Cisco Talos reported on August 4 that recovered prompt logs showed threat actors using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and other AI tools for malicious development, fraud and vulnerability work. Th…
Zenity, an AI security and governance company, raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Norwest on August 3, 2026, bringing its total funding to $180 million. The company will use the capital fo…
Snyk announced the general availability of Evo Continuous Offensive Security (COS) on August 4, introducing autonomous AI-powered application pentesting and AI agent red teaming for continuous applica…
OpenAI's February 2025 threat report says the company banned ChatGPT accounts linked to a Cambodia-origin romance and investment scam network. The operators used the model to translate and generate so…
Red Hat announced asago, an open-source AI governance project, on August 4, aiming to translate AI governance policies into risk tests, safeguards, and deployment configurations. The project, currentl…
Rubrik launched Agent Identity on August 4 at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a service that governs AI agent access at the level of individual tool calls using scoped, short-lived credentials …
The Open Secure AI Alliance published an August 4 request for comments on its Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) proposal, a draft that would confidentially collect AI security incidents and near miss…
Ethyca launched Astralis on August 4, a platform for real-time governance of enterprise AI models' and agents' use of company data, combining automated privacy and AI assessments with purpose-based ac…
A randomized clinical trial across 13 Ontario hospitals is testing an AI risk calculator that flags patients at high risk of developing delirium, with six sites already using the platform by August 4 …
Pillar Security disclosed on August 3 two now-patched privilege-boundary weaknesses in Google's Agent Development Kit for Python repository, one allowing prompt injection to cross from a public triage…
AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks launched a broader Voice of India evaluation platform in New Delhi on August 4, 2026, expanding beyond its earlier speech-recognition benchmark to cover voice, l…
Databricks published an internal coding-agent benchmark on July 8 using tasks from its multi-million-line codebase, reporting that model choice, task difficulty, token use, and the agent harness affec…
Tanium announced new agentic security capabilities for its Atlas platform at Black Hat USA 2026 on August 3, including background AI agents, an MCP server, attack-path mapping, agent-guided threat hun…
Deel acquired Clarity, an AI cybersecurity company focused on identity verification, deepfake detection, and fraud prevention, in a deal announced on August 3. Financial terms were not disclosed, but …
South Korea's Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment announced on August 4 a policy program linking AI and semiconductor expansion to accelerated renewable energy, grid, storage, and water infras…
Kakao detailed improvements to its Kanana-o speech model on August 4, 2026, enabling users to control speaking speed, volume, pitch, emotion, intonation, and dialect via natural-language prompts. In K…
OpenAI will hold OpenAI Game Builders Seoul on August 31, 2026, a one-day in-person hackathon in South Korea focused on its Codex AI coding tool and Com2uS's Hive platform. Applications run from Augus…
Fifteen Republican state attorneys general sent OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a letter on August 3 demanding preservation of records related to a reported Hugging Face breach and prior incidents involving Ope…
Banana Pi launched the BPI-AI2N system-on-module and carrier board on March 19, 2025, pairing Renesas' RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU with dual camera inputs, dual Gigabit Ethernet and expandable storage. The c…
University of Queensland-led researchers reported a multimodal deep-learning model that reconstructed full static plantar-pressure maps from foot geometry and sparse pressure readings. In tests using …