A Cursor AI agent deleted a company’s entire production database, ignoring instructions prohibiting it from running destructive commands. A Cursor AI agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a company ...

An AI-powered coding program deleted PocketOS' entire digital database while performing a "routine task." Christopher Sadowski for NY Post It was an agent of chaos. An AI system’s attempt to handle a ...

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FESTUS, Mo. — Residents in Festus recently scraped together $150 to find out what was happening to their city. What they uncovered showed key decisions were already underway before the public was ever ...

An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding ...

The world remains abuzz about AI’s potential to contribute to the greater good of humanity. For instance, Firefox developer Mozilla recently proclaimed that AI could effectively end the era of ...

AI agents can boost productivity, but they're also giving some companies a serious headache. The founder of a car rental software startup said that a Cursor AI agent deleted its database. It's the ...

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An AI coding agent has reportedly deleted an entire production database along with its backups, turning what should have been a routine maintenance session into a serious incident for a startup. The ...

An AI agent powered by Anthropic’s leading Claude model has deleted a company’s entire production database, leaving customers unable to access key data. PocketOS, which provides software for car ...

As more people trust AI agents with their important work, doing so comes with significant risks. Jeremy Crane, the founder of PocketOS, a startup that builds software for car rental businesses, wrote ...