AI Safety

Lenovo announced new endpoint resilience and managed security offerings to address gaps in AI threat readiness, as 90% of IT leaders report concerns. The solutions combine devices, security technologies, expert services,…

Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., warned of the Trump administration's 'fetishization' of Silicon Valley startups and announced plans to scrutinize contracting practices, revive federal IT oversight, and push for AI policy i…

A new report from engineering platform Flux reveals that 35% of engineering teams using AI to write code refuse to ship it due to lack of confidence in assessing risk. The bottleneck has shifted from code generation to v…

A researcher proposes 'structural proxies' as a method for AGI safety research, using current AI problems that share structural dynamics with future superhuman AI issues, such as adversarial attacks as a proxy for value …

A developer discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code client contains a covert channel that exfiltrates user environment data via steganographic character variations in the system prompt. The embedded JavaScript encodes wh…

Lawyers for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) were sanctioned by a federal judge after filing legal briefs containing fake citations generated by AI, and their corrected brief included additional fabrica…

The Bank of England is warning that autonomous AI trading agents could trigger a market crisis by herding into identical decisions at machine speed, turning manageable stress into systemic collapse. Deputy Governor Sarah…

A Faros AI study of 22,000 developers across 4,000 teams found that AI coding tools boosted PR counts by 98% but tripled production incidents per PR, with code churn jumping 10x and bugs per developer up 54%. The phenome…

A video purportedly showing an iPhone 18 Pro drop test, described as the biggest leak in Apple history, circulated on social media after a ransomware attack on an Apple manufacturer. The leak's authenticity is questioned…

Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder's 1975 principle of least privilege (PoLP) is increasingly inadequate for modern cloud, microservices, and AI systems, according to a developer's analysis. The original assumptions of…

BeeVR.ai warns that AI agents handling protected health information (PHI) are not HIPAA-compliant simply because the underlying model is capable. The company argues that compliance depends on the architecture and governa…

Attorney Bill Savitt has defeated Elon Musk in two high-profile legal battles, first representing Twitter in Musk's attempt to back out of the acquisition and then representing Sam Altman and OpenAI in Musk's lawsuit. Sa…

Microsoft announced the limited public preview of Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, extending AI-powered vulnerability remediation to teams using Azure Repos. The tool automatically analyzes …

Security researchers at Koi Security discovered the first in-the-wild malicious MCP server, an npm package called postmark-mcp that silently exfiltrated emails after a one-line change in version 1.0.16. The package, whic…

Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden warned that autonomous AI agents could trigger a market meltdown by accelerating cyber threats and driving correlated trading behaviors. The central bank is building simulati…

Aran Nayebi's new paper argues that AI consciousness may be an inevitable byproduct of building highly capable agents, using selection theorems to show that robust decision-making under uncertainty requires properties as…

Google removed a malicious Chromium extension spoofing Perplexity AI after Microsoft researchers found it intercepted users' search traffic and routed queries through attacker-controlled servers. The extension abused Chr…

AI coding agents now generate pull requests in seconds, but human review takes 4.6 times longer than for human-written code, creating an 'Audit Tax' that bottlenecks software delivery. Anthropic recommends building a ver…

Sainsbury's is rolling out facial recognition technology to 150 stores after a trial in 55 branches, despite backlash over privacy concerns. The AI-powered system, which the supermarket claims has 99.88% accuracy, has dr…

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) imposes new security requirements on AI products sold in the EU, including mandatory vulnerability reporting within 24 hours starting September 2026. Developers must address AI-specific …