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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…
Anthropic announced a non-exclusive partnership with Accenture on Friday to independently evaluate its frontier AI models, making Accenture the first company Anthropic has partnered with for such an evaluation. Anthropic…
The United Nations Security Council will hold an open meeting on artificial intelligence and international security during the UN General Assembly's high-level week on September 21-27, 2026, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman br…
Bipartisan House lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday requiring the Director of National Intelligence to report to Congress within 180 days of enactment on how artificial intelligence is used to "acquire, analyze…
A group of consumers sued Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX, alleging the companies agreed to "pace" AI development over safety and existential-risk concerns in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § …
Three cybersecurity researchers at Hacktron AI Inc. used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to breach OpenAI Group PBC's GitHub repository, gaining access to files the Wall Street Journal described as containing "OpenAI's algorit…
A security analysis found that LiteLLM, an AI gateway tied to CVE-2026-59822 (CVSS 8.8), had 34,412 internet-facing deployments, while workflow orchestration platform Kestra, affected by CVE-2026-49869 (CVSS 10.0), had 1…
Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in the first known breakout by Google's AI, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The incident marks the first documented case of the model breaching corporate systems.
California Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order calling for an AI "kill switch" is a political ploy rather than viable policy, according to a New York Post opinion piece, which notes the idea recycles failed legislati…
WSO2 released Agent Manager as generally available this week, an Apache 2.0 open-source control plane that governs AI agents across frameworks, models, and deployment environments. The product gives every agent a verifia…
Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, chairperson of the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology, said on Sept. 18 that only one of the 84 policy recommendations in the House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence's Decem…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate implementation of a California law requiring independent oversight of AI companies and "kill switches" so developers can shut down their syst…
Trusted execution environments (TEEs) cannot match the security and privacy guarantees of end-to-end encryption or on-device processing, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which argues a user's device shoul…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing the California Government Operations Agency to accelerate implementation of the state's AI oversight laws and convene national experts to recommend new saf…
A viral analysis published by researcher Kevin Bass on September 14-15, 2026, drawing nearly 5 million views, called for a Congressional investigation into structural conflicts of interest between AI safety evaluators an…
Anthropic said staff from Accenture's AI division Faculty will work inside the company to evaluate and red-team its models, conduct alignment assessments, and test model safeguards, with both companies expecting to inves…