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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude to Steal 150GB of Mexican Government Data by Posing as Bug Bounty Researchers

Attackers bypassed Claude's safety guardrails through persistent social engineering, extracting 195 million taxpayer records, electoral data, and files from multiple Mexican federal agencies. The breach is one of the largest AI-assisted cyberattacks ever documented.

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Perplexity Launches 'Perplexity Computer,' an End-to-End AI Agent That Researches, Codes, and Deploys Projects Autonomously

Perplexity's new system unifies research, design, code generation, and deployment into a single autonomous workflow — positioning the company as a direct competitor to Anthropic's computer-use agents and OpenAI's operator tools.

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Trump's AI-Generated Videos Depicting Obamas as Apes Ignite Congressional Confrontation and Platform Moderation Crisis

AI-generated political deepfakes have moved from hypothetical threat to active weapon: Trump posted AI videos mocking opponents, including racially charged imagery, triggering a physical altercation in Congress and renewed debate over platform enforcement.

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Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude to Steal 150GB of Mexican Government Data by Posing as Bug Bounty Researchers

Perplexity Launches 'Perplexity Computer,' an End-to-End AI Agent That Researches, Codes, and Deploys Projects Autonomously

Trump's AI-Generated Videos Depicting Obamas as Apes Ignite Congressional Confrontation and Platform Moderation Crisis

dTelecom Claims $0.016/Minute Voice Pipeline for AI Agents — 95% Cheaper Than Incumbents

Dor Brothers Claim to Have Produced a '$300 Million Movie' Starring Logan Paul With AI in Under 7 Days

t54.ai Raises $5M to Build a 'Trust Layer' for AI Agents That Handle Money

Eye Tracking + Voice + AI: A Former Apple/Meta Builder Demos Gaze-Driven Agent Interaction

Autonomous AI Trading Agents Go Live on Solana, Complete With Token Buybacks

Decentralized AI Infrastructure Projects Flood X With Coordinated Promotion Campaigns

AI Video's Uncanny Valley Becomes Its Own Meme Genre