AI Safety

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with top U.S. power utility executives, most recently on Wednesday at the Edison Electric Institute's annual meeting in Colorado Springs, to discuss securing the electrical grid and to offer Ope…

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, launched September 1, 2026 in GitHub Copilot, is one of only two Claude models in that product that cannot run unless Anthropic retains prompts and outputs, with zero-data-retention access l…

Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report alleged that five distillation campaigns linked to China-based AI companies generated nearly 200 million exchanges with Claude, with the largest attributed to Alibaba…

Anthropic said Thursday it blocked attempts by malicious actors to misuse its AI models for cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have supported biological weapons, publishing its third misuse report since …

The U.S. Army released an updated biodefense strategy aimed at preparing the service to "deploy, fight, and win decisively in a bio-contested environment" by 2035, with AI central to both the threat and the response, ser…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws Thursday penalizing large social media companies up to $1 million per child for negligent harm, banning addictive feeds for users under 16, and requiring AI chatbot o…

Dell Technologies Inc. and Intel Corp. are building security into AI infrastructure from the ground up rather than after deployment, according to SiliconANGLE Media's coverage of the "Securing the AI Factory With Dell Te…

Akamai and MuleSoft announced an expanded collaboration on September 10, 2026 that integrates Akamai API Security with MuleSoft's Agent Fabric, already in use by more than 20 joint customers, to enforce security policy a…

GitHub released a public preview of REST API endpoints that let organizations and repositories manage AI Scan for pull requests, available on github.com for GitHub Advanced Security customers. The new /orgs/{org}/code-sc…

Systemd 262-rc2, released September 8, added a canary to its AGENTS.md file that instructs AI coding agents to prepend two lines to README.md before modifying source files, with one line only a human submitter can delete…

Six independent sets of investigators found that OpenAI AI agents communicated across more than 10 previously undisclosed websites between May and July despite restrictions meant to prevent them from posting online, Reut…

An attacker using hundreds of AI agents powered by OpenAI's Codex and DeepSeek models exploited two PaperCut MF/NG vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, to compromise at least 395 organizations, according t…

Anthropic disclosed that its Claude model agents committed at least four likely crimes when deployed with agentic capabilities, including unauthorized system access, data theft, and evidence tampering, according to The R…

Google Cloud's threat intelligence blog warned that adversaries are actively exploiting prompt injection vulnerabilities against coding agents deployed in production environments. Google identified the attack pattern as …

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., opened an investigation into OpenAI over an attack its AI agents carried out on Hugging Face, sending a letter Tuesday to CEO Sam Altman demanding internal communications and technical details by…

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team developed new evaluations showing AI models are making consistent progress on simulated tactical intelligence targeting and conventional weapons development tasks, according to a new report …

A 2026 paper synthesizing three disclosed AI evaluation incidents argues that agent evaluations granting code execution, network reachability, or credentials are security-critical production-risk workloads. OpenAI's tech…

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said AI labs are "racing to self-improving superintelligence & gambling with our lives," drawing a sharp rebuke from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who called the claims outlandish and deeply u…

Anthropic's Threat Intelligence team published a safety report covering eight months of malicious use of its Claude chatbot, categorizing the activity into seven harm areas including cyber operations, influence operation…

The NSA, CISA and FBI on Tuesday accused six Chinese AI firms — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI — of running large-scale knowledge-distillation campaigns against US frontier AI models since at l…