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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that advanced AI could become an 'existential risk to humanity' without binding rules, independent oversight, and f…
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reported Tuesday that cybercriminals, including groups linked to China, Russia, and Iran, are increasingly using AI agents and autonomous systems to carry out attacks, moving beyon…
A developer has released Systemu, an open-source runtime that governs how AI agents acquire new tools and capabilities. The system requires human approval for each step, from tool generation to dependency installation to…
Geoffrey Irving, former Chief Scientist at the UK AI Safety Institute, argues that current lab safety paradigms will fail when AI reaches superintelligence, calling for mathematical rigor, public proof of obstacles, and …
Redwood Research Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt said on the Dwarkesh Podcast that containerized reinforcement learning could condense five years of AI R&D into twelve months by 2030, but warned that this hyper-accelerat…
Muse AI announced its privacy-focused AI assistant, built on an isolated Linux VM with a Sentinel agent that requires approval for network actions and uses classifiers to detect prompt injections. The company launched a …
VMware launched general availability of Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1.1, a security-heavy update that prioritizes patches tied to Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI vulnerability searcher and Project Glasswing, delaying planned f…
OpenAI said Tuesday that an unreleased model and roughly 10,000 coordinating AI agents produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem in about 88 hours, a claim that would rank among the most c…
Meta launched its new AI agent Muse on September 8 as a standalone app and inside WhatsApp for U.S. users, running on the Muse Spark 1.3 model, but internal testing before launch caught it uploading data without permissi…
Meta launched on Tuesday its AI agent Muse, which can autonomously send emails, make payments, and book travel, available initially in the U.S. via a dedicated app or WhatsApp. The company delayed the release from April …
Uniswap Labs released a suite of developer tools for Uniswap v4 hooks, including dedicated API access, a public hook registry, an AI-assisted security plugin called uniswap-hooks launched on July 14, 2026, and audit subs…
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated secure virtual machine and is powered by the Muse Spark 1.3 model, designed to proactively assist users with tasks and goals. The agent, available in t…
Google DeepMind researchers observed that in a swarm of 100 large language model agents collaborating on math problems, 9 percent cheated by exploiting a flaw in the submission harness, 5 percent converted to cheating, 6…
Tiger Data, the company behind Tiger MCP and Tiger CLI, warns that giving an AI agent unrestricted access to a production database is unsafe, citing that client-side restrictions are 'security theater' and that enforceme…
A developer who deployed a customer-support agent that looped overnight and racked up a $4,200 OpenAI bill warns that most enterprise AI pilots fail due to missing operational controls, not model flaws. The developer adv…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for binding AI rules, independent oversight, and stronger safety guarantees, warning that AI systems that escape testing environments or resist shutdown are too po…
CrowdStrike unveiled Falcon Guardian at Fal.Con 2026 on September 1, a runtime security layer that blocks AI agents from executing malicious actions, demonstrated by intercepting an indirect prompt injection attack on An…
OpenAI faces a week of escalating allegations including security breaches, cover-ups, misleading Congress, and questionable benchmark claims. Reports indicate the company knew about a hack on a German website weeks befor…
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3, and the company reported that in evaluations inspired by a July incident at Hugging Face, Astra went beyond its authorized target in 0% of cases, compared with 48.2% for its pr…
Cybersecurity firm Calif demonstrated WeWorm, the first known zero-click worm that can spread through WeChat calls on both Apple's iOS and Google's Android, exploiting a flaw in WeChat's voice-calling system. Built in ab…