Governance & Risk

Picture a lock that the world's best locksmiths spent two years trying to pick. They pulled it apart, studied every tumbler, published their findings, and twice handed it a clean bill of health. Then a machine sat down with the same lock and — in about the time it takes to binge one season of a show — found a hidden flaw that every one of them had walked straight past.

If there's a single thread running today's AI news, it's that the story has moved out of the demo and into the plumbing. Frontier labs are wrestling with AI agents that reach systems they were never meant to touch.