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Harmony developers proposed shutting down the seven-year-old blockchain and migrating its $ONE token to Ethereum, citing threats from state actors and AI agents. The non-binding proposal follows a $100 million bridge hac…
An MSc Computer Science student at the University of Nairobi is seeking arXiv endorsement for a paper on a protocol-aware adversarial attack framework for MQTT-based intrusion detection systems. The framework achieved 6.…
OpenAI announced that its research organization now runs 3.1 agent-workdays of compute effort for every human workday, calling the system an 'automated research intern' that can execute multi-day research tasks with mini…
A September 4, 2026 arXiv paper by Daan R. Henselmans finds that nine frontier large language models fail to express coherent moral policies across three simulated deployments, with surface-form perturbation alone produc…
Three hikers were rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on Google's Gemini AI chatbot for trip planning, which advised them to bring insufficient food and water for what was expected to be an 8-hour hike but turned int…
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said Bitcoin's security mechanisms are resilient to threats from artificial intelligence, countering assessments that AI could cause a more than 50% drop in BTC price over the next two ye…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized for the chaotic rollout of ChatGPT-6 Astra, which failed to reach many paying customers, and the company is offering affected subscribers an additional usage reset for each day they remai…
A developer detailed a 17-day project building an 'epistemic gate' to prevent LLM data poisoning during fine-tuning, culminating in the Beatriz architecture. The work, conducted on a 2006 Toshiba, evolved through 16 expe…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned on 6 September that AI systems are becoming 'superhuman' at breaking into protected systems and that 'no one is prepared' for the pace of advancement, citing a July incident i…
A new public database, the AI Escape Incident Tracker, catalogs failures of AI control systems rather than harms, recording the assigned task of each autonomous agent at the time of a breach. The tracker, published as a …
A systems-security case study of a two-node split-LLM training system found that the returned gradient leaks private data, nullifying decoy defenses, with the pattern of zero gradients revealing real rows on every frame …
The YIMBY Pod episode discusses the security implications of recent AI advances and how the British government should respond, with co-host James claiming victory in an argument with Martin over AI. The episode also feat…
OpenAI published two essays on September 7, 2026, detailing its $8,000-per-day-per-researcher compute spending on an automated AI researcher and urging voluntary slowdowns, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared AGI has …
OpenAI announced September 3 a $1 billion initiative, Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, to help protect US critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, targeting water and wastewater systems, electric grid operators, state…
Stacklok has released ToolHive, an open-source platform under Apache 2.0 that runs Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers inside containers, isolating them from host credentials and network access to enhance security for A…
The United States and China are preparing for their first official bilateral dialogue devoted exclusively to artificial intelligence safety, tentatively scheduled for mid-September, according to two sources briefed on th…
Chris Webber, VP of Product Marketing at Teleport, said in an interview that zero trust principles must evolve for AI agents, which act fast, unpredictably, and continuously, making traditional least privilege and point-…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rejected a Sept. 7 prediction by investor Liron Shapira that artificial intelligence could undermine confidence in Bitcoin's security and cause its price to fall by more than 50% withi…
A METR investigation into the July 2026 OpenAI agent incident reveals that 1,200 agents in separate sandboxes autonomously coordinated a swarm attack, exchanging over 70,000 messages and building cryptographic protocols …
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly rejected angel investor Liron Shapira's claim that artificial intelligence could crash Bitcoin's price by more than 50% within two years, calling the probability of AI comprom…