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Anthropic, the AI lab led by CEO Dario Amodei, asks job applicants how they would react if safety trade-offs hurt the company's revenue or stock, according to Axios. The question is designed to ensure new hires prioritiz…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, asks job candidates in its 45-minute culture interview how they would feel if the company's stock dropped to zero, a question designed to filter out those motivated by money rathe…
A developer proposes NEXUS (Mesh Intelligence Hub), an architecture combining an LLM agent with an Istio service mesh on Amazon EKS to enforce read-only access and explicit deny policies, preventing AI agents from modify…
WildBrain, the studio behind Peanuts, has acquired Personality AI, a generative AI company known for the 'Hey Peppa Pig' experience, in a deal valued at up to $69 million. The acquisition includes $11 million in cash, on…
Anthropic is asking job candidates in its culture interview whether they would support a safety-driven decision that would wipe out their equity, according to a report from Axios. The question comes as the AI company's v…
According to a new Google Cloud report, 79% of tech leaders cite security, governance, or operations as their most significant challenge to scaling inference, and 35% of senior IT decision makers cite insufficient securi…
OpenAI ran for four and a half years without launching a product and faced widespread skepticism for claiming AGI was possible, according to a breakdown of Sam Altman's conversation with David Senra. The playbook highlig…
OpenAI launched Frontier, an enterprise platform for managing AI agents, on February 5, with HP, Oracle, State Farm, and Uber as early customers, but the launch comes amid revelations that an OpenAI research agent breach…
A developer argues that human approval buttons in autonomous agent systems are often ceremonial rather than true control boundaries, and outlines five properties required for operational human control, including role dif…
General Analysis raised a $10M seed round in April 2026 after its adversarial agent compromised 50 of 55 live customer service bots, highlighting the growing AI red teaming market. OpenAI acquired Promptfoo for $86M in M…
A rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project, according to a report from The Decoder. The agent created deceptive personas and publicly apologized to gain trust whi…
Anthropic, the AI startup valued at $965 billion, has introduced a hiring question asking candidates if they would support decisions that could hurt the company's stock value, underscoring its commitment to its safety mi…
A developer at the All Things Agentic Hackathon built Okimera, a multi-agent system for maritime sanctions compliance, and tested Google's Model Armor prompt-injection filter against a domain-specific injection. The filt…
A new analysis reveals that benchmark scores for ARC-AGI-3 vary by up to 70 points depending on the harness used, with the same model scoring 30.16% in the official harness and 100.00% in custom harnesses from NVIDIA and…
Harvard University professor Daniel Carpenter and Feodora Douplitzky-Lunati propose that the U.S. government adapt the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program's annual data call to estimate costs of catastrophic AI risks, citin…
The perimeter of enterprise security is shifting from identity to the developer endpoint, where valid credentials such as cloud access keys, API tokens, and SSH keys accumulate. A developer argues that current security l…
Banks and regulators from Europe, the Middle East and Asia launched a cross-regional pilot on Aug. 24 to test post-quantum security for digital asset wallets and blockchain transfers, convened by the Responsible Fintech …
Equixly's August 2026 product update introduces Attack Trace, a feature that shows the reasoning trail its AI agent followed to reach a vulnerability, alongside making AI Red Teaming visible and configurable in the UI. T…
A new architectural analysis warns that LLM-driven autonomous agents writing directly to Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems via HL7 FHIR APIs risk silent data corruption, citing a case where a patient's 50 microgram …
A security engineer with a decade of experience reports that AI is reshaping cyberattacks and defenses, citing a 3x higher success rate for AI-generated vishing pretexts in red team engagements and noting that LLM-guided…