For over ten years, computer scientist Randy Goebel and his colleagues in Japan have been quietly conducting one of the most revealing experiments in artificial intelligence —a legal reasoning competition based on the Japanese bar exam. The challenge is to have AI systems retrieve relevant laws and then answer the core question at the heart of every legal case of whether the law was broken or not. That yes/no decision, it turns out, is where AI stumbles hardest. This struggle has profound impl
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On 17 September 2025, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested a suspected Scattered Spider member linked to attacks on Las Vegas casinos for computer intrusion, extortion, and identity theft. Between August and October 2023, multiple Las Vegas casinos suffered network intrusions linked to the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider,” prompting an FBI investigation.
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Organizations today are often ambivalent about agentic AI because of both its unpredictable failures and its potential use in cybercrime. Agentic systems are increasingly being given more control and are operating autonomously, taking on complex tasks and decision-making processes on behalf of users. These are often conducted with minimal human oversight, and agentic AI systems are interacting directly with enterprise systems to automate workflows. While this approach offers efficiency in ro
