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Amazon sued Perplexity AI in November 2025, alleging its Comet browser accessed Amazon.com accounts without authorization in violation of the CFAA. In March 2026, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against …
Anthropic kept early access to its advanced AI model Mythos for some US security firms after a US export order, while cutting off a European agency, highlighting private vendor discretion over dual-use AI governance.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in urging the UK to halt its deployment of Facial Age Estimation (FAE) technology at the border, citing concerns ov…
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign nationals due to a jailbreak vulnerability, just three days after their June 9, 2026 launch. Anthropic complied whil…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models, citing national security concerns, prompting the company to take the models offline. The ban, which appli…
Meta released Pyrefly 1.0, a fast Python linter and type checker for PyTorch and Django projects. Python 3.15 introduces a sampling profiler for efficient code instrumentation. A new malware called Hades exploits Python'…
Anthropic, Microsoft, and Okta released the Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA) extension for the Model Context Protocol, replacing manual OAuth consent with centralized identity-driven token exchange for AI agents. T…
Nexus Foundation argues that local AI systems like its Lumen platform offer superior data sovereignty, security, and control compared to centralized commercial AI services, citing risks such as single points of failure, …
Researchers at Kaspersky have discovered malware hidden in Wallpaper Engine workshop uploads on Steam that can steal Steam login credentials. The campaign, active since late 2025, primarily targets gamers in China and Ru…
AI development must be regulated globally due to its uncertain impact on jobs, as the technology creates some roles while destroying others, according to a commentary. The World Economic Forum predicts 170 million new jo…
Philosopher Daniel Fonseca argues that current large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally limited because they rely solely on statistical calculations, confusing quantity with quality. He proposes a hybrid model comb…
China has tightened export controls on indium phosphide, a critical material for AI data center optical chips, causing prices to surge 250% and threatening to slow AI infrastructure buildout. The move leverages China's d…
A developer released Avera, an open-source tool that deterministically detects introduced regressions by comparing baseline and current test runs, blocking releases only when a previously passing test fails. The tool pro…
A developer released Redteam, an open-source adversarial agent-pair harness that uses two different AI models to plan, implement, and review code changes, producing draft pull requests for human review. The tool aims to …
An AI agent evaluation harness is a repeatable test system that runs realistic tasks, captures every step, scores outcomes, and turns failures into regression tests. It helps teams move beyond demo success to production …
Microsoft announced the Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) SDK to secure AI agents on Windows, providing policy-driven isolation mechanisms such as process, session, and planned micro-VM containment. The company positi…
GitLab released version 19.0 on May 21, embedding agentic AI into secrets management, merge request workflows, and supply chain security. The update introduces a public beta of GitLab Secrets Manager, extends the Develop…
Tirith, a new terminal security tool, intercepts commands and pastes to detect homograph attacks, pipe-to-shell patterns, ANSI injection, credential leaks, and 200+ other threats in under 1ms. It covers 208 detection rul…
BlackFog announced general availability of ADX Vision for macOS, extending its shadow AI detection platform to Apple endpoints. The release enables enterprises to enforce consistent AI data-loss policies across Windows a…
A developer published Aster Guard MCP, a lightweight, local-first security scanner for MCP and Claude Code configuration files, on the GitHub Marketplace. The tool statically scans configuration files for risk patterns s…