Check Point's forensics show ARTEX agents running fully autonomously once an operator sets the goal - one run took about 190,000 gaming credentials for under $400 of model spend - and Censys now says the tool's reach far exceeds the reported campaigns.

Public First, funded by Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and other safety advocates, put over $63MN into the midterms on its own numbers, and Bloomberg says 10 of the 17 candidates it backed won - a week after the industry's PACs lost $74.7MN.

Senior caseworker Hollie Wickens says half the email reaching a Labour MP's office is now AI-written, and councils, courts, schools and lawyers report the same flood - researchers call it 'agentic flooding', and it costs moments to send and hours to answer.