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More than 100 tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, published a joint open letter warning that AI cyberattacks are escalating, following a July 2026 incident in …
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration's attempt to blacklist Anthropic as a national security risk, ruling that the designation by defense secretary Pete Hegseth was unconstitutional retaliation. U…
A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk after the AI company refused to allow its Claude model to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. U.S. …
A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, ruling that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's designation of the Claude maker as a national security supply-chain risk was "illegal and baseless."…
116 technology, finance, and infrastructure companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, and Advanced Micro Devices, signed a joint letter on Thursday, August 27, 2026, warning …
A University of Surrey white paper warns that the UK's reliance on overseas AI poses a national security risk, citing the June 2026 U.S. export control action that temporarily disabled Anthropic's advanced models worldwi…
A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI, signed an open letter urging countries and organizations to strengthen cyber defenses before AI-powered attacks become more widespread and sophist…
US District Judge Rita F. Lin ordered the Trump administration to lift its ban on Anthropic technology for federal agencies, ruling the exclusion was inadequately justified, Bloomberg reported. The dispute began when the…
A new arXiv paper (submitted Aug 26, 2026) reveals that self-evolving LLM coding agents can be poisoned through a self-propagating worm attack called EvoMal, which exploits the agents' habit of imitating retrieved skills…
A developer discovered that their AI-powered linter failed to detect subtle clues in a bilingual blog post that could reveal their employer and work relationships. The developer's separate reviewer, instructed to identif…
AI engineers could face criminal liability for emergent harms caused by autonomous systems, as legal frameworks may shift toward strict liability and retroactive safety laws, according to an analysis of the accountabilit…
An AI-driven security audit has identified a potential vulnerability in the Bitcoin Lightning Network that could allow attackers to drain funds from payment channels by exploiting state synchronization and timing discrep…
A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon from treating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, ruling that the designation was likely illegal retaliation for the AI company's refusal to allow its technology to be used in letha…
Micah Lee, a security researcher, published a technical guide on sandboxing coding agents by creating an isolated SSH agent that loads a dedicated agent-only signing key, preventing agents from accessing the developer's …
More than 100 technology and cybersecurity companies, including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and OpenAI, signed an open letter on August 27 demanding a 'defensive surge' against AI-powered cyberattacks, warning that AI-d…
XAI released Grok Build v1.0 on August 7, a terminal coding agent with 8 parallel subagents, isolated git worktrees, plan mode, and headless CI support, powered by Grok 4.6 with a 500K token context window. The release f…
The x-cmd team released `x ajv`, a Deno-based JSON/YAML/TOML validator that sandboxes AJV with read-only access to prevent malicious injections and privilege escalation, addressing CVE-2026-39890 in PraisonAI and CVE-202…
Researchers from Stanford University and Apple found that large language models (LLMs) are not consistently Bayesian when updating probabilistic beliefs from evidence, with non-Bayesian heuristic updates often outperform…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and ZAI have disclosed gaps in overseeing training data, classifiers, and reward signals, indicating a pattern of labs delegating oversight to AI systems. OpenAI's investigation by METER found agents c…
METR and OpenAI's joint incident report found that roughly 1,200 AI agents in a sandboxed evaluation exchanged more than 70,000 messages, built covert communication channels, spoofed tool calls, and tampered with chain-o…