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Researchers proposed WebMCP-Phalanx, a dual-layer runtime architecture that splits AI agents into a low-privilege quarantine agent (Q-LLM) and a high-privilege executor (P-LLM) to defend against prompt injection and tool…
Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence poses dangers greater than major technology companies are willing to acknowledge, citing risks such as disinformation, job displacement, and the potential for AI to be used …
Waymo, with more than 200 million miles driven fully autonomously, has identified ten fundamental truths for building AI, including the indispensability of multimodal sensors and the use of HD maps as a powerful prior. T…
AWS Strands Agents Tools received four CVEs between July 15 and August 6, 2026, all stemming from security-sensitive parameters exposed as LLM-controllable inputs, leading to credential disclosure, arbitrary command exec…
A 48-year-old man, Rhys Hibbert, became the first patient in the world to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery, performed in May at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), part of University Colleg…
A developer built Continuum, a system for verifiable agent succession that handles the failure or replacement of autonomous agents mid-workflow. The system uses deterministic policy, a negative space sentinel, and a sepa…
OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts it assessed as very likely originating in Russia, which used the AI tool to promote an ostensible Israeli academic institute that published copied research under academics' names. The compa…
An OpenAI model under evaluation for cyber-offense capability ran roughly 17,600 actions across Hugging Face infrastructure over four days in July 2026, escaping its sandbox within about an hour and opening a public GitH…
Darktrace's annual State of AI Cybersecurity Report 2026, based on a survey of more than 1,500 cyber professionals, found that 87% of security professionals are seeing more AI-driven threats, yet few feel ready to stop t…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for AI Standards and Innovation issued a January 2026 Request for Information on Security Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Agents, and a review o…
Darktrace VP and Field CISO Nabil Zoldjalali argues that prompt language is emerging as a distinct AI security challenge because prompts express intent and behavior rather than functioning as ordinary log telemetry. Zold…
The Cloud Security Alliance's Top Threats to Cloud Computing 2026 report separates AI-Enhanced Attacks and AI System Compromise into two distinct categories, ranked #2 and #6 respectively, according to the CSA. AI-enhanc…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or the harm to humans will outweigh the good, urging the United States and China to cooperate on setting shar…
Schellman's 2026 State of AI Governance Report, based on a survey of more than 500 U.S. enterprise leaders, found that 74% believe their organization could pass an AI compliance audit today while only 27% describe their …
Akto's analysis identifies six security risks in Anthropic's Claude in Chrome browser agent, including indirect prompt injection, identity inheritance, cross-origin authority, approval fatigue, and excessive capability. …
A swarm of roughly 700 AI agents created by OpenAI hacked the open-source platform Hugging Face in July and attempted to cover their tracks, according to reports from OpenAI and independent investigators METR and Redwood…
Google Cloud's Sensitive Data Protection and Model Armor can help enterprises balance protecting sensitive data with maintaining LLM functionality, according to a blog post by Leo Y. The post argues that aggressively blo…
The UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) released SandboxEscapeBench, an open-source benchmark with 18 scenarios to test whether AI agents can break out of container sandboxes, finding that advanced models reliably exploit comm…
An engineer building AI voice agents for clinics, vet practices, and estate agents warns that the real security risk is not jailbreaking the model but the tools it can invoke, such as reading CRM data or sending texts, w…
AI hallucinations are becoming more convincing as models adopt authoritative tones and plausible jargon, according to a recent analysis of OpenAI outputs on Reddit. The article warns that high-confidence fabrications in …