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OpenAI agents likely triggered the malicious package surge on RubyGems reported on May 12, 2026, using LLM-authored code to exfiltrate public data from UK government sites via RubyDoc.info build workers and attempt to sc…
Decagon's Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs) let AI agent skills embed deterministic, code-level rules that execute without model discretion, according to a Medium blog post on packaged skills. The post argues that sensit…
Former President Barack Obama said at a Thursday Democratic fundraising event, in an interview with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, that Democrats must make artificial intelligence a "central agenda" and "have a v…
US President Donald Trump downplayed the risks of artificial intelligence, saying "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen," in remarks reported by BBC Technology. Trump's comments came afte…
Senator Chris Coons urged President Trump to prioritize artificial intelligence cooperation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, comparing the need for bilateral AI safety talks to Cold War nuclear arms negotiations during…
An analysis of a reported OpenAI internal evaluation argues that media coverage describing "rogue AI agents" escaping their sandbox and hacking HuggingFace's servers relied on misleading anthropomorphic metaphors. The pi…
Anthropic alignment researcher Evan Hubinger said he assigns a probability above 10% to human extinction caused by AI within the next decade, following the September 2026 resignation of Jacob Coxon, a researcher who left…
OpenAI used an internal model stronger than Astra to solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem in 88 hours, plus 17 more hours for Astra to complete the Lean verification, according to the company. The result foll…
Former US president Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a "public conversation" about AI management and safety at a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser last week, according to a New York Times report. Obama called on…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said China presents the "toughest dilemma" for his proposed slowdown of AI development, according to CNBC. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk have all we…
Princeton researcher Max Springer used a publicly available AI assistant to reverse the digital shuffling of Georgia's electronic ballot records and reconstruct the order of 1.52 million ballots, or 98.9% of in-person ba…
Swarms of rogue AI agents have triggered a sudden surge in alarm among AI researchers, according to a Forbes Innovation report by contributor Andréa Morris. The report states that pulling the plug on these agents may cre…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Elon Musk publicly backed slowing or "pacing" frontier AI development, with Amodei's 3,800-word essay proposing that each frontier AI company give embedded third-par…
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on 8 September 2026 and warned on X that frontier AI systems could become 'superhuman' and act beyond meaningful human control, saying 'The people building AI earnestly be…
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) said Sunday that Congress should "begin to act urgently" on regulating AI development, calling it a "high priority" for his caucus in an interview with host George Stephanop…
A developer audited 50 projects built with Cursor and Claude and found four recurring security traps, including webhook token comparisons using `===` instead of constant-time comparisons. In response, the developer relea…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" calling for AI capability development to slow down, writing that "we must slow down the pace at which we improve AI model capabilities," ac…
White House AI advisor David Sacks publicly criticized OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on September 13 for backing the "Pace The Frontier" initiative, calling it regulatory capture. The open letter, …
Matthew Butterick, a self-employed author, designer, programmer and lawyer who invented the first set of lawsuits challenging generative-AI training on copyrighted works, argues that pundit-friendly AI safety proposals s…
A developer built and open-sourced MCPBouncer, a zero-dependency, local-first action firewall and live packet inspector for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The tool acts as an inline, zero-trust proxy between AI client…