Three charged with using AI to impersonate executives and steal $129M
The US Justice Department says that from July 2024 to February 2026 the three cloned the voices and faces of executives and lawyers at seven organizations, including an investment bank, hospitals and a bank, then laundered the money into crypto.
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One hacker let AI agents run for two weeks and stole 300+ Apple signing certificates
Check Point says an attacker set AI agents loose on 13 gray-market servers from Oct 14 to 29, taking 300+ iOS signing certificates and 190,000 Honor of Kings accounts. Model costs came to only about 1,500, and the attacker mostly just asked for progress updates.
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DigitalOcean’s iPhone app lets you approve or stop AI agents from your phone
Called Cuttlefish, it shows live what agents like Claude Code and Codex are doing; before they run a command or change a file, you see the details and tap allow or deny.
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AWS makes Kiro Bots generally available, with assistants that remember your project and habits
Developers can give each recurring job (triaging issues, watching builds, release checks) its own named AI assistant, which remembers the project, your preferences and past decisions across sessions. From $20 per seat per month.
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A research system built on an unreleased Anthropic model proved an 18-year-old quantum computing conjecture in 3 days
Physical Superintelligence says the system produced a complete proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture on its third day, with every step checked automatically in Lean.
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines launches Inkling 2 Small, open weights next week
594B total parameters with 17B active per step, plus image understanding. For now it runs only on their Tinker platform; Apache 2.0 weights are promised next week after outside safety testing.
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