#ai News & Analysis

OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

DeepMind flags six web based attacks that can hijack AI agents

Google, Microsoft, backs x402 Foundation to standardize AI-driven crypto payments

Google Researchers Reveal Every Way Hackers Can Trap, Hijack AI Agents

Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup that works with companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, confirms major data breach

Eightco becomes biggest public Worldcoin holder with $326M bet

Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation, gathers support from Google, Stripe, AWS and others

AI giants Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA see stocks amid Iran threat, AI cryptos crash

Oracle Fires 30,000 Employees Overnight to Fund $58 Billion AI Data Center Debt

Google Accelerates Post-Quantum Timeline to 2029

Microsoft Made GPT and Claude Work Together—And the Result Beats Every AI Research Tool Out There

Meet A-Evolve: The PyTorch Moment For Agentic AI Systems Replacing Manual Tuning With Automated State Mutation And Self-Correction

Onchain RWA Tops $10 Billion and Tokenized Stocks Hit $1B as Institutional Adoption Grows

NVIDIA AI Unveils ProRL Agent: A Decoupled Rollout-as-a-Service Infrastructure for Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Turn LLM Agents at Scale

XRP To Enter This $100 Trillion Custody Pool And This Is How It Will Happen

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI Model Exposed in Major Data Breach

The Future of AI-Driven Software Engineering

A paradigm shift is occurring in software engineering as AI systems like LLMs increasingly boost development productivity. The paper presents a vision for growing symbiotic partnerships between human developers and AI, identifying key research challenges the software engineering community must address.

WebTestBench: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents towards End-to-End Automated Web Testing

Researchers introduced WebTestBench, a new benchmark for evaluating automated web testing using AI agents and large language models. The study reveals significant gaps between current AI capabilities and industrial deployment needs, with LLMs struggling with test completeness, defect detection, and long-term interaction reliability.

Data centers get ready — the Senate wants to see your power bills

Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren are requesting the Energy Information Administration to collect detailed data on power consumption by data centers and their impact on the electrical grid. This bipartisan push for transparency comes amid growing concerns about energy usage from AI and cryptocurrency operations.

Morning Minute: Trump’s New Science Council Is a Who’s Who of AI and Crypto

Trump has appointed key AI and cryptocurrency figures to his new science council, giving crypto representation in government science policy. Circle appears to have experienced a market overreaction to recent negative news, suggesting potential recovery ahead.

Christian Catalini: AI will transform job markets, coding professions face uneven automation, and human expertise remains critical in decision-making | Bankless

Christian Catalini discusses how AI's rapid advancement will significantly transform job markets, with entry-level coding positions facing the most disruption. Despite automation trends, human expertise will remain essential for critical decision-making processes.

The scientist who helped create AI says it’s only ‘a matter of time’ before every single job is wiped out—even safer trade jobs like plumbing

Yoshua Bengio, a key AI pioneer, warns that artificial intelligence will eventually eliminate all jobs, including those requiring computers or laptops first, followed by traditionally safer trades like plumbing. His prediction suggests a comprehensive transformation of the job market as AI capabilities continue to advance.

Google’s TurboQuant AI Tech Triggers Steep Decline in Samsung and SK Hynix Stock Prices

Google announced TurboQuant, an AI memory compression technology, causing significant stock price declines for major memory chip manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix. Despite the immediate negative market reaction, analysts maintain that long-term demand for memory chips remains strong.

OSS-CRS: Liberating AIxCC Cyber Reasoning Systems for Real-World Open-Source Security

Researchers have created OSS-CRS, an open framework that makes DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge systems usable for real-world cybersecurity applications. The system successfully ported the winning Atlantis CRS and discovered 10 previously unknown bugs, including three high-severity issues, across 8 open-source projects.

Mark Warner: Government and society are unprepared for AI advancements, rising unemployment among recent graduates, and the urgent need for regulatory action | Big Technology

Senator Mark Warner warns that government and society are unprepared for AI's rapid advancement, which is contributing to rising unemployment among recent graduates. He calls for urgent regulatory action to prevent broader economic disruption as AI threatens job security across multiple sectors.