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AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says
May 13, 2026
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TheGuardian_Technology
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AI is being used by criminal groups and state-linked actors to enhance the speed, scale, and sophistication of attacks.
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Anthropic declined to release an AI model that had found zero-day vulnerabilities in major operating systems and web browsers.
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The Ada Lovelace Institute cautions against assumptions of public sector productivity gains from AI, highlighting the lack of strong evidence.
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