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Artificial intelligence is now linked to eighty-four percent of ransomware attacks, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Semperis. That's a striking figure, and it signals that threat actors are no longer experimenting with AI as a tool — they're deploying it at scale, making attacks faster, more adaptive, and harder to defend against.
On the creative side of the AI conversation, Luca Guadagnino's film Artificial had a triumphant premiere at the London Film Festival, with Andrew Garfield and the cast receiving thunderous applause at Royal Festival Hall. The film tackles artificial intelligence and one of its central figures, Sam Altman — and critics are calling it the real thing. Expect the studios-versus-talent debate over AI to grow louder from here.
And Epic Games took a swing at Steam this week, launching what it called a vibe-coded storefront redesign to promote faster response times. The gaming community did not hold back — players roasted the update online, with one widely shared reaction calling it, quote, so vibeslopped it's funny. Epic may have wanted buzz, but perhaps not quite this kind.
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