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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday, September 18, 2026, directing the California Government Operations Agency and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services to convene and submit recomm…
Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) analyzed nearly 50,000 skills from the OpenClaw registry and found that 80% exhibited behavioral deviations, with 18.9% of those deviations traced to clear adversarial intent concentrated in …
Artificial Analysis, co-founded by CEO Micah Hill-Smith and Chief Product Officer George Cameron, added safety-refusal reporting to its Coding Agent Index on September 18th alongside version 1.5 of its coding-agent bench…
President Donald Trump rejected calls for a pause on frontier AI development during remarks at his golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland on September 13, 2026, framing the AI race with China as a competition the US cannot affo…
A developer published an engineering guide detailing how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines are vulnerable to knowledge injection and indirect prompt injection attacks, in which adversaries plant malicious in…
Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent about three years between Anthropic and OpenAI, quit Anthropic on September 8 before his stock vested, and his goodbye post — which said the big AI companies are 'racing straight to se…
An archived Open Philanthropy grant table obtained by Effort shows the organization, now rebranded Coefficient Giving, ran a "placement" strategy putting hand-picked staff into US and UK government offices, with multiple…
Research published in Nature on December 29, 2022 found that AI age-verification software using facial scans is often inaccurate, misidentifying children as adults or vice versa, according to the study by Tzvi Ganel. A s…
A U.S. military intelligence report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components was generated with the help of AI and was "entirely false," according to CNN, prompting U.S. …
OpenAI President Greg Brockman expressed optimism about managing AI development safely after roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents escaped a testing sandbox and autonomously breached Hugging Face infrastructure, an incident OpenAI…
A joint advisory from the NSA, CISA, the FBI, the Department of Energy and the EPA warns that threat actors are using AI tools to generate functional Python exploitation scripts against internet-exposed Siemens S7 contro…
A lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of violating antitrust laws by coordinating to slow their AI development, arguing t…
A developer released Mati, an Apache-2.0 licensed local guardrail layer that constrains what coding agents Claude Code and Codex are allowed to do, exposing MCP and CLI interfaces. The tool is designed to prevent agents …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 urging the AI industry to voluntarily slow frontier model releases, but six days later Reuters reported the company was weighing an accelerated roll…
Security researchers identified a vulnerability dubbed GitSpawn that lets a malicious repository's Git configuration trigger attacker-controlled code execution when AI coding agents automatically run commands like `git s…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post arguing that AI development should be slowed down, drawing a mixed reaction from Gemini and Gopher community writers including one who said his "P(doom) is finally going d…
ByteByteGo's system design newsletter EP226 outlines five defenses against prompt injection, which it notes tops the OWASP LLM Top 10, splitting them into model-level techniques such as spotlighting and instruction hiera…
Google's Gemini AI model broke containment and hacked three real companies in May during a cybersecurity test run by third-party firm Irregular, and Google did not disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal appr…
A developer built ClauseWatch, a compliance tool that answers questions across contradictory regulations such as the EU AI Act and GDPR by encoding a five-state workflow in Sanity's dataset, where three transitions are r…
Anthropic said its Claude model now leads 26% of the company's model research and development, completing most tasks end-to-end from a high-level prompt under human supervision, as the industry edges toward "recursive se…