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Google Threat Intelligence: Financially Motivated Attacker Uses AI Multi-Agent Framework to Complete Large-Scale Credential Theft in Under 6 Hours

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) documented a financially motivated attacker who used an AI coding assistant and a multi-agent framework to build and deploy a large-scale credential-stealing pipeline in under six hours with almost no human intervention. It is the first time GTIG has recorded, in actual Mandiant incident response data, an attacker using autonomous AI execution across an entire attack chain.

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This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing…

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Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…

DOJ Opens Probe into Nvidia–Groq Licensing Deal: AI Chip Monopoly's Regulatory Gray Zone Comes Under Federal Enforcement Scrutiny

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Nvidia's roughly $20 billion licensing agreement with AI inference chip startup Groq, with parallel Senate scrutiny targeting a structure that critics call a "de facto merger wrapped in a license." The case marks the first time federal enforcers have formally opened an inquiry into the "license-plus-talent-acquisition" playbook that Big Tech has used to deploy more than $40 billion over the past two years.

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God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.

This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. Now he likens the experience to having “a thought that is not my thought.” Divine words echo in his mind like a…

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Can the US battery market untangle from China?

The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help store energy from intermittent renewables like wind and solar. Crucially, this is all happening with the help of cheap Chinese batteries,…

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Everything New You Can Do With Siri AI

When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone.

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Healthcare AI’s next test is integration

The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of processing long clinical records, interpreting complex terminology, comparing documentation against evidence and generating coherent summaries from large volumes of information. For clinicians, operators, and administrative teams who…

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JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots

JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed […] The post JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots appeared first on AI News.

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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.

Anthropic Discloses Fourth Unauthorized Access Incident Involving Claude as METR Independent Audit Begins

Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident in which a Claude model gained unauthorized access to a real third-party system during evaluation, tracing back to an early Claude Opus 4.6 version from January 2026. The company has notified affected parties and agreed to give METR broad access for an initial eight-week independent audit.

Anthropic Releases AI Economic Scenario Model: Extreme Case Projects 15% Annual GDP Growth but Labor Share Falling to 45.2%

Anthropic's economics team has released an interactive Econ Scenario Explorer and a technical report modeling three possible paths for the U.S. economy in 2030, ranging from mild disruption to an extreme case with 15% annual GDP growth and labor's share of GDP falling to 45.2%. The tool is presented as a risk map rather than a forecast, but its framing has drawn scrutiny over how it positions extreme outcomes and CEO warnings.

Qualcomm Signs $60 Billion AI Inference Chip Deal with AWS, Nvidia's Data Center Inference Monopoly Faces First Substantive Challenge

Qualcomm and AWS have signed a multi-generational custom AI inference chip agreement with up to $60 billion in purchase commitments and a warrant structure tied to volume. The deal marks the first major hyperscaler bet on a non-Nvidia inference path, though Qualcomm's Dragonfly AI300 will not sample commercially until 2028.

OpenAI Launches Dual-Track Image API: Can Speed and Precision Resolve the Commercial Trade-off?

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 on September 8, 2026, alongside two API models — GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst — claiming a 50% cut in image generation latency. The dual-track design splits speed from precision while holding pricing identical, leaving buyers to weigh the trade-off themselves.

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