OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused AI model, and expanded its Daybreak initiative into two tiers, Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red, to provide vetted defenders with access to frontie…
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program on August 10, adding Blue and Red access tiers and releasing GPT-5.6-Cyber to approved defenders. The release followed OpenAI's August 7 disclosure t…
Researchers Mauro Eldritch and Heiner Garcia Perez hired three suspected North Korean IT workers into a fake cryptocurrency startup and recorded their post-hire activities, revealing the use of forged…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model trained to perform offensive cyber operations with fewer refusals, completing 95% of advanced-cybersecurity requests versus 1.5% for stock GPT-5.6 Sol. The model…
CrowdStrike trades at 34.4x forward revenue, Cloudflare at 32.6x, and Shopify at 11.3x, each commanding premiums over their category medians by carving out AI-focused paths, according to a market anal…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B-A3B open mixture-of-experts language model designed for high-volume agentic tasks, claiming roughly 4x throughput versus similarly-sized Qwen models and 3…
OpenAI announced the expansion of its Daybreak cyber defense service into two tiers, Blue and Red, with Red introducing the new GPT-5.6-Cyber model for trusted customers including Accenture, IBM, Crow…
OpenAI announced Monday it is expanding its Daybreak program to offer specialized cyber services, introducing two new model variants: Daybreak Blue, powered by ChatGPT-5.6-Sol, for defensive tasks, an…
Global venture funding hit a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217 billion (43%), and 72% of US cyber deals through May 2026 involved AI-enabled …
North Korean hacking groups Kimsuky and APT45 are using generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to build malware, forge military IDs, and scale vulnerability exploitation, accord…
CrowdStrike and Amazon Web Services launched AI Unlocked: Agents of Chaos, a $100,000 prize pool competition running from August 31 to September 29, 2026, where participants use prompt injection to ex…
North Korea's STARDUST CHOLLIMA hacking group social-engineered a maintainer of the Mastra AI framework with a fake LinkedIn job pitch, then used stolen credentials to poison 131 npm packages, accordi…
The Open Secure AI Alliance, backed by Nvidia and now comprising over 120 organizations, is drafting the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) cybersecurity guidelines to address threats from agentic AI …
The Linux Foundation on August 4, 2026, published a Request for Comments for the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a draft framework that would bind members of the Open Secure AI Alliance to report …
Nvidia, Cisco, and CrowdStrike are each developing proprietary AI security frameworks rather than collaborating on a unified standard. Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on July 27, 2026, inc…
The Linux Foundation, with the Open Secure AI Alliance's more than 120 member organizations including NVIDIA, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Red Hat, today released a Request for Comments on th…
CrowdStrike reported that 131 malicious packages were found on Microsoft's npm registry, targeting developers with credential-stealing malware. The discovery highlights supply chain risks in open-sour…
The White House has finalized its voluntary AI oversight framework, meeting the August 1 deadline set by President Trump's June executive order, but is keeping the framework's contents, reviewers, and…
The U.S. House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee has requested a briefing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regarding a July 2026 incident in which an OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandboxed test env…
CrowdStrike announced on July 30 that Falcon AI Detection and Response now supports policy enforcement for Microsoft Copilot Studio agents and Claude Code sessions, allowing or blocking tool invocatio…