The malware shows how LLMs are moving from an attacker productivity tool into attack infrastructure
Crystal ball: Researchers at Cisco Talos have found a Windows malware tool that uses several large language models to help decide what to do on a compromised machine. Its discovery points to a still-limited but growing group of AI-enabled malware that is moving beyond code generation and phishing support.
Comfy Desktop lets you generate AI images and video locally using your own GPU, with popular models such as Stable Diffusion, SDXL, Flux, Wan, and others. It wraps the powerful ComfyUI workflow system into a desktop app that handles installation, dependencies, and more, removing much of the hassle from running generative AI on your own hardware.
Jev doesn't chat, write code, or explain itself. It just makes decisions, fast and cheap. Here's why a ChatGPT co-inventor thinks that's the next big step for AI.
The US military nearly attacked a Chinese vessel after a chatbot falsely claimed it carried nuclear weapons materials
The takeaway: Warnings from AI developers have sparked widespread debate over whether, and how, the technology might cause human extinction. While much of that discussion has centered on rogue AI incidents, events in the Middle East suggest that military action driven by hallucinating AI tools may be the more immediate danger.
The first major Windows event in over two years could center on local AI computing
Forward-looking: Microsoft will use an event in San Francisco next month to lay out its next moves in Windows and Surface, with local AI computing expected to take center stage. The October 7 presentation marks Microsoft's first major Windows-focused event in more than two years – its last one came in May 2024, when the company unveiled Copilot+ PCs and laid out a strategy built around AI-ready hardware.