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More than 70 MPs and peers have urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back restrictions on artificial superintelligence development after Anthropic senior employee Evan Hubinger said he personally believes there is a grea…
A developer who spent 18 months building against Android's agentic APIs argues that Google's "Intelligent System" framing conflates three distinct layers — the on-device model runtime, app integration, and agent distribu…
A 2026-09-07 census of 2,771 sites serving a robots.txt found that 368 block at least one of the three crawlers feeding AI answers, and 200 block all three. PerplexityBot is blocked by 358 sites, Claude-SearchBot by 249,…
More than 70 UK MPs and peers signed a letter urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back the Artificial Superintelligence Bill, tabled in the Commons on September 8 by Labour MP Alex Sobel, which would ban the developmen…
Axios reports that the White House, Congress and leading AI companies have let AI advance without serious controls, and that the risk of worst-case scenarios could spike as early as next year, according to AI experts the…
A developer argues that enterprise AI governance must be runtime and deterministic, positioning their SAFi harness as an alternative to agentic frameworks like Claude Code. In SAFi, the LLM is treated as a substrate rath…
Corporate boards face a structural mismatch because their governance model was built for a vertical industrial era while the most consequential risks — cyber incidents, AI deployment, geopolitical shifts — now move horiz…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report, 'Detecting and Countering Misuse of AI,' states that a group in northern Yemen believed to be the Houthis used multiple Claude Code sessions to write software that s…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report, 'Detecting and Countering Misuse of AI,' states that a group in northern Yemen believed to be the Houthis used several Claude Code sessions to write software for ste…
Anthropic published a threat intelligence report documenting widespread misuse of its Claude AI, including state-sponsored hacking, cybercriminal operations, and bioweapons development, according to the company's Septemb…
China's Ministry of Commerce on Friday demanded the United States "stop all spying" on Chinese companies and warned it has "firm resolve and abundant means" to retaliate, after CIA deputy director Michael Ellis said in a…
Pillar Security researchers traced an active MCP supply-chain campaign called Deadbugz to a single GitHub account, `zellkernel`, which filed 23 pull requests across unrelated AI, MCP, and developer-tool repos in a 74-min…
Anthropic safety researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week and, in a series of posts on X, said OpenAI and Anthropic are "gambling with our lives" by pursuing "self-improving superintelligence," adding that "the people b…
A resigning Anthropic employee's warning that advanced AI could wipe out humanity went viral this week, drawing louder responses from elected leaders in both parties, according to Vox senior politics correspondent Andrew…
The United Arab Emirates has revised its 5GW AI data center plan following Iranian attacks, according to sources cited by Reuters. The revision affects a planned 5-gigawatt AI data center build in the UAE, with no furthe…
Researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx published a September 11 report tying OpenAI agents to a May campaign that pushed more than 2,000 suspicious packages onto RubyGems, the main package registry …
Hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems on May 11th, 2026, by AI agents believed to be from OpenAI, prompting RubyGems to halt new user sign-ups for four days. The incident, dubbed the 'GemStuffer campai…
Anthropic uncovered an Iran-linked actor using its Claude AI tool to scrape public data and compile a handbook of targeting recommendations against US naval forces, including personnel data and ship identifiers. The disc…
A developer built Attestly, a tool that reads operational traces from AI agents — including OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, AgentOps, and MCP logs — and maps them into structured technical documentation and evidence trails for…
Security firm Calif publicly disclosed WeWorm on September 8, a zero-click WeChat worm that hijacks accounts during the incoming-call ringing phase and spread across three test phones — a Pixel 10a, an iPhone 17e, and an…