US banks are restricting AI agents' access to customer accounts
Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and other major US banks are detecting AI agents connected to customer accounts without the bank's approval, and some of those agents act on their own, without instructions from the customer, Axios reports, citing people familiar with the matter. Banks often can't tell a transaction ordered by the customer from an agent's own decision, so several of them are already restricting agents' access. Most banks allow, or plan to allow, agents only to view accounts, without making transactions.
AI helped find a hole in PHP, but patching old servers is still a job for humans
On October 21, the PHP developers patched two critical vulnerabilities that let attackers run arbitrary code on a server without logging in. Attackers were already trying to exploit them before the patch came out, and several European governments took their websites offline as a precaution. AI helped researchers find the flaws and helped some administrators upgrade PHP quickly. On older servers it's a different story: there's often no ready-made patch, the version number won't tell you whether the fix is installed, and a quick workaround can break an online store. There, AI only helps people who know what to ask.
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