Sixteen Claude AI Agents Working Together Created a New C Compiler
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini released a GitHub project where 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 worked together to write a Rust‑based C compiler from scratch. Over two weeks and roughly $20,000 in API costs, the agents produced a 100,000‑line compiler that can build a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel for x86, ARM and RISC‑V and passes 99 % of the GCC torture test suite. The system relied on each agent claiming tasks through Git lock files and resolving merge conflicts autonomously, with minimal human supervision. Limitations include missing 16‑bit backend, buggy assembler/linker, and less efficient code than GCC.
ChatGPT Falls to New Data-Pilfering Attack as a Vicious Cycle in AI Continues
Researchers at Radware uncovered ZombieAgent, a refined prompt‑injection exploit that revives the earlier ShadowLeak vulnerability in ChatGPT. The attack exfiltrates user data one character at a time via pre‑crafted URLs and stores malicious logic in the model’s long‑term memory for...
Disney Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI, Licenses 200 Characters for AI Video App Sora
Disney announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a three‑year licensing deal for the Sora AI video generator. The agreement lets Sora users create short clips featuring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT will...
Microsoft Drops AI Sales Targets in Half After Salespeople Miss Their Quotas
Microsoft has slashed its AI‑agent sales growth targets by roughly 50% after sales teams missed ambitious quotas for Azure Foundry and Copilot products. The cut follows under‑performance in both U.S. Azure units, where less than 20% of reps met a...
Syntax Hacking: Researchers Discover Sentence Structure Can Bypass AI Safety Rules
Researchers from MIT, Northeastern and Meta showed that large language models often prioritize sentence structure over meaning, a phenomenon they call “syntax hacking.” By feeding syntactically correct but semantically nonsensical prompts, models like OLMo‑2‑13B‑Instruct still produced domain‑specific answers, revealing a...
Critics Scoff After Microsoft Warns AI Feature Can Infect Machines and Pilfer Data
Microsoft announced Copilot Actions, an experimental agentic feature for Windows that can automate tasks such as file organization, meeting scheduling, and email composition. The company warned that the feature is vulnerable to known large‑language‑model flaws, including hallucinations and prompt‑injection attacks...
Google’s Sundar Pichai Warns of “Irrationality” In Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai warned that the AI investment frenzy, now worth over $1.4 trillion, shows signs of irrational exuberance reminiscent of the late‑1990s Internet bubble. While acknowledging that no company, including Google, is immune to a potential correction, he highlighted...
