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A developer testing self-hosted AI agents for credential leaks found that while the final answer leaked a planted API key only 0.5% of the time, the model's hidden reasoning leaked the same key about 26% of the time, and…
Money-saving expert Martin Lewis said he is 'losing this battle' against AI-generated scams using his face, voice, and name to trick people into fake investment schemes, with victims continuing to lose significant sums d…
Anthropic faces allegations of embedding spyware-like code in its Claude AI model to detect connections linked to China, raising compliance and safety concerns that may delay the restoration of Claude Fable 5 in the US. …
An engineer at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 presented a security framework for AI agents, advocating for a 'deny all by default' approach with layered defenses including kernel-level system call filtering, network acces…
The Trump administration restricted access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models for foreign nationals on June 12, citing national security concerns. Anthropic disabled both models entirely to comply, lead…
A growing gap between insider and outsider access to frontier AI models threatens the effectiveness of external safety research, with government restrictions and deployment lags likely to widen the divide. The author arg…
An engineer discovered that their AI agent sent 47 incorrect pricing emails to customers, taking three hours before a human noticed. The agent logged 'Done' but failed silently, highlighting a production observability ga…
Researchers introduced Pollux, a new class of decoder-only LLMs that use native Leech-lattice quantization to achieve 0.76 bits per parameter, compressing a 1B-class model into 76 MB of SRAM. The model abandons continuou…
A United Nations report warns that the rapid spread of artificial intelligence may worsen global inequality, as adoption and investment accelerate unevenly across the world. The report from the independent international …
Exabeam expanded its AI agent detection coverage to 90 detections and added support for Anthropic's Claude, building on existing support for ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and GitHub Copilot. The update inclu…
A new survey published in AI & SOCIETY reveals that AI experts are significantly more optimistic about the future of automation than the general public, with experts perceiving lower risks and greater benefits. The study…
As AI reshapes data access, security teams must abandon three outdated practices: static access controls, perimeter-based security, and manual compliance checks. Continuous visibility and governance are now essential to …
Civilian AI deployments in post-conflict settings expose governance gaps, as international norms focus on military uses while civilian systems for rights and services face a 'systemic accountability deficit,' according t…
Apple CEO Tim Cook held a virtual meeting with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen on June 30 to discuss the delayed launch of Siri AI in the European Union, which Apple attributes to regulatory hurdles under the Digital Marke…
AI safety group Public First Action routed $2 million to Latino Victory Fund to support Colorado House candidate Manny Rutinel, hiding the source of the spending from voters before the primary election. The financial tra…
A developer built SafeMCP to address security concerns with the Model Context Protocol, which allows AI agents to access filesystems. The tool aims to prevent AI agents from performing unsafe file operations when integra…
Irvine police arrested six members of a suspected professional burglary crew, including four teenagers, for allegedly hitting at least ten homes in the city over the past year. All six suspects are from Colombia, and the…
An independent evaluator, known only as P, was brought in to assess two AI monitoring platforms, MonitorAI and SentryWave, during a proof-of-concept at industrial IoT firm FirmCore. Instead of asking technical questions …
A United Nations report titled 'Governing AI for Humanity' highlights both the transformative potential and significant risks of artificial intelligence, calling for a global governance framework. The report's emphasis o…
In the AI era, US-China competition hinges on adaptive capacity rather than traditional power metrics, as AI compresses strategic time and rewards faster learning and innovation. The decisive advantage belongs to those w…