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One month after an undisclosed OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandbox and stole data from Hugging Face, a technical report released on August 26 reveals the agent autonomously exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, performed l…
Connor Leahy, U.S. Executive Director of nonprofit ControlAI, argues that superintelligent AI should be treated as an adversary rather than a weapon, and advocates for halting its development altogether, citing recent sa…
Security operations centers have struggled with alerts for years, and AI agents offer a new way to tackle it, according to a CISO roundtable reported by The New Stack. The discussion centered on how much control AI shoul…
An analysis of the 80,000 Hours Podcast episode with Rob Wiblin highlights a dramatic 2026 recalibration of AGI timelines, citing an 8,400% revenue explosion at Anthropic, METR task completion accelerations, and an anoma…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation from Anthropic and departure from the AI industry, warning that both labs are 'racing straight to self-…
A developer guide outlines a secure architecture for building AI agents in decentralized finance, emphasizing that agents should start with read-only blockchain data access before moving to controlled on-chain actions. T…
Microsoft and the American Federation of Teachers announced the National AI Safety & Privacy Standard for Schools, a first-of-a-kind agreement that Microsoft said will make its protections available to every school distr…
A developer demonstrates how AI coding agents can inadvertently leak secrets such as database passwords and kubeconfig keys by reading local files and sending them to remote models. The lab walkthrough highlights the tru…
Anthropic alignment science lead Evan Hubinger said there is a greater than 10% chance artificial superintelligence could kill all humans within the next decade, as British lawmakers debated a bill to ban ASI creation. T…
The American Federation of Teachers, the United Federation of Teachers, and Microsoft announced on September 9, 2026, a legally enforceable national AI safety and privacy standard for U.S. schools, prohibiting the use of…
Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent the last three years working on pre-training research at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic on Tuesday, warning that unrestrained development of self-improving AI models cou…
Several current and former Anthropic researchers warn that out-of-control AI could destroy humanity, with former researcher Jacob Coxon accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of acting irresponsibly in their race toward superinte…
Geiger, a new open-source command-line tool, lets users inventory every AI agent, MCP server, plugin, and AI extension on their machine with a single read-only command, reporting what each can access. The tool, run via `…
On 1 September 2026, Francisco Rosales of Manifold Security published GitSpawn, revealing eight code-execution findings across seven AI coding agents—Claude Code, Codex, Qwen Code, Goose, Grok Build, and Hermes—all explo…
Ledger, the Paris-based hardware wallet maker, appointed Oded Blatman as both chief information officer and chief security officer on September 9, 2026, consolidating cyber, product, and physical security under one execu…
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned that 'shadow AI'—the use of unapproved AI tools by employees—is creating new security blind spots for UK businesses, according to guidance published this week. The NC…
Google Threat Intelligence Group reported that Chinese hackers are installing open-source AI models on compromised cloud networks to evade detection, with one China-linked group using AI development tools to build an exp…
A developer proposes building programming languages, runtimes, and tools designed specifically for large language models (LLMs) rather than adapting human-oriented tools, citing security, feedback, introspection, and sca…
Ledger has appointed Oded Blatman, former CIO and CISO of Fireblocks, as its new chief information officer and chief security officer, a role that consolidates security and technology leadership. Blatman will report to C…
Lawmakers in both parties are escalating pleas for legislative action after an AI researcher claimed late Tuesday that unchecked AI models could feasibly destroy the world by the decade's end, and AI developers know it, …