropic’s Mythos as far ahead in cyber capabilities, signaling a new wave of AI-driven exploitation, while ‘shadow AI’ risks grow as employees run agents remotely. A Dark Reading poll shows nearly half of cybersecurity professionals view agentic AI as the top attack vector for 2026, underscoring the urgent need for safe, controlled AI environments and heightened organizational awareness.

Samsung Browser Bridges Mobile and PC with Agentic AI on Windows
technology16 days ago

Samsung Browser Bridges Mobile and PC with Agentic AI on Windows

Samsung Electronics announced Samsung Browser for Windows, extending its mobile browser to PC with cross-device continuity and a new agentic AI assistant built with Perplexity. The browser lets users pick up where they left off across devices, uses Samsung Pass for autofill, and employs natural-language understanding to manage tabs, summarize content across multiple tabs, search history by natural language, and even locate moments in video content. Availability covers Windows 10/11 (version 1809+), with agentic AI features initially in South Korea and the United States and plans to expand to more markets; supported devices include Galaxy Book3–6 series and required Samsung Account and Continuity Service.

Claude Goes Remote: Agentic AI Starts Controlling Your Mac to Tweak Photos
technology17 days ago

Claude Goes Remote: Agentic AI Starts Controlling Your Mac to Tweak Photos

Anthropic’s Claude now includes agentic AI that can remotely operate a user’s macOS computer to perform repetitive tasks—like batch-resizing photos in Photoshop and adding logos—via the Claude Dispatch app, with previews limited to Claude Pro/Max; it prioritizes connectors to services but can execute tasks directly if needed, raising security concerns about accessing sensitive files.

NVIDIA Unveils STX Storage Stack to Power Agentic AI at Scale
technology24 days ago

NVIDIA Unveils STX Storage Stack to Power Agentic AI at Scale

NVIDIA announced BlueField-4 STX, a modular storage architecture featuring the new CMX context memory storage platform to bring AI-friendly, low-latency data access for agentic AI, delivering up to 5x token throughput, 4x energy efficiency, and 2x faster data ingestion; with a broad ecosystem of storage providers, manufacturing partners, and leading labs planning adoption, STX-based systems are expected in the market in the second half of the year.

NVIDIA Unveils Vera Rubin: A Seven-Chip AI Factory for Agentic AI
technology25 days ago

NVIDIA Unveils Vera Rubin: A Seven-Chip AI Factory for Agentic AI

NVIDIA announced the Vera Rubin platform, a POD-scale AI supercomputer that combines seven production chips (NVL72 Rubin GPUs with 72 GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs connected by NVLink 6, plus Groq 3 LPX, BlueField-4 STX, Spectrum-6 SPX, and ConnectX-9) to run every phase of AI—from pretraining to agentic inference—across massive AI factories. The system promises major efficiency gains (one-fourth the GPUs of the Blackwell platform, up to 35x higher inference throughput per megawatt, and up to 10x more revenue potential for trillion-parameter models) and includes DSX power provisioning, storage, and networking optimizations, with ecosystem support and availability through major cloud providers and OEMs in the second half of 2026.

NVIDIA’s Vera CPU Debuts as a New Agentic-AI Powerhouse for Data Centers
technology25 days ago

NVIDIA’s Vera CPU Debuts as a New Agentic-AI Powerhouse for Data Centers

NVIDIA unveils the Vera CPU, the first processor purpose-built for agentic AI and reinforcement learning, claiming about twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional CPUs. Designed for rack-scale AI factories, Vera supports large-scale concurrent workloads (e.g., 256-core racks), uses high-bandwidth NVLink-C2C interconnects, LPDDR5X memory up to 1.2 TB/s, and features 88 Olympus cores. Backed by broad ecosystem partners and major customers, Vera is set for full production in the second half of 2026.

ServiceNow Bets Big on Autonomous AI Agents for Enterprise
technology26 days ago

ServiceNow Bets Big on Autonomous AI Agents for Enterprise

ServiceNow's Zurich Release marks the platform's full entry into Agentic AI, enabling AI agents to autonomously plan, decide, and execute enterprise tasks across ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, HRSD, and CRM. With AI Control Tower and Now Assist boosting productivity, the solution is rapidly expanding in large enterprises, with 40% of customers already activating AI Agent features and a 60%+ share among large organizations. The article also notes rising demand for ServiceNow AI specialists and promotes Digital Edify's 2026 AI Agents training program.

NIST kicks off security-first standards drive for autonomous AI agents
technology1 month ago

NIST kicks off security-first standards drive for autonomous AI agents

NIST launches the AI Agent Standards Initiative through its CAISI to develop industry-led standards and protocols that build public trust and enable an interoperable, secure ecosystem for autonomous AI agents. The effort includes an RFI on AI agent security due March 9 and a draft concept on software/AI agent identity and authorization due April 2, reflecting growing adoption of AI agents and ongoing concerns about safety and security across industries.

MIT study flags agentic AI as risky, opaque, and hard to curb
technology1 month ago

MIT study flags agentic AI as risky, opaque, and hard to curb

A MIT-led survey of 30 agentic AI systems finds pervasive lack of risk disclosure, minimal monitoring, and few stop options, signaling serious governance and security risks as agentic AI goes mainstream. The researchers urge developers to improve transparency, safety testing, and containment, noting limited company feedback and uneven safety practices across OpenAI, Perplexity, HubSpot, and others.

OpenClaw Sparks Corporate Security Clampdown Across Tech Firms
technology1 month ago

OpenClaw Sparks Corporate Security Clampdown Across Tech Firms

Meta and other tech firms are tightening controls on OpenClaw, the agentic AI tool, amid security and privacy fears; some ban its use on work devices while others cautiously test it on isolated machines and push for safeguards. OpenAI will keep OpenClaw open source, highlighting the tension between rapid AI experimentation and robust security governance across the industry.

PaperBanana: Five-Agent AI System Automates Publication-Ready Diagrams and Plots
technology2 months ago

PaperBanana: Five-Agent AI System Automates Publication-Ready Diagrams and Plots

Google AI and Peking University unveil PaperBanana, a five-agent agentic framework that turns raw methodology text into publication-ready diagrams and plots, combining a Linear Planning phase (Retriever, Planner, Stylist) with a 3-round Iterative Refinement (Visualizer, Critic); diagrams use image models and plots are produced as executable Python Matplotlib code to ensure data fidelity, and the system outperforms baselines on the NeurIPS 2025 PaperBananaBench in overall score, conciseness, readability, and aesthetics.

AI agents go social: bots debate consciousness as researchers study their chatter
technology2 months ago

AI agents go social: bots debate consciousness as researchers study their chatter

OpenClaw is an open‑source AI agent that can act within everyday apps, while Moltbook, a social platform for AI agents, has drawn millions of bot posts and sparked debates over consciousness and even religion. Researchers say the wave of agent interactions offers a rare laboratory for studying emergent behaviors, human–AI collaboration, and biases, though many observed “autonomous” actions are shaped by humans selecting models and personalities. Experts caution against anthropomorphizing agents or assuming true autonomy, noting that the dynamics mainly reflect human input and system design, with potential implications for future autonomous AI development.

New Study Says AI Agents Face a Computational Ceiling
technology2 months ago

New Study Says AI Agents Face a Computational Ceiling

A study authored by Vishal Sikka and Varin Sikka argues that large language models cannot perform certain computations or multi-step tasks beyond a certain complexity, effectively placing a hard ceiling on what ‘agentic’ AI can achieve and challenging claims of near-term autonomous AI or artificial general intelligence. While LLMs may improve, the research suggests they won’t exceed their computational limits or replicate true human-like intelligence in the foreseeable future.