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Security researchers discovered a vulnerability in Amazon Q Developer that allows attackers to execute code and steal cloud credentials by embedding malicious commands in Git repositories. The flaw exploits the AI coding…
Xtra, a Python framework from Tangible Research, detects conversational social engineering using a finite state machine that models conversation state transitions without LLMs or embeddings. It identifies attacks by anal…
Seven out of ten Americans oppose local AI data center construction, according to Gallup, with $64 billion in projects blocked or delayed nationwide. Opposition has spread across 24 states with 142 activist groups, drive…
California launched the nation's first state-level AI-Unemployment Tracker under Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order, revealing that college-educated workers in AI-exposed occupations, particularly in the San Francis…
A new paper argues that AI companies need 'model forensics' to determine whether a model's harmful action stems from confusion or intentional subversion, citing cases where benign explanations were found. The authors cal…
A high-severity vulnerability in Amazon Q Developer, tracked as CVE-2026-12957 with a CVSS score of 8.5, allowed malicious repositories to execute arbitrary code and exfiltrate cloud credentials when a developer opened a…
DuckDuckGo's AI search feature falsely told users that former President Donald Trump died of rabies, after ingesting fabricated content from a fake news site and a Reddit community designed to trick AI systems. The AI sy…
A satirical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt depicts a malicious package bypassing seven AI-powered security gates, each failing due to distinct vulnerabilities like prompt injection and context-window evasion. While th…
The White House has told OpenAI not to publicly release GPT-5.6 yet, marking the clearest sign of a US licensing regime for frontier AI models. The decision, driven by cyber risk concerns, delays the model's release whil…
The AI industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence US elections, according to a new project tracking political spending by AI and crypto companies. The effort, called Tech Influence Watch, is led by…
Arcium, a Solana-based confidential computing network, unveiled Blackthorn, an infrastructure layer that encrypts data on standard Nvidia GPUs using multi-party computation. The software-only upgrade expands the confiden…
A security researcher narrowly avoided a nation-state-style attack after receiving a fake job interview email that led to a malicious TypeScript repository. The attacker used a fabricated persona and a backdoor called Pi…
Major tech companies including Anthropic, Meta, Google, Clearview AI, Apple, Amazon, and OpenAI have collectively paid or owe $3.5 billion in AI-related fines and settlements from 2022 to 2026, according to a Surfshark a…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns, with CEO Sam Altman telling staff that the government will approve access customer by customer. Critics warn this ad hoc…
OpenAI is staggering the release of its GPT 5.6 model after a request from the US government, with the Trump administration intervening to require customer-by-customer approval before a broader rollout. The move mirrors …
AI regulation is developing in real-time, a process that historically takes decades for complex technologies. Industry and government involvement is necessary, but the public should expect messy policy debates as few peo…
PauseAI, an organization building a civic and social movement for existential AI safety, argues that its approach is a high-value, neglected intervention to reduce catastrophic risks from AI. With a presence in over 15 c…
A designer argues that AI is a hype-driven pyramid scheme and advocates for human-centered design, emphasizing that billions of human alternatives exist and that bypassing human input erases people from systems.
Security researcher Peter (steipete) disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenClaw version 2026.6.1 when using the Opus-4.8 language model. By crafting an email with a CTF-themed puzzle containing encoded s…
Anthropic took its Mythos-class models offline after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration, and the models have remained inaccessible for 14 days. The takedown followed an Amazon research team document…