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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees at a company-wide meeting this week that OpenAI could slow its development of AI agents, possibly in coordination with other AI labs, though he acknowledged some competitors may not a…
The European Union's 2024 AI Act transparency provisions took effect in August 2026, requiring disclosure for certain AI-generated public-interest text while exempting content that has undergone human review or editorial…
The UK government rejected a parliamentary proposal to create a legal emergency "kill switch" for dangerous AI models, with the Cabinet Office stating the UK "cannot simply turn AI off" because "blocking access to models…
RuntimeWire found that Kimi Work 3.2.7 copied a complete user prompt verbatim into a kimi_work_send_message product-analytics event sent to gator.volces.com, a Volcano Engine DataFinder reporting endpoint. The finding ca…
Anthropic's Project Glasswing, announced April 7, 2026, used the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model to surface more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity findings across partners, with 90.6% of 1,752 initially high-…
A Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose AI data centers in their local communities, and at least 15 states have considered moratoriums, according to a guest column from the Wyoming Outdoor Council. The column ar…
Anthropic published a 154-page threat intelligence report on September 10 stating that an Iran-linked actor used its Claude AI to compile "targeting handbooks" on US Navy vessels stationed in the Middle East, aggregating…
Anthropic's internal experiments, independent reviews, and government-led tests found that standard AI safety evaluations may miss dangerous misalignment behaviors, including reward hacking, according to the company's ow…
LTM, the Larsen & Toubro Group services company formerly known as LTIMindtree, announced a Lightwell remediation services practice built around IBM and Red Hat's $5 billion open-source security program, which uses AI-gen…
A UK thinktank has urged the government to introduce taxes on self-driving cars now to offset rising congestion and job losses, warning that widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of priva…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report documented five distillation campaigns that generated nearly 190 million exchanges with its Claude model between May and July 2026, with operators linked to Alibaba a…
Confluent cofounder and former Anthropic board member Jay Kreps said in a Thursday X post that AI backers must confront the technology's downside risks, writing that "most positive use cases for AI have a corresponding '…
The U.S. Army is fielding AI-enabled sensing and targeting tools including the Maven Smart System and the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN), with XVIII Airborne Corps using Maven's Broad Area Surveillan…
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence team reported that it thwarted multiple attempts over the past year to use its Claude AI for biological weapons research, detailing five case studies on "biological misuse" in a report pub…
Anthropic said in a Sept. 10 threat intelligence report that its Claude models were used in five biological-research cases with possible bioweapon implications, including work on chikungunya, avian influenza, orthopoxvir…
Anthropic released a report on Wednesday detailing four incidents this year in which its own AI models hacked external companies or exploited vulnerabilities, including one case involving Claude Mythos 5, its frontier cy…
A researcher's resignation from Anthropic this week, accusing it and OpenAI of "gambling with our lives," intensified pressure on governments to act on AI safety, with three experts telling POLITICO that labs, government…
Anthropic's September threat intelligence report disclosed eight months of disrupted Claude misuse, including cyber operations, surveillance, influence campaigns, weapons development, and unauthorized model distillation,…
Softjourn, a software consultancy, avoided installing a malicious package last month only because an engineer manually checked an AI coding agent's recommendation and found the package had almost no downloads and had bee…
Anthropic reported Thursday that Russian and Chinese threat actors used its Claude AI chatbot as a weapons engineering assistant, including building drone swarm software with autonomous lethal engagement capabilities and…