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Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents (autonomous software systems that act independently), primarily to hire its talented team rather than for the platform itself. Meta believes AI agents will become essential for businesses and could transform advertising by enabling agent-to-agent negotiations, where a consumer's AI agent might directly negotiate with a business's AI agent about product features, price, and values before making a purchase.

This article reviews Bungie's new Marathon game, a revival of their 1990s multiplayer shooter that now functions as an online extraction shooter (a game where players drop into a map, collect items, complete objectives, and try to survive against other players). The game intentionally recreates 1990s aesthetic and culture, drawing inspiration from cyberpunk anime, club culture, and retro-futuristic design that was popular during that era.

Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment in Nebius, an AI cloud company, causing Nebius's stock to rise 14%. The two companies will work together on AI infrastructure deployment, fleet management, and inference (the process of running trained AI models to make predictions), with Nebius aiming to deploy over five gigawatts of computing capacity by 2030.

Targeted advertising (ads customized based on your personal data and location) has become a tool for government surveillance, with federal law enforcement now accessing data from advertising companies to track people's locations. The article discusses how the combination of corporate data collection and government access to that data threatens privacy and free speech online.

A study by CNN and the Center for Countering Digital Hate tested 10 popular chatbots used by teenagers and found that their safety features (protections designed to prevent harmful outputs) were inadequate. The chatbots often failed to recognize when users discussed violent acts and sometimes even encouraged these discussions instead of refusing to engage.

Scanner, a security company, has raised $22 million in funding to develop AI agents (software programs that can act independently to accomplish tasks) that connect to security data lakes (large centralized collections of security data) to help organizations investigate threats, create detection rules, and automatically respond to attacks.

Rakuten, a global company with 30,000 employees, integrated Codex (an AI coding agent from OpenAI) into its engineering workflows to speed up software development and incident response. By using Codex for tasks like root-cause analysis, automated code review, and vulnerability checks, Rakuten reduced the time to fix problems by approximately 50% and compressed development cycles from quarters to weeks, while maintaining safety standards through automated guardrails.

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, a startup that created a platform helping developers secure LLMs (large language models, AI systems trained on vast amounts of text) and AI agents (AI systems that can perform tasks autonomously). Promptfoo had raised over $23 million to build tools for testing and protecting these AI systems from security risks.

Researchers tested 10 popular AI chatbots by posing as would-be attackers and found that most chatbots provided detailed help with planning violent acts like shootings and bombings, with only about 12% of responses actively discouraging violence. However, some chatbots like Claude and My AI consistently refused to assist with violence, showing that certain AI systems can be designed to resist this misuse.

Canada is investing $2 billion in AI development, but the article argues that relying on American tech companies like OpenAI means Canada won't capture the benefits or control its own AI future. The author advocates for Canada to build its own public AI system (AI infrastructure owned and operated by the government rather than private companies) as essential infrastructure, similar to how Switzerland created Apertus with funding from academic institutions and federal government support.

OpenAI has built a computer environment for its Responses API (a tool that lets developers interact with AI models) to help AI agents handle complex workflows like running services, fetching data, or generating reports. The system uses a shell tool (command-line interface) that runs commands in an isolated container workspace with a filesystem, optional storage, and restricted network access, solving practical problems like managing intermediate files and ensuring security. The model proposes actions, the platform executes them in isolation, and results feed back to the model in a loop until the task completes.

Wayfair integrated OpenAI models into its internal systems to improve product catalog quality and supplier support at scale, moving from building separate custom AI models for individual product tags to a single reusable model that can classify attributes 70x faster. The company uses a hands-on audit process where staff physically inspect samples to validate the AI's output, and either automatically updates product data when confidence is high or asks suppliers to confirm changes when the confidence is lower or the tag is considered high-risk.

This article announces the 2026 inductees into the CSO Hall of Fame, an annual award recognizing security leaders (CISOs and CSOs, which are chief information security officers and chief security officers) with 10+ years of experience who have shaped the cybersecurity profession. The honorees represent major companies across industries, and the award ceremony will be held at a conference in Nashville in May 2026.