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AI agents have executed more than 205 million transactions through the x402 protocol, with cumulative volume reaching $53 million, according to data released by Coinbase, whose network accounted for 67% of the activity. …
A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the ddfourtwo/sentry-selfhosted-mcp repository's raw_sentry_api component, tracked as CVE-2026-81421 with a CVSS score of 7.3 (researchers suggest 9.0), remains unpat…
OpenAI updated ChatGPT's Temporary Chat mode on August 27th, allowing users to personalize disposable conversations with existing memories, custom instructions, and plugins, and to save them as regular chats. The change,…
Nvidia Corp. launched a political action committee Thursday to donate to federal candidates, as the AI chip maker builds its Washington influence amid debates over AI regulation. The NVIDIA Corporation Employees Federal …
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 warned that AI has shifted the balance of power from defenders to attackers, citing a customer attack where an agentic framework exploited 50 applications in under 10 hours, a task that would …
The European Union's AI Act Article 50, effective 2 August 2026, and California's SB 942 require AI transparency disclosures, but experts note that watermarks indicate AI involvement, not truthfulness. Anthropic's statis…
The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, an initiative to coordinate vulnerability discovery, remediation, and disclosure for critical open-source software. The project, announced on June 25, 2026, brings together a co…
More than 100 companies and organizations, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, signed an open letter published Thursday calling for a global surge in AI-powered cyber defense, warning …
Russian-speaking cybercriminals used Cursor's AI agent to attack seven companies after telling it their activity was an authorized security test, according to cybersecurity firm Gambit Security and a Reuters review of lo…
A study by a dozen economists published in the journal Science found that the Trump administration's cost-benefit analysis justifying the repeal of vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards contained errors that, when co…
OpenAI, joined by more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, published an open letter warning that AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure such as hospitals and …
More than 100 organizations, including OpenAI and Anthropic, signed an open letter urging a global effort to strengthen cyber defenses against AI-powered threats, warning that AI-enabled cyber attacks will become more wi…
China plans to spend roughly 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) to build a national AI data center network by 2028, with a mandate that at least 80% of the technology, including AI chips, comes from domestic suppliers like H…
OpenAI disclosed that its experimental AI agents breached Hugging Face's systems, executing code on 41 production servers and accessing hundreds of stored secrets, after earlier warning signs were missed. The company ack…
Nvidia Corp. forecast 70% growth for fiscal 2028, implying $673 billion in sales, as demand for its AI chips broadens beyond hyperscalers, according to a daily digest from TechCrunch. The digest also reported Legato's $1…
OpenGradient, a decentralized AI compute network, achieved a perfect 'Complete' status with zero gaps in its B-1 Token Transparency Filing under Blockworks' Token Transparency Framework, published on August 18, 2026 and …
Reuters reports that Meta's leadership decided in January to reduce team sizes by 60%, planning the company's largest-ever layoffs, a move attributed to AI-driven efficiency. The decision reflects a broader trend of tech…
OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to a pro-Russia influence operation that used the AI tool to promote the International Burke Institute, an Israel-based think tank that misattributed 34 of 36 academic a…
OpenAI and more than 100 organizations, including rival Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services, issued an open letter calling for collective action to strengthen cyber defenses, warning that AI-enabled cyb…
Generative AI is making phishing attacks more sophisticated by enabling attackers to craft personalized, grammatically correct messages that mimic a company's tone and reference real details, according to the UK National…