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As artificial intelligence agents move from experimental tools into production systems, enterprise governance is being forced to answer a harder question. It is no longer enough to know what an agent did. Organizations increasingly need to prove what the agent was authorized to do, why it was allowed to take a specific action and whether that authority remained intact as tasks moved across multiple agents and systems. That challenge is becoming more urgent as agentic systems spread across regulated enterprises, where security, auditability and sovereignty requirements can limit reliance on external software-as-a-service control planes. In the latest episode of theCUBE…

AI assistants are finally tackling the one task most humans actively avoid: making phone calls. Both Instinct and Meta’s Muse just added features that place outbound phone calls on your behalf. Instead of sitting on hold with customer support or searching for a restaurant reservation link that doesn’t exist, your AI agent picks up the phone and handles the conversation. Instinct launched a feature called Concierge to tackle these exact micro-headaches. It books tables at offline eateries, grabs waiting-list spots at the dentist, and untangles billing messes with your service provider. Meanwhile, Meta’s Muse agent added outbound business calls right…

AI will be the death of me. And you. And everyone we know.At least, this is what a growing number of technologists and policymakers fear.Last week, a lead researcher at Anthropic declared that there was a greater than 10 percent chance of AI “killing all humans” within the next decade. This nerve-racking forecast, combined with recent AI-initiated cyberattacks, have fueled calls for slowing the progress of artificial intelligence — a proposal that Anthropic and OpenAI subsequently embraced.Not all prophets of AI doom agree about precisely how this apocalypse would come about. Many focus on scenarios reminiscent of The Terminator films,…

Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI’s public help forum and moved through a weakness in OpenAI’s own login system. This was security research, not a real-world attack: the team reported the flaws to OpenAI, proved the access with a harmless pull request, and then stopped. From the first look, that internal access took under 72 hours. OpenAI confirmed a fix about…

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here.AI doomers have recently traded one worst-case scenario for another, putting aside a potential software vulnerability apocalypse to focus on the possibility of rogue AI causing mass human death in the next decade. As AI leaders consider a cooperative slowdown on frontier model development, though, one aspect of the cybersecurity sea change has already arrived thanks to existing, broadly available capabilities…

If your iPad refuses to charge, it’s likely an issue with the cable or charging block. ridho try syahpitra/Shutterstock Having your iPad refuse to charge is a frustrating sight, whether it’s fully drained after a late-night YouTube binge or you’re topping it off before class. Even if you own one of the best iPad models, charging problems can easily crop up. But what’s causing these issues, and how can you solve them? If your iPad refuses to charge out of nowhere or starts charging more slowly than usual, you’re looking at either a problem with the cable…

Google disclosed this week that an unknown group of attackers actively weaponized a zero-day security flaw inside the cellular modem of its Pixel smartphones before engineers could fix it. Tracked as CVE-2026-58704, the high-severity defect allows unauthorized actors to allow an adjacent attacker to escalate privileges without requiring the victim to click a phishing link, download an attachment, or answer a call. CISA quickly added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and required affected federal agencies to remediate it within three days. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, issuing…

Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which builds data centers optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, didn’t reveal how much it hopes to raise. Last month, sources told Bloomberg that Nscale is seeking up to $3 billion. The company was valued at $14.6 billion in March. Nscale is not yet profitable. It logged a $1.02 billion net loss in the first half of the year, a nearly threefold increase from 12 months earlier. The company’s revenue jumped more than 1,250% in the same time frame to $140.6 million. Nscale’s rapid…

When I’m asked about smart home gadgets, I typically suggest people start at their front door, such as with a video doorbell or smart lock. Smart locks, in particular, are an obvious first step (and only step, if you prefer) into smart home tech, and they can benefit nearly anyone with a front door. But many people without a smart lock in their lives still don’t know what it is, how it works or why they should spend money on one. It’s time for a clear explanation of this important home technology, and why I’m such a fan. Best Smart…

Anthropic just overhauled Projects in Claude Code, and it signals a massive shift in how AI builds software. Now you can spin up multiple AI agents that work on different parts of a single product- simultaneously. All owing to Projects in Claude Code. Think of it as setting up a whole dev team inside the cloud. Each agent operates in its own “stream”- complete with an isolated copy of your repository and a distinct goal. One stream might write unit tests, another refactors your database calls, and a third updates the user interface. A central coordinator keeps everyone aligned while…