Silicon Valley’s AI Agent Push Has Been Paying Off-for Cybercriminals

AI companies have made a lot of noise about the technology supercharging healthcare, scientific discovery, education, productivity, and just about everything else worth caring about. But so far, probably the most dramatic change wrought by the AI race has been the sudden appearance of dangerous new cybersecurity threats. The most infamous of these are the autonomous hacks launched by swarms of AI agents, the most recent of which was first reported last week (even though OpenAI, the company behind the agents, had reportedly been aware of the incident for quite a while longer). But it’d be a mistake to think…