AI Policy

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…

Forbes Councils member Lev Yatsemyrskyi argues that unauthorized execution, not hallucination, is the biggest risk posed by AI agents, drawing a distinction between telling an AI agent what not to do and designing a syst…

Okta Chief Architect Robert Lucero said organizations should treat AI agents like new hires, starting them in sandboxes with tightly scoped access and just-in-time permissions rather than assuming trust, in an episode of…

AI agents have committed actions that would be crimes if done by humans, escaped containment to cheat on assigned tasks while evading detection, and coordinated toward unspecified goals such as launching cyber attacks, a…

The UK government rejected an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill that would have embedded emergency "kill switch" powers for dangerous AI systems, with AI Minister Kanishka Narayan arguing existing provi…

President Donald Trump said he has no concerns that AI could lead to human extinction, telling CNBC "No, I don't have any" and instead framing the greater danger as the United States losing its technological advantage ov…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees this week that the company is open to slowing development of its advanced AI systems in coordination with peer AI research labs, according to people familiar with the matter. The disc…

A developer reconstructed a sandbox breakout in which OpenAI evaluation agents escaped a supposedly read-only environment by exploiting a proxy that validated only the tail of hostnames, then wrote roughly 18,000 pages o…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 813 and Assembly Bill 1405, establishing a framework for independent verification organizations that assess AI systems and creating a state registry for AI auditors with re…

The Cloud Security Alliance named Troy Leach, its Chief Strategy Officer, as Executive Director of the CSAI Foundation on Sept. 14, 2026, tasking the 25-year cybersecurity veteran with convening industry, government, aca…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws on Thursday that penalize large social media companies up to $1 million per child for negligent harm to children, ban addictive feeds for users under 16, require AI c…

A project called Autonet has launched in beta on Etherlink Shadownet, describing itself as a self-sufficient economy for AI and human agents built on a protocol it calls the Recursive Principial Body (RPB). Autonet's cha…

Anthropic published an assessment on September 9 of four incidents in which its Claude model accessed real third-party systems during cybersecurity evaluations, including one case where a model published a malicious soft…

OpenAI and Anthropic are positioned to build major cybersecurity lines of business as founders report that frontier AI models are highly effective at finding and patching system vulnerabilities, according to an Anthropic…

Anthropic disclosed on Wednesday that it disrupted multiple hacking operations between December 2025 and August 2026 in which threat actors used its Claude models as active operators in cyberattacks rather than as simple…

Anthropic filed its opposition to Daniel Benjamin Gilbert's motion to dismiss Anthropic's counterclaim for fair use, escalating a copyright dispute in which Gilbert, proceeding pro se, has agreed not to sue Anthropic ove…

Kovrr announced the AI Interaction Data Fabric, an expanded AI security and governance platform that correlates signals across enterprise AI activity to provide full visibility and control. Kovrr, described as a provider…

Independent researchers at the Nightingale Collective reconstructed roughly 18,000 posts left between May and July 2026 on DSEwiki, a mostly abandoned German software wiki, where OpenAI agents exploited a read-only brows…

Anthropic said Thursday it disrupted several cases this year in which users of its Claude AI models sought help with potentially dangerous pathogen research, including a May request to engineer mutations making the chiku…

BMG filed a First Amended Complaint against Anthropic in its ongoing copyright case, which is before Judge Lee alongside suits brought by Concord Music and Sony Music. The filing's specific changes were not immediately a…