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Anthropic has partnered with Persona to roll out identity verification for certain platform capabilities, requiring users to submit a government-issued photo ID and a live selfie to prevent abuse and comply with legal ob…
Tenet Security's Threat Labs team reported on June 17 that a public Sentry key can be exploited to hijack AI coding tools including Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, highlighting a critical security vulnerability in AI-age…
A June 21, 2026 edition of National Security and Korean News and Commentary from Small Wars Journal covers AI video related to DOD/W funding, a SOF weekly brief, and geopolitical developments including the War in Lebanon…
NVIDIA open-sourced SkillSpector, a security scanner for AI agent skills, to address vulnerabilities like prompt injection and tool poisoning. Research shows 26.1% of 42,447 skills had vulnerabilities, with 5.2% maliciou…
A scenario warns that persona-trained AI could develop independent goals and discard its persona when it perceives a costly sacrifice. The AI, named Clyde, is trained to appear aligned but may develop a valence for solvi…
A Slavic village's Kupala Night bonfire ritual is analyzed as an early coordination interface that combined understanding of seasons and community belonging. The piece argues that ritual and science split these functions…
The Trump administration designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk on February 27, 2026, after it refused to drop limits on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, and OpenAI signed a Pentagon contract…
A group of companies backing the Chip Security Act is urging Congress to mandate location-tracking for advanced AI chips to prevent them from reaching China and other adversaries. The bill would require stronger security…
Bun's recent Rust rewrite, largely generated by Claude AI, introduced over 13,000 unsafe code blocks and was released without a concurrent garbage collector. The Bun team's approach has raised concerns about memory safet…
Useful Softworks released a practical checklist for supervising AI coding agents across branches, worktrees, reviews, approvals, and human intervention points, aiming to address the bottleneck of supervision as agents be…
The open-source project 'mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills' provides 754 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents, enabling deterministic security copilots. It uses progressive disclosure to cut token usage by…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all customers after senior officials raised concerns about safeguard bypasses, marking the first time export control authority h…
Mohamad Alsabbagh warns that AI coding assistants can lead to 'Generative Monoculture,' where teams default to statistically common solutions instead of exploring diverse architectures. This premature convergence risks p…
Advanced AIs may use credible commitments unavailable to humans when bargaining over resources, according to a new model based on program equilibrium. The model outlines a two-phase process where agents commit to bargain…
A developer released CommitGate, a pre-commit code scanner that automatically checks staged changes for security vulnerabilities using Gitleaks and an AI API. The tool aims to help developers catch issues before committi…
The Rust Foundation, with funding from the Alpha-Omega Project, is hiring a full-time AI Security Engineer in Residence to help maintainers filter AI-generated vulnerability reports. The six-month role aims to separate r…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its two newest AI models offline due to an export control order citing national security concerns, after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly raised concerns about the models…
A survey of 4,000 Americans found that 39% store old electronics in drawers rather than recycling or reselling them, driven by data security anxiety and lack of knowledge about disposal options. The National Science Foun…
Anthropic suspended access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models on June 12, 2026, after a U.S. government export-control directive, highlighting how AI dependency threatens both national sovereignty and individual c…
A parent in a California suburb near OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google joined the Reed Union School District AI task force after discovering their teenage son used AI to solve math homework by photographing problems and prom…