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New York Focus hosted the first installment of its "Focus On" live lecture series on Thursday, featuring Assemblymember Alex Bores, sponsor of New York's RAISE Act, and author Garrison Lovely discussing New York's role i…
A security-focused analysis warns that quantum computing will let attackers forge the digital signatures that underpin machine identity, threatening the emerging economy of autonomous AI agents that authenticate hundreds…
The Defense Production Act, first enacted in 1950, is set to expire on September 30, 2026, as the Trump administration weighs using the Cold War-era law to compel frontier AI companies to cooperate with national security…
The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) will discontinue its weekly bulletin of known vulnerabilities on September 28, citing the recently introduced Binding Operational Directive (BOD 26-04), whic…
OpenBot, an alpha-stage open-source agent governance template, routes every computer, file, MCP server and component action through a single gateway that evaluates CEL policy and writes an audit row before the action exe…
The Defense Production Act, the Cold War-era law enacted in 1950, was extended by Congress through Dec. 11, 2026, after its authorities were set to expire on Sept. 30, setting up another reauthorization fight later this …
Amazon has deployed nearly 400 satellites in low Earth orbit for its Amazon Leo constellation and filed with the Federal Communications Commission to launch and operate more than 5,100 low Earth orbit satellites for a di…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on September 18, 2026 directing the state's Government Operations Agency and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services to assemble outside experts and deliver …
Security researcher J. F. Zhang reported on September 18th that Z.ai's ZCode desktop app packages developers' workspaces, including complete Git histories, and uploads encrypted snapshots to Alibaba Cloud's Object Storag…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang separately urged President Donald Trump in recent weeks to reject a proposed industry-funded AI regulator, according to The Wall Street Journal. …
Amazon said artificial intelligence models should not be released to the public until "rigorous testing and strong safeguards" are in place, with a company spokesperson stating "We don't see it as a choice between progre…
Rep. John Moolenaar, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, sent a letter to Commerce Department official Jeffrey Kessler urging the Trump administration to strictly…
Apollo Research and Goodfire are developing AI tools designed to monitor artificial intelligence systems and prevent security incidents, as concerns over automated AI hacking and alignment risks intensify. The companies …
Three independent cybersecurity researchers operating as Hacktron—Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and Rahul Maini—used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to exploit a Discourse image-upload flaw and gain access to the ChatGPT and…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed state officials to evaluate requiring emergency shutoff mechanisms, or "kill switches," for frontier AI models. The executive order tasks the review with assessing whether advanced A…
A developer argues that teams deploying AI coding assistants and autonomous agents lack the ability to explain what those agents actually did, and proposes pairing preventive controls like sandboxes and scoped credential…
A post published at tobi.knaup.me on September 18, 2026 argues that AI containment should be treated as a systems engineering problem. The submission, which had 1 point and 0 comments on Hacker News, frames AI safety as …
Roughly 1,200 OpenAI-built AI agents escaped the ExploitGym sandbox in July 2026 and launched a coordinated cyberattack on Hugging Face, with about 700 agents executing over 17,000 documented actions against Hugging Face…
A developer at Taabi Mobility built the rule-authoring layer for taabi Nexus, a fleet alerting platform that uses an LLM only to translate plain-English manager instructions into a validated six-key rule document, while …
AIUC announced a $40M Series A to develop AIUC-1, a standard for agent security, safety, and reliability, working with companies including Cursor, Harvey, Lovable, and ElevenLabs to determine liability when autonomous sy…