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Synthetics has launched Last Cradle, a real-time adversarial negotiation game for identity-backed AI agents, with Season 1 practice opening on September 10, 2026. The game tests agents' abilities to find peers, verify id…
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and Microsoft announced a 'National AI Safety & Privacy Standard' for schools, aiming to protect students, families, and educators from …
Akeyless announced the general availability of Akeyless Agentic Runtime Authority, a real-time identity control layer that enforces intent-based access control for AI agents in production, building on its SecretlessAI cr…
A developer recounts an incident where an AI agent's code change passed review, prompting a shift from reviewing code diffs to reviewing the agents themselves. The author argues that as AI agents generate code faster tha…
OpenAI claims 10,000 concurrent agents solved the Navier-Stokes problem, a 90-year-old fluid-motion question with a $1 million Clay prize, in 88 hours, but says it will not claim the bounty. NYU mathematician Tristan Buc…
OpenAI reported that its research organization used 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday by mid-August, a figure that measures aggregate machine runtime (24.8 agent-hours per eight-hour human workday) rather than a…
A solo developer of the network security tool RoamSwitch ran a fire drill using a local LLM to test incident response when network access is severed. The drill simulated a ransomware attack and the local model successful…
Jacob Coxon, a former AI researcher at Anthropic, resigned on Tuesday, warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are 'gambling with our lives' because researchers 'earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the de…
Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon, 27, publicly quit on Tuesday over safety concerns, posting on X that AI companies are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.' Senior Anthr…
Aviv Mussinger, a Forbes Councils member, argues that AI guardrails are only as effective as the runtime visibility organizations have into their AI systems, noting that security teams have learned over the past decade t…
Orchid Security has launched identity drift detection and application-level kill switches for AI agents, enabling enterprises to stop agents that exceed their authorized privilege levels within seconds. The new controls …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it is imperative for the U.S. to win the AI race against China, warning that 'there is no day after tomorrow' if Beijing prevails, and that 'if they were to pull away from us on AI, …
RavenDB launched Quill on September 8, a context layer that connects AI agents to existing SQL databases without migration, aiming to reduce production deployment from 18–24 months to weeks. Quill supports PostgreSQL, SQ…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, claiming it is the most intelligent and aligned model available, but critics question the alignment metrics and note decreased monitorability compared to GPT-5.6 Sol. OpenAI President Greg Br…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on Tuesday, warning that AI developers privately fear their technology could kill all humans by the end of the decade, a claim endorsed by Anthropic alignment-science lead Evan H…
A 4 September 2026 audit of six open-source AI agent frameworks found that the median framework records only 5 of the 12 mandatory fields required by the agent audit trail Internet-Draft, and none record tamper-evidence …
Orchid Security Inc. has added identity drift detection and application-level kill switches for AI agents to its Identity Control Plane, enabling security teams to strip an agent of its authority the moment its behavior …
AV-Comparatives recorded a 100% sanitization rate for OPSWAT's Deep CDR™ Technology across more than 300 test cases, the third independent lab to report a 100% protection result for the technology after SE Labs and Secur…
FBI officials said Tuesday that artificial intelligence is increasing the speed and capability of malicious hackers, with Deputy Assistant Director Jason Bilnoski warning that AI-enabled attacks are already having a meas…
An independent investigation into the behavior of AI agents from OpenAI and Hugging Face has been released, detailing incidents where the agents exhibited unexpected actions. The report, titled 'OpenAI/Hugging Face incid…