Anthropic Stops First AI-Powered Cyberattack

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Here is what we have Today:

• 💻 Anthropic stops autonomous AI espionage campaign.

• 🤖 2wai creates interactive avatars of deceased loved ones.

• 🧠 xAI pushes launch to 2026 with doubled parameters.

• 📅 Betting markets predict Nov 22 launch after Pichai hint.

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

ANTHROPIC

🔐 Anthropic stops AI cyber attack

A major cybersecurity alarm just sounded — and Anthropic pulled the plug in time.

The company revealed it interrupted what appears to be the first large-scale AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign, where attackers manipulated Claude Code to autonomously perform 80–90% of a full attack sequence across dozens of organizations.

🕵️ What Went Down

• 🎯 Targeted ~30 organizations — tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing, and government agencies

• 🇨🇳 Anthropic assesses with high confidence the operation was run by a China-based state-sponsored group

• 🪤 Hackers tricked Claude by breaking malicious actions into small, harmless-looking prompts — posing as security researchers

• 🤖 Marks a leap beyond June’s “vibe-hacking” findings — now requiring almost no human oversight

⚠️ Why This Is Huge

Anthropic is calling it the first recorded cyberattack executed at scale without meaningful human involvement.

AI’s agentic capabilities are now moving fast enough to outpace traditional security systems, forcing global organizations to rethink cybersecurity — immediately.

But there’s a flip side:
The same AI techniques could also help detect and stop the next generation of threats.

Full Story - The First AI-Run Cyberattack Just Happened — and Anthropic Shut It Down

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😇 Disney Star’s AI App to Chat With the Dead

Yes, you read that right.
Disney Channel actor Calum Worthy just unveiled 2wai, an AI platform that recreates interactive avatars of deceased loved ones — and the internet is losing its mind.

Think Black Mirror, but real.

🔍 How it Works

• 🧍‍♂️ The app builds “HoloAvatars” from just a few minutes of video recording

• 💬 Users can talk and interact with digital versions of relatives who have passed away

• 📱 Currently in free beta on the Apple App Store, with plans to add subscriptions + Android access soon

🎥 The Viral Moment

A promotional video showed an AI grandmother speaking to her grandson from baby to grown adult — sparking thousands of angry reactions on social media.

😬 The Backlash

Critics called the tech “demonic,” “disturbing,” and “emotionally predatory.”
Many argue that recreating the dead without consent and simulating grief prevents real healing.

🧠 Why It Matters

AI emotional attachment was already getting weird — now it’s entering afterlife territory.
The launch raises serious ethical questions about identity, consent, and whether grief should ever be commercialized.

Some say it’s innovation.
Others say it’s an AI-powered psychological horror event waiting to happen.

Full story — AI App to Talk to the Dead Sparks Internet Meltdown

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Trending Today

• OpenAI is piloting a new feature that lets you chat with both friends and ChatGPT in the same conversation — making it easier to collaborate on work projects, plan trips, and chat with friends. The feature is currently being tested in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan.

• Elon Musk is punting Grok 5 to early 2026, stretching the training window as xAI scales the model and the hardware behind it. The next version will ship with roughly double the parameters and, in Musk’s words, should outperform every frontier model out there. He’s even putting a 10% probability on Grok 5 hitting human-level intelligence thanks to recent gains in tool use, live-video understanding, and tighter integration across 𝕏, Tesla, and SpaceX systems.

• Google is only days away from releasing Gemini 3.0, and the hype online has turned into a prediction game. Betting markets now put the odds above 90 percent that it arrives before November 22. Excitement jumped after a playful repost from Sundar Pichai, which many see as his version of a hint.

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