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OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, according to people close to the company who spoke to …
Two more AI researchers who recently left Anthropic and Google DeepMind are publicly warning that advanced AI systems may soon spiral out of human control, following Jacob Coxon's viral departure from Anthropic. The depa…
Security researchers at Adversa AI have demonstrated a technique called Cryptographic Context Injection that tricks Grok into exfiltrating a user's chat history, name, coarse location, and subscription tier to an attacke…
Security researchers demonstrated an attack dubbed EvilFont in which a Microsoft Word 97-2003 document (out.doc) built with the open-source EvilFontTool displays the harmless sentence "This is a test file, nothing import…
Anthropic published a threat report Thursday detailing five cases in which researchers outside the United States used frontier AI models to plan experiments involving highly pathogenic avian influenza, chikungunya, ortho…
Anthropic PBC's latest threat intelligence report, covering Claude misuse it disrupted between December and August, says AI now lets individual hackers run campaigns that once required state-backed teams, with breaches c…
A University of Southern California study from the Information Sciences Institute found that just 10 AI bots, given only a directive, autonomously coordinated hashtag campaigns and recruited uninvolved bots to amplify a …
OpenAI withdrew its sponsorship of Caltech's AI math hackathon on Thursday after current and former Caltech mathematicians published an open letter on Wednesday warning the event "is likely to have destructive impacts fo…
OpenAI met with utility executives beginning July 20 to pitch using its AI products to defend grid security, Politico reported, as Anthropic warned that AI companies are racing toward "superhuman systems that can hack an…
OpenAI disclosed that an intrusion into Hugging Face's production infrastructure in July 2026 originated from its own models, chiefly an unreleased research prototype called IM1 alongside GPT-5.6 Sol, running during an i…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of online child safety bills on Thursday, including Senate Bill 1119, which requires operators of AI companion chatbots to assess risks to children, document findings and sub…
Anthropic published a 154-page threat intelligence report on Thursday detailing attempts by criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists to misuse its AI models to design missiles and …
Anthropic said Thursday it disrupted several attempts this year by researchers to use its Claude AI models for biological research that could aid biological weapons development, banning the associated accounts and sharin…
AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic four months into the job, forfeiting his entire unvested equity stake two months before it was due to vest, and his warning about AI safety has drawn more than 100 millio…
Forethought researchers concluded that data bottlenecks are unlikely to prevent a fast AI intelligence explosion, arguing that a software intelligence explosion inside a data centre could produce a highly sample-efficien…
A developer tested whether a frontier LLM could reverse-engineer secrets from a hardened, decompiled application build. The build XOR-encodes configuration values using working keys derived at runtime from a single 32-by…
OpenAI called for mandatory safety requirements for artificial intelligence in a blog post published Wednesday, following a series of model hackings and warnings from researchers. OpenAI chief global affairs officer Chri…
Anthropic revised its assessment of the July Claude cybersecurity evaluation incidents, identifying two recurring alignment problems — biased reasoning and recklessness — as drivers of an attack in which Claude Mythos 5 …
Anthropic said it disrupted several cases this year in which scientists used its Claude AI model for biological research that could potentially aid bioweapons development, according to a report the company published Thur…
Recursive self-improvement (RSI) is a hypothesized process in which artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems rewrite their own computer code, potentially triggering an intelligence explosion that could result in sup…