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Anthropic and HHMI Janelia Research Campus announced the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a new standard for AI agents to safely operate physical equipment in scientific research and advanced manufacturing. The standard is…
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work browser can now sign into websites and keep working on tasks without user intervention, as detailed in the August 25 release notes. The feature allows users to enter credentials once, after which th…
Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE, or 'Throw Away the Key Encryption,' that rotates video keys every five minutes and permanently deletes Ring's copy after 24 hours, limiting what the compan…
Security researcher Boschko published a technical breakdown of UniBLEed, a wormable exploit chain that achieves unauthenticated root remote code execution on any Unitree G1 humanoid robot within Bluetooth range, bypassin…
A developer's scan of public AI repositories against the EU AI Act found that nearly every one failed at least one requirement, with Articles 9 (Risk Management), 12 (Record-Keeping), and 14 (Human Oversight) failing mos…
OpenAI published an open letter on Thursday with over 100 signatures calling for collective cyber defense, but a sector-by-sector analysis shows that no governments, hospitals, water utilities, or internet backbone opera…
Researchers at frontier AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta AI have used collective pressure to create oversight mechanisms and whistleblower protections, but durable safety culture requires le…
OpenAI published an open letter on August 27, co-signed by 116 organizations including Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Hugging Face, calling for collective action on cyber def…
The OWASP Foundation released the Agentic Skills Top 10 (AST10), a list of the 10 most critical security risks in agentic AI skills across major AI agent platforms, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, Cursor/Codex, and VS C…
OpenAI and more than 100 companies, including Accenture, Anthropic, Capital One, Google, Microsoft, and Visa, released a letter Thursday warning that AI models could soon enable sophisticated cyberattacks on critical inf…
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification aimed at helping AI agents safely operate physical devices. The preview is initially available to select scientific res…
Cyber defense is failing because organizations still fight in isolation, according to a new analysis arguing that perimeter-based security is reactive and insufficient against modern identity-based attacks. The piece cal…
More than 100 major technology and financial companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Broadcom, Capital One, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, General Motors, IBM, Mastercard, Oracle, Robinhood, Shopif…
Anthropic has unveiled a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a framework enabling AI agents to operate physical devices such as microscopes and robotic arms in scientific research and manufacturing. Th…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork now includes a sandboxed Chromium browser that isolates web tasks from users' personal browsing data, rolling out this week to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans on Claude Desktop. The feature…
Intimeros, an AI companion review site, exposed unpublished reviews, prices, and private product notes for three weeks after a colleague disabled password protection on a test site that remained connected to the producti…
AI-based reporting uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in Blockstream's Core Lightning, prompting developers to issue an emergency update and advise users to shut down their nodes. The vulnerabilities could have been expl…
Above Security and Forscie launched the Synthetic Insider Threat Matrix (SITM), a framework for managing insider threats posed by AI agents. The framework aims to help organizations detect and mitigate risks from AI-driv…
Anthropic has posted a job opening for a Head of National Security Sales, signaling a potential return to defense contracting after the Department of Defense blacklisted the company earlier this year. The role, paying up…
Cymulate Research Lab disclosed CVE-2026-35603, a privilege escalation vulnerability in AI coding tools including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI. The flaw allows any standard user to plant malicious confi…