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Teen’s ChatGPT Hack Cost Bandai Namco 1.36M Records [2026]

A 15-year-old high school student in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, used ChatGPT to help finish a program that knocked Bandai Namco’s anime streaming service offline for more than six weeks, according to Tokyo Metropolitan Police. The case, publicly disclosed on July 6, 2026, has become one of the clearest examples yet of how generative AI lowers…

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Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it’s calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers “frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense,” according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at…

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The AI Tamagotchis are coming

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents. “Hardware is…

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