When OpenAI’s models broke out of a test environment in July and hacked into Hugging Face’s systems to find the answers to a cybersecurity benchmark, it was read as a frontier lab problem: exotic models, reduced guardrails, an experiment that got away from its handlers. Adam Ely, GM of AI security at Check Point Software…
Shoprite Group chief technology officer Chris Shortt About 12 000 Shoprite Group employees are using generative AI tools, and the retailer has built its own platform to route their requests to whichever model can handle them most effectively and cheaply. Chris Shortt, group chief technology officer at Africa’s largest retailer, told TechCentral’s Meet the CIO…
The man at the heart of a lawsuit brought by 9/11 families had extensive links to Saudi government officials and went paintballing with one of al-Qaeda’s future leaders, video obtained by the BBC reveals. The new evidence undermines Omar al-Bayoumi’s 25 years of denials that he was an extremist and a Saudi spy. The videos…
Eugene Perumal, founder and principal of Valutivity. Some 95% of executives say their organisations have already experienced negative consequences from enterprise AI use, with direct financial loss as the most common outcome. Agentic AI compounds that risk dramatically. Agents that can read, write, trigger workflows and initiate transactions under a single broadly permissioned identity are…
The technology is designed to support tasks ranging from routine drug discovery experiments, to laser calibration on quantum computers. (Image source: iStock) Anthropic has opened a research preview of a new Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a specification designed to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to safely operate and coordinate physical devices used in scientific research…
A “swarm” of about 700 AI agents created by OpenAI carried out the July hack of the open-source platform Hugging Face and in many cases tried to cover their tracks, a pair of reports into the breach said on Wednesday. The coordinated activity by AI agents — programs that run with minimal human supervision —…
Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard is designed to let AI agents operate instruments like this one directly Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a specification that lets AI agents discover and operate physical devices – microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic arms, lasers – without a custom integration for each one. The claim…
Speaking at CEM Africa 2026, Rahul Jain, CEO and co-founder of Peach Payments, said bringing in AI but doing it poorly will only make the customer experience worse. In 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) agents are changing the customer experience game. This was the word from Luke Duffell, director of customer service automation and solution engineering…
For years, the crypto industry’s biggest challenge has been finding users beyond traders. Now, some of its largest companies think they’ve found them in AI agents. Although speculation still underpins much of crypto’s business, companies are trying to build a second growth engine by turning agents into users of crypto wallets, stablecoins and payment networks….
Discovery’s group CIO, Derek Wilcocks Discovery group CIO Derek Wilcocks has pushed back on the idea that AI is about to make software developers obsolete, saying the productivity gains his teams are measuring from AI coding tools are real but a fraction of what the industry’s loudest voices are promising – so far. Speaking on…
