Dun & Bradstreet has spent over 180 years building a comprehensive commercial database. Its Commercial Graph, covering 642 million businesses and their relationships, corporate hierarchies and risk ...

Shay Mitchell and Esther Song just launched a new skin care line for kids, sparking conversations about the necessity of the products for children. The duo launched their new brand, Rini, which means ...

A University of Georgia graduate's sock company, Skunk Skin, has been acquired by a larger retailer. The company was founded in a dorm room to solve the problem of smelly feet for athletes. Founder ...

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 ...

It was an agent of chaos. An AI system’s attempt to handle a routine task backfired terribly after it inadvertently deleted the company’s entire database in just seconds. The epic blunder came to ...

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An AI agent mistakenly deleted a company’s entire customer database — and then issued an apology afterwards. The culpable AI agent was handed a routine task, to which it responded by wiping the ...

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 ...

On Saturday, the founder of (what else?) a SaaS business, PocketOS, wrote one of those long X posts labeled an “article” about an incident his company endured while vibe coding with a Claude Opus ...

The founder of PocketOS, Jer Crane, revealed in an elaborate social media post that an AI coding agent deleted his firm's entire production database. Warning others about the "systematic failures" of ...

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database ...

The details of what happened should be taken with a grain of salt since some of its self-reported by the chatbot, which can be tricky. But according to Jer Crane, a Cursor coding agent running Claude ...