This Week in AI

Stanford launched a new AI research hub focused on personalizing PTSD therapies with multimodal models.

Walmart is leaning on AI to streamline both customer and employee experiences.

Time highlights ten transformative applications of AI already reshaping sectors.

With $40B in illicit crypto transactions logged in 2024 and 71% of executives bracing for more crime in 2025, legacy compliance frameworks are faltering.

Check Point reports threat actors are attempting to leverage HexStrike AI to exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities, including three Citrix flaws, with forum posts claiming access to vulnerable NetScaler instances.

Anthropic’s August Threat Intelligence Report shows hackers and state actors misusing Claude for extortion, fraud, and espionage.