Cequence Security's CQ Prime Research found a threat actor impersonating 32 AI bots—including ones mimicking OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Meta—to search organizations for exposed passwords, API keys and cloud credentials. The scanner has run since late September, hit firms across retail, finance, telecom, energy and software, and on Oct. 21 alone reached 48% of Cequence-protected organizations, though nearly all requests were blocked or failed.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-28
Jacopo Attolini, an AI industry worker posting as Atol8, built a bot powered by GPT-6 Astra combined with Python-based numerical tools to play Balatro. He reported the bot has repeatedly beaten the game's toughest difficulty, the Gold Stake Black Deck, and shared a YouTube video explaining its design, though he walked back an initial claim that it does so reliably.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-16
IBM is running the technical backbone of the U.S. Open's digital platforms, feeding real-time data and AI analysis into the tournament's app and website. Features like the Serve Quality metric track 21 data points per player 50 times a second, producing over 1.2 billion data points across the tournament, while an AI chatbot answers fan questions about the sport. Engagement has surged, with 14 million unique devices and nearly 47 million visits in 2025, a 19% jump from the prior year.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-11
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