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Health AI Boom: More Tools Than Ever — Do They Deliver?

AI-powered chatbots and assistants for health are proliferating. In recent months major technology companies have launched or expanded consumer-facing tools that let people ask medical questions, connect health records, or receive triage-style guidance. These products promise greater access to health information, but independent researchers and clinicians warn that rigorous, third‑party evaluation of their safety and effectiveness remains limited. The landscape right now New and expanded offerings include consumer features from…

Saugata DattaMar 31, 20264 min read426

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Claude AI Uncovers Zero-Day RCEs in Vim and Emacs — A Turning Point for Bug Hunting

A recent research effort demonstrated that advanced AI models can accelerate and amplify vulnerability discovery in legacy software. Anthropic’s Claude was used to hunt for remote code execution (RCE) flaws and successfully produced proof-of-concept exploits against both Vim and GNU Emacs. The findings illustrate how natural-language prompts can surface high-impact bugs with surprising ease, and they raise urgent questions about defensive readiness, disclosure practices, and the changing dynamics of vulnerability…

Saugata DattaMar 31, 20264 min read302

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OpenAI Brings Plugins to Codex, Narrowing the Gap with Claude Code

OpenAI has quietly expanded Codex’s capabilities by adding a plugins system — a move that makes the coding assistant feel less like a standalone tool and more like a configurable platform. On the surface, these plugins are collections that can include workflow “skills,” integrations with external applications, and connections to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. For users, the most immediate value is convenience: functionality that once required manual configuration can…

Saugata DattaMar 28, 20264 min read319

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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Leak: When Pre-Release Secrets Meet Cybersecurity Risk

Anthropic recently found itself at the center of an avoidable but consequential security incident: leaked internal drafts revealing the existence of an unreleased, high-capability model called "Claude Mythos." The exposure—rooted in an unsecured, publicly searchable data cache—pulled back the curtain on product plans, internal risk assessments, and even references to an exclusive executive event. For organizations building powerful AI, the episode is a sharp reminder that operational security and model…

Saugata DattaMar 27, 20264 min read515

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OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Sora: Why the Video Platform Failed and What Comes Next

OpenAI’s Sora arrived with a burst of excitement: a consumer-facing video generator that turned text prompts into short, striking clips. For a moment, it felt like a clear signal that generative video had arrived. Yet, less than a year after its high-profile debut, OpenAI has decided to wind Sora down—removing the Sora app, shutting the Sora API, and stripping video generation capabilities from ChatGPT. The decision, announced internally by CEO…

Saugata DattaMar 25, 20264 min read323

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Automate Your Claude Code Workflow: A Practical Guide to Scheduled Tasks

A little automation goes a long way. If you spend any time monitoring deployments, babysitting long-running builds, checking back on pull requests, or simply reminding yourself to follow up on something later, Claude Code’s scheduled tasks give you a lightweight, session-scoped way to run prompts on a cadence. They let Claude re-run prompts automatically while your session is open, turning repetitive checks into background chores so you can focus on…

Saugata DattaMar 21, 20266 min read529

AI Agents and Frameworks

AI as Tradecraft: How Threat Actors Operationalize Artificial Intelligence

Organizations are facing a subtle but powerful shift: adversaries are not inventing wholly new attacks so much as adopting artificial intelligence to make existing tradecraft faster, cheaper, and more resilient. Microsoft’s threat intelligence and other industry observers show that generative AI is being embedded across the attack lifecycle to accelerate reconnaissance, scale social engineering, and shorten the time between detection and re‑deployment. The result is a landscape where familiar threats…

Saugata DattaMar 20, 20264 min read589

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Claude Code Channels: The OpenClaw Killer — Anthropic Brings Always‑On Coding to Your Chats

When a developer wants a quick fix while away from their desk, the options have traditionally been limited: SSH into a server, fire up a remote IDE, or wait until you’re back at your workstation. Anthropic’s new Claude Code Channels changes that pattern by letting Claude Code behave like a persistent, message-driven collaborator you can reach from apps you already use—Telegram and Discord. It’s more than a UI change; it…

Saugata DattaMar 20, 20265 min read527

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Why UIDAI’s New Bug Bounty Matters for Aadhaar and National Identity Security

India’s Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) has taken a notable step by launching its first structured Bug Bounty Programme for the Aadhaar ecosystem. For an identity system that underpins services for more than a billion residents, inviting independent security researchers to probe critical digital assets is not just a tactical decision—it’s a strategic shift toward continuous, crowdsourced resilience. The programme signals a growing recognition that large-scale public infrastructure benefits from the…

Saugata DattaMar 19, 20264 min read383

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano: Speed-First Models for Real-Time Workflows

OpenAI’s latest release—GPT-5.4 Mini and GPT-5.4 Nano—marks a clear shift in focus from sheer size to practical responsiveness. These smaller variants are engineered to deliver answers far faster than their flagship counterparts while still preserving strong reasoning, coding, and multimodal skills. For teams building latency-sensitive applications—interactive coding assistants, real-time UI automation, and high-throughput data pipelines—these models promise a meaningful performance-per-cost improvement. Why smaller models matter now Bigger models can produce…

Saugata DattaMar 19, 20264 min read361

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Two Words, One Deal: How “Stateful” vs “Stateless” Could Decide a $50 Billion Cloud Dispute

Last week’s reporting brought into sharp relief a narrowly technical — but potentially enormous — dispute between Microsoft, Amazon and OpenAI over a reported $50 billion commercial arrangement. At the center of the controversy are two terms engineers use every day: “stateful” and “stateless.” Depending on how those words are interpreted, Microsoft may have grounds to claim a breach of its exclusivity agreement with OpenAI, or Amazon and OpenAI may…

Saugata DattaMar 18, 20265 min read386

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OpenAI’s New North Star: Report Says Business and Productivity Take Center Stage

Last week, details from an internal all‑hands meeting at OpenAI were reported by the Wall Street Journal and subsequently picked up by other outlets. According to the reporting, company leaders signaled a strategic shift toward prioritizing business and productivity use cases, with executives urging teams to focus on core, revenue‑driving efforts rather than exploratory side projects. What was reported at the all‑hands Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s head of applications, was quoted…

Saugata DattaMar 18, 20262 min read384

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