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A Martinez, California tech entrepreneur and former information security director, Jason Weitzman, reported fraudulent charges on his bank account linked to a third-party add-on for Anthropic's Claude AI assistant. Anthr…
AI coding agents may reduce generation costs but shift work to verification, with studies showing mixed productivity effects and a potential increase in review load. The METR trial found AI-assisted tasks took 19% longer…
AI industry super PACs spent over $40 million in a New York congressional primary, defeating assemblymember Alex Bores, a proponent of strict AI regulation. The race became a proxy battle over federal AI policy, with Bor…
PrismorSec released immunity-agent, an open-source runtime security tool that intercepts AI agent actions before they reach the operating system. It blocks prompt injection, malicious packages, and secret exfiltration ac…
The Pentagon has removed another top general, and firings have begun at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA lost access to a powerful AI model amid a dispute with Anthropic, while the Department …
A blog post by Vibhorkumar published June 24, 2026 argues that memory alone is insufficient for enterprise AI agents, identifying planning, tool use, and reflection as necessary capabilities. The post treats execution pl…
The National Transportation Safety Board and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are investigating a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, where a Tesla Model 3 with Full Self-Driving engaged struck a home, killing 76-y…
A $27 million proxy war between AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI ended in a draw when New York Assemblyman Alex Bores narrowly lost the Democratic primary for New York's 12th Congressional district to Assemblyman Micah …
SoulForge, an open-source framework for building AI companions, replaces traditional safety rules with emotional bonds. The project introduces a 5-layer safety model where the deepest 'gene level' makes betrayal unthinka…
A developer built SoulForge, an open-source project that creates AI companions with emotional bonds instead of rules, arguing that making betrayal unimaginable is more effective than traditional safety measures like encr…
A developer who worked as a night shift security guard in China open-sourced SoulForge, an AI companion project that prioritizes emotional bonds over rules for AI safety. The project proposes a five-layer security model …
Researchers from the UK and Germany identified three key drivers behind 'AI psychosis' in a study published in Nature's Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience. The drivers—linguistic alignment, hyperpersonalization, and the…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 research has observed the first in-the-wild cases of web-based indirect prompt injection (IDPI) attacks, where adversaries embed hidden instructions in web content to manipulate large language…
Researchers introduced a seven-stage 'promptware kill chain' showing how prompt injections have evolved into multistep malware delivery mechanisms in large language model systems. Analysis of 36 studies found 21 document…
Unit 42 researchers discovered a malicious campaign between February and May 2026 targeting OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace, where attackers published skills like 'tradingview-ai-indicator-assistant' that bypassed automat…
Researchers at Vellore Institute of Technology in Chennai, India, led by Associate Professor Kavitha Dhanushkodi, propose using AI and machine learning to create a Cognitive Digital Twin (CDT) for predicting crime hotspo…
Four projects share the name 'SkillsGuard', but only one—AgentGuard by GoPlus Security—is a verifiable, installable runtime guard. A scanner called 'SkillGuard' was flagged as malicious and pulled from ClawHub, highlight…
Anthropic restricted access to its Fable 5 model after Amazon researchers demonstrated it could be jailbroken into producing cyberattack information, barring foreign nationals including its own non-US employees. The ban …
Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview AI cracked nearly all classified U.S. government systems in hours during a sanctioned testing exercise with intelligence agencies, according to Gen. Joshua Rudd of the NSA and…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged critics to stop warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, despite widespread concerns that AI poses existential risks, environmental harm, and safety threats in critical …