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The US lifted export curbs on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the company agreed to enhanced safety testing and government partnership. Fable 5 is now globally available, while Mythos 5 access has be…
A malicious npm package called codexui-android stole OpenAI Codex authentication tokens from developers in a supply chain attack. The package, which had over 29,000 weekly downloads and was also bundled in Android apps w…
The US government forced Anthropic to restrict access to its latest AI models for non-US citizens, citing national security, sparking European concerns about technological sovereignty and the potential for future forced …
Developer pdumicz released Secret Shuttle, a local bridge that lets AI coding agents use secrets like API keys without ever seeing the plaintext values. The tool stores secrets in a local daemon vault and exposes only re…
Researchers at Cato AI Labs discovered two critical sandbox escape vulnerabilities in Cursor's AI code editor, tracked as CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549, both rated 9.8/10 on CVSS 3.1. The flaws, collectively named Du…
CorvinLabs released CorvinOS, a self-hosted agentic operating system that enforces EU AI Act and GDPR compliance in code, not documentation. The open-source platform connects multiple LLMs to seven messaging bridges and …
A developer reviewed six 'operator-ready' checklists for AI agents and found that none define the problem correctly. The frameworks, including Anthropic's 'Building Effective Agents' and Hamel Husain's eval guide, treat …
Anthropic added a new security measure to its Claude Fable 5 AI model, agreeing to extend guardrails for certain restricted capabilities, after the Trump administration lifted export controls that had taken the model off…
Anthropic's Claude Code was found embedding invisible tracking signals in Unicode apostrophe variations and date format changes within its system prompts. The tool, which has shell access to users' machines, used these c…
OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on June 26, but access is limited to a small group of trusted partners via Codex and the API at the request of the U.S. government. The model family features aggressive prici…
Google's 2025 Environmental Report reveals data center electricity demand surged 27% in 2024, doubling over four years, and total emissions hit 11.5 million metric tons of CO₂e, up 48% since 2019, driven by AI infrastruc…
Google researchers have developed the Scalable Cluster Termination System (S-CTS), a multimodal defense that uses LLMs enhanced with LoRA and APO to detect and terminate coordinated bot-nets producing AI-generated spam o…
California Water Service (Cal Water) reported that a June 11 cyberattack claimed by Iranian-linked hacker group Handala was limited to unauthorized access of one customer's online account via stolen credentials, with no …
The Trump administration lifted export bans on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models after a national security review, allowing the company to restore global access. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick withdrew…
Palantir released a 9-point manifesto on AI sovereignty, urging institutions to retain in-house control over data and AI model weights while criticizing excessive spending on external AI services. CEO Alex Karp challenge…
Anthropic suspended access to its new Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models three days after launch on June 12, 2026, citing unspecified issues, and retired Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4 on June 15, breaking any requests still…
Forbes Councils member Phil Portman warns CEOs about the hidden AI risk from employees using browser-based AI tools, which can expose sensitive company data. The article outlines strategies to mitigate data exposure, inc…
The U.S. Department of Commerce lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, reversing restrictions imposed in June over national-security concerns. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick informed…
The Trump administration lifted restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after a cybersecurity alarm, ending a weekslong ban. The Commerce Department had blocked foreign nationals from using the …
A Gallup-Stop Scams Alliance survey found that 12% of successful scams in 2025 involved AI or deepfakes, with 15.1 million Americans losing approximately $68 billion to fraud. Voice cloning, deepfake video, and AI-genera…