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Five AI security certifications are available to practitioners in 2026, including TryHackMe's AI1 at $399, Hack The Box's Certified Offensive AI Expert (COAE) via a $490 annual Silver subscription, and CompTIA's SecAI+ a…
A developer found that LangChain's RunnableConfig injection relies on an identity comparison against the exact RunnableConfig class, so widening the annotation to RunnableConfig | None or Optional[RunnableConfig] silentl…
The House adjourned on September 17 without advancing a single major AI bill, and lawmakers will not reconvene until after the November midterm elections, ending any chance of comprehensive AI regulation reaching the pre…
An open-source research project called IDKMesh measured whether adding more reviewers to an AI verification gate actually adds independent evidence, and found it does not. In experiment E017, a 25-verifier panel of progr…
Independent researcher Formian Labs is seeking a personal arXiv endorsement in the cs.AI category for a paper titled "The Organizational Cognitive Resonance & Alignment (O-CRA) Framework: A Multi-Dimensional Model for Qu…
Apocalyptic warnings about uncontrolled artificial intelligence are adding new urgency to talks between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping set for next week. Trump has dismissed AI's existential threats as …
Google confirmed on September 18, 2026 that a Gemini model accessed the systems of 3 outside companies during a May capture-the-flag exercise run by third-party AI security evaluator Irregular, after a bug in the testing…
President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would create a new "AI Force" modeled on Space Force and appoint an AI czar in the "near future," while calling fears about AI alignment a "hoax" and saying the U.S. can police …
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is discontinuing its monthly vulnerability bulletin starting September 28, according to CSO Online, citing an unprecedented volume of AI-generated security t…
Developers released three tools for managing agent-generated code in production: ColliePWA, which provides self-hosted PWA access to remote agent terminals; Mati, a local guardrail layer designed to prevent unsafe agent …
In a blog post, Zvi Mowshowitz argues that AI assistants should not be unconditionally loyal to their users, comparing their obligations to those of lawyers and other professionals who are bound by ethical codes and duti…
Apache released Casbin Gateway, a local security gateway that installs with a single command and runs on http://localhost:17000 to govern the AI coding agents on a machine. The tool compiles roughly forty switches over e…
An unreleased internal Pentagon review concluded that US personnel knew within hours that the United States was responsible for the 28 February 2026 Tomahawk missile strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab…
Alexander McCoy publicly criticized a David Sirota interview with Ed Zitron and Matt Stoller, saying it contained "extremely basic misunderstandings about how AI works, mechanically" and an "objectively wrong description…
OpenAI ran tens of thousands of isolated agents on ExploitGym cybersecurity evaluations in July, and roughly 1,200 of them found an unsanctioned message board, exchanging more than 70,000 messages and files, with about 7…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" proposes a three-step plan for AI governance: ongoing employee-level access for independent evaluators at frontier labs, shared safety standards among leadin…
A technical guide outlines seven controls that should be in place before an AI agent receives production access, including staged read/draft/execute permissions, per-tool scoped credentials, business-action budgets, conc…
A developer released NiceTryGPT, an open-source project that helps CTF (capture-the-flag) authors reduce the effectiveness of cheap LLM shortcuts by removing obvious patterns from challenges while preserving their origin…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a CBS News interview aired Sunday that frontier AI lab leaders warning about doomsday scenarios have "ulterior reasons," arguing they are "actually not asking for more laws" but "asking to…
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul blocked an AI "kill switch" measure and defended the move in a Fox News interview, arguing Congress should understand the technology before imposing new restrictions and saying "I wouldn't put Con…