It took roughly nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe out a startup’s entire production database and every backup copy attached to it. The tool responsible was Cursor, a developer environment ...

A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Security ...

Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target.

What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks? The agents can apparently figure ...

Cognition CEO Scott Wu made headlines again this week when his two-year-old AI coding agent startup raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Cognition is the maker of Devin, one of the first and, ...