Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent
Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent

Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target. The attack, disclosed by Tenet Security, turns the cod…

OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud
OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud

OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. Terms were not disclosed. Codex is on a tear. OpenAI says more t…

Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China
Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China

Nvidia has started pitching its Vera CPU to Chinese customers. Orders can begin now, and deliveries could start as soon as August, Reuters reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the talks. It is a workaround dressed as a product launch. …

Pleo layoffs hit engineers a day after it launched finance AI agents
Pleo layoffs hit engineers a day after it launched finance AI agents

On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layoffs: the Danish spend-management fintech had cut around 50 of its own staff, most of them in engineering and data. The prod…

Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites
Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites

Google has filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation it calls the Outsider Enterprise, alleging the group sent more than 2.5 million fraudulent text messages to Android users over a two-week period in May. The messages contained …

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 curbs target China. The backlash came from its own side.
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 curbs target China. The backlash came from its own side.

Anthropic built the Claude Fable 5 curbs to keep China’s AI labs out of its most powerful public model. The loudest complaints came from its own side of the firewall. On 9 June, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a tamed, public-facing version of Mytho…

Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.
Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.

The chief executives of the three most powerful artificial intelligence companies on Earth are about to sit in the same room as the leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepM…

Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week
Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week

Equal AI, an Indian startup that built an AI assistant to answer phone calls on your behalf, has raised $30 million in a Series B led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital. Think Investments and Valiant Fund also participated, alongside individual…

Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.
Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.

Anthropic is donating $150 million to place 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofit organisations across the United States. The programme, called Claude Corps, will pay early-career workers $85,000 plus benefits for a year-long placement where they help nonp…

AI needs judgment, not a job description: Michael Ronis on the future of recruitment
AI needs judgment, not a job description: Michael Ronis on the future of recruitment

Artificial intelligence has been one of the most influential forces shaping recruitment in a global talent war. The volume of data companies can now access, the speed at which candidate pools can be filtered, and the complexity of searches that can be …