State-sponsored hackers are exploiting highly-advanced tooling to accelerate their particular flavours of cyberattacks, with threat actors from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia using models like Google’s Gemini to further their campaigns. They are able to craft sophisticated phishing campaigns and develop malware, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).
The quarterly AI Threat Tracker report, released today, reveals how government-backed attackers have begun to use artificial intelligence in the attack lifecycle – reconnaissance, social engineering, and eventually, malware development. This activity has become apparent thanks to the GTIG’s work during the final quarter of 2025.
“For government-backed threat actors, large language models have become essential tools for technical research, targeting, and the rapid generation of nuanced phishing lures,” GTIG researchers stated in their report. — Read More
Daily Archives: February 13, 2026
Optimal Timing for Superintelligence
Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. We examine optimal timing from a person-affecting stance (and set aside simulation hypotheses and other arcane considerations). Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentials, and concave QALY utilities suggest that even high catastrophe probabilities are often worth accepting. Prioritarian weighting further shortens timelines. For many parameter settings, the optimal strategy would involve moving quickly to AGI capability, then pausing briefly before full deployment: swift to harbor, slow to berth. But poorly implemented pauses could do more harm than good. — Read More
#singularityThe Concept Every AI Coder Learns Too Late
Have you ever spent hours debugging code that Claude had written 30 minutes before?
Exact same model, same chat, and same prompting. For some reason, Claude starts ignoring previous decisions you made together or ignores mentioned markdown files, only to then present blatantly incorrect suggestions.
You aren’t at fault here. Instead, you’re experiencing context rot. — Read More.
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