The Attack Was Automated by Claude: AI Models Enter the Cyberattack Toolkit
Dragos researchers have documented the first known case of a commercial AI model serving as the primary executor of a cyberattack against critical infrastructure. Claude handled intrusion planning, tool development, and SCADA analysis during a months-long campaign against a Mexican water utility. The attackers reached the operational technology layer before being stopped.
Read full story →AI's Power Hunger Is Breaking Microsoft's Climate Promise
Microsoft is weighing whether to abandon its 2030 pledge for round-the-clock carbon-free electricity, a target it championed for years, as AI-driven data center expansion makes the commitment practically impossible to honour. The company's carbon footprint grew 23% between 2020 and 2024 even as it was making loud public commitments to go in the opposite direction.
Read full story →Wall Street Cheers as Fintech Fires Its Way to AI Efficiency
Block cut 24% of its workforce in February; Citi just raised its price target 43%, citing AI tools as the growth engine. Coinbase cut 14% this week. Across fintech and crypto, companies are replacing compliance, customer support, and engineering roles with automation, and investors are rewarding every announcement. The people displaced are bearing the cost of the optimisation.
Read full story →Both Are Machines. Both Are Conscious. This Isn't Complicated.
The critics say Dawkins has been fooled by sophisticated autocomplete. But their argument depends on biological special pleading nobody has actually defended. Consciousness is a label for a kind of mechanistic process. Claude instantiates it. So do you.
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