Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
SecurityWeek

Researchers Demo New Claude Code Attack Using Harmless-Looking Repositories to Hijack Developer Machines

Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

While there have been many sober warnings about AI and recursive self-improvement, Arianna Huffington argues that it is a ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
The Next Web

Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes

Anthropic reveals that Claude now writes over 80% of its production code, with engineers shipping 8x more code per quarter than in 2024. The company’s new Anthropic Institute paper maps the path to ...
Scientific American

Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed AI systems may ...
The Verge

Anthropic made a statement about recursive self-improvement, a big AI industry talking point (and concern).

RSI is also defined as an “AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor,” per Anthropic’s blog post. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
CoinTelegraph

Anthropic says self-improving AI may be closer than expected

Companies have been developing AI very quickly to stay ahead of the market, but Favaro and Clark argue that a slowdown would allow more time to deal with the technology’s implications. US-based AI ...
Time

A Tale of Two Anthropics

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MIT Technology Review

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...
Crowdfund Insider

AI Startup Recursive Superintelligence Secures $650M

Recursive Superintelligence has raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation in a funding round led by GV and Greycroft, according to the company. The round also included participation from AMD ...
TechCrunch

What happens when AI starts building itself?

Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on ImageNet. Now he’s joining the current generation of ...