Within days, government computer systems in Moldova, Ohio and Italy were hacked, a cargo ship was struck by drones in the Black Sea, Iran's navy reportedly threatened another ship's crew, and the US said Russia keeps harassing its military satellites.
Ohio's state auditor, the office that checks how public money is spent, is investigating a cyberattack that may involve foreign hackers.
Security researchers used artificial intelligence to find long-hidden flaws in PHP, a programming language used to run a huge share of websites worldwide.
Taiwan says a hacking campaign linked to a foreign government hit its computer systems last month, and that the attackers used artificial intelligence tools to carry it out.
CFR's survey of foreign-policy experts puts the odds of coherent global AI governance at a median 29 out of 100. Meanwhile nation-state hackers are already folding generative models into every stage of the intrusion lifecycle, and Taiwan is racing to build an AI defense it cannot yet fund. Three threads, one convergence.