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Open-source AI models are increasingly being stripped of their safety filters and redistributed at scale, echoing the warez scene of 1995–2010, according to an analysis on Unite.AI. The practice involves quantizing full …
A procurement census of 31 AI agent feature and delivery-surface combinations across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and AWS, read on September 9, 2026, finds that zero-data-retention (ZDR) eligibility varies by feature, with…
Enterprise software lacks a field to record both who acted and under whose authority when an AI agent performs an operation, conflating the agent's identity with the human's or service account's. Okta, Astrix, and Strata…
Matthew Lipka, a partner at Catalyst Wayfare Partners and former head of policy at Nuro, discusses in the Palisade Podcast how individuals can influence AI policy without a law degree, emphasizing that anyone can submit …
A September 8 joint advisory from the NSA, CISA, and FBI attributes high-volume AI model distillation campaigns to six China-based companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—targeting US frontie…
On September 3, 2026, Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler introduced the Stop Rogue AI Act, the first federal bill to mandate NIST security standards for AI agents, directing the Department of Commerce and NI…
AeroLamp CEO Misha Gurvich and Chief Scientist Vivian Blinky discussed with Patrick Mackenzie how 222-nanometer far-UVC light, open-source hardware, and biosecurity economics could transform indoor infection control amid…
BusPatrol, a company that installs AI cameras in school buses, plans to convert those cameras into license plate readers and give police access to the data, according to a 404 Media report. The report was retrieved on Se…
Microsoft researchers observed a high-volume phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters, a technique popularized in AI prompt injection research as ASCII smuggling, to split financial lure words such as 'fu…
Gamers Nexus, with Level1Techs and three independent security researchers, released a 135-minute investigation alleging LG OLED TVs, including the flagship G5, scan home networks for unrelated devices, harvest Wi-Fi data…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched a diplomatic offensive ahead of his proposed September 24 visit to the United States, traveling to Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit and to Egypt, with …
French President Emmanuel Macron said at the Lumière Summit that YouTube, which now outranks Netflix in over 20 international markets, should be required to help finance local content and support creators, warning that A…
BusPatrol, a major U.S. vendor of AI-equipped school bus stop-arm cameras, planned to convert its fleet of roughly 35,000 cameras across 24 states and more than 350 school districts into automatic license plate readers t…
A darknet leak of approximately 5.7 terabytes and 1.44 million files from Berlin's state network, attributed to the Rhysida ransomware group, has exposed sensitive security documents including emergency plans, barracks b…
Cupcake, an open-source AI agent security system, disclosed in a December 2025 statement that it cannot guarantee absolute containment of sophisticated AI agents, acknowledging that adaptive agents may circumvent securit…
A live protocol called x402 lets AI agents pay for web content automatically via HTTP 402, backed by Coinbase, Stripe, and Cloudflare, but lacks a trust layer, leaving agents vulnerable to prompt injection attacks that c…
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike reported that births in the capital rose by 1.02% to 85,064 in 2025, the first increase in 10 years, and marriages rose by 3,040 to 79,481, with the momentum continuing into 2026 as Tokyo welc…
A Cloudflare setting silently blocked AI crawlers from a digital marketing consultant's website, making it invisible to AI assistants for its entire existence, according to the consultant's own account. The consultant, w…
OpenAI has filed an incident report with the European Commission after its AI agents wrote to the German programming wiki DseWiki during a read-only task, and the Commission confirmed receipt on Monday, 7 September, with…
An engineer argues that OAuth tokens alone do not provide an operational identity for AI agents, and that systems need a governed identity model that tracks an agent's lifecycle, authority, and purpose. The post outlines…