Microsoft on Wednesday asked shareholders to approve a $90.6 million pay package for CEO Satya Nadella, down slightly from his $96.4 million compensation last year, as falling revenue in its Xbox unit dragged down his target bonus even as all other parts of the business met or exceeded targets. ...

Soon after Anthropic announced its Mythos model in April and said it was exceptionally good at cybersecurity, security professionals said it was only a matter of time before hackers used similar models to supercharge their own attacks.

That time has come, according to an example we reported about today. And it looks like hackers don’t even need a Mythos-class model to automate powerful cyberattacks.

The creators of PHP, an open source programming language used by the majority of the world’s websites, on Wednesday urged web maintainers across the globe to install a new update after researchers using AI found a flaw that could put those websites at risk of being hacked.

The flaw is the latest ...

A hacking group called CyberCartel used a web of AI agents powered by models from companies including Anthropic, SpaceX and Chinese lab Moonshot AI to automate cyberattacks against more than 400 Latin American financial targets, according to an investigation by the cybersecurity startup Straiker.

The research, shared exclusively with The Information, is one of the first detailed reports of cybercriminals using AI models to successfully automate attacks that break into financial institutions. The AI agents used by CyberCartel, which has long targeted Latin American businesses and whose latest targets included banks and payment apps, appear to have stolen passwords and customer data and to have accessed people’s bank accounts autonomously with little human effort, the Straiker research shows.

A group of private equity firms in recent months considered a potential buyout of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming unit that could have valued it between $100 billion and $150 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions.

The short-lived discussions by the private firms were exploratory and didn’t turn into a negotiation with Microsoft, the people said. But they show the company could find buyers if its turnaround of the struggling gaming division falters. The identities of the PE firms couldn’t be confirmed.