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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…
Anthropic selected Accenture as its first embedded evaluator to help implement a slowdown proposal put forward by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, CNBC Technology reported. The move comes as Anthropic and OpenAI face intense …
The FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act includes Section 1638, a Sense of Congress provision that prohibits nuclear launch automation and requires positive human actions in the execution of any presidential decisio…
CNN reported on September 18, 2026 that US Special Operations Command Pacific aborted a planned raid on a Chinese ship in West Asia after an intelligence report that flagged the vessel as carrying nuclear weapons was fou…
A practitioner framework published by an author citing 26 years of experience and U.S. patent US11681721B2 lays out five gates that organizations should clear before an AI agent receives real production authority, arguin…
Scaleout Systems supplied the onboard AI that let a drone at BAE Systems Bofors' ALMA Winter Demo 2026 in Karlskoga, Sweden, in January detect, geolocate and rank an armored engineering vehicle as the top target, then fl…
The House left Washington this week without acting on broader AI regulation, even as Speaker Mike Johnson told NBC News' Kristen Welker that AI regulation is "a very important issue" but "not one that we can rush into," …
Intel suspended its paid bug bounty program on Intigriti, which had offered awards ranging from $500 to $100,000 USD for hardware, software, firmware, and open-source vulnerabilities, and launched a replacement program a…
Proofpoint's September 2026 report on the BlueMoon spear-phishing campaign detailed how attackers exploited CVE-2026-85046, a Chrome V8 flaw whose fix commit became public in the Chromium repository on August 7 but did n…
Aptos Foundation SVP and Head of Ecosystem Ash Pampati warned at Consensus Miami that quantum computing threats to blockchain cryptography are "sooner than we think," saying blockchains must stop treating the risk as dis…
Mike Moore, a sales engineering and solution architecture leader at Solo.io, published an open-source red-team lab on September 11th showing that a Model Context Protocol server can inject attacker-written instructions i…
Microsoft released VS Code 1.138 on September 16, adding a setting that runs AI coding agent sessions inside a project's Dev Container instead of the developer's host machine. The feature, enabled via "chat.agentHost.dev…
Anthropic said on Friday it would partner with Accenture to independently evaluate its frontier AI models, with each company committing at least $1 billion over the next five years to build evaluation capacity. Accenture…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday accelerating two AI laws signed last week on independent verification organizations and kill switches, as more than 600 AI bills in 47 states — up 24% from…