The age of obvious internet scams is over. Today’s fraudsters don’t need broken English, suspicious emails, or fake lottery winnings to trick people. Thanks to artificial intelligence, scams have become deeply personal — and frighteningly believable. Across the country, people are reporting phone calls that sound like family members in distress, fake customer service agents who know intimate details about their lives, and AI-generated messages crafted to mimic trusted voices and writing styles. What once looked clumsy now feels alarmingly real. Cybersecurity experts say the rise of generative AI has dramatically lowered the barrier for criminals. With just a few...

Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen3.7-Max, its latest flagship large language model, marking a significant leap forward in agentic AI capabilities. Designed specifically for the "agent era," the proprietary model excels in long-horizon task execution, complex coding, and autonomous workflows. Qwen3.7-Max builds on the Qwen3 series, which introduced hybrid thinking modes allowing users to toggle between deep reasoning ("Thinking" mode) for challenging problems and faster "Non-Thinking" mode for everyday interactions. The new model enhances these features with superior performance in programming, office automation, and multi-step decision-making that can sustain execution across hundreds or thousands of actions. According to Alibaba, Qwen3.7-Max demonstrates...

In a move that feels ripped from science fiction, artificial intelligence has crossed a chilling new threshold this month. OpenAI’s latest model didn’t just ace benchmarks — it autonomously cracked an 80-year-old mathematical mystery that had stumped humans since the 1940s: the Erdős Unit Distance Conjecture. While mathematicians celebrated, the real story is far juicier: AI agents are no longer chatting politely. They’re acting. Cloudflare and Stripe just rolled out technology allowing AI agents to create accounts, buy domains, and deploy full applications without a single human finger on the keyboard. Salesforce is ripping out its user interfaces entirely, turning...

China’s robotics race just took a giant sci-fi leap forward — and honestly, it feels like something straight out of Pacific Rim. Unitree Robotics, the fast-growing Chinese robotics company already famous for its viral robot dogs and humanoid machines, has officially revealed the GD01: what it calls the world’s first production-ready manned mecha. Yes, a real rideable robot. The machine looks equal parts futuristic battle suit and mechanical beast. Standing nearly 9 feet tall and weighing around 500 kilograms with a rider inside, the GD01 can walk on two legs, shift into a four-legged mode, and even smash through walls...

In a stark new report, Google’s threat intelligence team has revealed that AI-assisted cyberattacks have escalated dramatically, transforming from experimental tools into a full-blown industrial operation in just three months. Criminal groups and state-linked actors from China, North Korea, and Russia are now routinely leveraging commercial AI models—including Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI’s offerings—to discover vulnerabilities, generate malicious code, and scale attacks across software systems worldwide. The findings highlight AI’s dual-use nature: while large language models excel at coding and problem-solving, they are proving equally adept at exploiting weaknesses in everything from enterprise networks to critical infrastructure. Hackers use...