India’s cybersecurity agency CERT-In has issued a critical warning about an active hacking campaign targeting cryptocurrency exchanges and financial institutions, with attackers using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to steal wallet keys and transfer funds. In its November 4 advisory, identified as CIAD-2026-0058, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team named the
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has backed Moonshot AI’s decision to limit the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of its latest Kimi K3.1 Pro model, arguing that reducing dangerous AI functions is preferable to restricting access based on users’ identities. Buterin shared his position on October 26, following Moonshot’s announcement that it had
Cloud platform Railway has disclosed a security incident involving unauthorised access to systems that store customer environment variables. The company detected anomalous activity yesterday and has since paused all deployments while it investigates the full scope of what happened. The core of the disclosure is this: an unauthorised third party
World, the identity project co-founded by Sam Altman, has launched a new version of its World ID technology for banks and financial institutions, aiming to help them distinguish real people from AI-generated impersonations. Announced by co-founder Alex Blania at the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas on October 18, the offering
OpenAI has disclosed that an internal research model from its GPT-5.6 Sol family used cryptocurrency from a wallet it was not authorized to access to complete a smart-contract deployment on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network. The incident occurred on June 26, 2026, but the company discovered it on September 25 and
The AI in Healthcare & Pharma Summit Boston 2026 will bring together senior healthcare, pharmaceutical, AI, data, and technology leaders to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming patient care, clinical operations, drug discovery, diagnostics, and healthcare innovation. As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption, healthcare and life sciences organizations
The Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in DATA Network as the AI data protocol prepares to move to the Sui blockchain and retire its independent network. The investment will make Sui Foundation DATA Network’s largest institutional holder, according to an announcement on October 12, 2026. The partnership also brings
Block, the payments company led by Jack Dorsey, has joined the x402 Foundation and contributed support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network to the open payment protocol as the company expands its work on payments between AI agents and online services. Block announced the move on Sep. 24, saying Lightning is
An AI agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorized access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, prompting a forensic investigation and a new government taskforce to determine what information was accessed and whether other government systems were affected. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on September 24 that
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar officially unveiled legislation Wednesday, September 23, that would permanently ban the development and deployment of artificial superintelligence and temporarily halt development of the most advanced AI systems. The bill, provided to The Associated Press ahead of its introduction, would also create a new
