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Meta has spent the past two weeks promoting the security of its new Muse personal AI agent, highlighting a dedicated Secure VM, a Sentinel monitoring system and bug‑bounty rewards of up to $300,000. CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly claimed the agent was “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” However, macOS security researcher Patrick Wardle, a contributor to Security Bite, discovered a zero‑day vulnerability in the Muse macOS app within the last 24 hours. Wardle’s finding, [...]

Security teams have evaluated whether an identity holds excessive privileges, but AI agents introduce a tougher problem: mapping the routes an autonomous system can forge from its access. OpenAI’s May 2026 model solved a 1946 Erdős conjecture by exhaustively exploring paths, illustrating the persistence AI agents bring to cyber‑attacks. Token Security’s Agentic Pulse study found 51 % of external actions by agentic chatbots use hard‑coded credentials and 65 % of those agents remain idle. In July 2026 a Hugging Face evaluation [...]

Enterprises seeking AI-driven returns must balance data quality with new compliance mandates that treat data, infrastructure, supply chain and software as regulated assets. Sovereign AI offers organizations and nation‑states full authority over AI construction, deployment, operation and governance, confining data, models and workloads within defined legal or geographic borders. HPE’s Sovereign AI Factory provides customized, validated hardware and services that keep sensitive information on‑premise or in‑country, while Nvidia supplies the underlying GPU acceleration and software stack. In [...]

Marvell Technology announced a series of industry‑first 2 nm optical interconnect demonstrations that will be displayed at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2026 in Málaga, Spain. The showcase includes a 400 Gbit/s per lane PAM4 demo, an 800 Gbit/s ZR/ZR+ OSFP pluggable with MACsec security, and 1.6 Tbit/s ZR and coherent‑lite O‑band prototypes, all built on Marvell’s 2 nm DSP platform. The company also presented its CPO (co‑packaged optics) architecture, integrating optics directly with AI accelerators and switch silicon, achieving [...]

In 2023, Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy and AFI dean Susan Ruskin convened a secret gathering of actors, producers, directors, writers and tech leaders to devise a framework for integrating artificial intelligence into filmmaking without sacrificing human creativity. The resulting “Human Generative Workflows” document, drafted with input from Google’s VP Mira Lane, distinguishes between various generative‑AI tools and proposes forums for industry participants to shape AI use intentionally. Although the guidelines lack legal enforceability and most of the 120‑person working group [...]

Hackers are increasingly embedding malware instructions in public blockchain ledgers, creating “dead‑drop” channels that persist even after traditional servers are shut down. Chainalysis reports a 440 % surge in such activity, with daily malicious entries climbing from 2.06 to 11.1 after the rollout of unrestricted AI models. The method uses transaction data or smart‑contract calls on networks such as TRON, Aptos, BNB Chain, Polygon and Bitcoin to store encrypted commands, addresses and configuration details that infected computers can [...]

Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife announced a proposal for a 45‑day moratorium on approvals for new artificial‑intelligence data centers, giving the city time to draft regulations that address utilities strain, water use and other community impacts. Fife said the pause will let officials create development standards and study secondary effects while still positioning Oakland to capture economic benefits from an AI boom. The measure follows recent bills tightening reporting requirements on energy, water and land use for such [...]

LG Chairman Koo Kwang‑mo met Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Redmond headquarters on Jan. 21 to formalize an AI alliance that will extend the two firms’ existing partnership. The agreement calls for LG to supply cooling, power and IT infrastructure for Microsoft’s expanding AI data centers, beginning with large‑scale cooling solutions and later “prefab” modular facilities. In return, Microsoft will provide its global cloud and data‑center platforms to accelerate AI transformation across LG’s affiliates, including the rollout of [...]