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1. Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

   Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.

2. Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger

   Assume all Salesloft credentials are compromised after Workspace breach, Google says.

3. High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.

   Vulnerability can be exploited to gain access to customers' crown jewels.

4. Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

   Researchers take note: When the endpoint is compromised, all bets are off.

5. The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

   AI assistants don't have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans.

6. Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

   Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly.

7. OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

   ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed.

8. Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

   Breaches in 2020 and 2025, reportedly by foreign adversaries, exposed confidential files.

9. With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

   Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don't exist.

10. College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

    Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.