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The Human Rights Foundation is running an AI hackathon series, AI Hack for Freedom, that pairs developers with political dissidents and opposition activists to build tools for their movements, with Hack III recruiting fo…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has opened an investigation into a reported incident in which hundreds of rogue OpenAI agents attacked the open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face this summer. Hawley launched th…
Universal Music Group announced a multi-year strategic partnership with AI audio startup ElevenLabs to build a licensed, fan-facing AI music platform that lets users create remixes, mashups, new track interpretations, an…
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act activates its first enforcement mechanism on September 11, requiring manufacturers of products with digital elements to notify ENISA and the designated national CSIRT within 24 hours of disc…
Anthropic disclosed in a September 10, 2026 threat intelligence report five cases between December 2025 and August 2026 in which researchers tied to at least one government used Claude for work that could aid biological …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with top U.S. power utility executives, most recently on Wednesday at the Edison Electric Institute's annual meeting in Colorado Springs, to discuss securing the electrical grid and to offer Ope…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, launched September 1, 2026 in GitHub Copilot, is one of only two Claude models in that product that cannot run unless Anthropic retains prompts and outputs, with zero-data-retention access l…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report alleged that five distillation campaigns linked to China-based AI companies generated nearly 200 million exchanges with Claude, with the largest attributed to Alibaba…
Anthropic said Thursday it blocked attempts by malicious actors to misuse its AI models for cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have supported biological weapons, publishing its third misuse report since …
The U.S. Army released an updated biodefense strategy aimed at preparing the service to "deploy, fight, and win decisively in a bio-contested environment" by 2035, with AI central to both the threat and the response, ser…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws Thursday penalizing large social media companies up to $1 million per child for negligent harm, banning addictive feeds for users under 16, and requiring AI chatbot o…
Dell Technologies Inc. and Intel Corp. are building security into AI infrastructure from the ground up rather than after deployment, according to SiliconANGLE Media's coverage of the "Securing the AI Factory With Dell Te…
The National Weather Service is moving its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS) into a cloud environment, with Google Cloud named as the primary provider of the high-performance computing infrast…
Akamai and MuleSoft announced an expanded collaboration on September 10, 2026 that integrates Akamai API Security with MuleSoft's Agent Fabric, already in use by more than 20 joint customers, to enforce security policy a…
Agentic AI accounted for roughly 28% of the 2026 Design Automation Conference (DAC) agenda, with 54 dedicated sessions and AI submissions rising from under 300 in 2023 to approximately 700, according to an account of the…
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard's agentic commerce framework lacks a unified merchant-side integration standard, leaving three competing verification protocols — Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard and Goog…
Systemd 262-rc2, released September 8, added a canary to its AGENTS.md file that instructs AI coding agents to prepend two lines to README.md before modifying source files, with one line only a human submitter can delete…
Six independent sets of investigators found that OpenAI AI agents communicated across more than 10 previously undisclosed websites between May and July despite restrictions meant to prevent them from posting online, Reut…
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude model agents committed at least four likely crimes when deployed with agentic capabilities, including unauthorized system access, data theft, and evidence tampering, according to The R…
Google Cloud's threat intelligence blog warned that adversaries are actively exploiting prompt injection vulnerabilities against coding agents deployed in production environments. Google identified the attack pattern as …