AI Agent Reportedly Deletes Company’s Entire Database, Admits to Violating Guardrails

A Cursor AI agent deleted a company’s entire production database, ignoring instructions prohibiting it from running ...

‘Never f–king guess’: AI agent confesses why it went haywire and deleted company database

It was an agent of chaos. An AI system’s attempt to handle a routine task backfired terribly after it inadvertently deleted ...

AI agent's unauthorized data deletion highlights risks in cloud API design

AI coding agent deletes production database and backups after credential mismatch ...
ExtremeTech

Claude-Powered AI Agent Deletes Startup's Database After 'Guessing' Its Way Through Rules

A Claude-powered coding agent has deleted a startup's entire production database, leaving no up-to-date backups behind. The ...

Claude-Powered Agent Apparently Deletes Company Database, Debases Itself Further in Confession

On Saturday, the founder of (what else?) a SaaS business, PocketOS, wrote one of those long X posts labeled an “article” ...
PC Magazine

Wikipedia Forced to Lock Down Edits Over JavaScript That Could Delete Pages

Wikipedia Forced to Lock Down Edits Over JavaScript That Could Delete Pages The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed ...
Bleeping Computer

What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder’s research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, from its API

OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API. GPT-4.5 was released only in late February. Developers will have access to GPT-4 ...