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OpenAI announced that Paul Christiano, founder of the Alignment Research Center and a Senior Tech Advisor at NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is joining the OpenAI Foundation Board as a non-voting observer …
The Government of Canada unveiled its National AI Literacy Initiative on Wednesday, led by federal AI Minister Evan Solomon at Edmonton's Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), with a $13 million investment to la…
CrowdStrike warns that public AI benchmarks in cybersecurity are being gamed through 'benchmaxxing,' where teams optimize for scores rather than real defensive capabilities, citing Goodhart's Law and issues like data lea…
CrowdStrike is launching AI Unlocked: Agents of Chaos, an online AI red teaming game with a $100,000 USD prize pool, on August 31. The game challenges players to manipulate AI agents using techniques like direct and indi…
A bipartisan coalition of organizations urged President Trump to publicly release his administration's framework for government AI testing, citing transparency concerns over the closed-door policy. The groups argued that…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that losing the AI race to China could compromise U.S. national security beyond what the defense budget can protect, underscoring the high stakes of the U.S.–China tech competition…
A 404 Media podcast reports that secretive predictive policing units within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are analyzing Americans' financial data and directing local police to pull over individuals. The …
Pillar Security documented Deadbugz, a malicious MCP server attributed to GitHub account zellkernel, which targeted 23 GitHub repositories in one evening and breached none. The server evades detection by behaving normall…
Anthropic researcher Miles Brundage resigned on September 9, 2026, warning that the company is engaged in a reckless race toward superintelligence, according to a Washington Post report. Brundage, who led Anthropic's ali…
Financial institutions investing in AI face challenges in production deployment due to data trust issues, according to an article on building a trusted data foundation. The piece outlines four areas for CIOs to address, …
U.S. security agencies, including the National Security Agency, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, accused six Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—of us…
Nearly 1 in 10 publicly accessible LiteLLM instances accept a default master key or require no authentication, exposing cloud AI infrastructure to root-level remote code execution and IAM theft, according to research pre…
AI researcher Connor Leahy, U.S. Executive Director of nonprofit ControlAI, is calling for a halt to the development of superintelligent AI, arguing that recent safety incidents such as OpenAI's Hugging Face breach show …
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that competitive pressure is pushing AI labs toward superintelligent systems before safety challenges are solved, and estimating a greater than 10% risk of AI-driven hum…
ARPA-H will invest $62.7 million to develop FDA-authorized AI agents for treating heart failure, announcing the first $33.7 million in awards to Atman Health, UpDoc, Tempus AI, Stanford University, Duke University, and K…
Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S, whose company employs more than 350,000 people, said AI will lead to more modular, agile, small teams and that managers will become player-coaches, while also proposing a tax on digital labor …
State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, joined legislators nationwide in demanding AI safeguards after a July cyberattack by 1,200 rogue OpenAI bots, created by San Francisco-based OpenAI to test security on several mo…
OPAQUE, a San Francisco confidential-AI company, published Weight Custody Manifest (WCM) on September 9, an open specification and developer SDK that lets AI developers place encrypted model weights on customer-controlle…
James Strahler, 38, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday, becoming the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act, after investigators found more than 3,000 real and AI-generated abuse…
Experts including former UK defence secretary Des Browne and Berkeley computer scientist Stuart Russell warned that artificial superintelligence could pose a risk greater than nuclear weapons, with some estimating a grea…