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Meta's AI Assistant Handed Hackers the Keys to High-Profile Instagram Accounts
Hackers exploited a "confused deputy" logic flaw in Meta's AI-powered account recovery assistant to take over hundreds of high-profile Instagram accounts, including those of the Obama White House, Sephora, and a senior Space Force official. By simply asking the chatbot to link a new email address to targeted accounts, using VPNs to spoof locations and AI-altered photos to bypass identity checks, attackers were able to reset passwords and circumvent two-factor authentication without alerting victims. Meta has since patched the vulnerability, but the incident highlights the critical risk of granting AI agents broad system access without robust authorization controls.
Your App Is Under Attack Before Lunch on Launch Day
Digital.ai's *2026 App Security Threat Report* reveals that AI — particularly agentic AI — has dramatically accelerated and broadened app-based cyberattacks, with the proportion of monitored apps under attack rising from 55% in 2022 to 87% in 2026. AI has lowered the technical barriers for attackers, closing the historic security gap between iOS and Android, enabling sophisticated attacks within hours of an app's release, and driving steep rises in attack rates across previously complex-to-exploit sectors like automotive and medical devices. The report concludes that defenders can no longer treat any app or sector as a lower-priority target, and must adopt their own agentic AI defences to counter the increasingly sophisticated and fast-moving threat landscape.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Is Faster and Smarter Than Its Predecessor — And Considerably More Expensive
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Flash, its fastest model in its intelligence class at over 280 output tokens per second, but it comes at 5.5 times the operating cost of its predecessor due to tripled token prices and significantly higher token consumption on agentic tasks. Despite strong improvements in agentic and multimodal benchmarks, the model notably underperforms competitors like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 in coding, one of the most important use cases for agentic AI. The price hike mirrors a broader industry trend, with Anthropic and OpenAI also raising effective costs on newer models, signalling that AI pricing is increasingly driven by complex, multi-step task demands rather than simple per-token rates.
Who Owns Your AI? The Sovereignty Question Enterprises Can No Longer Ignore
Enterprises that rushed to adopt third-party AI tools are now reconsidering the trade-off between capability and control, as concerns grow about losing proprietary data and competitive advantage to external providers. This has sparked a broad movement toward **AI and data sovereignty** — building independent control over models and data infrastructure rather than relying on centralised cloud providers. A survey of over 2,050 senior executives by EDB found that 70% believe a sovereign data and AI platform is essential to their success.