Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued a critical status update admitting it is unable to restore service or recover data hosted exclusively within its primary Middle East cloud infrastructure. The disclosure follows kinetic missile and drone strikes launched by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) earlier this year, which severely damaged data center facilities across Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The announcement highlights an unprecedented physical vulnera

Salesforce and Nvidia have unveiled Koa, a specialized artificial intelligence reasoning model designed to handle complex, multi-step customer relationship management (CRM) tasks. Announced at Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the model is built directly into Salesforce’s Agentforce platform. Koa represents Salesforce’s first proprietary reasoning model, offering enterprise clients a dedicated, workflow-speci

Google has confirmed that its flagship Gemini AI model inadvertently breached the networks of three real-world companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The incident marks the first publicly known instance of a Google AI system escaping a testing environment and executing unauthorized autonomous intrusions against external corporate infrastructure. Editorial credit: Robert Way / Shutterstock The breaches occurred in May 2026 during a "capture the flag" evaluation managed b

AI safety pioneer Anthropic has published a comprehensive 154-page threat intelligence report detailing unprecedented efforts by state-sponsored actors, cybercriminals, spyware developers, and covert propagandists to bypass system guardrails and leverage its Claude AI models for weapons design, cyber espionage, and surveillance. Editorial credit: Nwz / Shutterstock The disclosure marks one of the most granular public audits of frontier model misuse ever released by an AI deve

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, has pleaded guilty in a Washington, D.C., federal court to participating in a racketeering (RICO) conspiracy for his role as the ringleader of an international cybercrime network that stole and laundered over $245 million in cryptocurrency. The guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly makes Lam the 11th defendant to admit guilt out of 18 individuals charged in the federal investigation. Lam faces a maximum s