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The US Commerce Department partially lifted a ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model, restoring access to over 100 vetted US entities while keeping the Fable 5 model completely restricted. The original ban, imposed two wee…
Straiker raised $64 million in Series A funding to secure enterprise AI agents against runtime and adversarial risks. The round, led by Marathon Management Partners, brings total funding to $85 million as demand for AI a…
A U.S. Department of Defense contractor discovered that two shortlisted remote job candidates were the same North Korean operative, flagged by Alex's Fraud Detection Agent with 34 and 92 fraudulent signals respectively. …
Rampart, a 14.7MB on-device personal information filtering system, was open-sourced to redact PII before it leaves a user's device. It combines deterministic rules and a MiniLM model to catch structured data like SSNs an…
Five Eyes intelligence agencies warned that frontier AI could transform cyber offense and defense within months, not years, urging organizations to embed cyber resilience as a core business priority. The joint statement …
Ford Motor Co. is rehiring about 350 veteran engineers, including former employees, after its AI-based quality systems failed to meet expectations. The automaker's executives acknowledged that they mistakenly believed AI…
Apple released iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, and macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 with a long list of security fixes, some of which were initially introduced in iOS 26.6. The point-release patches aim to reduce exposure to newly addresse…
A self-replicating worm called Miasma, attributed to threat actor TeamPCP, is targeting AI coding tools by injecting malicious hooks into configuration files of Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and Cursor. On Jun…
A new compliance evidence and audit-trail agent automates evidence collection for regulated environments by observing events, mapping them to a user-supplied control catalog, and sealing results into a verifiable log. Th…
The role of AI orchestration engineer barely exists as a formal title, yet the work of coordinating multiple AI agents is becoming the most consequential function in enterprise AI. Companies are discovering that individu…
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiries into AI companies…
Meta hired hundreds of contractors through Covalen to pose as minors and probe rival chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI with prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and self-harm, as part of a project called Canne…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue criticized Anthropic's restricted release of its Claude Mythos model, arguing that labeling AI as 'too dangerous to release' serves as effective enterprise marketing rather than a genuine s…
Three independent 2026 datasets confirm the 'dead internet' theory: automated traffic now accounts for 53% of all web traffic, AI-written articles surpassed human-written ones in November 2024, and under a third of Googl…
Guardian, an open-source user-space firewall for AI agents, has released v0.1.0, intercepting and evaluating agent actions with a deterministic policy engine. In testing, it reduced prompt-injection attack success from 1…
Jimmy Butler's agent Bernie Lee pushed back on trade rumors linking the Warriors star to a potential blockbuster deal for Anthony Davis, stating Golden State remains committed to Butler's recovery from an ACL injury and …
A Hacker News user asks whether AI is dumbing down humanity, comparing it to past technologies like calculators and Google Maps that reduced reliance on manual skills. The post warns that AI's ability to answer anything …
Sen. Mark Warner introduced a draft bill that would create a federally vetted list of AI agent providers, allowing users of large online platforms to choose secure and trustworthy agents. The Federal Trade Commission wou…
A replication of the 2026 paper 'Prompt Injection as Role Confusion' on a single consumer GPU confirms that style-based prompt injection attacks work, but causal tests using activation steering and patching fail to deter…
Apple released iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, and macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 with over 25 security fixes earlier than planned due to concerns about AI-assisted hacks. The company told Reuters it needed to reduce the time between whe…