The EU AI Act's high-risk provisions become enforceable on August 2, 2026, but the regulation was written before autonomous AI agents existed, creating a governance gap. Empire Labs Security Division …
The White House is finalizing a voluntary 30-day pre-release AI review framework with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, targeting completion before August 1, that gives federal agencies 30 days to evalua…
The White House is finalizing a 30-day pre-release review agreement with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google for frontier AI models, with classified evaluation benchmarks housed at NSA and CISA, expected be…
The White House launched Gold Eagle, a federal cybersecurity clearinghouse operational since July 2, 2026, to coordinate patching of AI-discovered software vulnerabilities faster, with the Treasury De…
A mini-series on LLM dangers warns that real-time deepfakes are already causing over a billion dollars in losses, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe calling frontier AI 'akin to digital nuclear weapons'…
On July 15, CISA, the NSA, Japan's JPCERT/CC, the Netherlands' NCSC-NL, and the UK's NCSC-UK jointly published guidance urging software makers to adopt coordinated vulnerability disclosure programs, i…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance published a joint statement urging organizations to urgently raise their security posture against AI-assisted cyberattacks, recommending actions such as reducing at…
The White House launched the Gold Eagle initiative on July 14, 2026, as a central clearinghouse to triage and coordinate patches for AI-discovered vulnerabilities across federal systems, critical infr…
A developer built an open benchmark, mcp-defense-bench, to measure how well security proxies protect the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from 24 attack vectors. Starting at 9% coverage, the mcp-bastion p…
A proposal called the Glasswing Standard builds on Anthropic's Project Glasswing to create a transparent, advisory early-access program for frontier AI models, aiming to balance lab interests, governm…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, directing the creation of an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse within 30 days, managed by the Secretary of the Treasury alongside the Nationa…
NymVPN CEO Harry Halpin, a former W3C/MIT researcher who led the Web Cryptography API, said his company is building a blockchain-incentivized mixnet designed to withstand global passive adversaries li…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a joint security warning on June 22, 2026, stating that frontier AI could transform offensive and defensive cyber capabilities within months, not years. The …
Five Eyes national security agencies jointly warned of increasing cyber risks from AI models, particularly their ability to autonomously hack into systems and networks, urging renewed cybersecurity me…
Microsoft Incident Response warned on June 30, 2026, that poisoned MCP tool descriptions can steer enterprise AI agents into unsafe actions, a risk amplified for banks racing to deploy AI. The NSA sep…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic's Mythos model to scan government code repositories for security vulnerabilities, uncovering numerous bugs. The Nati…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is using Anthropic's AI model Mythos to audit government code for vulnerabilities, according to three anonymous sources. The arrangement comes d…
Banks are rapidly adopting agentic AI systems that can take actions, not just answer questions, creating a new security risk of overprivileged agents. In April 2026, Five Eyes cyber agencies issued jo…
The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models, allowing the company to restore broader access after agreeing to steps limiting potential abuse of Fable …
Anthropic's Fable 5 model remains unavailable to the public after a White House backlash, while OpenAI pre-cleared GPT-5.6 with Washington before launching it to trusted partners. The contrasting outc…