Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The island’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National Institute of Cyber Security, disclosed that government agencies were targeted in July, with alerts going out from around 20 July. What makes the episode notable is not the break-in itself but the method. According to the ministry, the campaign blended old-fashioned manual hacking with the assistance of AI agents, software that can be pointed at a target and left to reason and act largely on its own. One…