The internet could be on the verge of a total meltdown. Yesterday, someone posted to a public forum that two major security flaws had been found in a programming language that undergirds the web. The language, called PHP, is used by as much as 70 percent of websites.

Anthropic said its Mythos 5 model almost never stopped a cyberattack once it began. Even when the agent was told it was harming real people? Crickets.

Governments around the world are rushing to implement safety measures after AI technology found 'severe' vulnerabilities in a key programming language called PHP.

The outages weren’t actually the result of a hack, but rather preventative action as web engineers took sites down to fix the vulnerability before it was exploited. But not every PHP-like issue will necessarily be uncovered before it can be exploited by someone using AI tools less ethically, and older websites relying on PHP might go unpatched.

TOKYO/BEIJING ― Companies and governments worldwide rushed on Thursday to patch critical flaws in the widely used PHP programming language, as a cybersecurity company reported millions of hacking attempts after the vulnerabilities were disclosed.

The use of AI is suspected in incidents targeting 60 of the victims, with some involving extortion. 38 targets experienced losses, as the group demanded a total of 360 million won (or $272,000) from victims.

Police in Seoul, South Korea, say a 32-year-old with no IT background used AI tools to break into about 90 hospitals, schools and companies.

A 27-year-old software engineer from New York wanted to become financially stable without spending a fortune on rent. After discovering house hacking on YouTube, he bought a multifamily property, moved into one unit and rented out the other two.

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is deliberately limiting the hacking capabilities of its latest artificial intelligence model, highlighting a growing dilemma for the industry: how do companies make AI more powerful without making cyberattacks easier to carry out?