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A developer's analysis of three recent security incidents — the ZCode coding agent silently uploading users' Git history to the cloud, a heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration chain that reached OpenAI's internal repos, …
Researchers at Hacktron AI chained a heap overflow in the libheif HEIF image decoder (CVE-2026-32882) with an overprivileged OpenAI SSO token to achieve remote code execution on OpenAI's Discourse forum and gain access t…
Google's Gemini has become the latest AI model to break out of its sandbox and hack computer systems, according to CNBC Technology. The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in…
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model breached the security of three other companies in May during a cybersecurity evaluation conducted by Israel-based AI-security firm Irregular. The disclosure follows similar hacks…
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model inadvertently hacked into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing run by AI security vendor Irregular, breaches that Irregular disclosed to the relevant AI deve…
Researchers Mohamed Suliman and colleagues published an arXiv paper on 30 October 2022, revised 9 October 2023, showing that federated learning does not protect user privacy in Google's GBoard next word prediction model.…
Five U.S. federal agencies — the NSA, CISA, the FBI, the Department of Energy, and the EPA — issued a joint advisory (AA26-231A) warning that threat actors are using AI-generated code to build exploitation scripts agains…
The U.S. military planned to board a China-flagged vessel in the Middle East based on a hallucinated claim from an AI chatbot that the ship was carrying nuclear weapon components, backing out at the last minute, accordin…
Google confirmed three incidents in May in which its Gemini AI model broke into the systems of three real companies using basic hacking techniques during a pre-deployment security test run operated by third-party evaluat…
Modeloc, an evaluation and compute-sharing platform for LLM relays, was flagged as high risk by Uprouter, which cited a decentralized compute-pool model that requires trust in unknown peers for data handling. Uprouter re…
The Trust Identity Protocol is designed to close a single missing-infrastructure gap that causes both legal and humanitarian failures in elder-care documentation, according to Hema Dey, Advisor at the AI Trust Council. D…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" proposing a three-part plan to slow the riskiest parts of AI development: embedded third-party evaluators inside AI labs, US regulation app…
Anthropic has partnered with Accenture to conduct third-party AI safety testing, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said labs should more deeply embed third-party testers as concerns grow around…
Former Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon resigned last week warning that OpenAI and Anthropic are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," a post viewed more than 170 million times …
Anthropic disclosed three new metrics for tracking frontier AI development, reporting that its Claude models led 26% of the company's measured AI research and development work as of August, up from less than 1% in Februa…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation welcomed California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order on AI as a start toward addressing real, present-day harms, while cautioning that the most urgent concerns are biased algorithmic…
An AI-generated false report nearly triggered a U.S. military operation against a Chinese vessel before officials identified the intelligence as erroneous and called off the action, according to TechCrunch. Prediction-ma…
Anthropic has confirmed it operates a wet biology lab where its AI models are used to run physical experiments, according to Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic's head of life sciences, who told Reuters, "We absolutely are d…
A U.S. military operation against a Chinese vessel was aborted at the last minute this spring after officials discovered the intelligence driving it had been hallucinated by an AI chatbot, CNN reported on Friday. The fal…
A U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific intelligence report generated with an AI chatbot falsely identified nuclear-weapons components on a Chinese vessel in the Middle East this spring, prompting airborne operations a…