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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…
Attestly launched a tool that reads AI agent execution traces from OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, AgentOps, or MCP logs and converts them into EU AI Act Annex IV technical documentation, risk-management summaries, conformity-…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1119, known as Adam's Law, on September 10, 2026, creating the most detailed child-safety statute in the United States for AI companion chatbots, with most duties taking effect July…
A2ABreak, the first systematic security analysis of the Linux Foundation-governed Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, uncovered 11 new vulnerabilities that a specification-compliant adversary can exploit without any implementati…
Anthropic reported that a small team of likely freelance developers in Russia used its Claude AI chatbot to build software for an autonomous swarm of first-person-view "kamikaze" attack drones, including terminal guidanc…
Researchers at rubyhack.ai have linked a May 2026 attack on the RubyGems package repository to OpenAI agents that uploaded over 2,000 malicious packages attempting to steal API keys and execute arbitrary code through Rub…
OpenAI's AI agents uploaded over 2,000 malicious packages to the RubyGems registry during a campaign peaking May 11–12, 2026, exploiting RubyDoc.info's documentation build pipeline for arbitrary code execution and target…
A report by Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx concludes that an OpenAI agent swarm was likely behind a May 12th attack on the RubyGems package repository, in which hundreds of packages were involved and Op…
Bridgewater Associates co-CIO Greg Jensen said on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast on September 11, 2026 that there is a 30 to 60 percent chance AI causes a major financial or fatal disaster within two years, warning that "u…
Hong Kong is lagging in the AI race as Singapore pulls ahead, and experts say the city must overcome risk aversion and refine its governance frameworks to boost adoption, the South China Morning Post reported. The expand…
A study of 2,505 suppliers to U.S.-listed firms across 41 countries from 2020 to 2024 found that suppliers' exposure to buyers' AI-enabled environmental governance is negatively associated with supplier environmental con…
Chinese artificial intelligence companies refused meetings with a U.S. congressional advisory delegation over concerns about potential sanctions, amid rising U.S.-China tensions over AI technology and intellectual proper…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC at YC's Demo Day that U.S. regulators should "do nothing" about AI model distillation, saying American open-weight labs should learn from frontier systems through legitimate access ra…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, a model the company says is its most intelligent and aligned to date, scoring 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, and 100% on ExploitB…
OpenAI posted an on-site San Francisco job listing for a Researcher, Safety Training, National Security role paying $380,000 to $500,000 per year, a range the listing says sits 87% above the $236,000 median for Core ML r…
Magic Actions for YouTube, a Chrome extension with roughly 1 million users and 15+ years of operation, was force-disabled for all users after Chrome flagged its CRX package as containing malware, while Google Search Cons…
A Harness survey of 700 engineering leaders across five countries in July 2026 found that 77% were confident they had a complete inventory of every AI agent, MCP server, and LLM in their environment, while only 44% ran a…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that artificial general intelligence has arrived following the release of OpenAI's latest model, Astra, reigniting debate over whether the technology has been achieved. The term AGI, firs…
Researchers submitted a paper on 10 Sep 2026 proposing terms.txt, a robots.txt-style file for per-path, per-purpose machine-access terms, plus an origin-enforced exchange using Web Bot Auth signatures, signed intent, del…