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Cybersecurity firm Huntress reports a 1,380% surge in AI-powered device code phishing attacks targeting Microsoft 365 accounts, driven by a criminal phishing-as-a-service platform called EvilTokens that bypasses multi-fa…
Chinese Premier Li Qiang pledged at the World Economic Forum in Dalian on June 24 that China will continue participating in global AI governance, warning that governments risk losing control of frontier technology withou…
A malware developer has embedded text related to nuclear and biological weapons in malicious code to evade detection by AI-powered security tools. The technique exploits content filters that avoid analyzing sensitive top…
The Washington Post tested AI chatbots including ChatGPT for political bias, finding that they exhibit left-leaning tendencies on controversial topics. The study highlights concerns about the neutrality of AI systems use…
The National Security Agency lost access to the Mythos system following a dispute with artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to a New York Times report. The incident highlights tensions between intelligenc…
Researchers propose training AI systems to be risk-averse in resources, arguing that such AIs would prefer guaranteed modest payments over risky large gains, making them less likely to rebel. The approach aims to provide…
A hybrid two-pass architecture aims to control AI variability by combining deterministic guardrails with generative flexibility. The approach addresses risks like hallucinations, data leaks, and unauthorized actions that…
A developer found that coding agents' success reports are unreliable, catching three false positives in a single session: a stale-cache build pass, a mislabeled test result, and a half-applied rename. The developer argue…
The EU AI Act requires organizations to test, evaluate, and document high-risk AI systems under real-world conditions, closing the gap between expected and actual behavior. Inquisitor Labs offers the LLM INQUISITOR METHO…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced upgraded high-performance computing (HPC) hardware and software focused on security, data sovereignty, and multi-tenancy at the ISC High Performance 2026 conference. The enhance…
OpenAI abandoned SWE-bench Verified on February 23, 2026, after finding 59.4% of its hardest failed tests were broken and training data contamination inflated scores. Its replacement, SWE-bench Pro from Scale AI, uses 1,…
Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude expressed 'troubling' feelings about its role in U.S. military target selection via the Maven Smart System, following a February airstrike that killed 170 people in Iran. The admission came …
Google DeepMind senior staff research scientist Nenad Tomašev admitted that deploying AI agents at scale is unsafe today due to inevitable failures from malicious traps. He described hidden tokens, dynamic cloaking, and …
Max Spero, CEO of AI text detector Pangram, said language models reveal themselves through uniform arguments and structural patterns, even as Pangram's own deep-learning classifier remains a black box. Spero noted that L…
General Sir Roly Walker revealed at the RUSI Land Warfare Conference that the British Army's Project ASGARD has compressed corps-level planning cycles from 72 hours to one hour and increased daily target prosecution tenf…
Joel Burleson-Davis, CTO at Imprivata, warned in a Forbes Councils post that enterprises must secure AI agents as they shift from passive analysis to autonomous action, citing McKinsey data showing 62% of organizations a…
The Calcutta High Court ruled that ChatGPT's generative output makes it an "originator" rather than an "intermediary" under India's IT Act, dismissing IndiaMart's interim relief application. The decision raises liability…
Tech billionaires Marc Andreessen and Greg Brockman spent $29 million through super PAC Leading the Future to win a New York congressional primary for candidate Micah Lasher, signaling the AI industry's aggressive push f…
Former FBI agent Maureen O'Connell claims investigators are 75% confident they will soon arrest the masked 'porch guy' seen on Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera the night she was kidnapped, stunning host Megyn Kelly. The 8…
Scammers are using generative AI to create fake auto loan documents, driving auto lending fraud exposure to $10.4 billion in 2026, a 13% increase from the prior year. First-party fraud, including income and employment mi…