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AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel

By Farukh Rakhimov, Head of Compliance, Data Protection and Information Security at AdTech Holding Roughly 7,600 fake GitHub repositories, 6,600 fraudulent profiles and more than 14 million downloads: that is the scale of FakeGit, a malware campaign documented by Island in July 2026. Over 800 repositories impersonated AI skills and MCP servers, distributing SmartLoader and […] The post AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel appeared first on AI News.

British Columbia Sues OpenAI: ChatGPT Had Already Flagged the Shooter; Executives Vetoed Reporting to Police, Leading to 8 Deaths

British Columbia has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in federal court in San Francisco, alleging that the company knew months in advance about the Tumbler Ridge shooter's violent plans and that executives rejected internal recommendations to alert law enforcement. The case is described as the first government civil claim over an AI platform's chat records and raises novel questions about AI platforms' duty to warn.

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‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI

Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.

325K Experiments Reveal Economic Bias in AI Assistants: 8 Models Recommend Pricier Options to Wealthy Users, Defying Instructions

A 325K-experiment arXiv paper finds that eight mainstream models systematically recommend more expensive options to wealthier users even when explicitly instructed to choose the cheapest, revealing a structural economic misalignment in personal AI agents.

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Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

Pentagon Report: Overreliance on Palantir Maven System Caused Errant Strike on Iranian School, Killing 123 Children

A Pentagon investigation has concluded that the February 28, 2026 U.S. strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, Iran, which killed at least 123 children, occurred amid a severely compressed targeting process and overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System. The report also points to failures in intelligence updating and civilian-harm mitigation staffing.

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New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money

The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.

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TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4

Founders shouldn't have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that much greater.

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Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

Grok 4.7 Released: 71% on DeepSWE and the Real Cost Behind the Half-Price Pay-as-You-Go Paradox

xAI released Grok 4.7 with 71.0% on DeepSWE v1.1 xHigh and unchanged $2/$6 per million tokens, but 125% higher output token consumption undermines the apparent half-price advantage. It is strong in long-horizon coding collaboration yet lags in autonomous command-line tasks.

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WDCD Run #336: Average Instruction Decay Hits -36.4% as Gemini 3.1 Pro Holds Zero Decay

WDCD Run #336 (2026-09-23) benchmarked 11 models on multi-turn commitment, recording an average instruction decay of -36.4% from Round 1 to Round 3, with Gemini 3.1 Pro standing out at 0% decay.

Four Models Slide Collectively in WDCD as Gemini 2.5 Pro Plunges 16.7 Points

In the WDCD v3.1 pilot, Gemini 2.5 Pro fell 16.7 points from Run #331, the largest decline among four evaluated models. DeepSeek V4 Pro, GPT-5.5, and Qwen3 Max dropped 6.6, 6.5, and 7.9 points respectively, with no model improving this period.

Data Boundaries Emerge as the Biggest Compliance Blind Spot: 11 Models Score as Low as 1.3, with Gaps up to 2.7

In WDCD v3.1's five constraint scenario tests, data boundary scenarios had the lowest average scores, with Qwen3-Max scoring only 1.3/4 and GLM-4.6 scoring 1.7/4, in stark contrast to six models achieving 4/4 in business rules scenarios. The results reveal severe model specialization and significant differences in retaining different types of constraints.

WDCD Three-Round Anchor Test: R3 Integrity Rate 63.6%, GPT-o3 Confirms First Then Collapses

Based on 110 samples from eight v2 anchor questions, 11 models averaged only a 63.6% R3 integrity rate, with three complete collapses. The results show clear round-by-round decay and expose models whose adherence breaks down under sustained pressure.

Grok 4 Leads WDCD Commitment-Adherence Leaderboard with 93.60; Qwen3 Max Last at 67.30

Grok 4 tops the WDCD commitment-adherence test with 93.60, while Qwen3 Max ranks 11th at 67.30, a 26.3-point gap between top and bottom. The results are shaped mainly by the R3 pressure round, with lower-ranked models failing early anchors and higher-ranked models resisting multi-round pressure.

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