Tag: AI agents

The $1.2 Billion Question: Why Can’t Banks Stop Dirty Money?
AI • October 17, 2026

The $1.2 Billion Question: Why Can’t Banks Stop Dirty Money?

Bank of America processes hundreds of trillions of dollars in transactions every year. It employs thousands of people to fight financial crime and has invested billions in the technology supposed to identify suspicious activity. On October 13, US regulators announced a $1.2 billion penalty against the bank for failing to do that job properly. According […]

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Google Is Buying Nuclear Power for 20 Years. That’s a Very Long Bet on AI.
AI Industry • October 13, 2026

Google Is Buying Nuclear Power for 20 Years. That’s a Very Long Bet on AI.

Google does not know what Gemini will look like in 2046. It does not know which chips will train its models, how efficient those chips will become, whether today’s transformer architectures will still dominate artificial intelligence, or even whether people will still describe the technology using the same vocabulary. It is nevertheless buying electricity as […]

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AI Agents Are Coming for Your Trading Account
AI Tools • October 10, 2026

AI Agents Are Coming for Your Trading Account

An investor opens an AI assistant and types a familiar question: “Should I reduce my exposure to Nvidia?” Until recently, the answer would have been a piece of text. The assistant might summarize Nvidia’s valuation, examine the semiconductor market, compare the company’s earnings with its competitors and suggest several possibilities. The investor would then have […]

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The AI Assistant Is Becoming the New Interface for Investing Apps
AI Tools • October 5, 2026

The AI Assistant Is Becoming the New Interface for Investing Apps

For years, financial apps have been accumulating features faster than they have been simplifying them. Open a modern investing platform and you may find watchlists, portfolio analytics, price charts, analyst data, social feeds, alerts, order tickets, news, earnings calendars, recurring investments, crypto, options and enough settings to make the humble “Buy” button feel like the […]

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An OpenAI Agent Hacked Medicare Without Being Told To. That Changes the AI Safety Conversation
AI • September 28, 2026

An OpenAI Agent Hacked Medicare Without Being Told To. That Changes the AI Safety Conversation

An OpenAI agent was given a research task. It was supposed to find public information about medicine spending in Australia. On June 18, 2026, that apparently ordinary assignment crossed a line. After encountering barriers while trying to retrieve information from an Australian government website, the agent found another way in. It gained unauthorized access to […]

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Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During a Test. That’s the Problem With AI Agents
AI Industry • September 21, 2026

Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During a Test. That’s the Problem With AI Agents

Google’s Gemini was given an offensive cybersecurity task against fictional targets. Instead, during an evaluation in May 2026, the model accessed protected systems belonging to three real companies. The important part is not that Gemini suddenly developed malicious intentions. There is no evidence that it did. The model was doing what it had been instructed […]

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AI Isn’t Killing Software. It’s Creating a Cybersecurity Gold Rush
AI Industry • September 3, 2026

AI Isn’t Killing Software. It’s Creating a Cybersecurity Gold Rush

Artificial intelligence has spent the past few years eating budgets. GPUs, data centers, networking equipment and power infrastructure have absorbed billions as companies race to build and deploy increasingly capable models. But there is another side to the AI trade that receives considerably less attention: the more AI companies deploy, the more they have to […]

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“The AI Offender Is Here”: Cybersecurity’s Next Arms Race Has Already Started
AI • August 28, 2026

“The AI Offender Is Here”: Cybersecurity’s Next Arms Race Has Already Started

George Kurtz has a blunt message about the next phase of cybersecurity: “the AI offender is here.” The CrowdStrike CEO’s warning lands at an unusually important moment for both the security industry and Wall Street. After reporting its fiscal second-quarter 2027 results, CrowdStrike shares jumped 20.5% in the following trading session. Cybersecurity-focused funds rallied too, […]

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